Ben Newman

Ben Newman is a performance coach first and a keynote speaker second, which is an unusual order in this field and the main reason to book him.

He spent five years as mental conditioning coach for Alabama football under Nick Saban, and has worked with athletes and staff across the NFL, MLB, NBA, PGA, UFC and NCAA. That is embedded work across a season rather than a single appearance, and it is what the keynote is drawn from. He has watched the same material succeed and fail with people whose performance is measured in public every week.

His own story starts earlier and is why the material is not abstract. His mother died of amyloidosis, a rare disease, eleven days before his eighth birthday, after a final year that required round-the-clock nursing care and during which she still came to the dinner table with an IV stand to ask about his day. He built a body of work on what he calls the burn, meaning the thing a person is actually carrying, and on the standard they hold when motivation has gone.

He has written eight books. The last two, The Standard and Uncommon Leadership, are both Wall Street Journal bestsellers. USA Today named him one of the top five mindset and performance coaches in the world, and he has appeared repeatedly on the Real Leaders list of the top fifty speakers.

The strongest use of him is a sales organization or a leadership team with a real performance problem and a willingness to run more than one session, because the material is built to be repeated and held to. A single conference slot works, and is how most events book him, but it uses the smaller half of what he does. He is not the pick for a room looking for entertainment or a light closing session.