Kenyon Salo
2024 Day of Excellence EmCee
Sponsored by Marco
Back for his third year as Emcee, 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 the NFL season flying into the Denver Broncos Stadium at 60+mph, ending with a soft tip-toe landing on the ten yard line. With 20+ years of successful audience engagement, Kenyon will lead us through the ‘Day’ with humor, awe-inspiring moments, prolific storytelling, and ‘edge-of-the seat’ content.
James E. Dixon
Sponsored by First Interstate Bank
James E. Dixon lost his leg and found his purpose. As an amputee, he shares his experiences from his traumatic childhood to his role as a relentless advocate and motivational speaker. Touching, inspiring, and sometimes humorous, his story reveals how he met his challenges head on and defied adversity to achieve the seemingly impossible.
Dixon’s journey started at age 11 when his leg was amputated due to poor circulation. Dixon’s encouraging mother used to tell him he was Superman, just with a bit of kryptonite. He kept quiet about his leg for 45 years, until recently when his attitude changed and he decided to wear shorts.
Fast forward to the present – Dixon’s openness to share his story of resilience and determination on his popular Instagram (321K followers @supermanis4real) and largely subscribed motivational YouTube channel Absolute Motivation– with over 128 million views -- has led to a book deal, a documentary and even a comic book feature.
“I thought about the fact that at some point, I had to get over the fear of what other people thought it said about me,” Dixon said. “I decided I would wear shorts. And that was a monumental day for me.”
From sports to spirituality, his new book Absolute Motivation – Battle Test Principles for Next-Level Living is a story of resilience and unwavering determination that reminds readers from all walks of life of their limitless potential. It is a testimony of faith that reveals the principles anyone can use to rewrite their story and take their life to the next level.
Dixon is also a passionate advocate for fitness. He got into sports shortly after the amputation to show people he was just as capable as everyone else. Prosthetic legs are made to fit the person they’re attached to, therefore; gaining 20 pounds can affect the wearer’s ability to walk. So fitness became a way of life for Dixon. As a powerlifter, his deadlift record sits at 760 pounds.
Amber Selking, PhD
Winning the Mental Game: How Mindsets Drive Performance Excellence
Sponsored by Black Hills Energy
As a former soccer player at the University of Notre Dame, to a mental performance coach for Notre Dame Football and founder of the Selking Performance Group, Dr. Amber Selking has a mission to help individuals, sports teams and business achieve performance excellence by tapping into the power of Mindset and Leadership.
Amber graduated with a Management Consulting degree and soon recognized through her career in human resources, the similar performance dynamic existed in business as she experienced in sports. She returned to school to better understand the art and science of human high performance and earned her master’s degree and PhD.
Through the Selking Performance Group, Dr. Selking has been a high-performance consultant to sports teams and businesses including the Denver Broncos, LSU Football, Notre Dame Softball, and more. She served as the mental performance consultant to the Notre Dame Football team during the winningest five-year stint in program history.
From the locker room to the boardroom, Dr. Selking’s expertise is in optimizing human performance by partnering with leaders to build systems that are most conducive to high performance, teaching people about how their brain works, and providing strategies to build mindsets that facilitate success.
Dr. Selking hosts a popular podcast called Building Championship Mindsets, and released her first book in 2022, Winning the Mental Game: The Playbook for Building Championship Mindsets.
Amber grew up raising livestock in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania, and now lives in South Bend, IN with her husband, Aaron and their Doberman Pinscher, Rockne.
Devin Henderson
Something Greater is Always Possible
Sponsored by Black Hills Federal Credit Union
Devin Henderson is a multi-talented powerhouse: an experienced presenter, a seasoned performer, an award-winning comedian and a magician. Devin’s passion is using his unique talents and experiences to inspire individuals and organizations to discover their greatest potential and resilience to keep going, no matter what.
Devin began his entertainment career in 2004 as a comedy magician and soon after started using these talents to inspire audiences of professionals across the United States. The pinnacle moment of Devin’s career came in 2014, when the producers of America’s Got Talent on NBC invited him to Hollywood to audition for Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B, Howie Mandel, and an audience of 5,000. It was an amazing and pivotal moment in Devin’s career and life, even though it went very differently than expected. After delivering what he considered one of his best performances to date, he did not pass the audition and the segment never aired. Learning how to rise through such an intense and unexpected disappointment was a result of his lifelong pursuit to always strive toward “Something Greater.”
Now, Devin’s greatest challenges, accomplishments and lessons are interwoven into an unforgettable experience. His unique combination of skills and storytelling and his hilarious and engaging interaction are what make him an audience favorite. In over two decades, Henderson has logged thousands of performances to clients including Pepsi, Hallmark, Cerner and hundreds more. He is also the host of The Possibility Mindset Podcast.
Devin hails from Kansas City and is married to the world’s most amazing woman. He has seven daughters. Yes, seven. Daughters. So obviously, he’s a man of prayer.
Joel Zeff
Make the Right Choice
Sponsored by Synchrony
Joel Zeff creates energy. He is a dynamic speaker, improvisational humorist, and author. His interactive performances illustrate Joel’s central message: That organizations and individuals should CELEBRATE every day successes to increase productivity, passion, innovation and collaboration.
Since 1997, Joel has inspired audiences from Wells Fargo to Samsung to KPMG and even the IRS. Yes, the IRS. From his first jobs delivering the hometown newspaper and cleaning up trash at a suburban movie theater, to his professional career in journalism, public relations and corporate communications, Joel realized that fun and passion were essential to success.
Joel’s start came during a time when he spent his Monday - Friday helping clients with their employee communications, media relations and customer marketing, and weekends having fun as a comedian. A casual request from a client to play some improvisational games before dinner for a group of high-level executives kicked off a corporate speaking career!
Joel connects to his audience with humor that has them laughing so uncontrollably that their mascara runs, their cheeks hurt, and their bellies ache.
Yes, Joel will make you laugh, but he’ll also make you think. He delivers a combination of inspiration, essential business knowledge, and significant ideas to help audience members RECONNECT with their OWN passion and success.
When he is not speaking, Joel continues to express his creativity as an actor, writer and comedian.