Sherry Winn Olympic-level Leadership speech

From the Olympic Podium to Your PlatformTeams​​

A leadership message that’s not just heard—it’s felt.

In a world of fleeting motivation, Sherry Winn delivers something different: a fundamental shift in mindset. As a two-time Olympian and national championship coach, she has lived the principles of resilience, discipline, and elite performance. Her keynotes are not just speeches; they are immersive experiences that translate the lessons of the world’s most demanding arenas into actionable strategies for your business.

The Experience of a Lifetime

“Sherry Winn guarantees that your audience will have an experience that will be entertaining, engaging, and empowering. Her message was so engaging and authentic that my team members didn’t want to leave. They were still talking about her message weeks afterwards.”
—Jeff Newgard, President and CEO of The Bank of Idaho
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The Perfect Fit for Your High-Stakes Event

The Perfect Fit for your High-Stakes Event

Sherry’s message is designed for leaders who are unwilling to settle for anything less than excellence. Her keynotes are ideal for:

Association Conferences: Inspire your members with a message that will resonate long after the event.

Corporate Meetings & Kick-offs: Set the tone for a year of ambitious goals and breakthrough performance.

Leadership Retreats: Provide your senior leaders with the tools and mindset to navigate complexity and drive growth.

Virtual Presentations: Engage your remote teams with a dynamic and interactive virtual experience.

Signature Keynotes for Leaders Committed to Excellence

Each keynote is a masterclass in the art and science of winning.

Unleash the Winner Within: How Brave Beliefs Ignite Elite-Level Leadership

Every gold medal moment starts with a belief. In this high-impact keynote, Sherry delivers her most requested presentation: a blueprint for unlocking unbreakable confidence, bold conviction, and courageous leadership through the Brave Beliefs™ Framework.

Winning Together: How Elite Leaders Build Teams That Thrive, Not Just Survive

Great teams are not born; they are forged. This keynote provides a proven framework for building a culture of trust, ownership, and sustained excellence. Learn how to move your team from a group of individuals to a cohesive unit that wins together.

Lead to Win: How to Engage and Elevate Your Dream Team to Olympic-Level Performance

Engagement is the currency of modern leadership. This keynote offers a powerful, actionable playbook for elevating your team’s performance, fostering unwavering loyalty, and creating a culture where everyone is committed to the win.

Olympic Resilience: How Elite Leaders Rise, Refocus, and Win Under Pressure

The true test of leadership is not how you perform on the good days, but how you rise on the difficult ones. This keynote provides a powerful framework for navigating adversity, building resilience, and leading with unshakeable conviction when the pressure is on.

Sherry accepts a limited number of keynote engagements per year. Inquire about your date

Ready to provide your audience with an unforgettable experience that will inspire them to reach their full potential? Let’s start the conversation.

Speaker Bio:

Sherry Winn is a Two-Time Olympian, National Championship Coach, bestselling author, and CEO of The Winning Leadership Company. She helps leaders and organizations perform at their best when the pressure is highest.

In today’s environment of constant change, uncertainty, and increasing demands, leaders are expected to make critical decisions, inspire teams, and drive results—often while navigating unprecedented levels of stress. Sherry equips leaders with the same mindset, resilience, and performance strategies used by Olympic athletes to thrive under pressure and lead with confidence.

Drawing from her experience competing on the world’s biggest stage and coaching championship teams, Sherry teaches practical leadership frameworks that help organizations strengthen accountability, build trust, improve communication, increase engagement, and create cultures that perform consistently—even in challenging circumstances.

Sherry is the author of multiple bestselling books, including her latest release, The Olympic Code: How High-Performing Leaders Deliver Under Pressure. Through interviews with more than 500 leaders from Fortune 500 companies, fast-growing organizations, and entrepreneurial businesses, she has uncovered the common leadership principles that separate high-performing cultures from struggling ones.

Following her Olympic career, Sherry spent more than two decades leading collegiate athletic programs, winning a National Championship and guiding teams to multiple Elite Eight appearances. Since founding The Winning Leadership Company, she has delivered more than 3,800 hours of leadership development programs and coached leaders across industries including financial services, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, government, and professional services.

Known affectionately as “Coach Winn,” Sherry combines powerful storytelling, practical leadership tools, and championship-level energy to create transformative experiences for audiences. Her presentations inspire leaders to move beyond surviving pressure and begin leveraging it as a competitive advantage.

Sherry has spoken to audiences ranging from executive leadership teams to crowds of more than 14,000 people. Her clients include organizations such as McDonald’s, Edward Jones, Dell, Symetra, Volunteers of America, chambers of commerce, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and numerous multi-million and billion-dollar companies.

Whether she is delivering a keynote, facilitating a leadership retreat, or coaching executives, Sherry’s mission remains the same: helping leaders develop the mindset, resilience, and skills necessary to achieve extraordinary results while bringing out the best in the people they lead.