Session Details

Name
Push with Purpose: Champion Your Choices
Track
Keynote
Date & Time
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Location Name
Ballroom B

Learning Objectives

Name
Push with Purpose: Champion Your Choices
Description

In Push With Purpose, Joe DeLaGrave—2x Paralympic Medalist, USA Wheelchair Rugby Head Coach, and leadership keynote speaker—delivers a powerful, unforgettable message about responsibility, resilience, and choice when circumstances feel uncontrollable.

After a life‑altering accident left him paralyzed, Joe was forced to confront a truth we all face in different ways: we do not always get to choose our situation, but we always get to choose how we respond. Through high‑energy storytelling, raw honesty, humor, and deep emotional impact, Joe challenges audiences to rethink adversity—not as a setback, but as a moment that demands purpose-driven leadership.

Grounded in his Assess Your S.E.L.F. framework (Support, Effort, Love, and Faith), this keynote helps leaders and teams shift from reacting under pressure to acting with intention. Joe draws from his experience as a Paralympian, elite coach, and former team captain to show how purpose fuels resilience, strengthens accountability, and elevates performance—especially during uncertainty, change, and stress.

Audiences leave inspired, but more importantly, equipped—with clear language, practical mindset shifts, and a renewed commitment to lead, work, and live with purpose, even when the path forward is difficult.

Proposed Learning Objective (1)
Identify and articulate the four components of Joe DeLaGrave’s Assess Your S.E.L.F. framework and explain how each supports resilient, purpose-driven leadership in high‑pressure environments.
Proposed Learning Objective (2)
Apply a choice‑based leadership approach by identifying at least one specific behavior or decision they can control in response to adversity, change, or uncertainty in their current role.
Proposed Learning Objective (3)
Commit to one actionable shift—individually or as a team—that aligns daily effort and decision‑making with a clearly defined personal or organizational purpose.

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