Terry Kelly

Celebrate life, energize your profession, and discover what's possible through

The Power of the Dream!

Life offers everyone gifts disguised as challenges. This is one of the messages Dr. Terry Kelly delivers in his keynote addresses.

This unique presentation is an opportunity to review your talents and abilities and reaffirm your purpose.

Terry is the living model of his message, understanding his blindness as a gift that opens possibility and opportunity.

Using personal anecdotes peppered with humour, songs, and audience participation, Terry encourages individuals to develop their own values and strategies for living and working happily and healthily.

Explore the importance of communication, dreams, goals, choices and responsibilities; understand and celebrate our differences; balance our business and personal lives; and realize the value of enthusiasm!

The Power of the Dream will inspire, entertain, and holistically nurture your well-being.

Terry Kelly's passion for life has gained him international recognition as a renowned motivational speaker, an award-winning singer/songwriter, an accomplished athlete, and a consummate entertainer.

Terry's keynote/motivational presentations, "We Can Do Anything" and "The Power of the Dream", are based on his own life experiences and the challenges he has overcome - and have inspired students, parents, teachers, government and corporate employees throughout North America.

As a musician this Newfoundland native has released seven full-length recordings, resulting in seven East Coast Music Awards and nominations for four Canadian Country Music Awards and a JUNO. Terry has shared the stage with Symphony Orchestras, and has performed his own music in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and for the troops in Afghanistan. He is most recognized for his inspirational song "A Pittance of Time".

Terry is a recipient of the King Clancy Award and the Hal Rogers Fellow Award, has been inducted into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame, and has received Honorary Doctorates in Civil Laws and in Fine Arts from the University of Kings College and Saint Mary's University, respectively. Terry has received the Canadian Country Music Association's Humanitarian Award; has been appointed Honorary Colonel of 14 Wing Greenwood; and is a member of the Order of Canada.

In the athletic field, Terry has distinguished himself as the third blind person in the world to run the mile in under five minutes.

From school classrooms to corporate boardrooms, from the recording studio to international conferences, from national radio shows to the pilot seat of an aircraft, from the controls of a Seadoo to the running of a sub-five-minute mile, Terry Kelly has been there. He has used his life experiences to touch the hearts of many and to motivate tens of thousands to live their lives to the fullest and, by his example, overcome personal challenges of all types.