Shaun Tomson
Keynote Speaker: Former World Champion Surfer, Environmentalist & Motivational Speaker
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Shaun Tomson Biography
Shaun Tomson is a leadership and positive engagement expert and has worked with some of the world’s best-known organizations – GM, Cisco, PWC, Google, Disney and Gap – to empower purpose and re-activate their teams. Tomson offers a unique perspective on focusing personal will to improve performance, and workshops to help team members deepen relationships and transform individually and collectively. Tomson is a true entrepreneur having created, managed and sold two international multi-million-dollar market-leading clothing brands – Instinct in the 80’s and Solitude in the 90’s which he founded with his wife Carla. He is a former World Surfing Champion and has been described as one of the greatest and most influential surfers of all time - he is an inductee in the US, Jewish and South African Sports Halls of Fame.
He is the author of the best sellers Surfer’s Code and the recent #1 Amazon book The Code -The Power of "I Will”. He produced the award-winning documentary film “Bustin’ Down the Door,” a dramatic story of how a group of young Australians and South Africans created professional surfing and built a multi-billion-dollar industry. Tomson is a Business Finance graduate from the University of Natal in South Africa and holds a Master of Science in Leadership from Northeastern University. He has served on the board of Surfrider Foundation and Santa Barbara Boys & Girls Club. He is a former Vice President at Strathspey Crown, a private equity company focused on health care, has consulted for consumer corporations Brooks Shoes and Deckers, and has held executive positions at lifestyle brands Patagonia and O’Neill.
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Shaun Tomson Speaking Topics
Purpose:
Purpose is the energy that empowers organizations and individuals to thrive. It positively impacts the workplace too – recent research from EY indicates that purpose-led organizations perform 42% better than those that are simply in business. However, according to a recent Gallup poll, 85% of employees worldwide are not engaged or are actively disengaged in their job. Considering you spend around third of your life at work, this disengaged culture means that helping people to find a sense of purpose isn’t just vital for business, but also for people’s overall wellbeing.
With these insights in mind, Shaun Tomson shows how to find and define one’s purpose to powerfully re-engage individuals and activate a positive wave of commitment and performance throughout an organization.
Sometimes all you need to turn hope into action is to write your promises down and say them out loud—to make a promise to no one but yourself. Shaun’s presentation and workshop are about many things—faith, courage, creativity, determination—but above all they are about the promises we make to ourselves about the future.
The Dangers of Growing Up:
20,000 young people aged 15 – 24 die every year in the USA from preventable accidents, all caused by poor choices.
How We Can Help:
The Code is a simple exercise that empowers students to make positive choices in their everyday lives. Built around 12 promises that young people make to themselves, The Code gives them an effective tool to navigate the rough waters of adolescence and young adulthood by asking them to visualize their futures. The power of writing—the power of affirming “I Will”—helps students see beyond today and set a course for tomorrow.
Goal:
The ultimate goal of the Code is to create a wave of positive energy that keeps circling the globe, infusing everyone that comes across it with a powerful spark of hope for the future. It is designed to create a feeling of confidence in oneself, an attitude of strength that results in positive decision making to combat despair, risky behavior, and negative peer pressure.
2-Part Structure: Keynote & Workshop
1) Shaun’s powerful 60-minute keynote will inspire students to believe in themselves and to believe in the power that each and every one of us has to shape our lives through the power of “I Will.”
2) The CODE Workshop is a simple exercise, a self-empowerment program of 12 promises, a bond of hope between today and tomorrow, a simple tool to help create a positive attitude for positive decisions. Each student writes their Code within 30 minutes in a classroom setting with other students– 12 lines, each line beginning with “I will.” Each student reads their Code out loud to the other students and then picks one favorite line which is written on a whiteboard.
Results:
- Motivates students to improve their performance
- Emotionally engages students with each other
- Activates positive change
- Helps to identify personal goals to achieve success
- Useful in uniting the class
- Makes students feel accountable to reach their stated goals
- Helps students realize they share common values
- Creates a sense of shared purpose
With his unique and empowering business philosophy based on his “Surfer’s Code – 12 Simple Lessons for Riding through Life”, Shaun Tomson shows the influence of positive values on success in life and business and will transform how you think about connecting, communicating and collaborating. Based on his own experiences in and out of the surf, Shaun Tomson has inspired and touched the hearts of audiences all over the world. Shaun’s attitude of Commitment and Positivity has inspired corporations like General Motors, Cisco, Price Waterhouse, Gap, Sasol, Disney, Google, Investec, Primedia, MTN and Adcock Ingram.
Shaun Tomson offers up a profound set of action principles to show one how to get back on the board after a wipeout and paddle back out to catch and successfully ride the next wave. We all live in a challenging sea and our attitude towards those challenges defines who we are, and how we live our lives.
Environmentalist of the year award winner, entrepreneur, author, board member of Surfrider Foundation, the world's largest ocean environmental group discusses the new 21st business paradigm – Doing Good is good for business.
A focus on extreme quality, environmentalism, sustainability and community outreach can make your company recession proof.
Shaun discusses working at Patagonia, the world's leading environmentally focused apparel company and how organic cotton, community outreach and a passion for quality transformed the company into a $500 million dollar company that influences every company in the $135 billion dollar apparel sector. He also talks about creating his own $50 million dollar company and how a focus on sustainability differentiated his company from the sea of competition. He also discusses how philanthropy transformed his life and the lives of thousands of others and led him down an unexpected road of prosperity and self-fulfillment.
Shaun Tomson Videos
How to book Shaun Tomson?
Our booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure talent like Shaun Tomson for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment for over 15 years. The team at All American Entertainment represents and listens to the needs of organizations and corporations seeking to hire keynote speakers, celebrities or entertainers. Fill out a booking request form for Shaun Tomson, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get pricing information and check availability for Shaun Tomson or any other celebrity of your choice.
How much does it cost to book Shaun Tomson?
Booking fees for Shaun Tomson, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. Pricing often varies according to the circumstances, including the talent's schedule, market conditions, length of presentation, and the location of the event. Speaker fees listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only. In some cases, the actual quote may be above or below the stated range. For the most current fee to hire Shaun Tomson, please fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak with an experienced booking agent.
Who is the agent for Shaun Tomson?
All American Entertainment has successfully secured celebrity talent like Shaun Tomson for clients worldwide for more than 15 years. As a full-service talent booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Shaun Tomson for your next private or corporate function.
What is a full-service talent booking agency?
All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. We do not exclusively represent Shaun Tomson or claim ourselves as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Shaun Tomson or any other speaker or celebrity on this website. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage.
Shaun Tomson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Entertainers, Creativity and Environmental Policy. The estimated speaking fee range to book Shaun Tomson for live events is $30,000 - $50,000. Please contact us for virtual event fees. Shaun Tomson generally travels from Santa Barbara, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Alexandra Cousteau, Matt Damon and Robert Ballard. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Shaun Tomson for an upcoming event.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Shaun Tomson Speaking Topics
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The Code to Activate The Power of Purpose
Purpose:
Purpose is the energy that empowers organizations and individuals to thrive. It positively impacts the workplace too – recent research from EY indicates that purpose-led organizations perform 42% better than those that are simply in business. However, according to a recent Gallup poll, 85% of employees worldwide are not engaged or are actively disengaged in their job. Considering you spend around third of your life at work, this disengaged culture means that helping people to find a sense of purpose isn’t just vital for business, but also for people’s overall wellbeing.
With these insights in mind, Shaun Tomson shows how to find and define one’s purpose to powerfully re-engage individuals and activate a positive wave of commitment and performance throughout an organization.
Sometimes all you need to turn hope into action is to write your promises down and say them out loud—to make a promise to no one but yourself. Shaun’s presentation and workshop are about many things—faith, courage, creativity, determination—but above all they are about the promises we make to ourselves about the future.
The Dangers of Growing Up:
20,000 young people aged 15 – 24 die every year in the USA from preventable accidents, all caused by poor choices.
How We Can Help:
The Code is a simple exercise that empowers students to make positive choices in their everyday lives. Built around 12 promises that young people make to themselves, The Code gives them an effective tool to navigate the rough waters of adolescence and young adulthood by asking them to visualize their futures. The power of writing—the power of affirming “I Will”—helps students see beyond today and set a course for tomorrow.
Goal:
The ultimate goal of the Code is to create a wave of positive energy that keeps circling the globe, infusing everyone that comes across it with a powerful spark of hope for the future. It is designed to create a feeling of confidence in oneself, an attitude of strength that results in positive decision making to combat despair, risky behavior, and negative peer pressure.
2-Part Structure: Keynote & Workshop
1) Shaun’s powerful 60-minute keynote will inspire students to believe in themselves and to believe in the power that each and every one of us has to shape our lives through the power of “I Will.”
2) The CODE Workshop is a simple exercise, a self-empowerment program of 12 promises, a bond of hope between today and tomorrow, a simple tool to help create a positive attitude for positive decisions. Each student writes their Code within 30 minutes in a classroom setting with other students– 12 lines, each line beginning with “I will.” Each student reads their Code out loud to the other students and then picks one favorite line which is written on a whiteboard.
Results:
- Motivates students to improve their performance
- Emotionally engages students with each other
- Activates positive change
- Helps to identify personal goals to achieve success
- Useful in uniting the class
- Makes students feel accountable to reach their stated goals
- Helps students realize they share common values
- Creates a sense of shared purpose
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Unlock An Attitude of Commitment & Positivity
With his unique and empowering business philosophy based on his “Surfer’s Code – 12 Simple Lessons for Riding through Life”, Shaun Tomson shows the influence of positive values on success in life and business and will transform how you think about connecting, communicating and collaborating. Based on his own experiences in and out of the surf, Shaun Tomson has inspired and touched the hearts of audiences all over the world. Shaun’s attitude of Commitment and Positivity has inspired corporations like General Motors, Cisco, Price Waterhouse, Gap, Sasol, Disney, Google, Investec, Primedia, MTN and Adcock Ingram.
Shaun Tomson offers up a profound set of action principles to show one how to get back on the board after a wipeout and paddle back out to catch and successfully ride the next wave. We all live in a challenging sea and our attitude towards those challenges defines who we are, and how we live our lives.
-
Catch the Next Wave: Doing Good is Good for Business
Environmentalist of the year award winner, entrepreneur, author, board member of Surfrider Foundation, the world's largest ocean environmental group discusses the new 21st business paradigm – Doing Good is good for business.
A focus on extreme quality, environmentalism, sustainability and community outreach can make your company recession proof.
Shaun discusses working at Patagonia, the world's leading environmentally focused apparel company and how organic cotton, community outreach and a passion for quality transformed the company into a $500 million dollar company that influences every company in the $135 billion dollar apparel sector. He also talks about creating his own $50 million dollar company and how a focus on sustainability differentiated his company from the sea of competition. He also discusses how philanthropy transformed his life and the lives of thousands of others and led him down an unexpected road of prosperity and self-fulfillment.
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World-champion surfer Shaun Tomson shares his inspiration in 'The Code'
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Shaun Tomson is a former World Surfing Champion who became a businessman and inspirational speaker. In "The Code," Tomson reveals his...
FAQ
How to book Shaun Tomson?
Our booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure talent like Shaun Tomson for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment for over 15 years. The team at All American Entertainment represents and listens to the needs of organizations and corporations seeking to hire keynote speakers, celebrities or entertainers. Fill out a booking request form for Shaun Tomson, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get pricing information and check availability for Shaun Tomson or any other celebrity of your choice.
How much does it cost to book Shaun Tomson?
Booking fees for Shaun Tomson, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. Pricing often varies according to the circumstances, including the talent's schedule, market conditions, length of presentation, and the location of the event. Speaker fees listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only. In some cases, the actual quote may be above or below the stated range. For the most current fee to hire Shaun Tomson, please fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak with an experienced booking agent.
Who is the agent for Shaun Tomson?
All American Entertainment has successfully secured celebrity talent like Shaun Tomson for clients worldwide for more than 15 years. As a full-service talent booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Shaun Tomson for your next private or corporate function.
What is a full-service talent booking agency?
All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. We do not exclusively represent Shaun Tomson or claim ourselves as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Shaun Tomson or any other speaker or celebrity on this website. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage.
Shaun Tomson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Entertainers, Creativity and Environmental Policy. The estimated speaking fee range to book Shaun Tomson for live events is $30,000 - $50,000. Please contact us for virtual event fees. Shaun Tomson generally travels from Santa Barbara, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Alexandra Cousteau, Matt Damon and Robert Ballard. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Shaun Tomson for an upcoming event.
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