David Rowan
Founding Editor-in-Chief, WIRED UK | Best-Selling Author of Non-Bullshit Innovation | Technology & Futurist Keynote Speaker
Heisman Trophy Winner & Two-Time National Champion | NFL & MLB Pro Athlete | ESPN Analyst | Six-Time NYT Bestselling Author | Faith, Leadership & Purpose
Tim Tebow is one of the most decorated athletes in American sports: Heisman Trophy winner, two-time national champion, NFL first-round pick, and six-time New York Times bestselling author. Now an ESPN analyst and global humanitarian whose foundation reaches more than 100 countries, he brings audiences a message of purpose-driven leadership, resilience, and faith that has moved millions worldwide.
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Tim Tebow is one of the most accomplished and recognizable athletes in the history of American collegiate sports, and one of the most compelling voices in the national conversation on faith, purpose, and leadership. A two-time national champion at the University of Florida, motivational speaker Tim Tebow became the first sophomore ever to win the Heisman Trophy in 2007, and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for a college career that redefined what it meant to compete with both skill and character.
His professional career spanned two sports at the highest level. Selected in the first round of the NFL Draft, he played for the Denver Broncos and New York Jets before spending five years as a professional baseball player in the New York Mets organization, a testament to the relentless work ethic and refusal to quit that define his public identity. Today he serves as a college football analyst for ESPN and the SEC Network. Having signed a multi-year contract extension, he remains at the center of the network’s coverage, appearing regularly on SEC Nation, College Football Live, and SportsCenter.
Tebow is a six-time New York Times bestselling author, with titles including Through My Eyes, named the number one sports and religion book of its year, and Shaken, an Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Book of the Year. His books have reached millions of readers worldwide with deeply personal explorations of identity, purpose, and perseverance through adversity.
Beyond athletics and media, Tebow’s most enduring legacy may be the Tim Tebow Foundation, which he established to bring faith, hope, and love to those facing their darkest hours. The foundation has served people across more than 100 countries through programs addressing anti-human trafficking, orphan care, profound medical needs, and support for people with special needs. Among its flagship initiatives are Night to Shine, a worldwide prom night experience honoring people with special needs, and the Tebow CURE Hospital in the Philippines, a country to which Tebow has deep personal ties as the son of missionaries who served there.
As a speaker, Tim Tebow brings a message that reaches beyond sport: that purpose matters more than outcome, that character is built in the moments no one is watching, and that every person is capable of more than they believe. His keynotes weave raw personal stories, from the heights of college football glory to professional setbacks and humanitarian work around the world, into a unifying call to lead with faith, resilience, and genuine care for others. Audiences leave not just inspired, but challenged to act.
Inspired by his New York Times bestselling book, this keynote speaks to a universal human experience: the moment circumstances shake you to your foundation and force the question of who you really are. Tebow draws on the peaks and valleys of his own life, from winning the Heisman and NFL playoff moments to public setbacks and criticism, to deliver a message about identity that runs deeper than any achievement or failure. He challenges audiences to root their sense of self in something more durable than results, and to come through adversity clarified rather than diminished. Powerful for any organization navigating change, uncertainty, or the pressure to perform.
In a world fixated on metrics and results, Tebow makes a counterintuitive case: clarity of purpose produces better outcomes than chasing outcomes directly. Drawing on his athletic career, humanitarian work across more than 100 countries, and personal journey, he shows how purpose-driven people and organizations unlock a level of commitment, creativity, and resilience that outcome-obsessed cultures rarely reach. Tebow shares the habits, mindset shifts, and daily disciplines that keep purpose front and center even when the scoreboard does not cooperate. A compelling session for leadership teams, culture initiatives, and events built around values-based performance.
One of Tebow's most personal keynotes, built around Night to Shine, the Tim Tebow Foundation's worldwide prom experience for people with special needs now operating in more than 100 countries. Through vivid storytelling, he reveals what happened to his own perspective, priorities, and definition of success once he committed to serving people in their most vulnerable moments. This is a talk about empathy as a leadership skill, about how genuine service changes both giver and receiver, and about the culture that takes hold when people feel truly seen and valued. Especially resonant for customer experience, HR, and culture-focused audiences.
Tebow has competed at the highest level of two professional sports, and he argues that the mindset separating elite competitors from the rest was never really about athleticism. In this high-energy keynote, he breaks down the mental disciplines of preparation, ownership, coachability, and the refusal to make excuses that define champions in any arena. He challenges everyone in the room to examine how they compete in their own work: not against colleagues, but against their own previous best. Ideal for sales organizations, performance-driven teams, and any group ready to reignite its hunger to compete.
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