Most decorated U.S. Winter olympian in history.
20 years reinventing & transforming Fortune 500 companies.
Apolo Anton Ohno is the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian ever—8 medals, 2 NYT bestselling books, and 20 years advising Fortune 500 leaders including Nike, Apple, Deloitte, JP Morgan, and many others. Equipping leaders & teams to perform under pressure—when it matters most.
Apolo Anton OHNO
8x Olympic Medalist. 2x NYT Bestselling Author. Fortune 500 Advisor. Health & Wellness Investor.
Apolo Anton Ohno holds the record as the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian in history — 8 medals across three Olympic Games. What he learned winning under pressure, and the reinvention that followed-He now guides & inspires Fortune 500 leadership teams. Since retiring from competition, he's built a second career as an author, investor, and advisor — working with Nike, Apple, Deloitte, Citadel, Google, and the largest financial & technology firms on leadership, performance, and reinvention.
His two books — Zero Regrets and Hard Pivot — hit the New York Times bestseller list. They are field guides for navigating high-stakes transitions, hard pivots, and high performance in any environment.
The Gold Medal Mindset helps leaders operate with clarity and rise again-and again.
What people are saying
“From the moment Apolo arrived, his genuine warmth and friendliness endeared him to all our guests. He captivated the room when he took the stage and was able to inspire and entertain our audience simultaneously.”
“It's so invigorating to hear from someone who's had such unique experiences and is influencing not only sport, but also the world to talk more about mental and emotional wellbeing. How you're talking about it, I think makes huge differences to everyone's lives.”
“Apolo faced head-on, fueled by his mindset, the light in his heart, and the perseverance in his spirit. I can't think of a better person to inspire us and remind us that succeeding is a marathon, not a sprint. And the journey to get there requires a particular mindset that Apolo Ohno is the living embodiment of.”
“From the moment Apolo arrived, his genuine warmth and friendliness endeared him to all our guests. He captivated the room when he took the stage and was able to inspire and entertain our audience simultaneously.”
“It's so invigorating to hear from someone who's had such unique experiences and is influencing not only sport, but also the world to talk more about mental and emotional wellbeing. How you're talking about it, I think makes huge differences to everyone's lives.”
“Apolo faced head-on, fueled by his mindset, the light in his heart, and the perseverance in his spirit. I can't think of a better person to inspire us and remind us that succeeding is a marathon, not a sprint. And the journey to get there requires a particular mindset that Apolo Ohno is the living embodiment of.”
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TOPICS
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the gold medal mindset
Winning under pressure. Leading through change. Performing at the edge.
Apolo Ohno delivers a high-impact playbook for thriving when it matters most-fusing mindset systems, emotional resilience, and performance psychology into strategies your team can use immediately.
From burnout and uncertainty to reinvention and focus, this keynote helps audiences master pressure, build clarity, & rise-again & again.
Rooted in peak Olympic experience & backed by performance psychology & neuroscience. Apolo reveals how elite performers access peak states — where focus sharpens, time slows, & execution becomes automatic.
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the hard pivot
How do you lead when the old playbook no longer works?
This keynote delivers a tactical framework for identity-level reinvention-drawn from Apolo’s own evolution beyond the podium.
Your team will learn how to let go of what no longer serves them, rewire their thinking, and take bold, decisive action into the unknown.
Built for high achievers facing pressure, transition, or a blank page.
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the five golden principles
Gratitude. Giving. Grit. Gearing Up. Go.
This 5-part system builds the mindset needed to lead under pressure, adapt through adversity, and perform with purpose.
Rooted in Apolo’s Olympic journey, it’s a simple yet powerful framework teams can apply immediately-in work, in leadership, and in life.
More than a performance toolkit, these principles shape how individuals lead, connect, and show up across every layer of an organization.
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zero regrets
A mindset for pushing limits-and refusing to settle.
Based on Apolo’s New York Times bestselling book, this keynote delivers a high-performance framework to help teams surpass expectations, break through mental ceilings, and operate with urgency and ownership.
It’s not about what’s possible-it’s about what’s next. And how fast you’re willing to go after it.
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HUMAN 2.0
Built from the same principles that fueled his post-Olympic reinvention, this talk delivers strategies for leading with clarity and adapting fast—in a future that's already here.
In order to upskill, upgrade, & develop our next generation of performance, it requires a system reboot: Human 2.0
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