Apolo Ohno

5 out of 5

Keynote Speaker: Eight-Time Olympic Medalist, Hall of Fame Short-Track Skater & NYT Bestselling Author

Miami, FL, USA

Apolo Ohno Biography

Apolo Anton Ohno won his first U.S. championship at 14, after six months of training. Over the next decade he became the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian in history, earning eight Olympic medals in short track speed skating across the 2002 Salt Lake City, 2006 Turin, and 2010 Vancouver Games, along with more than 100 World Cup medals and the 2008 overall World Championship. He was inducted into the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2019, and his skates from the 2002 Games are held in the Smithsonian’s collection.

What came after the podium is the part he speaks about most. Retirement from sport is a career ending in your twenties, and Ohno turned that ending into a system for starting over. He wrote about the obsession and discipline behind elite performance in "Zero Regrets," a New York Times bestseller, and about reinvention itself in "Hard Pivot," written for anyone whose first chapter has closed. He won season 4 of ABC’s "Dancing with the Stars," finished the Ironman World Championship in Kona in under ten hours, and completed executive education at the Wharton School.

His broadcasting career spans every Winter Olympics of the modern era: fifteen years with NBC Sports, including analyst duties in Sochi and PyeongChang, and most recently on-the-ground coverage of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Games for Yahoo Sports, where his short-form Olympic storytelling reached tens of millions of viewers.

He remains deeply embedded in the Olympic movement as a member of the LA28 Athletes’ Commission, a member of the Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 State of Sport Committee, a board member of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and the Utah Sports Commission, and a global ambassador for the Special Olympics. With Milan behind us and Los Angeles 2028 and Salt Lake City 2034 ahead, no American athlete is more connected to the decade of the Games than Ohno.

Off camera, he is an investor and advisor to companies in health, wellness, and human performance, and has spent twenty years working with high performing teams at organizations from Fortune 100 companies to high-growth startups. His keynotes, The Gold Medal Mindset and Hard Pivot, translate the mental performance systems of elite sport into tools leaders can use: performing under pressure, building cultures where excellence compounds, and reinventing before the world forces you to. He has delivered them for audiences from 5,000-person sales kickoffs to 30-person executive offsites across financial services, technology, and healthcare.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/28/2026.

Apolo Ohno Speaking Topics

  • The Gold Medal Mindset

    Train the mind. Perform under pressure. Win the moment. ‍This is the mindset that made Apolo Ohno the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian in history. Through raw, powerful storytelling, Apolo takes audiences inside the mental framework that fueled his Olympic dominance, and applies it to our high-stakes world.

    Attendee Results:

    • Unlock flow under pressure to achieve peak performance
    • Build unshakable mental clarity in critical moments
    • Recover smarter. Visualize sharper. Perform with purpose
    • Unleash sustainable momentum "

  • Hard Pivot

    Evolve with clarity. Lead with purpose. Move with conviction. From the pages of his bestselling books to the keynote stage, Apolo Ohno teaches high performers how to lead transformation, with clarity and conviction from within.

    Attendee Results:

    • Lead pivots with clarity, courage, and confidence
    • Let go to grow
    • Turn uncertainty into your competitive edge
    • Build dynamic resilience: grow stronger through change

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Apolo Ohno Videos

Apolo Ohno - "Finding Mastery" Podcast

Apolo Ohno - "Finding Mastery" Podcast

How to Navigate Life Transitions - Pivoting with Purpose

Apolo Ohno - Olympic Games

Apolo Ohno - Olympic Games

Apolo Ohno on the importance of mental health.

Apolo Ohno - ABC/"Good Morning America"

Apolo Ohno - ABC/"Good Morning America"

Apolo Ohno reflects on life changes in new book, "Hard Pivot"

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Apolo Ohno is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Gold Medal Mindset , Hard Pivot, The Five Golden Principles and Zero Regrets . The estimated speaking fee range to book Apolo Ohno for your event is $50,000 - $100,000. Apolo Ohno generally travels from Miami, FL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Sugar Ray Leonard, Daymond John, Emmitt Smith, Jesse Itzler and Tim Tebow. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Apolo Ohno for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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