
Commencement Address – David Winfield – Friday, May 10, 2013

Dave provides a specifically tailored keynote to help your company or group reach its goals and objectives — with a dynamic presentation that covers a wide range of topics:
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It’s a Game, a Science and your Business: Your Winning GamePlan
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Live a Hall of Fame Life: Your own Pathway to Promise
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The 5 Levels: From Aspiration to Achievement
What does it take to succeed in your industry? After having a Hall of Fame Baseball career, Dave Winfield realized there were 5 levels a person needed to succeed. To confirm his theory, he interviewed and researched other baseball Hall of Famers, best all time players, and coaches from other sports, who all made reference to one or more of his 5 levels as part of achieving success. These principles do not just apply to sports, but also to business or any occupation. In this inspirational talk, Dave expands on the five principles and shows by following them in order you can break through the glass ceilings that have previously held you back from your goals.
Living a Hall of Fame Life: Your Own Pathway to Promise
Do you want an extraordinary life or an ordinary life? Dave Winfield’s career has taken him to the Baseball Hall of Fame, a job in broadcasting, a bestselling book, and working as a motivational speaker. But he couldn’t have achieved success in business, sports, and his personal life without following these three areas of significance. In this motivational talk, Dave shares how you can have an extraordinary life by knowing where to find your inspiration, pursuing only those things that fill you with passion, and building a great team of support around you for knowledge and inspiration.
It’s a Game, a Science, and your Business: Your Winning Game Plan
Achieving personal success and improvement can be difficult. Dave Winfield knows how difficult it can be to achieve goals, having worked his whole life to earn a hall of fame career in baseball. Based on his eBook, Dave presents a compact game plan for personal success and improvement. Using information from the nine chapters of his book, Dave shares how to prepare yourself, be your own best coach, come back after setbacks, succeed under pressure and more.

Marquis and Sharon Grissom
The Marquis Grissom Baseball Academy, Atlanta, GA.
Dave has a long and storied history with the NCAA College World Series as one of its most famous participants. As an ambassador for the sport of baseball he's twice spoken to a sold out crowd at our Opening Ceremonies of the CWS, and he is able to connect with and convey many life messages that impact the young men playing the game today. His love of the game of baseball is obvious, and he remains one of the most popular players ever to play in Omaha
Director, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
“I want to thank Dave Winfield for coming to our campus and speaking to our students. Dave was wonderful to work with and very flexible in his presentation. I was amazed at how much he already knew about Vincennes University and the community. The message he gave to our students and community was well received and timely. I could not have asked for a better speaker to address our “soon to be graduates.”