Christine Conti Speaking Topics

• SPLIT-SECOND COURAGE: What if your fears were the key to your dreams?

  What if fear isn’t the thing holding you back—but the very thing pointing you toward what matters most?

  Based on Christine Conti’s book, SPLIT-SECOND COURAGE: What If Your Fears Were the Key to Your Dreams?, this high-energy, inspiring keynote challenges audiences to rethink their relationship with fear, failure, uncertainty, and change. Through powerful storytelling, humor, and real-life experiences, Christine demonstrates how seemingly small moments of courage can create extraordinary change in our careers, relationships, health, leadership, and lives.

  Rather than waiting to feel fearless, confident, or “ready,” audiences learn how to recognize fear as information and take action anyway. Christine shares practical strategies for facing discomfort, challenging limiting beliefs, and making the split-second decisions that move us toward the people we want to become. The message is simple: Courage doesn’t require the absence of fear. Sometimes, it requires just one moment—and one decision—to move forward.

  Attendee Results:

  • Reframe fear as a potential catalyst for growth, opportunity, and meaningful change.
  • Recognize how limiting beliefs and fear of failure can prevent action and progress.
  • Learn practical strategies for moving forward despite uncertainty, discomfort, or self-doubt.
  • Discover how small, courageous decisions can compound into significant personal and professional transformation.
  • Develop greater confidence in navigating setbacks, challenges, and unexpected change.
  • Leave empowered to stop waiting for the “right time” and take the next courageous step toward meaningful goals.

• F'It: FACE, FEEL & FLIP FEAR

  Fear is inevitable. Letting it make our decisions is optional.

  In this high-energy, interactive keynote, Christine Conti introduces F’IT: Face, Feel & Flip Fear, a powerful three-step framework designed to help audiences change the way they respond to fear, adversity, uncertainty, and change. Rather than avoiding fear or waiting for it to disappear, Christine challenges participants to FACE what is holding them back, FEEL and acknowledge the emotions that come with it, and FLIP fear into fuel for action, growth, and possibility.

  Through unforgettable storytelling, humor, audience participation, and powerful real-world examples, Christine demonstrates that fear does not have to be an obstacle—it can become information, motivation, and even opportunity. From navigating personal adversity to leading through uncertainty, pursuing ambitious goals, or simply having the courage to make the next move, F’IT gives audiences a memorable framework they can immediately apply to their work and lives.

  Attendee Results:

  • Learn the Face, Feel & Flip framework for responding to fear and uncertainty.
  • Identify fears, limiting beliefs, and thought patterns that may be preventing growth or action.
  • Understand why acknowledging and experiencing fear can be more effective than avoiding it.
  • Discover practical strategies for reframing fear and turning discomfort into forward momentum.
  • Build greater resilience and confidence when facing challenges, setbacks, and change.
  • Leave with a simple, memorable tool for choosing action—even when fear is still present.

• LIVE 1% BETTER: Small Changes. Extraordinary Impact.

  What if success wasn’t about becoming the best—but simply becoming 1% better?

  Inspired by the Japanese Kaizen philosophy of continuous improvement, Christine Conti’s Live 1% Better keynote challenges audiences to stop chasing perfection and start recognizing the extraordinary power of small, intentional progress. In business, leadership, health, relationships, and life, seemingly insignificant improvements—repeated consistently—can create remarkable results.

  But for Christine, “1% Better” is more than a business philosophy; it is a way of life. As a guide for athletes with autism, Down syndrome, and other intellectual and developmental disabilities, Christine has witnessed athletes around the world redefine what achievement, courage, leadership, and success can look like. Their experiences provide powerful lessons about inclusion, perseverance, gratitude, and recognizing potential in ourselves and others. Through humor, unforgettable stories, and practical strategies, Christine demonstrates that everyone—regardless of ability, title, circumstance, or starting point—has the capacity to live, lead, and perform 1% better.

  Attendee Results:

  • Understand how the Kaizen philosophy of continuous improvement can drive sustainable personal and professional growth.
  • Learn how small, consistent actions can compound into meaningful changes in performance, leadership, culture, and life.
  • Replace perfection-based thinking with a mindset focused on progress, possibility, and perseverance.
  • Discover powerful lessons about resilience and human potential through stories of athletes of differing abilities.
  • Understand how inclusion can strengthen teams, organizations, communities, and the people within them.
  • Identify one actionable change they can make immediately to begin living and leading 1% Better.

• THE CRAZY ONES: Are you crazy enough to think you can change the world?

  What if being called “crazy” is actually a sign that you’re onto something extraordinary?

  History is filled with people who were told their ideas were impossible, unrealistic, too risky—or just plain crazy. Yet many of the people who ultimately changed industries, broke barriers, built successful businesses, accomplished the unimaginable, or created lives they truly loved were the ones willing to believe in something before anyone else could see it.

  In this inspiring and thought-provoking keynote, Christine Conti draws upon powerful stories from remarkable people she has interviewed, encountered, and learned from around the world—individuals who challenged expectations, overcame adversity, took unconventional risks, and refused to allow other people’s limitations to become their own. Through humor, storytelling, and practical lessons, Christine explores what separates dreamers from doers and why curiosity, resilience, calculated risk, and the willingness to be misunderstood can become powerful drivers of innovation and success. The Crazy Ones challenges audiences to question the rules they’ve inherited, think bigger about what is possible, and have the courage to pursue the ideas that others may not understand—yet.

  Attendee Results:

  • Discover why unconventional thinking can be a catalyst for innovation, fulfillment, and extraordinary achievement.
  • Recognize how fear of judgment, failure, and being misunderstood can keep people from pursuing bold ideas.
  • Learn lessons from individuals who challenged conventional thinking and created their own definitions of success.
  • Develop greater confidence to question assumptions, take calculated risks, and pursue ideas before others believe in them.
  • Understand how setbacks, rejection, and adversity can become valuable information rather than reasons to quit.
  • Identify their own “crazy” idea—and leave inspired to take the first meaningful step toward making it real.

• Pouring from an Empty Cup: Rethinking Burnout, Wellbeing & High Performance

  We celebrate the person who never stops—until they can’t keep going.

  In a culture that often wears exhaustion as a badge of honor, high performers are rewarded for pushing harder, doing more, and putting themselves last. But what happens when the habits we associate with success actually begin working against us? In this engaging and eye-opening keynote, health and wellness expert Christine Conti challenges audiences to rethink the relationship between performance, productivity, stress, and recovery.

  Drawing from decades in the health and fitness industry, endurance sports, education, entrepreneurship, and coaching, Christine explores why being busy isn't the same as being productive—and why recovery isn't the opposite of high performance; it's part of it. Through humor, relatable stories, science, and practical strategies, audiences learn how movement, sleep, stress management, boundaries, connection, recovery, and purpose can help protect their most valuable resource: themselves. Pouring From an Empty Cup gives individuals and organizations permission to redefine success—not as how much we can endure, but how effectively and sustainably we can perform, lead, and live.

  Attendee Results:

  • Recognize early signs of burnout, chronic stress, and unsustainable high-performance habits.
  • Understand the connection between physical wellbeing, mental health, recovery, and professional performance.
  • Learn practical strategies for incorporating movement, recovery, stress management, and meaningful breaks into demanding workdays.
  • Challenge the belief that exhaustion, constant availability, and overwork are requirements for success.
  • Develop healthier boundaries and habits that support energy, engagement, productivity, and longevity.
  • Create a personal “refill” strategy for performing at a high level without continually pouring from an empty cup.

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