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Keynote Fee: $10,500 * *Fee Note Travels From: UT |
Chad Hymas, CSP Biography
If someone were to ask Chad, at the age of 27, how he felt about life, he would have answered the following:
"I was on top of my world, living all of my dreams. I had spent six years building businesses that were reaching new heights. I enjoyed landscape construction, real estate investing, and had recently finished an elk preserve embracing 5100 acres of God's finest country.
"I was active in athletics, playing league basketball and baseball. I had just started officiating basketball...something that I had dreamed of doing since watching my father referee when I was only nine years old. Being active in sports had been a major part of my life since I was a young boy."
"I had two beautiful boys, a three-year-old son, Christian, and a one-year-old son, Kyler. They had been and always will be the absolute joy of their mother's and my life. And I was also married to the most incredible woman in the world, in my eyes. Shondell was my high school sweetheart and lifelong princess.
When together as a family, everything in life always seemed to fall into place."
On April 3, 2001, Chad was involved in a serious accident while working out on the elk preserve. This accident left him paralyzed from the chest down with limited use of his arms. Breaking three of the seven vertebrae in his neck, Chad was pronounced a quadriplegic. While in rehabilitation, not only were therapists impressed with his desire for independence, but also his "love for life" attitude and determination to somehow find success in his new world.
Titles
Success And The Bird Next Door
Who Needs Legs When You Have Wings
Get The Worm Faster: Succeed With a Bird's Eye Perspective!
Eagles Don't Fly In Flocks, But Seagulls Never Get Lonely
BIG Trouble: Safety is Not Just 9-5
Clients
Testimonials
AV Needs
The meeting facilities must include a platform (with a ramp, where possible) for accessibility for Chad Hymas to speak. This will provide clear visibility for the entire audience. A wireless hands-free microphone system is required. An LCD Projector, screen, and DVD Player is also requested.
Podium Intro
If there is one thing that is constant in our personal and professional lives, it is CHANGE! In an era of unprecedented change and constant challenges, Chad Hymas is in high demand as an inspirational speaker. Traveling to businesses and organizations worldwide, Chad speaks as many as 150 times a year sharing his message of achieving the unachievable, reaching the unreachable, and soaring higher than you ever thought possible.
On April 3, 2001, Chad’s life changed instantaneously when a falling one-ton bale of hay broke his neck leaving him a quadriplegic. Doctors and others said that he would never walk again and that for the rest of his life he would be confined to an electric wheelchair.
Chad’s dreams were NOT paralyzed that day, as he will tell you! He is the President of his own communications company. He is the author of the book entitled Soaring To New Heights. Chad is a world class wheelchair athlete playing basketball, full contact quad rugby, and he races marathons. In July of 2003, Chad set a new world record by wheeling a personal marathon of over 500 miles from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas. Also in 2003, Chad was one of two recipients in the state of Utah to receive the Superior Civilian Award. Yet, Chad’s greatest accomplishment is that he remains a devoted husband to his loving wife, Shondell, and proud father to their two boys.
His message is inspiring! His experiences are amazing! So get ready to SOAR as Chad will tell you “Who Needs Legs, When You Have Wings?”!!!
Please help me welcome Chad Hymas.