JEFF SECKENDORF
KEYNOTE SPEAKING
World Record Endurance Cyclist • Award-Winning Cinematographer • Leadership and Performance Speaker
Jeffrey Seckendorf is a keynote speaker who presents programs on high performance leadership, resilience, mastery, creativity, and the long game. As a world record holding endurance cyclist and award-winning cinematographer, Jeff brings a unique perspective on how individuals and organizations achieve excellence through process, teamwork, and long-term thinking. His keynote presentations combine storytelling, humor, and practical frameworks that audiences can apply immediately to leadership, business, education, healthcare, and personal performance.
On the bike Jeff holds four World Ultra Cycling Association endurance records on the track. These are fastest 100km, 100 miles, 200km, and farthest six hours. He also holds course records at the World Six-Hour Time Trial Championships in the 65+ and 70+ age groups.
In a parallel career, he worked as an award-winning cinematographer and director-cameraman in the film industry, where he learned firsthand how creativity, teamwork, and performance under pressure come together to produce exceptional results.
Jeff has spent decades teaching adults in aviation, scuba diving, and endurance sports. His keynote presentations focus on leadership, tenacity, teamwork, creativity, and the process of achieving big goals over long periods of time.
Jeff speaks at corporate conferences, leadership events, healthcare organizations, government agencies, associations, and education conferences throughout California and the United States.
COACHING AND TRAINING
I have a deep passion for education and training. In each iteration of my career I have always been driven by an element of training: in the film industry where I spent many years teaching workshops and developed a mentoring program for emerging directors; in scuba, where I created the industry’s first scuba coaching program and first online education program; with the Training Cycle, where I train the trainers; and on the bike, where I coach athletes and introduce cyclists to riding and racing on the velodrome.
During these years I have created online, blended, and in-person training programs and curriculum in multiple fields. In my scuba company, Unified Team Diving, I created hundreds of multi-language online courses, wrote seven books, edited a magazine, and developed a software engine to deliver it all.
I also have a very fun life. I race a bicycle on the track and on the road holding World Ultra Cycling Association 100km, 100mi, 200km, and 6-hour records on the velodrome, course records at the World 6-Hour Time Trial Championships in the 65+ and 70+ age groups, held the age group hour record at the San Diego Velodrome, am a former triathlete, flight instructor, competition aerobatic pilot, and big mountain trekker.
COACHING PHILOSOPHY
I believe a coac
h’s job is make you a better athlete. If you are a masters racer looking for race results or you are just getting started on a fitness journey, coaching will make your process better and, in turn, will make your outcome and results better.
As we see more and more companies produce online and AI-driven training plans, the role of a coach remains the same – understand you, the athlete. As your coach, I will be your guide when needed, your cheerleader when needed, and an objective voice when needed.
CLICK HERE TO CONTACT ME TO SET UP A CALL. Let’s see if my coaching philosophy and methodology are a good fit for you.
FILMMAKING
I have had the great fortune to spend a lifetime behind a camera. Starting as a teen working for a newspaper, then on to advertising where I photographed and directed over 1000 commercials, then to feature films taking me to Sundance, Cannes, and scores of other festivals and awards.
I’ve always combined filmmaking with education. For 20 years I taught workshops and classes at the International Film and TV Workshops (now the Maine Media Workshops). I created One On One Film Training, a mentoring program for emerging directors and cinematographers.
Recently I’ve turned to documentaries, including a film that followed a group of Parkinson’s Disease patients to Mt. Everest Base Camp. Click here for more info and the demo reels.
“THE TRAINING CYCLE”
TEACHING CORPORATE and
NON-PROFIT EDUCATORS
When you need an employee to educate clients or other employees, do you turn to your best employee? Is your best employee your best trainer and communicator?
I train educators in a systematic fashion using tried and true tools and a simple series of protocols. I give any skilled employee the ability to teach the material they know best.
Education is classically defined as changing the behavior of a student. But that change is only valuable if it is accompanied by retention. Can you recall the change tomorrow? My goal is to provide the tools that prepare an employee to take on the tasks of education, to create changes in behavior in their trainees, and to be sure that change will stick.
I have worked with students and teachers in business, the film industry, as a flight instructor, and as a scuba instructor trainer. The Training Cycle Workshop brings this tried and true system of education to you.
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
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