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Larry Jacobson

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Inspiring Leader, Author, Coach, Circumnavigator
Buoy Coaching & Press: Leadership, Achievement with Passion
Country or state 
United States (California)
Available to 
Global
City 
San Francisco
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
Yes
Timezone 
America/Los_Angeles

Personal Details

Bio

When it comes to overcoming tough challenges,

Larry Jacobson hasn’t just been around the block:

He’s Been Around the World!

On the topics of Leadership Development and Sales-Performance training, Larry Jacobson is the speaker of choice for many top organizations around the nation. His customized keynotes and hands-on training-workshops are crafted specifically to the goals, objectives, and needs of your event.

Jacobson's leadership experience comes from experience. After a successful career in corporate America, Larry Jacobson fearlessly abandoned his financial security and comfort zone to fulfill a lifelong dream and sail around the world. During his six years circumnavigating the globe, he accumulated priceless, hard-won experiences and life-lessons: new insights on how to master your fears and limitations, persevere through the inevitable storms on the way to success, and live out your dreams against all odds.

Larry's dynamic recounting of his incredible journey, and the lessons he's drawn from it shine a navigational beacon of inspiration for anyone who's ever aspired to achieve great things in their business and personal life. Larry has the unique talent of delivering his stories and message with sharp wit, humor, and a style that fully engages the audience.

Non-Financial Retirement Planning

Larry Jacobson is a leading authority on non-fiscal retirement planning. His Sail Into RetirementTM program has become the gold standard for answering the question of what to do after your work career is over. His message is of prime importance to financial planners, human resources professionals, and rings true for virtually all those wondering What’s next?

In addition to his inspirational and captivating messages promoting dream realization and pursuit of success in the midst of adversity, Larry is a leading authority in the field of redefining retirement. His books, videos courses, and keynotes address the all-important questions about non-financial retirement planning.

What happens when you lose your lifelong identity from your career? What will be your encore? How do you make your transition a successful one that provides a continuous life of purpose and fulfillment? Company employees, association members, and financial planners all benefit from the practical wealth of tools and information Larry provides. Packed ballrooms and standing ovations are common for these speeches, as he speaks with authority and experience.

As a motivational speaker, Jacobson shares how he made his dream come true, and the traits and disciplines needed to achieve great accomplishments. In addition to the importance of having a dream, he speaks about setting goals, the decision-making process, the risks he took by leaving everything behind, and the risks necessary to be successful in your business and personal life.

EVENT PLANNERS

Larry's experience in the event industry means he knows how to help make your event a success.

Current position (1)

Inspiring Leader, Author, Coach, Circumnavigator

Buoy Coaching & Press: Leadership, Achievement with Passion

Achievements (4)
Circumnavigation

After six years, 40 countries, and 40,000 nautical miles, I achieved my dream of sailing my own boat all the way around the world.

Published Author of 6-time award winning Amazon Best Seller

Published six-time award-winning author of THE BOY BEHIND THE GATE, the memoir of my 6-year sailing trip around the world. An Amazon Best Seller and published in hard cover, Kindle, and Audible.

Published Author of Children's middle grade reader

Published children's middle grade reader for ages 8-12. This is an adventure book for the adventurous kid in all of us. Based on THE BOY BEHIND THE GATE, this version of sailing around the world teaches good habits, traits, morals, decision-making, trust, and much more. In paperback and Kindle

Published Entrepreneurship Book to help others

Navigating Entrepreneurship is written to help entrepreneurs survive the roller coaster ride of running their own business. Published by Business Experts Press, it is used in college and university business schools.
Published in paperback and online Video Course.

Degrees (2)
Education / Teaching
University of California, Berkeley
1976 to 1977
Bachelor of Arts
University of California, Irvine
1972 to 1976

Presentations

Presentations (8)
Navigating Leadership: Lessons Learned at Sea

As a leader in sales and marketing for twenty years, and then captaining his own boat around the world, Larry Jacobson speaks with unique authority and credibility. As a leader and adventurer, he weaves tales of his six-year odyssey circumnavigating the globe with the challenges of leadership in our fast-paced business world.

There are similarities in leading your crew while facing 30-foot walls of water slamming into your boat in a horrific Red Sea storm, and leading in your company. It's lonely, scary, and it’s easy to want to make it all go away. Sailing around the world doesn’t happen by luck, but by good leadership and visualizing achievement.

Like sailing around the world, leadership in business is making decisions, taking risks, maintaining a good attitude, facing fears, staying focused, and digging deep for strength and perseverance.

Larry inspires Leadership and shows his listeners how to lead fearlessly and effectively.

Make Passion Your Priority

From TEDx talks to corporate meetings, making passion your priority is now Larry Jacobsons single most requested speech. Larry opens his heart to tell the story of discovering his passion for sailing at the age of 13. Then he jumps right in to the lives of the audience and how important passion is for them, how to find it, and how it can improve the quality of their work and personal lives.

By getting to know you and your audience in advance, Larry then weaves his tale of passion into the work lives of the audience with great effectiveness using stories and slides from his 6 years of sailing around the world.

Humor, emotion, and passion are keys to delivering this keynote and Larry Jacobson has them all.

Living Your Unstoppable Life

Very few people achieve the status of circumnavigator. In fact, many more people climb Mt. Everest each year. Yet Larry Jacobson decided as a 16-year-old boy that sailing around the world was what he wanted and never let go of that dream.

Throughout his life, Larry has achieved great endeavors, both in his professional and personal life. He knows how to make dreams come true. It's this quality of being unstoppable and refusing to settle for less than your best that makes the difference between mere existence and living the life of your dreams.

Takeaways:
• How to awaken our dormant dreams and turn them into actionable goals
• How good things in our lives get in the way of great things
• Why staying focused on your dream is so critical
• How to see and mark the value in every day
• Living with Love, Laughter and Pass

This keynote is a perfect fit for any general motivational type event including sales meetings, conferences, associations, and incentive program

Navigating Sales: Achieving Unstoppable Performance

What stops many salespeople isn’t lack of skill, education or talent.

It's fear.

Making that next sales call or trying to get an appointment with a big prospect can feel like facing a 30-foot wave in a storm: lonely, scary, out of control.

Larry Jacobson knows all about that kind of fear and what it takes to turn it around and achieve the success of your dreams. After 20 years in the sales and marketing world, he spent six years circumnavigating the globe in a sailboat. As a sales expert and adventurer, Larry draws instructive and entertaining parallels between tales of his odyssey at sea and the challenges of selling in our fast-paced business world.

Sales is the driving force of every industry and the lifeblood of every business. Like sailing around the world, successful selling calls for decisiveness, a tolerance for risks, staying positive no matter what, maintaining a laser focus, and a strength and perseverance that come from digging deep inside.

Making Ideas Happen: Passion, Priorities, and Perseverance

Many people have ideas for their own personal growth and for new ways to accomplish more at their work. Sadly, many ideas never come to fruition because one or more of the following three characteristics are missing.

1. Passion. No great idea ever happened without dedicated passion.

2. The idea must be made a priority in order to fuel its success.

3. Most ideas never happen because the person or company doesn't persevere.

Making an idea happen is not an event, but rather a process. Larry Jacobson had an idea when he was 13 years old that he would sail around the world. It took him 33 years of passion, prioritizing, and perseverance to make that dream come true. And it took all three of these traits to spend six years sailing his own boat all the way around the world.

This as an area in which Larry Jacobson is indeed an expert From 30 to 50 minutes, Larry uses stories, pictures, and makes the subject relevant to the lives of the listeners. A winner!

What if You're Happier Than you Think You Are...and Just Haven't Noticed?

What if you're happier than you think you are?
What if everything is fine and you just didn't notice?
If we don't feel completely overjoyed at all times, we often mistake this for unhappiness or genuine dissatisfaction. Then our brain produces a thought: "You should have THIS and then you'll be happier. You should do THAT and then you'll be happier." And the chase begins.
We continually chase that one thing, or things that will change our life and finally we will find true happiness. It doesn't work like that. Sometimes we attain THIS or THAT and we relax and settle in to our new found happiness...until it fades away, and we begin the chase all over again.
Why? Why can't you be happy on a regular basis without the chase?
Larry will help the listeners to understand how to be consistently happier on a daily basis. The audience will smile more, laugh more, and be inspired.
A universally inspiring speech about gratitude, mindfulness, perspective and overall happiness in life.

Redefining Retirement: What's Your Encore?

Until now, nearly all retirement planning has been fiscal. Then the question still remains: What will you do with your time in retirement? It's a much bigger challenge than expected and very few sources address the problem.

Shortly after the euphoria of, "Yahoo! I don't have to go to work today!" wears off, new retirees often feel:

• An overall sense of loss of social interaction from fellow employees Lack of purpose
• Void of fulfillment
• No longer needed
• No longer appreciated for their knowledge
• Suffer from fears not knowing their next step
• Disconnected from society
• Loss of direction
• Don't know who to turn to for help with these new challenges

How do you redefine retirement so it provides you a continued life of fulfillment and purpose? How do you live a balanced life in retirement when you discover that golf and grandkids aren't enough? As a thought leader in the field of non-financial retirement planning, Larry addresses these issues and m

Embracing Change

Change can be scary and upsetting. It doesn't have to be if you learn how to embrace change. We may want constant, steady, reliable lives at home and in business, but there will always be change and Change is Here to Stay. In business, it's one of the few experiences that is almost inevitable.

In sailing, the wind changes and you need to change course to accommodate the wind. In business, conditions change like the weather. You see, and seek, new opportunities and new ways to improve your products and better serve your customers, because your customers are the reason you're in business.

Seeing new opportunities is one thing. Being agile enough, and able to adapt to new conditions is critical to success, and that means being proactive and creating a plan to incorporate change into your personal and business life.

This is an excellent inspirational keynote for sales kickoffs, dealer meetings, incentives, and anytime a company or group is experiencing change.

Workshops (1)
Better Communication In the Age of Isolation
2 hours
(View workshop agenda)

How to best utilize all communication formats except in person. Online video, email, text, document collaboration, voicemail can all be better with the skills and tips in this presentation.

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Passion Trumps Fear: Larry Jacobson at TEDxGoldenGatePark (2D)
Larry Jacobson Speaker Info
How to Recover Dreams Deferred By COVID-19

Books & Articles (5)

The Boy Behind the Gate
Buoy Press, LLC,
2012
"Let's Go!"
Buoy Press,
2019
Navigating Entrepreneurship: 11 Proven Keys to Success
Business Experts Press,
2018
Just Say, "I don't know"
How I Chose Passion Over Fear and Sailed the World

Expertise (42)

Leadership
Health & Well-being
Travel & Adventure
Business
Sport & Hobbies
Leadership Sales selling Best-Selling Author Passion Fear Conquering Fear Perseverance Business Entrepreneurship Inspiring Motivation Anti-bullying Small Business retirement Redefining Retirement Increase sales Keynote Speaker Workshop Leader Seminar Leader Virtual Training Conference Speaker Adventurer Sailor Circumnavigator Expert Personal Achievement Achievement Goal setting and achievement Trainer Leadership Trainer Corporate Trainer California Dream Realization Dream Big Dream Coach Certified Dream Coach

Clients

Conferences, Associations, Corporations, Financial Planners, Salespeople, C-suite Executives

Awards & certifications (1)

Retirement Catalyst of the Year
Retirement Coaches Association
2021

Reviews

Testimonials (1)
  • “Larry was a breeze to work with! He responded quickly to our initial request and really took the time to listen to what our group was about. He molded a fantastic, high energy and educational presentation that everyone loved. He is by far an amazing presenter! We really couldn’t have found a speaker that fit our theme any better!” -- Kristen Newcomer Director of Events
    https://investmentsandwealth.org/
    Larry Jacobson
    Verified
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