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Jeffrey Seckendorf is a highly motivational [and motivated] speaker on education, goals, the process of reaching your goals, and your life’s purpose. -
Jeff also brings your employees The Training Cycle Workshop, a course for instructors on the power and simplicity of training adults through a repeatable series of steps that guide students to a change in their behavior.
A dynamic speaker, Jeff presents simple and elegant concepts on education and purpose. Drawing on the crazy stories that come from a lifetime of teaching aerobatic flying, technical scuba diving, filmmaking, and bike racing, Jeff will keep your team engaged and entertained while guiding them through a simple series of steps that will make them stronger educators and more focused human beings.
KEYNOTE TOPICS
Playing the Long Game
As a world record holding endurance athlete, nothing is more important than consistency over time. Results come from compliance to a training plan over a long period of time. There is generally no real shortcut however, there are ways to be consistent and compliant that can super-charge your project.
It is this super-charging that Jeff brings to his keynote presentation on Playing the Long Game. Using techniques and methods learned over years of training on the bike, Jeff offers real, practical guidance on how to get really good at something. Still competing in the 70-plus age group, no one understands better how to combine a structured training program with a dose of patience and an ability to see the big picture to define and reach your goals.
This talk is for any corporation, agency, organization, or group that wants to help it’s employees and associates grow to become the best version of themselves.
Pivot Proudly
There is quitting, and there is pivoting. These are two sides of the same coin. As humans, we tend to stick to things that may or may not be good for us, whether it’s a relationship, a job, or even a hobby. Looking carefully at the “sunk cost effect,” Jeff provides a powerful keynote presentation on pivoting.
Reducing the stigma of “quitting” and re-framing it as a “pivot” can open space in a busy life for projects and experiences that are more productive, more satisfying, and more fun. Although it may seem like semantics, looking at our individual vision of how we manage our time and our emotional resources can allow us to create the bandwidth for a happier and healthier life, physically and emotionally.
Staying Fit AND Healthy As We Age Up
Can you have both? Health and fitness at the same time? There has always been discussion around the idea that, particularly as you age up, you can be a healthy athlete or a high performing athlete but not both.
In his keynote presentation on staying both fit and healthy as we age up, Jeff dispels the notion that one only exists without the other.
Drawing on examples in his own life, Jeff looks at structured training programs that include enough rest and recovery, the advantages of metabolic testing to understand your starting point, and how best to reach your goals.
Jeff has “been there/done that.” A year of over-training left him debilitated on the bike. Finding a new coach who saw Jeff as a human being first and an athlete second changed everything. Adding a proper nutritional program, changing sleep habits, and being more aware of his own need for rest and recovery led Jeff to four World Ultra Cycling Association records on the bike: the fastest 100km, fastest 100 miles, fastest 200km, and farthest six hours, all set at age 70.
The idea is simple when presented in the framework of setting reasonable goals, being consistent in training, and being compliant with your coaches.
The magic? Seeing changes in all areas of life when one area improves.