Keynote Speaker
Mike Lee
Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000
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Primary Topic Category: Leadership and Management
Secondary Topic Category: Sports
Mike Lee At A Glance:
Mike Lee is a keynote speaker, internationally sold author and coach who shares high-performance leadership lessons from inside the hearts and minds of NBA’s elite. For 15 years he spent time with basketball’s 1% including NBA MVPs Steph Curry and Joel Embiid. While leading his basketball training business, he was blindsided by a period of personal and professional adversity, and dove deep into the practices of mindfulness and meditation. Today, Mike’s blended these diverse backgrounds to create a counter-cultural approach to the future of leadership, which has earned rave reviews from Fortune 500 companies and professional associations.
Mike Lee is a keynote speaker, internationally sold author, and coach who shares high-
performance leadership lessons from inside the hearts and minds of NBA’s elite. His work helps
individual contributors, leaders and organizations elevate engagement, win the war for talent,
and create cultures of belonging in a world of disruption. For 15 years he spent time with
basketball’s 1% including NBA MVPs Steph Curry and Joel Embiid. While leading his basketball
training business, he was blindsided by a period of personal and professional adversity, and
dove deep into the practices of mindfulness and meditation. Today he’s blended diverse
backgrounds of mindset, mindfulness, and high-performance to create a counter-cultural
approach to the future of leadership.
Mike’s engaging, inspiring, and interactive programs at F500 companies and professional
associations like Morgan Stanley, AmFam, Cisco, SHRM and IBM have earned rave reviews
from bold and driven leaders. He’s delivered this approach through keynotes in packed
ballrooms of a thousand, virtually to a global audience, and workshops with 10-person senior
leadership teams. Mike has been described as “the easiest and most conscientious speaker I’ve
worked with”, “the perfect choice to kick off our event” and having “an impeccable ability to tell a
story”.
Building his basketball business from his college apartment, while battling anxiety and
depression, Mike understands the challenges leaders face in this volatile, uncertain, and
complex world. His unique combination of personal adversity and basketball background gives
him the ability to connect in a vulnerable and authentic way with a diverse range of audiences
from the stage.
Drawing on the latest research from neuroscience, sports psychology, and personal experience,
he’s shared stories and practical exercises — across the world — to help people find their own
inner power and poise to thrive in business and life. His latest book, The New Rules For The
Future of Leadership, has been endorsed by the likes of New York Times best-selling authors,
thought leaders, and other Fortune 500 executives.
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NEW RULES FOR THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP
How The Bold and Driven Can Elevate Engagement, Win The War For Talent, and Create A Culture Of Belonging
The future of leadership is more human than ever. In 2020 challenges lingering in the
background like mental health, purpose, and belonging immediately rose to the surface. In 2021
the Great Resignation followed leaving companies with challenges that can’t be solved long-
term simply with a pay increase. Today, the aftermath of the pandemic, virtual work
environments, the looming recession, and the Great Resignation are front and center for
leaders. Simply put, Covid changed how we work, our relationship to work, and the expectations
of leaders across all industries. And senior leaders, emerging leaders, and leaders without a title
need to be equipped with internal skills to navigate this new world of work.
Future of leadership keynote speaker Mike Lee has blended a diverse background of
entrepreneurship, personal adversity, and experiences with some of the world’s top performing
athletes to create a counter-cultural approach to leadership. He’s shared this methodology with
Fortune 500 companies and leading industry associations like IBM, AmFam, Cisco, Morgan
Stanley, and SHRM.
This program is designed to equip leaders with the purpose-driven, future-focused, mindfully
aware, and heart-centered leadership skills to meet the moment and prepare for what’s next.
These research backed competencies are proven to elevate engagement, attract top talent,
improve well-being, and create a culture of belonging. Ultimately helping organizations sustain
peak performance, drive growth, and create their future in the new economy.
Key Takeaways:
- Activate personal and organizational purpose to drive employee engagement
- Shift from outcome-driven to legacy-driven leadership
- Utilize practical mindfulness skills to elevate high-performance and well-being
- Leverage heart-centered leadership for psychological safety and belonging
- Attract top talent and give yourself an edge -
WIN THE MOMENT
Counter-Cultural Performance Principles That Crossover From The Court To Business and Life
In this high-impact program, Mike shares personal stories, proven strategies, and powerful mindsets he’s learned from times on the court with basketball’s elite like MVP Steph Curry, All-Star Joel Embiid, and Rookie of The Year Malcolm Brogdon. All, of which directly translate to business performance.
The challenge we all face is that our work environments are overwhelmingly disruptive, rapidly changing, and increasingly fragmented. This creates the biggest barrier to success — the constant battleground of our mind for the present moment. Just like elite performers block out the opposing crowd in a packed arena, Mike teaches you how to lock in on the task at hand in the middle of chaos.
The audience will walk away with actionable strategies — from NBA’s Elite — that can be implemented immediately, to unlock the human potential inside of you and deliver world-class performance in any arena. Win The Moment leaves the audience with an inspiring message that impacts them long after he leaves the stage.
Key Takeaways
- Discover what separated Kobe Bryant beyond his basketball skills that apply to
workplace performance
- Learn a Steph Curry mindset for activating high-performance
- Discover breakthrough insights on what drives elite performers you can leverage in your business
- Learn how to master distractions in order to place your attention and energy on what you can control -
UNSHAKEABLE
Developing The Resilient Leader Within
Never before have leaders faced more things at once. The rise of AI, the looming recession, and a hybrid work environment have created the toughest leadership crisis of our time. During these pivotal moments, a generation of leaders and their businesses will be defined by how they decide to show up.
Through Mike’s experience building an international basketball brand from his college
apartment, and growing it while battling anxiety and depression, he understands the
challenges leaders are facing in these very moments. Drawing on the latest research
from sports psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness, Mike shares timely, relevant,
and actionable strategies he’s personally embraced to lead through adversity.
When combined with his inspiring storytelling approach, they create an experience that
has helped people across the world uncover, unlock, and unleash the purpose-driven,
future-focused, and heart-centered leader within themselves during these
unprecedented times.
Key Takeaways
- Develop the psychology needed to lead in an era of disruption
- Learn how to create an infinite culture of heart-centered leadership to foster
belonging, engagement, and resilience
- Discover how to stay connected to your energy as a leader
- Learn the power of shifting from outcome-driven to legacy-driven leadership -
MINDFULNESS IN THE MODERN WORLD
How to beat burnout, elevate performance, and cultivate well-being in a volatile,
uncertain, and complex world
A global pandemic, overwhelming uncertainty, and a virtual world have accelerated our
country’s epidemic of mental health, stress, and burnout. According to Gallup’s State of The
Workplace report employees have never been more stressed, which the American Institute of
Stress says is costing US businesses $300 billion dollars per year. Harvard Business Review
research also shows that we are only present about 50% of the day. That means in our forty-
hour workweek we’re actually only productive twenty hours. Simply put, this stress pulls us out
of the present moment.
In this program mindfulness keynote speaker Mike Lee demonstrates that the present moment
is where high-performance, engagement, and well-being all exist. We spend time in the past
stuck in guilt, anger or regret. Or we’re in the future in anxiety, planning, or worry. But the best
thing you can do for your future-self, the future of your organization, and the future of the people
you lead is to be fully in the present moment.
The bottom line is this. Technology advances, information, and distractions are not going to slow
down. Our external environment is not going to change. The change has to come from the
place within. Mindfulness keynote speaker Mike Lee introduces this through the lens of personal
adversity and sports performance to connect to the audience in a vulnerable, relatable and
authentic way. He explains how by building a foundation in mindfulness we unlock the emotional
IQ, develop the self-awareness, and cultivate the resilience needed to thrive in this demanding,
rapidly changing, and uncertain world.
Key Takeaways
- The common myths and barriers to starting a mindfulness practice
- How to incorporate mindfulness into your daily routine to build the skill
- Access the power of the Decision Gap to lead from your values
- Practical application to elevate high-performance, decrease stress, and improve
emotional resilience
- A mindfulness meditation experience session that translates to action
