A teacher who can tell you what the fifth day feels like.
Specific, unhurried, evidence first. Harvey has held rooms of ninth graders and rooms of executives with the same stories, and he is back in his own classroom on Monday.
Three talks.
Each one adapts to your run time, from a 30-minute assembly to a full keynote.
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One More Loop
Winning multi-day races through hour-by-hour decisions—and how teams apply this when facing no visible finish line.
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Pacing, Not Heroics
Building sustainable endurance, avoiding burnout, and recovering fast while balancing everyday professional life.
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Everyone is a Sequoia
Mental resilience, patience, and gratitude—the foundational mindset he shares with his own high school students.
Who he speaks to.
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Corporate teams & leadership
Work with no visible finish line
Pacing, recovery and decision-making under fatigue — argued from a 108-hour race rather than a management book. Offsites, all-hands and leadership days.
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Middle & high schools
Students told what they are not good at
He teaches full time, so he pitches to the room rather than over it. Assemblies, sports banquets and awards nights. He takes questions until they run out.
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Universities & commencements
The long game, before it starts
Thirty years of building something slowly, for an audience about to be told to move fast. Commencements, orientation weeks and athletics departments.
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Race expos & banquets
A field that knows the terrain
Fifteen Badwater finishes, five Team USA appearances, two backyard world records. Specific, technical, and honest about what went wrong.
- Formats
- Keynote, fireside, assembly, panel
- Audiences
- Corporate, schools, endurance events
- Travel
- From Cincinnati, OH · worldwide
- Fee band
- On request
- Lead time
- Book around race season
- Heard on
- Rich Roll Podcast, twice (ep. 658, 812)
“We are all capable of incredible feats. No matter your pursuits, we can all go so much further than we think.”
Rich Roll Podcast, ep. 812
He answers his own email.
126 races since 1996, and he still replies between class periods.
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