Pat Williams
Pat Williams is the senior vice president of the NBA's Orlando Magic. Also one of America's top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, he has addressed employees from many of the Fortune 500 companies and the Million Dollar Round Table. He has been a featured speaker at two Billy Graham Crusades and two Peter Lowe Success Seminars. He has also spoken on many university ...
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Pat Williams is the senior vice president of the NBA's Orlando Magic. Also one of America's top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, he has addressed employees from many of the Fortune 500 companies and the Million Dollar Round Table. He has been a featured speaker at two Billy Graham Crusades and two Peter Lowe Success Seminars. He has also spoken on many university campuses.
After serving for seven years in the United States Army, Pat spent seven years in the Philadelphia Phillies organization, two as a minor league catcher and five in the front office. He then spent three years in the Minnesota Twins organization before moving to the National Basketball Association. Since 1968, he has been affiliated with teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, including the 1983 World Champion 76ers, and now the Orlando Magic which he co-founded in 1987 and helped lead to the NBA finals in 1995. Twenty-three of his teams have gone to the NBA play-offs and five of them have made the NBA finals. In 1996, Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history by a national publication.
In his NBA career, he has traded Pete Maravich, traded for Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Penny Hardaway, and won four NBA draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners in 1992 and 1993 and most recently in 2004. He also drafted Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, Maurice Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Darryl Dawkins and signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly, and Matt Guokas to their first professional coaching contracts. Twelve of his former players have become NBA Head Coaches and seventeen have become assistant coaches.
Pat and his wife Ruth are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations, ranging in age from 18 to 32. For one year, 16 of his children were all teenagers at the same time. Pat and his family have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, The Wall Street Journal, Focus on the Family, New Man Magazine, plus all of the major television networks, The Maury Povich Show and Dr. Robert Schuller's Hour of Power.
Pat helps teach an adult Sunday school class at First Baptist Church of Orlando and hosts a weekly sports radio show. In the last six years he has completed thirty one marathons, including the Boston Marathon nine times and also climbed Mt. Rainier. He is a weight lifter, Civil War buff, and serious baseball fan. Every winter he plays in Major League Fantasy Camps and has caught Hall of Famers Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, Rollie Fingers, Gaylord Perry, Phil Niekro and Tom Seaver.
Pat was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, earned his bachelors degree at Wake Forest University, and his master's degree at Indiana University. He has a doctorate in Humane Letters from Flagler University. He is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame after catching for the Deacons baseball team, including the 1962 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team. He is also a member of the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame.
Do you want employees who work with greater passion and purpose? Do you need executives who are able to overcome obstacles in today's business world? Do you want to improve every part of your professional and personal life?
As one of the most successful and influential executives in NBA history, PAT WILLIAMS knows what it takes to be successful in all aspects of business and wants to share his insights with your organization. Pat has thousands of entertaining and influential stories he has gathered from his leadership experiences in sports, parenting and life that will leave your audience amused, inspired and determined to be industry leaders and successful people.
Pat speaks on many topics, including: LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT, TEAMWORK, SALES and SELF-IMPROVEMENT. Pat customizes his talks for each group and will spend as much time as possible meeting and greeting the members of his audience.
After hearing Pat Williams speak, your organization will never be the same. Pat is presenting new, vital information in a manner that is unprecedented. He uses humor, illustrations and powerful stories to relay insightful, practical information your audience can take home and implement immediately. The remarkable combination of his personal style and message stimulates people to alter their attitude and reach their full potential. Time spent with Pat is an invigorating experience that will expand self-confidence, rekindle determination to succeed and intensify ambition to alter your life for the better. We GUARANTEE results every time Pat speaks.
Pat is often heard saying, "Every time I speak, I want to change the world." Experience Pat Williams in person and be prepared to have your world transformed.
The Seven Keys To Leadership In The 21 st Century:
Pat gives managers practical and proven techniques for immediately increasing your productivity in a leadership capacity. In this thought-provoking speech, Pat details the seven keys to leadership and teaches how you can be a more effective leader. Learn how to create a personal strategy, communicate effectively with your employees and make profitable decisions. Pat's humorous anecdotes and unique leadership philosophy make this one of his most highly-regarded speeches.
The Magic Of Teamwork:
As his 1983 World Championship confirms, Pat is a master at building successful teams. Based on what he has learned from his experience in building sports teams for over 40 years, Pat offers proven principles for building a winning team in your business or organization. After implementing the techniques presented in this speech, you can expect an organization that produces better results while working more cohesively. How To Be Like Mike:
Being the "Michael Jordan" of your industry is synonymous with being the best, and Pat's position in sports has offered him never-before-heard stories and insights into Michael's world. In this fascinating speech based on the qualities of Michael Jordan, Pat offers the practical steps that can transform any person into a champion. As one of Pat's most requested talks, this speech has enhanced the focus, passion and work ethic of thousands of people.
The Ten Keys To Quality:
Successful people know how important it is to have excellence in the workplace. In a seminar based upon his personal principles, Pat provides the ingredients of his recipe for quality. This fast-moving series of methods, ideas and techniques offer the keys to personal effectiveness, maximum achievement and unlimited success in your field. These keys to quality can be used by anyone to enhance not only their work life, but their personal life as well. Champions Under Construction - How To Build Successful Teenagers:
As the father to 19 children, Pat has plenty of experience and insights into being involved as both a friend and a mentor in your teenager's life. In this invigorating speech, Williams gears his speaking style towards frustrated parents and those having difficulties dealing with their children. Intimate and insightful, powerful and practical, this talk offers encouragement and instruction to fostering the relationship you desire with your children.
How To Build A Ladder To Your Dreams:
In this perceptive and practical speech, Pat presents the key steps needed to go from dreaming to achieving. Whether it is being a fantastic father or the top sales associate for the entire eastern seaboard, this personal development speech provides the blueprint for individuals to take an inventory of their lives and make their aspirations a reality. While each step is a small adjustment to daily living, you will see big changes in the results you seek.
Ahead Of The Game: The Pat Williams Story: Through the turbulence of his life and the ups and downs of his professional career, Williams has found strength in God, which he feels has been the source of his encouragement to rise above his circumstances. His light-hearted demeanor and determination to win become even more impressive with his compelling story of courage, family trials, the passion for truth, and a conviction to find himself.
