Mary Bowers
World Ranked Competitive Eater • Eat! Be Mary!
Newport Beach, California, United States •
$5,001 - $10,000
About
I was the #1 ranked competitive eater in Korea, and Top 40 in the world. Then South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed what I'd long suspected about my own adoption - my identity had been falsified, my family erased. I've provided testimony to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances and Korea's National Assembly. I now bring the steadiness, strength and resilience of the competition stage into conversations about truth and accountability.
Speaking Topics
Signature Programs (5)
Mary ranked #1 in Korea and Top 40 in the world as a competitive eater. She's appeared on Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge, America's Got Talent, and other television shows worldwide. She's also provided testimony for the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances and Korea's National Assembly. This session draws on both experiences to explore what real composure under pressure actually requires, from a reality TV soundstage to an international human rights hearing.
Key Takeaways
- Learn what performing under genuine public pressure actually demands
- Explore the difference between confidence and composure
- Understand how to stay grounded while speaking about difficult material
- Walk away with practical tools for showing up steady when it matters most
Audience
Corporate leadership and sales teams, athletic and performance organizations, general conference audiences seeking a resilience or personal-growth keynote
Format
Duration
30–45 min
Delivery
What happens when the systems meant to protect people cause harm instead? This session looks closely at infrastructure, politics, and human rights together, examining how institutions falter and what real accountability requires when they do.
Key Takeaways
- Learn a framework for evaluating institutional promises against institutional outcomes
- Understand common patterns in how large systems fail the people inside them
- Explore what accountability requires
- Consider what your own organization owes the people it serves
Audience
ESG and social impact teams, government accountability offices, nonprofit and NGO leadership, policy conferences
Format
Duration
Keynote 45–60 min / Workshop 3+ hours
Delivery
Mary has managed construction of land ports of entry, international airports, and commercial transit infrastructure at the highest levels of security and complexity. In this session, she shares an insider's view of how these systems are actually planned and built, and what happens to the people who move through them.
Key Takeaways
- Understand how large-scale infrastructure decisions are made, and who influences them
- Identify where security, policy, and human impact intersect, and where they conflict
- Learn what institutional accountability looks like from the inside, beyond theory
- Understand a framework for asking better questions of the systems within your own organization
Audience
Government and civic officials, infrastructure and transportation agencies, policy conferences, engineering and construction industry associations
Format
Duration
Keynote 45–60 min / Workshop 3+ hours
Delivery
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