Holly Hoffman
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Marie Robinson
Holly Hoffman was the last remaining member of the Espada Tribe and the last woman standing on Season 21 of CBS’ hit reality show “Survivor Nicaragua”. Through that experience, and others throughout her life, Holly was inspired to share her message of survival.
A professional motivational speaker and the author of Your Winner Within, Write Yourself a Note and Three Step Stride. Holly acknowledges that life is made up of challenges, and we are oftentimes faced with situations that seem insurmountable. But within each of us is an ability to focus our thoughts, emotions, and energy to succeed—if only we have the knowledge, tools, and discipline to do so.
A native of South Dakota, Holly’s writing and speaking not only offer encouragement and optimism but a roadmap for self-discovery and spiritual enlightenment. Readers and audience members alike walk away inspired to light the fire of successful living within themselves.
Today, Holly is a recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional designation, and travels across the country and internationally, speaking to a wide variety of corporations, associations, universities, schools and women’s organizations. Holly inspires her audiences to take opportunities and focus on faith, attitude, determination, confidence, desire and perseverance.
Most Requested Programs
Challenge Accepted
As we survive life’s challenges, we come face to face with fear and uncertainty. Challenges may allow us to step out of our comfort-zone to push ourselves beyond our own self-limitations.
How we choose to overcome a challenge is what makes us stand apart. Our strength in times of difficulty prove our character and self-worth.
As Holly share’s her experience of being on a reality show, she will encourage you to think about how you might decide to survive daily.
Holly will inspire you to think about six words to develop your survival skills. With Holly’s six simple words, you will be able to take on any challenge with which you are faced.
Adversity is not so much contending with problems as it is learning more about who you really are, and what is inside of you.
Lead Simply
When you hear there’s going to be a “Leadership Keynote” presentation, what goes through your mind? Is it “Oh that’s for our CEO to attend?” or “Those sessions are just common sense things I’ve heard before.” Holly Hoffman will shatter that mindset with her program on leadership.
Everyone possesses leadership skills that come out in our daily actions no matter what role we are performing at the time. Whether it’s at our workplace, or as a parent, as a volunteer in a civic organization, as a supportive friend, or as a contestant on a televised show where you are trying to outwit and outlast competitors. Leadership is the sum of how we model behaviors we want to see in others, how we connect with them and how we involve them in the process.
True leadership is not just words, it is action. We must model the behavior we want to see, connect with the people you lead and involve them as much as possible. The ways in which we model, connect and involve our people may have changed in the past, but as Holly will show, the basics of leading your team remain the same. Holly’s dynamic energy and enthusiasm will have you excited to renew your passion for leadership!
Three Step Stride
A lesson on eliminating the unnecessary so you can focus all your efforts on what is realy necessary. Momentum, Consistency and Teamwork
Holly uses her running career as a medphor to help the audience refocus their journey on running their own race.
Write Yourself a Note
LEARN THE IMPORTANCE OF WRITING THINGS DOWN
HOW TO IMPROVE MENTAL PROGRAMMING
UNDERSTAND THE TECHNIQUES OF GOAL SETTING
SHOW THE VALUE OF MENTAL NOTES TO OTHERS
LEARN BRAINSTORMING TO HELP PROBLEM SOLVING
“WRITE YOURSELF A NOTE” IS A METAPHOR FOR LIFE
Testimonials
“Holly gave two presentation at our Women’s Leadership Conference and everyone left the conference wishing Holly could have just talked the whole day! When we asked our attendees what there favorite part of the conference was, we had over 75% say it was Holly. Holly was engaging the entire time. She had us laughing, crying and feeling inspired as we left that day. She did a phenomenal job keeping a crowd of 140 engaged during the entire day! Our conference committee is grateful that Holly agreed to come and talk to our group!” - Taylor Gehring, Audit Manager, Omaha, NE, Georgia REALTORS®
Holly was amazing to work with start to finish! She came to our event incredibly prepared and was always available during the run-up to our event. She is so generous with her time, she stayed after her keynote was over to talk with our attendees. The attendees absolutely loved her keynote, we’ve already had requests to bring her back. Holly truly is a joy to work with! - Harper Jarrett, Professional Development Director
We were thrilled to have Holly Hoffman as the closing keynote speaker at the WisHHRA Annual Conference. Her presentation on simple leadership was truly inspiring and energizing, leaving a profound impact on all attendees. Holly's dynamic storytelling and practical advice resonated deeply with our audience of healthcare human resources professionals, offering invaluable insights that we can readily apply in our daily roles. Her positive energy and engaging presence brought a wonderful vibrancy to our event. Thank you, Holly, for your excellent message and for empowering us with your wisdom and experience. You truly made our conference unforgettable! - Rob Stapel WisHHRA President
• Holly was so inspiring and perfect to get into the mindset of focus and making things happen.
• Holly's message was exactly what I needed for where I am in my life and my business!
• Holly Hoffman had amazing quotes that really made you think about what was going on in life and how you could be better.
• All the speakers were phenomenal, but hearing Holly’s story about Survivor was so incredible!
• Loved the way Holly correlated her experiences to real-life lessons! Very
engaging.
• Holly was an incredible speaker but also gracious and generous to our attendees. She spent time with us. She chatted. She stuck around for the day.
I wanted to share some of the ones that can be posted, but when asked what their favorite part of the day was, lots of them just said "Holly!"!
I'm sure I'll be in touch soon, our leadership wants to have you back for another conference!
“Amazing. Excellent. High Energy. Inspirational. These are just a sample of our members’ comments after hearing Holly at our recent Governance Camp. As the program director I found Holly easy to work with, always quick to respond, and delivering what she promised. I would not hesitate to recommend Holly to any of our school board association friends around the country!”
Kathy Dundee, Director, Conference and Event Planning, Texas Association of School Boards