Whether your team is stuck, stretched thin, or already high-performing and hungry for more — Keynote Speaker Danny Bader will inspire your team to transform performance, resilience, and authentic connection.
BACK TO LIFE
HELP YOUR PEOPLE COME
- WHEREVER THEY ARE
Most organizations are drowning in the "lawnmower of life"—endless meetings, constant firefighting, and digital overwhelm that keeps everyone busy but not productive.
Your people show up, do the work, go home, but they've lost that spark that drives innovation and breakthrough performance. They're managing tasks instead of leading with purpose, reacting to crisis instead of creating strategic advantage, and building walls instead of authentic connections that eliminate silos forever.
Is your team just surviving challenges or using them as fuel for growth?
“Through stories of resilience and renewal, Danny shows that even in the face of adversity, we can choose to move forward with purpose.”
Everyday Principles to Be Fully Alive in Your Personal & Business Life
Back To Life
DANNY’S SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
Danny Bader is a catalyst for awakening, a master storyteller, and a proven guide for transforming how people approach their work and relationships.
As a best-selling author and sought-after speaker, Danny has become the go-to expert for companies seeking to inject genuine purpose, deeper connection, and lasting resilience into their organizational culture.
His unique combination of profound personal transformation, business insight, and authentic vulnerability has captivated audiences from Marriott to Amica Insurance, and countless organizations in between.
The Danny Difference:
Unique Credibility: Not your typical speaker – Danny literally died and came back to life, giving him unparalleled perspective on what truly matters
Proven Framework: His jckrbbt principles have helped thousands transform from just living to being fully alive
Corporate Impact: Clients consistently report that team members become "better people" – leading to improved teamwork, resilience, and performance
Authentic Approach: No corporate fluff – just real talk about real life that creates real transformation
MULTI-BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Stop Living on Autopilot. Start Living with Purpose.
In his powerful new book, A Radical Reverence for Your Life, Danny challenges you to shift from sleepwalking through your days to living with profound intention and awareness. Drawing from his extraordinary near-death experience and decades of transformation, this isn't just another self-help book—it's your wake-up call to stop waiting for the "right time" to live fully.
What happens when you truly understand that your 23,000 daily breaths and 100,000 heartbeats are automatic... but not guaranteed?
Danny's unique perspective will shatter your autopilot mindset and inspire you to take complete ownership of your story. Through heartfelt storytelling and practical insights, he guides you through his revolutionary three-level framework that moves you from merely surviving to truly thriving.
Four More Life-Changing Books That Have Inspired Thousands
Meet Danny Bader
I'm Danny Bader—husband, father, author, speaker, and someone who literally came back from the dead to tell you that there's a profound difference between just living and being fully alive. I'm one of eight kids from an Irish Catholic family, and for the first 28 years of my life, I lived without any significant challenges—until the day 8,000 volts of electricity changed everything. My friend Bruce and I were working on a roofing job when we lowered a metal ladder into a power line. We both died that day. Only I came back.
That experience—dying for about six minutes and returning to life—began a journey from the depths of despair to discovering what it means to live with radical reverence for every breath, every heartbeat, every moment we're given. Today, I'm blessed to be married to my incredible wife Lisa for over 30 years (my brothers joke that it took 8,000 volts to get me to the altar!), and we have three amazing kids who continually teach me about love, resilience, and what really matters.
I've written four books and had the privilege of speaking to thousands of people across the country. Whether I'm talking to electrical contractors or billion-dollar company executives, my mission is simple: to help people slow down, think deeply about how they're living, and offer them the powerful principles I've learned to support them in living happy, fulfilling, resilient lives. I believe that when you understand your breaths and heartbeats are automatic but not guaranteed, everything changes—and that awareness can be the most empowering realization of your life.
Thank you for being part of this community. I hope we get to connect soon, whether through my books, a speaking engagement, or just a conversation about what it means to be fully alive.
With gratitude and radical reverence for this incredible gift called life,
P.S. Remember—there's a helluva difference between just living and being fully alive. The choice is always yours.
THE BACK TO LIFE PODCAST
DANNY’S PODCAST
Real Stories. Real Transformation. Real Life.
Join Danny as he sits down with extraordinary people from all walks of life—from CEOs to teachers, athletes to artists, entrepreneurs to everyday heroes who've discovered what it means to be truly alive. These aren't just interviews; they're intimate conversations about the human journey.
Because everyone has a story. Everyone has struggled. And everyone has the potential to transform their life—including you.
Ready to Start Living
With Purpose?
Danny Bader Will Transform Your Team From Surviving to Thriving & never look at Monday morning the same way again.
Awakening organizations worldwide to the profound difference between just living and being fully alive through authentic storytelling, life-tested wisdom, and a radical reverence for the precious gift of time.
Inspiring organizations worldwide to the profound difference between just living and being fully alive through authentic storytelling, life-tested wisdom, and a radical reverence for the precious gift of time.
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