KEYNOTE: Aaron Baker
Rebellious Recovery
Transform Your Adversity into Adventure
Former professional motorsports champion, Aaron Baker, is a recovering quadriplegic husband, father, author, adventure athlete, keynote speaker and ambassador for spinal cord injury.
In 1999, Aaron sustained a career ending spinal cord injury. He fractured cervical vertebrae 4,5,6 rendering him a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chin down and given a one in a million chance of ever feeding himself again. From the onset of his injury, the focus was on rebuilding and redefining life. He became a student of the mind and body, and mastered a set of fundamental tools he still uses and teaches others daily.
Aaron co-founded the Center Of Restorative Exercise and represents Red Bull's non-profit charity - Wings For Life Foundation as a member of the Board Of Directors, USA and Chairman of the Ambassador Council.
As an athlete, Aaron has set and achieved many firsts for his injury level. He cycled across the United States twice - from San Diego, CA to St. Augustine, FL and then on to San Francisco, CA to Washington D.C. Aaron trained with the Paralympic program winning a National Championship
in 2012. After hanging up the bike for some time, he took his efforts to the lowest, hottest place on earth, Death Valley and walked 20 miles which was chronicled in a Netflix documentary, "Coming to my Senses".
In 2022, Aaron released his memoir, "The Rebellious Recovery: Transform Your Adversity Into Adventure" which encapsulates over twenty years of living and thriving with a spinal cord injury.
Most recently, he and his wife created the Los Angeles based non-profit, Adversity Into Adventure Foundation, which enhances rehabilitation, recreation and neurological research for the disabled community. Aaron cycled across Route 66 in 2024 as an impact campaign to show what is possible.
Aaron credits more than two decades of recovery and the simple yet full, peaceful life he lives today to consistent, long-term restorative movement and mindset. His keynotes empower audiences to think and move their way through adversity with a basic cycle of mind, body, spirit, and lifestyle choices to discover peace, power, joy, and reverence for life. His topics apply broadly as life, by its very nature, is a recurring cycle of events; the good, the bad, the difficult, and the indifferent are all ongoing and indefinite for us all.
For more than 20 years, Aaron has been sharing his story, insights, and practices with audiences around the world, ranging from corporate, healthcare organizations, associations, nonprofits, schools and Universities, to name a few.
