Keynote Speaking

We all have an ocean to cross. What's yours?

Build the resilience to navigate uncertainty, the mindset to grow through challenges, and the courage to pursue what matters.

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Keynotes include

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Discovery Session

A collaborative planning session to align the keynote with your team’s goals and challenges.

Custom Welcome Video

Personalized video introducing me to your team to build excitement before the event.

Signature Keynote

Customized keynote to inspire your team, strengthen resilience, and equip them to tackle your most ambitious goals.

Live Q&A

Interactive discussion to reinforce key ideas and address your team’s biggest questions.

Off-Stage Engagement

Up to 3 hours of off-stage interaction to continue the conversation before or after the keynote.

What people are saying

You truly have a gift for sharing your stories and bringing us all along on your adventures. You're natural and engaging. Really, really well done. Just incredible.

We had the pleasure of welcoming Tez Steinberg to speak virtually with our sales organization, and he completely floored the audience… Tez kept 150+ people fully engaged for the entire session, sparking laughter, vulnerable reflection…

Your talk was fantastic. Loved the message and engagement from the team. When my alarm went off at 5:30 AM today, I didn’t want to get up but I thought, I can’t possibly think of an excuse after hearing your talk.

You bowled me over with your incredible story of courage and persistence, I feel so lucky to have heard your story. You raise the bar for humanity, and for me personally and what I believe I'm capable of. Thank you Tez!

You are exceptional in your thinking, analysis, and delivery. Wrapping up our program with your story was simply perfect. This was a sentiment shared by our leaders as well.

Tez is one of the most inspiring people and speakers I've ever heard. He's riveting, and leaves you feeling like you want to play a bigger game in your life.

Over the last 20 years we’ve had the opportunity to hear a lot of great speakers at our events. Tez ranked right up at the top of the list. His story is the perfect mix of inspiration, personal reflection and motivation to do more.

This isn't something I can often say, but the world is a much better place with you in it. Fantastic talk, I can't thank you enough.

There are many good speakers out there, Tez rises above with his authentic and powerful presence and his ability to move and inspire people…he is mesmerizing and leaves people in awe, stretching our ideas of what is possible.

It is a rare gift to have lived a story worth telling and be as gifted a storyteller as Tez. How he turned his epic adventure into a moment of action for the entire audience was masterful.

I invited Tez to speak at Colorado Thought Leaders Forum… Tez’s message that we all have the power to shift our mindset to achieve seemingly impossible goals resonated deeply with our members. I look forward to having Tez back again…

The parallels between decision making under pressure in entrepreneurship and the world of high adventure…dazzled our audience. The inside look into Tez’s journey kept us all talking about how we will change our lives for months.

You literally made me cry. This is how we need to tell stories.

Our company is going through a major transformation… Facing challenges and storms is something we all encounter in different ways, and Tez's message really resonates. He is truly inspirational and his talk made us reflect…

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My Support For

Employee Engagement & Retention

Inspiration and Action toward Wild Goals

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Apply the Adventurer's Mindset to Business

Leadership, Courage and Vision

Cultivate Resilience & Overcome Adversity

Unlock Peak Performance

Face the Unknown & Embrace Uncertainty

I help teams, organizations, and communities build the confidence to pursue big challenges and discover what's possible on the other side of comfort.

Leadership

The courage to lose sight of shore

An award-winning speaker, Tez is known for sharing unforgettable stories from overcoming depression to becoming a world record athlete, and for empowering audiences with the tools and skills to steady their minds against stress and transcend their limitations.

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Inspiration

The growth equation

Get fired up with stories of resilience, grit, and overcoming harrowing setbacks, so you can find your own ocean and the courage to cross it.

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Performance

Optimize your mind to maximize results

Learn to work with your mind and cultivate the grit, discipline, and momentum to succeed.

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We'll align on your challenges and goals, and I'll craft a Tez Talk designed specifically for your group.

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Meet Tez

Named one of the “50 Best Young Minds in the World” by the World Economic Forum

In 2020 I became the first person in history to row across the Pacific alone from California to Hawaii with no prior rowing experience. The journey took 71 days and 2,700 miles, powered by sheer will and two oars. In 2024 I completed the Pacific and rowed over 5,000 miles from Hawaii to Australia in 126 days. I’m the only person in history to row this route solo and nonstop.

This mission began while experiencing depression in college. Just leaving my dorm felt like a challenge. But when a friend invited me to join him in a triathlon and I began to train, I discovered I’m so much stronger than I thought. I’ve since come to realize, we all are.

Over the next decade, I went on to run over 45 marathons, two Ironmans with top finishes, and a 145-mile non-stop ultramarathon.

At each step of my journey I realized again and again, my assumptions and limiting beliefs about what I could achieve were not only wrong, they were completely irrelevant.

I am stronger than my body, I am more than my mind.

From surviving wild ocean storms to guiding teams during turbulent times as a business leader, I’ve honed a set of skills to achieve seemingly impossible goals across diverse situations.

Let me help you blast through mental blocks and unleash your inner athlete.