Nick Vujicic

Nick Vujicic was born in Melbourne in 1982 with tetra-amelia syndrome, meaning without arms or legs, and has since spoken more than three thousand times in more than fifty countries, which makes him one of the most widely booked inspirational speakers alive.

The reason the material holds up under that volume is that it is not built on the condition alone. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce from Griffith University at twenty-one with a double major in accountancy and financial planning, and the argument he makes on stage is a practical one: that the decision most people are waiting to make, to act before their circumstances improve, is available to them now, and that he is the evidence because his circumstances were never going to improve.

His first book, Life Without Limits, has been translated into thirty languages, and he has written several more, including Unstoppable, Stand Strong, on bullying, and Love Without Limits. He founded Life Without Limbs, a nonprofit ministry, and Attitude Is Altitude, and starred in the 2009 short film The Butterfly Circus, for which he won Best Actor at the 2010 Method Fest.

He is Australian-American and based in Texas, and he speaks to corporate, school and faith audiences, which is worth stating at booking so the session is framed for the room it is in.

For a corporate event the value is straightforward. An audience that has heard several talks on resilience has usually heard them from people whose difficulty ended. His did not, and the room knows it within a second of him arriving on stage, which removes the argument before it can start. Sessions are keynote format, and organizers most often book him for company-wide meetings and conference general sessions rather than for breakouts.