Alan Steelman
BA, MLA
TX, US--Alan is a life-changing, organization-changing stress-busitng motivational speaker.
--He focuses on two prirmary audiences: corporations/organizations/associations plus college and university students, faculty and administrators.
--His own difficult and troubled teen and college-age years are used as a platform to illustrate how he arose from a difficult family situation, including the suicide of his only brother due to a bi-polar gene that afflicted several of the males on his father's side of the family.
--His story and message inspire young and those in mid-career who find difficulty in coiping with life in the A.S.A.P Lane (anxious, stress, addicted and pressured)
--His early-life struggles inspired him to become a high-striver and high-achiever, including his election to the U.S. Congress at the age of 29.
He is best-selling author, a former member of the U.S. Congress, a former Member of the White House Staff, and former Vice-Chairman of Alexander Proudfoot Company. He has been a Chairman of the Dallas Council on World Affairs, a Board Member of Sterling Software (NYSE), Aristocrat Technologies (ASX), and the Texas Growth Fund. He is a graduate of Baylor University, holds a Master's Degree from SMU and was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. His career in politics was marked with distinction. Time Magazine featured him as one of the 200 Emerging Young Leaders in the United States, The Dallas Times Herald said, "he was one of the best ever sent to Congress from Texas." and New Times Magazine named him one of the top ten best Congressmen in the country during his second term
--Alan is a life-changing, organization-changing stress-busitng motivational speaker.
--He focuses on two prirmary audiences: corporations/organizations/associations plus college and university students, faculty and administrators.
--His own difficult and troubled teen and college-age years are used as a platform to illustrate how he arose from a difficult family situation, including the suicide of his only brother due to a bi-polar gene that afflicted several of the males on his father's side of the family.
--His story and message inspire young and those in mid-career who find difficulty in coiping with life in the A.S.A.P Lane (anxious, stress, addicted and pressured)
--His early-life struggles inspired him to become a high-striver and high-achiever, including his election to the U.S. Congress at the age of 29.
He is best-selling author, a former member of the U.S. Congress, a former Member of the White House Staff, and former Vice-Chairman of Alexander Proudfoot Company. He has been a Chairman of the Dallas Council on World Affairs, a Board Member of Sterling Software (NYSE), Aristocrat Technologies (ASX), and the Texas Growth Fund. He is a graduate of Baylor University, holds a Master's Degree from SMU and was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. His career in politics was marked with distinction. Time Magazine featured him as one of the 200 Emerging Young Leaders in the United States, The Dallas Times Herald said, "he was one of the best ever sent to Congress from Texas." and New Times Magazine named him one of the top ten best Congressmen in the country during his second term
Mind Fitness for Leaders and Top Performers: 6 Steps
45-60 minute keynote and can include a follow-up breakout session if desired
Stress-related performance failure is a big risk for all top performers ranging from elite athletes to business executives, sales people and all whose success depends on mainting emotional and mental balance during high-stakes presentations, negotiations, etc.
The presentation includes a keynote on the causes and remedies for managing performance stress, anxiety stage-fright,...
Managing The Game Outside the Lines:Executive and Employee Well-Being
Performance on the job or at the office is similar to an athlete having to peform at a high level "between the lines". Managing the stress, anxiety and pressure in today's highly competitive business environment is a daunting challenge for many if not most. The need for pills, alcohol, binge-eating and other health-destroying substsances becomes an irrestible temptation for many.
Fiddlers on the Roof: Leadership, Executive Stress and Well-Being
The anxiety, stress and uncertainity of life as an executive or manager is at an all time high. Traditional business models are under relentless assault by rapid cycles of innovation. Shareholders, securities analysts, and boards are very impatient and the need to hit promised performance metrics are essential.
This keynote focuses on the life of the executive and...
Turbocharge Employee Productivity and Engagement: 6 Steps to Total Well-Being
Employee dis-engagement and those who say they "hate their jobs" is at an all time high. This has a significant negative impact on the financial health of the organiation plus the physical and mental healh of managers and employees. Alan lays out the architecture of a corporate culture that encourages a mind-fitness approach from the C-Suite to the point of execution.
Managing Student Stress in the Social Media Age
Using his own personal life story of a stressed and anxious teenager in a family wracked by manic-depression, including his only brother's suicide, Alan quickly gets on the same wave-length with today's student at both the high school and college level who are coping with life in the social media age. He uses the 6 Pillars of Well-Being as the platform for the talk, then...
K.O. Your Biggest Bully, Stress, anxiety and Self-limiting Beliefs
Young people today in the social media age face challenges unlike any faced by previoius generations. Self-limiting beliefs, always a bane of teens and twenty-somethings, have become even more debilitating, including an alarming spike in opioid use and suicide attempts. Alan rapidly engages the young student audience with the story of his own troubled teen and college years,...
