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2022 Day

Kenyon Salo

Kenyon Salo

2022 Day of Excellence EmCee
Sponsored by Marco

Kenyon Salo is one of the top keynote speakers and trainers in the fields of inspiration, leadership, and adventure.

One of only five members on the Denver Broncos Thunderstorm Skydive Team, he is seen each week during game season flying into the Denver Broncos Stadium at 60+mph, ending with a soft tip-toe landing on the ten yard line. He brings to the stage over 20+ years of successful audience engagement through humor, awe-inspiring moments, prolific storytelling, and ‘edge-of-the seat’ content.

With over 6,000 skydives under his belt and travels that have taken him all around the world, he’s determined to live life to the fullest and help others do the same. Through his passions for adventure, storytelling, and connecting with people, he found a simple process to guide others on a path to what most of us crave – living a more fulfilled life. His goal is to deliver a powerful and heart-touching message on the possibility of how amazing life can be through providing actionable steps that will help any audience, both personally and professionally, embark on a path to achieve anything they desire.


Alan Stein, Jr.

Alan Stein, Jr.

Raise Your Game
Sponsored by First Interstate Bank

Alan Stein, Jr. teaches proven strategies to improve organizational performance, create effective leadership, increase team cohesion and collaboration, and develop winning mindsets, rituals, and routines. A successful business owner and veteran basketball performance coach, Alan spent 15 years working with the highest-performing athletes on the planet including NBA superstars Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and Kobe Bryant.

The strategies from Alan's book, Raise Your Game: High Performance Secrets from the Best of the Best, are implemented by corporate teams and sports teams around the country. In this presentation ,he reveals how to utilize the same approaches in business that elite athletes use to perform at a world-class level by delivering practical lessons that can be implemented immediately including how to heighten self-awareness, improve productivity, create winning habits, inspire teamwork, and maximize impact. Mastering the fundamentals and focusing on the three most important professional relationships: Yourself. Those on your team. Those that you serve. will allow you to Raise Your Game!


Stacey Hanke

Stacey Hanke

Influence Redefined. Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday ®
Sponsored by Black Hills Energy

Stacey has provided practical and immediate skills and techniques that have given thousands the ability to enhance their influence Monday to Monday®.

Author of two books and Certified Speaking Professional, Stacey Hanke's work ethic was forged in her childhood years, growing up on a farm. She gave up the pitchfork to take her message across the country. Stacey has trained and presented at Coca-Cola, FedEx, Kohl's, United States Army, Navy and Air Force, McDonald's, GE, and General Mills. From the financial industry to government to the healthcare industry and everyone in between, she strives to rid leaders of bad body language habits and to choose words wisely.

We all want to enhance our influence… but what if we are sabotaging our influence without even knowing it? You may not be as influential as you think you are! How you communicate verbally and non-verbally determines whether or not others see you as credible, knowledgeable and trustworthy. Without doing this effectively, you inhibit your maximum potential to: influence, increase profits and cultivate long-term relationships. In Influence Redefined, Stacey will give you the opportunity to take a closer look at reality rather than what you believe to be true. Whatever your solution, the goal is always the same: Not to change you, but to help you confidently and consistently express your true self, Monday to Monday.®


Pete Smith

Pete Smith

Dare to Matter: How Professionals Rise to Significance
Sponsored by Synchrony

International speaker and author of #1 Best Seller Dare to Matter, Pete Smith inspires, challenges and teaches his audience how to relentlessly pursue significance in their lives by staying focused on the things that actually matter.

From his early days of disappointing his parents by not pursuing law school, to excelling in various roles in education, sales, construction, and athletics, Pete was able to leverage his experience and obsession of individual performance, productive teamwork, and transformational leadership into the founding of SmithImpact in 2011.

A major catalyst for the founding of SmithImpact occurred in 2010, when Pete survived a stroke at the young age of 35. Focusing on what he believed to be his last thoughts of “Did I Matter? Was I SIGNIFICANT?” Pete has shared his story and the lessons learned from this experience to help others lead more productive and fulfilling lives, both personally and professionally.


Dan Thurmon

Dan Thurmon

Off Balance On Purpose - Don't Just Exceed Expectations. DEFY Them.
Sponsored by Black Hills Federal Credit Union

Dan Thurmon's keynote performances empower audiences to rediscover their inner greatness and conquer their self-imposed limitations. He delivers unforgettable messages with jaw-dropping style. He demonstrates work-life balance with podium handstands, juggles sharp objects to illustrate performing under pressure, and weaves through the audience on a six-foot unicycle to visually amplify principles of navigating change.

He began his performance career at eleven years old, crafting a one-man-show incorporating comedy, juggling and acrobatics. Today, he has educated Fortune 500 companies, young audiences, and even the troops on the front lines of Afghanistan and Iraq with his high-impact events. Dan isn't just a world-renowned Hall of Fame keynote speaker, he's also an author, entrepreneur, fitness advocate, acrobat, unicyclist (even on mountains), drummer and is learning how to do the flying trapeze!

Using acrobatic demonstration, Dan Thurmon will reveal how to take charge of your circumstances, stretch your abilities, and create a blueprint for success! Dan believes the reason that people struggle with change is that they believe they have to compartmentalize their life and keep everything in balance. But what if we lived Off Balance on Purpose? What if instead of resisting uncertainty, we leaned into it? And what if rather than bringing our “work-self” to the office, we brought 100% of who we are? This dynamic presentation incorporates acrobatics to teach you to embrace uncertainty, rediscover your inner greatness, conquer self-imposed limitations and initiate positive changes that lead to growth.