Start Living

With Purpose.

Danny Bader Will Transform Your Team From Surviving to Thriving & Never Look at Monday Morning the Same Way Again.

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.


SPEAKING TOPICS

Motivational Keynote Topic:

Back To Life: From Surviving to Thriving

How to Move Your Organization from "Just Living" to Being Fully Alive

Drawing from his extraordinary 6-minute death experience and over 12,000+ days of intentional living, Danny reveals the three distinct levels every person and organization operates within.

He provides the proven blueprint to elevate teams from mere survival to radical reverence for their work and lives.

This isn't another motivational speech about working harder. It's a fundamental shift in how your people show up, connect, and perform when they truly understand the difference between existing and being fully alive.

In a world where 67% of employees admit they’re simply going through the motions; Danny Bader delivers the ultimate wake-up call. Drawing from his extraordinary 6-minute death experience and more than 12,000 days of intentional living since, Danny reveals the three levels every person and organization operates within.

This keynote isn’t about working harder; it’s about transforming how people show up, connect, and perform when they understand the difference between merely existing and being fully alive. Through unforgettable stories and his proven Back to Life Blueprint, Danny equips teams with practical principles to elevate culture, purpose, and performance.

Through his powerful experiences, Danny uncovered a simple but profound truth: not all living is created equal. Teams and organizations tend to fall into one of three levels, and where they land determines their culture, performance, and impact.

  • Rock Bottom: The dangerous disconnect where fear and negativity dominate.

  • Functional Fog: Where 67% of employees operate, going through the motions with sarcastic “living the dream” attitudes.

  • Radical Purpose: Where individuals and companies thrive with passion, purpose, and impact.

Once teams recognize the level they are operating within, the next step is learning how to rise higher. That is where Danny’s Back to Life Blueprint comes in: a set of timeless principles designed to move people from simply existing to fully thriving.

The Back to Life Blueprint (5 Principles)

  • Develop Vision: Shift from reaction to intention with clarity.

  • Know Yourself: Lead authentically through values-driven decisions.

  • Seek Support: Build unbreakable team connections and psychological safety.

  • Be Still: Find clarity and wisdom in the chaos.

  • Evolve: Embrace continuous growth as a competitive advantage.

Key Audience Takeaways:

  1. Identify whether your team is stuck in Rock Bottom, trapped in Functional Fog, or thriving in Radical Purpose. Gain clarity on why performance plateaus and how to elevate culture.

  2. Learn how to cut through the constant noise. Discover practical techniques for creating stillness that leads to better decisions, authentic communication, and breakthrough innovation.

  3. Embrace the truth that “you were never meant to do this alone.” Apply tools and stories that help teams release negativity, build psychological safety, and turn support into a competitive advantage.

With Back to Life, your team won’t just see Monday mornings differently; they’ll see work, connection, and life itself through a whole new lens.


Safety Keynote Topic:

Back To Life: A Safety Mindset for Every Moment

We often think of “safety” as a checklist rules, regulations, procedures. But at its core, safety is about something far more sacred: protecting life—yours and the lives of others.

In this powerful and deeply personal session, Danny Bader shares the story of the day he was electrocuted and died before being brought back to life. That moment changed everything. It gave him a profound reverence for life, a new lens through which to view risk, awareness, and the human spirit.

This isn’t just a story - it’s a call to remember why safety matters. Not because a manual said so. But because behind every policy, every protocol, and every PPE requirement… is a person who wants to go home at the end of the day. A child who wants their parent to walk in the door. A team that wants to work hard but live harder.

Danny will connect the principles from his Back to Life framework to the world of safety, inviting the audience to see safety not just as a responsibility, but as a reverent, daily choice to protect what matters most.

Key Audience Takeaways:

  • A Renewed Sense of Purpose
    Participants will reconnect to the why behind their safety work—beyond compliance, beyond rules—anchoring in the belief that every moment matters and every life has value.

  • The Power of Presence
    They’ll explore how awareness, focus, and presence can prevent accidents before they happen. Safety isn’t just action—it’s attention.

  • The Human Side of Safety
    This talk humanizes safety by reminding people that behind every stat is a story. Attendees will leave with a deeper appreciation for the people they protect—including themselves.

  • A Framework for Resilience
    Danny shares 5 simple but powerful Back to Life principles (vision, self-awareness, stillness, connection, and evolution) that equip teams to stay grounded, resilient, and intentional—on the job and beyond.

  • A Personal Challenge
    Each person will be asked: “What will you do differently today to protect life—yours or someone else’s?” They’ll leave with clarity, inspiration, and a new commitment to show up fully alive and fully aware.

This keynote is ideal for:

  • Safety leaders & professionals

  • Field teams & frontline employees

  • Executive leadership looking to build a strong safety culture

  • Any organization where “going home safe” isn’t just a slogan—it’s the standard

“I have seen many motivational speakers, but our time with Danny really hit home for me and my team.”

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.

MULTI-BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Four More Life-Changing Books That Have Inspired Thousands

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.

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.

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.

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