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Dr. Willie Jolley is a man on a mission! He is a Hall of Fame speaker, singer, best-selling author, and popular media personality. In January 2023, he received the Joseph R. Biden Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. In July 2023, he was the recipient of The National Speakers Association’s highest and most cherished award, The Cavett, named after the association’s founder, Cavett Robert.

Dr. Willie Jolley has achieved remarkable heights in life, after coming from humble beginnings. His father died when he was a teenager and he put himself through college by singing in nightclubs and recording jingles for radio and television commercials. He went on to become a multi WAMMIE (Washington Area Music Association) Award winning nightclub performer. Yet, at the top of his nightclub career, he was fired and replaced by a karaoke machine, during the karaoke craze that swept America! Dr. Jolley decided that he was not going to give up, so he took that setback and turned it into an amazing “Comeback!”

Dr. Jolley started his speaking career as a drug prevention coordinator for the DC Public School System and went on to speak to millions of young people around the world. He produced and starred in the first PBS Special for teens, “Dare To Dream, Dare To Win,” which has become the #1 selling youth video in America. He was named “One of America’s Top Youth Speakers” by Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA).
He has gone on to be named “One of the Outstanding Five Speakers in the World” and “Motivational & Inspirational Speaker of The Year” by the 175,000 members of Toastmasters International. In 2005, he was inducted into the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame and received the CPAEAward (Council of Peers Award of Excellence).

Dr. Jolley soon started receiving speaking requests from other industry sectors and went on to great success speaking to colleges, associations, and corporations. He was the expert Ford Motors called on in 2006, when they were on the brink of bankruptcy. He worked with Ford from 2006 to 2009, and they were able to reject a government bailout and go on to billion-dollar profits.

Keynote Topics

Keynote #1 : Achieve More with an Attitude of Excellence

Dr. Willie Jolley answers the age-old question: What are the secrets that sustain successful organizations through difficult times?
His answers are born out of his work helping Ford Motor Company go from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 to being positioned to reject the government bailout in 2009—and on to billion-dollar profits every quarter since 2009. Success Magazine called him “Ford’s Secret Weapon!”
In this program, Dr. Jolley shares strategies and ideas your attendees can employ to transform their businesses—as well as the five areas of development that can be used immediately to change their thinking and their business.

Upon completing this program, participants will:

Pursue a workplace culture of excellence

Understand the tenets of high achieving organizations:

Leadership
Change management
Team building
Customer service
A winner’s attitude
Embrace change as a positive factor
Seek leadership development—no matter their position in the organization
View teams as the lifeblood of the organization
Serve the internal and external “customers”

Keynote #2 : Turn Your Setbacks into Comebacks…then Turn Your Comebacks Into Greenbacks!

Taken from his popular television special, “Turning Setbacks into Comebacks,” Dr. Willie Jolley explains how in turbulent, high anxiety and fear times, we can survive, and dare we think, even thrive!

Dr. Jolley is right on time with this message. He has interviewed people of all walks of life on how they came back from great adversity. He shares their successful techniques, ideas, principles, and strategies.

And furthermore, he explains how to apply those principles today to help you comeback, and then get more greenbacks.

While others may speak of turning setbacks into comebacks, Dr. Jolley wrote the international best-selling books, A Setback Is A Setup for a Comeback and Turn Your Setbacks Into Greenbacks.

Participants will learn how to:

Develop the mindset that winners use to overcome tough times
Implement step-by-step strategies to turn their setbacks into comebacks
Prepare an action plan to bulletproof their future success!

Keynote: Hack Your Brain : From Burnout To Superpowered

Keynote : The Neuroscience of Performance and Possibility, The Intersection of Neuroscience, Emotional Intelligence and A.I.

Call or text Neal at (720) 498 -3275 or email neal@infinitespeakers.com to schedule a pre booking call with Willie or book him for your upcoming event today.