Danny Bader

Not just living life, but living to the fullest

On a job site in 1992, Danny Bader and his friend Bruce were struck by 8,000 volts of electricity as they lowered a ladder. Both men died. Only Danny came back to life. What he returned with wasn't a motivational script or a five-step framework. It was something harder to name and harder to forget — something that settles into the Spirit and never quite leaves. It is the awareness that life is not forever, and that this awareness, held the right way, should not frighten or paralyze you. It should be the most profound and liberating thought you can hold. That insight became Back to Life — a book, a keynote, a philosophy, and a body of work that Danny has spent more than two decades bringing to some of the most notable brands and demanding audiences in the world. Marriott. Ritz-Carlton. Hyatt. United Airlines. Lincoln Financial. Campbells. Merck. Hundreds of events. Tens of thousands of people. What makes the Back to Life experience different isn't the accident — it's what Danny does with a room. He moves audiences through three levels of living: Rock Bottom, Functional Fog, and Radical Reverence. He gives them the powerful principles he uncovered on his journey back from the edge of death — not as theory, but as lived practice. And he asks the question that sits at the center of everything he does:

8:00 - 9:00

Friday Jan 22