What does Gregory Burns speak about?

Gregory Burns delivers keynotes on resilience, creativity, leadership under uncertainty, disability inclusion, and human potential. His signature talk explores how the disciplines of elite sport and fine art converge to produce a practical framework for moving forward before the path is clear. He is a two-time Paralympic Gold Medalist, five-time world record holder, and internationally exhibited fine artist.

Is Gregory Burns available for international keynotes?

Yes. Gregory Burns is based in Singapore and available for keynotes, fireside chats, and team art experiences worldwide. He has presented across Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia for organizations including Temasek Holdings, Gates Corp, Equinix, Marriott, Hilton, and Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne.

What are Gregory Burns' keynote topics?

Gregory's keynote topics include: Beyond Limitations (overcoming adversity and building resilience), The Creative Leader (using creativity as a business tool), The Hero's Journey (purpose and transformation), and DEI & Disability Inclusion (the business case for hiring people with disabilities). All talks are tailored to the event audience and objectives.

What are Gregory Burns' team art experiences?

Gregory Burns leads interactive team art events where groups of 10 to 1,000 people create a large-scale collaborative painting together. The experience is designed to build trust, creativity, and shared purpose — and each session produces a physical artwork that teams keep. Ideal for conferences, leadership retreats, and strategy offsites.

From the Pool
to the Stage.

Years on Stage

Asia · Europe · The Americas

100+

Client Organizations

Google · Goldman Sachs · McKinsey

Motivational · Commencement · Fireside

Keynotes

On stage, the stories are Gregory’s — but what your audience takes away belongs to them. People don’t need to have swum the Paralympics to recognize what his keynotes are actually about: the moment the plan falls apart, the discipline of showing up when no one is watching, the decision to go before you know the outcome. They leave with something they didn’t arrive with: a different angle on a challenge they were facing, or thought was fixed.

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Groups 10–1,000 · Conferences · Off-sites

Team Art
Experiences

Gregory also designs and leads dynamic, interactive team art experiences — immersive collaborative sessions where groups from ten to a thousand create large-scale paintings together. The works don’t disappear after the event: they hang in corporate headquarters around the world.

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A story that lands — and stays.

Gregory doesn’t describe resilience — he demonstrates it. Your audience enters expecting a motivational story. They leave having looked at their own challenges differently. This talk is authentic and remembered differently because it speaks to the challenges we all face and how we move beyond them.

An experience, not just a talk.

Gregory’s Team Art Events turn a conference into something people actually talk about afterwards. Teams collaborate on a large-scale painting. The process is the message: alignment, creativity under pressure, and a finished artwork that stays in your office long after the event ends.

Tailored to your audience.

Gregory doesn’t deliver a rehearsed set. Every program is built around your event objectives, your audience, and the outcomes you need. Senior leaders, mixed professional audiences, graduation ceremonies, and DEI summits all receive a different version of the same lived truth.

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What Clients Say

Gregory has done an outstanding job with our team sharing important life and leadership skills to deal with challenges, overcome limitations and be successful. Highly motivating for all our staff.

Jon Allaway

CTO, Temasek Holdings

Thank you for being an uplifting force throughout Equinix. You and your workshops embody all that I have come to cherish most in middle age: wellbeing, impact, community and creativity.

Brian Thomas

Chief of Staff, Equinix

To say that Gregory 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 Corp — Global Leaders Summit

Gregory is a truly special and talented person — as a speaker, advocate, athlete, and artist. I would highly encourage any organization to engage Gregory in any of those capacities.