Do you want employees who work with greater passion and purpose? Do you need executives who are able to overcome obstacles in today's business world? Do you want to improve every part of your professional and personal life?

   As one of the most successful and influential executives in NBA history, Pat Williams knows what it takes to be successful in all aspects of business and wants to share his insights with your organization. Pat has thousands of entertaining and influential stories he has gathered from his leadership experiences in sports, parenting and life that will leave your audience amused, inspired and determined to be industry leaders and successful people.

    Pat speaks on many topics, including: SALES and SELF-IMPROVEMENT. Pat customizes his talks for each group and will spend as much time as possible meeting and greeting the members of his audience.

   After hearing Pat Williams speak, your organization will never be the same. Pat is presenting new, vital information in a manner that is unprecedented. He uses humor, illustrations and powerful stories to relay insightful, practical information your audience can take home and implement immediately. The remarkable combination of his personal style and message stimulates people to alter their attitude and reach their full potential. Time spent with Pat is an invigorating experience that will expand self-confidence, rekindle determination to succeed and intensify ambition to alter your life for the better.

   Pat is often heard saying, "Every time I speak, I want to change the world". Experience Pat Williams in person and be prepared to have your world transformed.

Bio:

   Pat Williams is the senior vice president of the NBA’s Orlando Magic. Also one of America’s top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, he has addressed employees from many of the Fortune 500 companies and the Million Dollar Round Table. He has also spoken on many university campuses.

   After serving for seven years in the United States Army, Pat spent seven years in the Philadelphia Phillies organization, two as a minor league catcher and five in the front office. He then spent three years in the Minnesota Twins organization before moving to the National Basketball Association. Since 1968, he has been affiliated with teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, including the 1983 World Champion 76ers, and now the Orlando Magic which he co-founded in 1987 and helped lead to the NBA finals in 1995. Twenty-three of his teams have gone to the NBA play-offs and five of them have made the NBA finals. In 1996, Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history by a national publication.

   In his NBA career, he has traded Pete Maravich, traded for Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Penny Hardaway, and won four NBA draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners in 1992 and 1993 and most recently in 2004. He also drafted Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Maurice Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Darryl Dawkins and signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly, and Matt Guokas to their first professional coaching contracts. Twelve of his former players have become NBA Head Coaches and seventeen have become assistant coaches.

   Pat and his wife Ruth are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations, ranging in age from 20 to 34. For one year, 16 of his children were all teenagers at the same time. Pat and his family have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, The Wall Street Journal, Focus on the Family, New Man Magazine, plus all of the major television networks, The Maury Povich Show and Dr. Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power.

    Pat helps teach an adult Sunday school class at First Baptist Church of Orlando and hosts a weekly sports radio show. In the last 10 years he has completed thirty eight marathons, including the Boston Marathon 10 times and also climbed Mt. Rainier. He is a weight lifter, Civil War buff, and serious baseball fan. Every winter he plays in Major League Fantasy Camps and has caught Hall of Famers Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, Rollie Fingers, Gaylord Perry, Phil Niekro and Tom Seaver.

Topics:

1) The Six Wisdom Principles to Pursuing Your Dreams

   Don’t drift through your world, seize it! In this fast paced, in-your-face presentation, Williams challenges the audience to not only plan your ideal future, but to achieve it. Using proven principles passed along to him by his mentor, oil tycoon R.E. Littlejohn, Pat provides the road map from goal-setting to goal-achieving.

2) Finding the Will to Win

   How have “The Greats” achieved such extraordinary success? How can you achieve the same results? Pat discusses the qualities that the winners in life possess. Based on over 40 years in professional sports, studying successful athletes and coaches who have produced great triumphs, Pat will teach you the secrets to being a more focused person, finding passion in your work and succeeding in the face of defeat.

3) Champions Under Construction

   Pat presents the key steps needed to go from dreaming to achieving. Whatever the goal, this developmental speech provides the blueprint for working and living a life full of passion, energy, imagination and creativity. You will see big changes in the results you seek.