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Dick did a great job. He integrated his unique perspective from behind the camera as a student, soldier, National Geographic and advertising photographer into a captivating motivational story told with wonderful photographs and punctuated with wisdom and life lessons. He received extremely positive comments from the group attending our YPO event. I highly recommend Dick.—Kevin McCoy, Education Chair, Kansas YPOIf a picture is worth a thousand words, then a thousand well-chosen words married with a lifetime of incredible and emotional images is truly priceless. Dick Durrance creates that balance with a skill that only a true communicator can accomplish. He takes you on a journey of discovery, not only of images and vistas, but of a vision that integrates the mind's eye into every aspect of your personal and business life. It is a transforming experience with applications that extend way beyond a camera lens."—Allison Scott, Director of Communications, The Broadmoor
Dream Like A Champion
Dick Durrance helps corporate, association and education leaders inspire their teams to embrace change as a gift and innovation as a way of life.
He uses amazing adventures and remarkable photographs from traveling the world as a photographer (Magazine Photographer of the Year as a National Geographic photographer and Advertising Photographer of the Year while running his own business) to show individuals how they can combine the creative and the logical power of their minds to sharpen their creative vision and find innovative solutions to the changes they face.
What participants take away from his keynote titled Dream Like A Champion and from his photographic workshops are three ideas that help them bring to the world the very best they have offer:
1. Use the whole of your mind to make changes. If you use the logical side of your mind to identify your natural talents and the creative sides of your mind to imagine all of the wonderful things you can do with your talents, and then develop those talents into skills with unrelenting tenacity, you open the door to innovative ideas for every facet of your life … your professional life, your personal life and your spiritual life.
2. Venture out of your comfort zone and connect with people from other walks of life, people who can broaden your horizons, so you develop an understanding of people that will serve you well as your reach out to connect with family members, friends, prospects and clients.
3. Journey deep into your self to that spiritual center where your core values live so you can be sure that you are harnessing your talents and your skills to those core values.
• Dick’s father, a legendary ski champion, taught him that very few people will ever be lucky enough to actually be a champion but that everyone can dream like a champion because, like a champion, everyone can choose to see what is, imagine what can be, and create a new dream for themselves, even when they know they are not likely to be the best in the world. He believes individual excellence is the key to community well being.
“Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.”
William Jennings Bryan