Aaron Shawn Harper

Aaron Shawn Harper

• The Winologist: Creating winning teams
• Former NFL player turned successful businessman
• Bestselling author
• Recipient of several achievements and board member of King’s Ransom Foundation

Aaron Shawn Harper is ‘The Winologist’. He knows what it takes to create winning teams, whether on an American football field or in the boardroom.

With over 25 years of experience, Aaron Shawn Harper has built a reputation as a leading corporate speaker. Formerly an NFL player, he is now the successful CEO of a multi-million-dollar company. He delights in sharing the principles and strategies he has gained throughout his life to make it through to the winning side.

But Aaron Shawn Harper was not always on the winning side. He graduated last in his class and was voted most likely to fail. This was because he had difficulty learning. He was diagnosed while still young has having four to five learning disabilities. Yet despite these challenges,  he managed to carve a successful career in the NFL for himself, going on to become a successful business owner.

You see, Aaron Shawn Harper never settled for failure. He had set his mind on playing in the NFL while a student at Indiana State University. He achieved this aim immediately after graduation, playing for various high-profile teams. And he went on to achieve so much more!

Shortly after leaving the NFL, he started his multi-million-dollar security firm, i.e., American Services and Protection. This he did by implementing the skills and disciplines learned while playing in the NFL to corporate America.

These days often referred to as The Winologist, Aaron Shawn Harper constantly travels as a motivational speaker. He breaks down elite-level strategies and methodologies high-profile professional athletes use into simple concepts that allow you to win in your life and business environment. His paradigm-shifting approach has helped transform the lives of thousands of people and businesses. This he does by reframing their mindsets from success to winning while activating their inherent potential to compete and dominate at the highest levels.

Besides his success as an NFL player, businessman, and speaker, Aaron Shawn Harper has made a name for himself as a bestselling author. He is the author of two books that have been excellently received. These are “The Winologist: From the locker room to the board room” and “The Winning Edge: 8 Principles That Will Bring Out the Winner in You!”

Aaron Shawn Harper is a serving member of the King’s Ransom Foundation board and is actively involved in his church. His achievements include receiving Big Ten recognition, his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, and winning the National Achievement Award.

Aaron Shawn Harper – Speaker

As a conference speaker, charismatic Aaron Shawn Harper oozes a ‘wow’ factor that mesmerizes audiences. He comes across as personable, believable, and humorous, while his messages are life-changing. He lives in the USA and speaks English.

Speaker Topics

• CREATING WINNING TEAMS: Learn what great coaches do behind closed doors to win the game! Use these principles and strategies in your corporate office, school, or organization to stay on the cutting edge. Good teams work together, but great teams work as one!
• PLAY TO WIN: Hear the fascinating personal story of Shawn Harper, a powerful testimony of overcoming adversity by focusing on a vision with the end in mind. Inspire, motivate, and challenge team members to rise to their full potential.
• NO PRESSURE, NO DIAMOND: You can’t name a well-known leader who did not have great adversity to overcome. Unlimited growth can be gained by facing your obstacles and challenges head-on. Pressure can turn a lump of coal into a beautiful diamond. Adversity will either break you or make you a record-breaker. Which will you be?
• CREATING CAPACITY–THE GAME CHANGER: When an organization is not growing, it’s already dying. Being unprepared for growth and change happens easily when one is too busy managing day-to-day affairs. Capacity must be created and built into the plan. In this session, learn secrets from business legends such as Walt Disney, Ray Croc, and Bill Gates who foresaw what their businesses should look like well into the future and intentionally planned for sustained growth and prosperity.
• #154 – DEAD LAST IN HIS CLASS: Hear the fascinating personal story of Shawn Harper who soared from academic failure to college graduate; from sub-par football player to NFL career; from stutterer to international speaker, from broken home to family man and business owner.
• DYNAMIC COMMUNICATIONS: Next to nothing can be accomplished without clear and effective communication! So much can be lost in translation through texts and emails, so it’s extremely important to make face-to-face contact impactful. Learn about the four major communication styles and how to be fluent in each.