David Rutherford
Former US Navy SEAL, Performance Coach, and Host
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David B. Rutherford is a former US Navy SEAL/Medic, SEAL Instructor, and behavioral training expert. As a motivational speaker, he injects audiences with powerful information through high-energy, multi-media presentations. His long-lasting impact –resulting from extraordinary expertise in topics of emotion and fear –masterfully balances how to eliminate, yet be inspired, from fear. His persistent emphasis on teambuilding and strengthening workforces truly inspires all attendees. His practical and realistic approach will deliver significant insight on maximizing your team’s ability to create opportunities in an ever-changing economy and market. Discover the ‘Real World’ secrets behind the SEAL mindset.
David Rutherford is living his dream as an internationally known motivational speaker, author and coach. His Froglogic – Navy SEAL Motivational Training program has reached over 4 million people around the world. His passion for teaching is founded in helping people learn to embrace their fears, forge their personal and professional Self Confidence, commit to living a team oriented lifestyle, or Team Life and to discover a long term purpose for living. David’s high energy, high impact style of speaking and coaching inspires all those who come in contact with him to defeat the Negative Insurgency in their lives and to live life to its fullest.
David served 8 years in the Naval Special Warfare Community as a SEAL student, Combat Paramedic, Operator and Instructor. Since his honorable discharge from the Navy in 2003 he continued traveling for another 7 years as a tactical training and security expert for the US Government and one of the largest private security firms in the world. David has inspired special operations units around the globe to push themselves past any and all known limitations. His masterful ability to motivate enables people from all walks of life to achieve success in any environment imaginable.
David inspires audiences and individuals across America and around the world with his emotionally entertaining style of speaking, writing and coaching. His Froglogic Concepts are derived from combining his 25 years of exploring and researching the human condition with over 70 plus years of operational successes within the UDT/ Navy SEAL Teams. He has combined his incredible personal story with the proven track record of Naval Special Warfare to create a training program that exposes corporate teams and individuals to 22 Missions designed to help gain the competitive edge, deal with stress, elevate performance, strengthen teamwork, embrace chaos, forge leadership and develop a strong, resilient team culture.
David served 8 years in the Naval Special Warfare Community as a SEAL student, Combat Paramedic, Operator and Instructor. Since his honorable discharge from the Navy in 2003 he continued traveling for another 7 years as a tactical training and security expert for the US Government and one of the largest private security firms in the world. David has inspired special operations units around the globe to push themselves past any and all known limitations. His masterful ability to motivate enables people from all walks of life to achieve success in any environment imaginable.
David inspires audiences and individuals across America and around the world with his emotionally entertaining style of speaking, writing and coaching. His Froglogic Concepts are derived from combining his 25 years of exploring and researching the human condition with over 70 plus years of operational successes within the UDT/ Navy SEAL Teams. He has combined his incredible personal story with the proven track record of Naval Special Warfare to create a training program that exposes corporate teams and individuals to 22 Missions designed to help gain the competitive edge, deal with stress, elevate performance, strengthen teamwork, embrace chaos, forge leadership and develop a strong, resilient team culture.
Topics:
- Forging An Elite Team Culture
There are few teams or organizations that have a more focused and elite culture than the Navy SEAL Team. Defining culture is proving to be one of the most challenging processes of the modern era. Companies, organizations and teams are constantly trying to asses, develop, adapt and implement new cultural definitions that improve individual performance, team identity and increase group cohesion. In this insightful and entertaining talk, David helps companies and teams understand how to build culture based on the principles of elite performance and teams. David explains how the SEAL Teams and other Special Operations Forces develop their culture to achieve incredible victories on the battlefield, as well as deal with tragic losses off the field. He then outlines how your organization can adjust to the modern cultural challenges by exposing your team to his incredible discoveries related to his 20 years of experiencing and building elite team culture. - Live With Purpose
One of the most difficult challenges in life is to live with purpose. It’s the essence of our intrinsic drive and ability to succeed. Without a purpose, we are lost. In this riveting, emotionally charged Navy SEAL Motivational Training event, David helps audiences to discover their purpose in life. In this powerful talk, he introduces his audiences to 5 Missions designed to help individuals and teams begin living with purpose. - Embrace Fear
What is the number one thing that stops you and your team from taking risk and elevating your performance? FEAR. Fear is widely recognized as the primary limiting factor in human success. Due to certain physiological and behavioral realities, Fear can never be defeated. However, Navy SEALs have mastered the ability to operate with it by learning how to embrace their fears in order to utilize it as an explosive factor in their elite operational, training, and lifestyle performance. David spent 15 years personally exploring fear and 1-½ years researching fear to create this profound speech which helps audiences begin to embrace their fear. - Team Life
The greatest truth life teaches us all is that nobody succeeds alone. Every great individual in history has required a comprehensive commitment toward living a team oriented- lifestyle in order to achieve elite levels of success. Not many teams are greater than the SEAL Teams. The Brotherhood thrives on this elite standard of performance. Forged on the battlefields and in blood, listen as David helps his audiences redefine their personal and professional concepts of what living the Team Life means to them. The Missions include: 1. Commitment 2. Training 3. Communication 4. Leadership. Additionally, in this powerful talk, David profiles four Navy SEAL Congressional Medal of Honor stories to help illustrate the critical importance of functioning as a team to achieve never before imagined levels of personal and professional success. - Forging Self-Confidence
Life has proven the perpetual need to fortify your personal and professional Self-Confidence if you hope to succeed in the combat of life. Due to the constant war being waged by the Negative Insurgency, individual and team confidence is under constant bombardment. Navy SEALs are some of the most confident human beings on the planet due to their life-changing training regimen and total commitment to each other. David helps audiences explore the psychology of SEAL Training and outlines a clear way for his audience to forge their Self-Confidence during the everyday chaos of life’s challenges. - Froglogic - Navy SEAL Motivation
How acting, thinking and feeling like a Navy SEAL can help you and your team succeed. After 20 years of exploring the human condition around the world, David has discovered several undeniable truths about how people function under stress and what it takes to overcome adversity and persevere in the face of fear. Based on over 20 years of intense personal experience and in-depth research, David has extrapolated the very best attributes of the Special Operations community and delivers these concepts in a highly energetic, emotional and entertaining way so you and your team can begin operating at the peak of your performance.
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