Larry Jacobson

As a leader in sales and marketing for twenty years, and then captaining his own boat around the world, Larry Jacobson speaks with unique authority and credibility. As a leader and adventurer, he weaves tales of his six-year odyssey circumnavigating the globe with the challenges of leadership in our fast-paced business world. There are similarities in leading your crew while facing 30-foot walls of water slamming into your boat in a horrific Red Sea storm, and leading in your company. It's lonely, scary, and it’s easy to want to make it all go away. Sailing around the world doesn’t happen by luck, but by good leadership and visualizing achievement. Like sailing around the world, leadership in business is making decisions, taking risks, maintaining a good attitude, facing fears, staying focused, and digging deep for strength and perseverance. Larry inspires Leadership and shows his listeners how to lead fearlessly and effectively.

From TEDx talks to corporate meetings, making passion your priority is now Larry Jacobsons single most requested speech. Larry opens his heart to tell the story of discovering his passion for sailing at the age of 13. Then he jumps right in to the lives of the audience and how important passion is for them, how to find it, and how it can improve the quality of their work and personal lives. By getting to know you and your audience in advance, Larry then weaves his tale of passion into the work lives of the audience with great effectiveness using stories and slides from his 6 years of sailing around the world. Humor, emotion, and passion are keys to delivering this keynote and Larry Jacobson has them all.

Very few people achieve the status of circumnavigator. In fact, many more people climb Mt. Everest each year. Yet Larry Jacobson decided as a 16-year-old boy that sailing around the world was what he wanted and never let go of that dream. Throughout his life, Larry has achieved great endeavors, both in his professional and personal life. He knows how to make dreams come true. It's this quality of being unstoppable and refusing to settle for less than your best that makes the difference between mere existence and living the life of your dreams. Takeaways: • How to awaken our dormant dreams and turn them into actionable goals • How good things in our lives get in the way of great things • Why staying focused on your dream is so critical • How to see and mark the value in every day • Living with Love, Laughter and Pass This keynote is a perfect fit for any general motivational type event including sales meetings, conferences, associations, and incentive program