<p>Chad E. Foster is more than a keynote speaker—he’s a catalyst for peak performance in an era of nonstop disruption. </p><p>After going blind at 21, Chad became a Harvard-educated executive, tech innovator, and billion-dollar dealmaker. He built CRM software Oracle said was impossible, created transformative business strategies that delivered industry-leading growth and best-in-class margins, and became a black diamond skier and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner—all without eyesight—proving that limitations are only real if you believe them.</p><p>Chad doesn’t just inspire—he equips. His Blind Ambition Framework™ fuses human performance principles with AI-era adaptability to deliver real tools for building and scaling resilient teams, accountable cultures, and sales organizations that win when it counts. Whether speaking on leadership, innovation, change, or sales, Chad arms audiences with actionable strategies and mindsets they can apply immediately.</p><p>Top brands like Google, Salesforce, ADP, and Blue Cross have trusted Chad to power performance. After one keynote, a client reported 40% YoY revenue growth, calling it “unlike anything we’ve seen from a guest speaker.”</p><p>Chad doesn’t provide feel-good fluff. He provides a framework that challenges your team, shifts mindsets, and revs up results—connecting inspiration to implementation™.</p>
First blind executive to complete the Harvard Leadership Program, creator of software Silicon Valley thought impossible, blind Black Diamond Skier and Author of <i>Blind Ambition</i>
<ul><li><strong>Blind Ambition™: How to Go From Victim to Visionary</strong></li></ul><p>In this signature keynote, Chad will entertain, inspire, and move your audience, while teaching them how to shift their mindset from being a victim to a visionary. Going blind at 21-years-old and facing a life with seemingly limited opportunities, Chad had to reinvent himself before even having had a shot at success. Turning obstacles into opportunities, he became a Harvard-educated business “rainmaker,” created countless jobs for others with a software tool he developed, and now he teaches teams how to cultivate resilient mindsets, adapt and thrive in change, and set ambitious goals—and he gives them the right mindset and the practical tools they can use to implement and achieve them.</p><ul><li><strong>No More Comfort Zones: Growth Through Adversity</strong></li></ul><p>Life without obstacles removes opportunity for growth. For any of us to grow, we need to step outside our comfort zones. In this powerful keynote, Chad teaches how the obstacles that lie in front of us can propel us towards our goals.</p><p>Every organization finds itself face-to-face with problems that can seem insurmountable. Beyond Chad’s personal path of overcoming overwhelming odds, his business track record for moving through challenges and improving results gives a unique perspective on how comfort zones hold us back.</p><p>Chad will talk about how he’s not successful in spite of being blind. He is successful because he’s blind. He embraced his problem and turned it into a solution. In this session Chad will teach your teams how to realize exponential growth through adversity.</p><ul><li><strong>Diversity: The Engine for Innovation</strong></li></ul><p>Chad was born part of the mainstream majority, but after going blind in college, he was treated differently as a disabled person. After living over 20 years in both groups, his unique experience of both worlds allows him to equip your teams to think differently about diversity and inclusion in the workplace.</p><p>Chad goes beyond just valuing each person. He shows audiences how diversity drives business innovation. We know that plurality of thought creates change, and when harnessed correctly, change drives innovation. How can we create a culture that invites diversity of thought to be welcomed with a seat at the table, so that every individual feels emboldened to contribute? This session shows how you can unlock the value of diversity in your workplace to power the innovation your business needs to thrive. </p>