Daniel Lamarre
Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group; Former President and CEO, Cirque du Soleil; Co-Founder, C2 Montréal
Kerri Walsh Jennings
3x Olympic Gold Medalist & 5x Olympian | Beach Volleyball GOAT | Co-Founder, p1440 | MLV Franchise Owner | NCAA Champion, Stanford
Kerri Walsh Jennings didn't just dominate beach volleyball — she redefined what sustained greatness looks like. Three Olympic golds, a 112-match win streak, and five Games across two decades make her the sport's undisputed GOAT. As co-founder of p1440 and an MLV franchise owner, she now builds the next generation. On stage, she translates championship thinking into frameworks any team can use.
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Kerri Walsh Jennings biography
Kerri Walsh Jennings is the most decorated beach volleyball athlete in Olympic history — a five-time Olympian who won three consecutive gold medals and a bronze, redefined what competitive excellence looks like in professional sport, and has spent her post-competition years building the next era of the game from the ground up. Raised in Santa Clara, California, she arrived at Stanford University as a force of nature: a four-time First Team All-American, two-time NCAA champion, and the first player in Pac-10 history to record 1,500 career kills, 1,200 digs, and 500 blocks in a single career. She was named co-National Player of the Year in 1999 and honored with the 2025 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award, one of college sports’ highest lifetime achievement recognitions.
Sports speaker Kerri Walsh Jennings is best known for her legendary partnership with Misty May-Treanor, a collaboration that produced three Olympic gold medals (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012), three World Championship titles, and a 112-match win streak that remains one of the most extraordinary sustained dominance records in Olympic sport. After May-Treanor’s retirement, Walsh Jennings continued to compete at the highest level, winning bronze at Rio 2016 with April Ross before representing the United States one final time at Tokyo 2020. Her five Olympic appearances span two decades of elite performance — a testament to physical longevity, mental discipline, and an obsessive commitment to growth.
Building the Next Era of Volleyball
After stepping back from Olympic competition in 2023, Walsh Jennings channeled her energy into expanding the sport she loves. In 2018, she and her husband Casey Jennings co-founded p1440, a purpose-driven volleyball platform — its name referencing the 1,440 minutes in every day — dedicated to growing access to the sport through youth programming, collegiate scholarships, coaching development, and elite competition. The organization provides over $100,000 annually in scholarship support, ensuring that financial barriers do not price young athletes out of the game. In December 2025, Walsh Jennings was announced as a Founding Owner of the Northern California franchise of Major League Volleyball (MLV), the newly consolidated premier women’s professional volleyball league backed by more than $100 million in committed funding and launching its 2027 season in the Bay Area — where her own volleyball journey began at Stanford.
As a speaker, Kerri Walsh Jennings brings the full weight of a champion’s perspective to every stage she walks onto. Audiences across corporate, athletic, and leadership contexts gain frameworks for building high-performance partnerships, sustaining excellence over time, turning setbacks into fuel, and developing the mental fortitude to compete at the top — in sport and in life. Her message is personal, practical, and rooted in the kind of credibility that only comes from having stood on the Olympic podium five times.
Kerri Walsh Jennings Speaking Videos
You Learn So Much When You Lose, Especially at the Olympics | Kerri Walsh Jennings |Google Zeitgeist
Mindfulness & Recovery Secrets from the GOAT | Kerri Walsh Jennings x TEDSports
Kerri Walsh Jennings Keynote Topics
What separates athletes — and leaders — who win consistently from those who peak once? In this keynote, Kerri Walsh Jennings opens up the mental architecture behind three Olympic gold medals and two decades of sustained competitive dominance. She shares the daily disciplines, the mindset rituals, and the internal frameworks that allowed her to perform under the highest possible pressure, recover from setbacks that would have ended most careers, and keep raising the bar on herself. Audiences leave with concrete tools for building the internal foundation that external results are built on.
Three Olympic gold medals. A 112-match win streak. Two athletes, one court, and the entire world watching. In this keynote, Walsh Jennings explores what it truly takes to build a high-performance partnership — the kind where trust is non-negotiable, communication is relentless, and accountability goes both ways. Drawing on her legendary collaboration with Misty May-Treanor and her experience leading and adapting through multiple partnerships across her career, she gives audiences a masterclass in what genuine teamwork looks and feels like at the elite level — and how to build it in any environment.
Every elite career has its breaking points. For Walsh Jennings, those moments came publicly — a career-threatening shoulder injury, competitive defeats on the world's biggest stage, the challenge of reinvention after her greatest partnership ended. This keynote is about what happens after the fall: how champions process failure differently, how resilience is built through deliberate practice rather than natural toughness, and how the moments that look like endings are often the most important turning points of a career. A deeply personal and energizing session for any audience navigating change, adversity, or transition.
Based on the philosophy behind her organization p1440 — named for the 1,440 minutes in every day — this keynote is a high-energy, practical session on intentionality, purpose, and making the most of the time you have. Walsh Jennings shares how elite athletes approach time, energy, and focus differently from everyone else, and how the habits and frameworks that produce Olympic performance can be applied to business, leadership, and life. This is a keynote about living and leading on purpose — every single day.
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FAQs on Booking Kerri Walsh Jennings
Why Kerri Walsh Jennings?
Booking Kerri Walsh Jennings for your event means bringing the most decorated beach volleyball athlete in Olympic history to your stage — someone whose message goes far beyond sport. As a three-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time Olympian, two-time NCAA champion, Stanford alumna, and entrepreneur-founder, Walsh Jennings speaks with the authority of someone who has sustained elite performance across two decades, built high-stakes partnerships under global pressure, and reinvented herself after competition to become a builder of the next generation. Her keynotes connect viscerally with audiences at leadership conferences, sales rallies, team-building events, and women's empowerment forums alike. She is authentic, warm, and deeply compelling — as multiple client testimonials confirm: "She was relatable, authentic, and spoke as if she knew our team" (Xero); "She truly went above and beyond" (Ridgeline). Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to check Kerri Walsh Jennings's availability for your next event.
How many Olympic medals does Kerri Walsh Jennings have?
Kerri Walsh Jennings has four Olympic medals in total: three gold medals and one bronze. She won gold at Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, and London 2012, all in partnership with Misty May-Treanor. She then won bronze at Rio 2016 alongside April Ross. She competed at a fifth Olympic Games at Tokyo 2020, making her one of the most enduring competitors in the history of beach volleyball.
Who is Kerri Walsh Jennings's beach volleyball partner?
Walsh Jennings's most celebrated partnership was with Misty May-Treanor, with whom she formed arguably the greatest team in the history of the sport. Together they won three consecutive Olympic gold medals, three World Championships, and set a 112-match winning streak. After May-Treanor retired from competition following London 2012, Walsh Jennings competed with several partners, most notably April Ross, with whom she won Olympic bronze at Rio 2016.
What topics does sports speaker Kerri Walsh Jennings cover?
Kerri Walsh Jennings speaks on high performance and elite mindset, building championship partnerships and teams, resilience and navigating adversity, leadership under pressure, sustaining excellence over the long term, and the power of purpose in driving peak performance. Her keynotes are equally powerful for corporate audiences, athletic organizations, and leadership teams at every level. She also speaks on women's empowerment, athlete transitions, and the entrepreneurial journey through p1440. Reach out to Aurum Speakers Bureau to explore how Kerri Walsh Jennings can inspire and energize your audience.
How to book Kerri Walsh Jennings as a keynote speaker?
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How much is Kerri Walsh Jennings speaking fee?
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