Orlando Bowen

Former Pro Athlete, Resilience, Peak Performance, Teamwork

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Orlando Bowen

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Orlando Bowen breathes to empower people to overcome adversity, find their passion and to use their gifts to serve.

He is a highly sought after speaker and trainer who works with universities, corporations, small businesses and non-profits. Orlando is focused on equipping people to get off the sidelines and become difference-makers on their teams and in the lives of those around them. Orlando has presented on hundreds of stages and in boardrooms across North and South America.

Born in Jamaica, Orlando came to Canada as a child and grew up excelling in sports. He earned a full scholarship to Northern Illinois University where he secured a business marketing degree and a Master of Science degree in Information Technology Management.

He spent five seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Argos and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, before a concussion he suffered at the hands of the police forced him to quit the sport. Pinned to the ground and enduring a savage beating, the then-CFL linebacker had been jumped by two plainclothes police officers, an injustice, which was the first of many laid against him at the hands of the police force. “In that moment, knowing my life was about to end, I’m thinking, ‘I didn’t give everything I had to make a difference. There’s more I could’ve done.’Later completely exonerated of any wrong doing, Orlando—incredibly—publicly forgave his perpetrators and ever since has dedicated his life to inspiring others to pursue excellence in all they do.

When it comes to building teams, creating momentum and employing winning strategies, Orlando is the real deal. Audience members leave inspired, committed and ready to take action to provide opportunities for success.

Pursuing Excellence (Peak Performance)

With alignment to vision, energy to achieve and focus, come ‘peak performance’. Peak Performance brings extraordinary results. Orlando helps executives recognize their role as catalysts and their ability to be transformative leaders that help secure ‘wins’ from any position within their company.
Resilience

Orlando shares how to use the unexpected challenges that life can bring as fuel for new beginnings. When the game is on the line, it’s not about the acknowledgement of the fact that we will all face challenges. It’s all about taking the energy from those challenges and channeling them in a way that positively affects ones environment.
Forgiveness

Having harmony among colleagues is paramount to creating a synergistic environment where people produce outstanding results. Orlando equips executives with tools that allow them to let go of the things that inhibit performance and to focus on the activities that produce positive results and are connected to the bigger picture goals.
Team Building

As a professional athlete, Orlando’s experiences on the field taught him the importance of harnessing momentum and working passionately together as a team to pursue shared objectives. He shares how to establish the foundation for high performing teams that can withstand turbulent times, embrace change and celebrate team contributions.
Host/MC

Orlando brings his positive personality & upbeat energy to his hosting duties. He summarizes the key-takeaways & learning’s throughout the day to make sure audiences leave the event inspired to take action.

Pursuing Excellence (Peak Performance)

With alignment to vision, energy to achieve and focus, come ‘peak performance’. Peak Performance brings extraordinary results. Orlando helps executives recognize their role as catalysts and their ability to be transformative leaders that help secure ‘wins’ from any position within their company.

Resilience

Orlando shares how to use the unexpected challenges that life can bring as fuel for new beginnings. When the game is on the line, it’s not about the acknowledgement of the fact that we will all face challenges. It’s all about taking the energy from those challenges and channeling them in a way that positively affects ones environment.

Forgiveness

Having harmony among colleagues is paramount to creating a synergistic environment where people produce outstanding results. Orlando equips executives with tools that allow them to let go of the things that inhibit performance and to focus on the activities that produce positive results and are connected to the bigger picture goals.

Team Building

As a professional athlete, Orlando’s experiences on the field taught him the importance of harnessing momentum and working passionately together as a team to pursue shared objectives. He shares how to establish the foundation for high performing teams that can withstand turbulent times, embrace change and celebrate team contributions.

Host/MC

Orlando brings his positive personality & upbeat energy to his hosting duties. He summarizes the key-takeaways & learning’s throughout the day to make sure audiences leave the event inspired to take action.

Testimonials

Orlando held the audience in profound attention and awe and is one of the most positive human beings I have ever met. The stories of his family and their faith in the human condition, as being a positive force regardless of their personal journey in meeting prejudice and bigotry is inspiring.

Stephen J. Sheather, Principal, SCORE Statistical Consulting
Orlando is a beautiful example of how much better life can be once we decide to let go of the negativity, forgive with our whole heart and embrace the notion that regardless of who we are and what we have been, each one of us has the power to help others.

Elizabeth Ionita, Ceridan
Orlando's message was very clear and critical for our employees to hear. If nothing else they all got the message of their success being intrinsically connected to the concept of being a part of One Team.

Kirk McCallum, - Senior Financial Consultant
Ernest Hemingway said "The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places." What Orlando does is he shows us how to be strong in the broken places.

Linda Theron, Management Consultant
Orlando has such a positive personality and he had a lot of adversity in his life but also has such high standards that helped him overcome and now he's teaching others how to develop those same standards.

Virginia Hughes, Senior Financial Consultant
His commitment to helping others work together as a team is outstanding. Even in businesses where we do things as individuals, Orlando convinced us that we can produce even more together.

Chuck Ealey, Investors Group Regional Director
Orlando can speak about anything and every time there will be something that will resonate deep within your being.

Angie Pettyjohn, Mortgage Financing Specialist