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Six adaptable Keynotes. All talks tailored to your event goals & audience — from conferences to graduations.
Six talks. All of them built from life — not from a framework, not from a consultant’s playbook. Whatever your event needs your audience to feel when they walk out, one of these talks gets them there. Every program is tailored. Every word is earned.
Keep Walking: Thriving Beyond Limitations
Two gold medals. Five world records. Sixty countries painted. Two careers the system said weren’t possible.
Keep Walking is Gregory’s signature keynote — an unscripted account of a life built without a map. From the White House pool to the medal podium in Atlanta. From studios in Shanghai, Marrakech and the Himalayas to the stage of the Tokyo National Stadium, each story is chosen for the same reason: to show an audience what becomes possible when you are not limited by your limitations and start moving.
Your Hero’s Journey
Joseph Campbell identified four stages every hero moves through: Home, Departure, Trials, and Return. Your audience has lived each of them too — they just haven’t named them yet. This talk maps those stages onto their lives, using Gregory’s journey as the mirror. Practical, personal, and structured around one of the most powerful frameworks in human storytelling.
Rebooting Your Passions, Recharging Your Life
The same discipline that built five world records in the pool now builds paintings across sixty countries. Neither happened by accident — both required a daily practice, a refusal to wait for the right conditions, and the understanding that energy is not something you find. It is something you generate. Your team leaves knowing how to do it too — and why it is not complicated. Only consistent.
One Step at a Time: The Art of Perseverance
The Honolulu Full Marathon took Gregory sixteen hours on crutches. He slept in the park the night before. He finished dead last. The IronMan took longer. The sixteen-month solo overland journey across Asia took longer still. Your audience doesn’t need to have done any of these things to leave this talk differently — because what they share is not grit. It is method: the discipline of dividing the overwhelming into the manageable, and refusing to look further ahead than the next step. Perseverance is not a character trait. It is a muscle. Your people already have it. This talk shows them how to use it.
Your Studio Without Walls
For Gregory Burns, the studio has never been a room. And for your audience, neither is the workplace — if they’re willing to see it differently. In this visually rich presentation, Gregory pulls back the curtain on a working life in motion across sixty countries, then turns the lens: where is your studio? What are you waiting for to begin?
The DEI Story That Can't Be Questioned
Corporations are spending billions on DEI. Most inclusion speakers approach it theoretically — from the outside looking in. Gregory Burns approaches it from a place no credential can replicate: polio at age one, paralysis, a "he will never walk" verdict at three, three Paralympic Games by forty. A lifetime of experience advising companies like FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Ogilvy, Cigna, Hilton, Marriott, and WorldHotels on building inclusive workforces that deliver real business results — not as charity, but as competitive advantage. This is not theory. It is testimony.
What Clients Say
I have seen a lot of motivational speakers in my years, and I am quite certain that Gregory's talk will stand the test of time with my organization as having left a real solid imprint.
Chip V. Bergh
President, Procter & Gamble, ASEAN/Australasia/India
To say that Greg was an “undeniable hit” would be an understatement. His talk was inspirational, down to earth, moving, on target with the meeting’s objectives — and simply a highlight of our three days together.
Roger Gaston
CHRO, Gates Corporation · Global Leaders Summit, Denver
Gregory captivated everyone in the room. His message deeply resonated with our leaders, and the positive feedback from our General Managers has been phenomenal. Gregory’s ability to connect his experiences with our values left a lasting impact.
Petr Raba
Vice President, Marriott APEC
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