Tom Nash
Tom Nash helps audiences rethink pressure, self-doubt, and change as strategic advantages for stronger people, teams, and organizations.
Tom Nash Booking & Availability
Speaking fees, availability and booking details for corporate events, keynotes and private appearances.
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Tom Nash’s current speaking fee is $20,000–$30,000. Final pricing can vary by date, location, event format and scope of the appearance.
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Corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events and virtual programs may be available depending on the engagement.
Tom Nash Keynote Topics & Programs
Tom Nash speaks on creativity, disability, entrepreneurship, inspiration, motivation and overcoming adversity through keynote presentations and related programs.
Beyond Resilience: The Strategic Mindset
Pressure does not have to break people or teams. It can become the force that makes them stronger.
Resilience is often treated as the goal, but this keynote pushes the idea further. Drawing on the concept of Antifragility, the talk explores how stress, shock, and adversity can strengthen people, sharpen thinking, and improve the systems they rely on.
With blunt honesty, dry humour, and practical insight, this session shows how adversity can teach leaders and teams to redefine problems, think laterally, and turn obstacles into opportunity. The result is a strategic mindset that helps people adapt under pressure and build systems that grow stronger when tested.
- Move beyond resilience and understand how pressure can create strength.
- Learn how to redefine problems and think laterally in difficult moments.
- Build systems, habits, and mindsets that can improve under stress.
Ideal for: Leaders, teams, and organizations navigating pressure, uncertainty, change, or complex environments where adaptability and stronger thinking are essential.
Think Different By Design
The best way to improve an experience for everyone is to start with the people most often overlooked.
Universal Design is often framed as accessibility, but this keynote makes a sharper case: it is a powerful act of creativity. When teams design for the extremes, they often uncover smarter, more useful solutions that work better for the majority.
Through curious history, sharp examples, and clear observations, this talk explores how constraints can become a source of better thinking. Audiences learn how paying attention to overlooked needs can reveal competitive advantages that others miss.
- Understand why designing for the minority can improve outcomes for the majority.
- See constraints as creative fuel rather than limitations.
- Learn how overlooked needs can lead to stronger design, better experiences, and unexpected advantage.
Ideal for: Leaders, designers, product teams, innovation teams, and organizations looking to create smarter solutions by thinking differently about access, experience, and creativity.
Impostor Power: Opportunity Unlocked
Self-doubt can become a source of momentum when people learn how to use it as a signal, not a stop sign.
Impostor Syndrome is often treated as a flaw, but this keynote reframes it as a strategic advantage. Instead of seeing uncertainty as something to eliminate, audiences learn how it can sharpen perception, expand opportunity, and keep people moving forward.
Drawing on stories from psychology, creativity, and personal experience on unexpected stages, this talk gives audiences a new way to understand self-doubt. It offers a practical toolkit for turning uncertainty into fuel, helping people use discomfort as a driver of momentum, growth, and opportunity.
- Reframe impostor syndrome as a source of awareness and strategic insight.
- Use uncertainty to sharpen perception and create forward movement.
- Turn self-doubt into momentum, growth, and new opportunity.
Ideal for: Leaders, creative teams, professionals, and organizations that want to help people move through uncertainty with greater confidence, sharper thinking, and stronger momentum.
Tom Nash Biography & Credentials
Tom Nash is an internationally renowned Club DJ and producer, entrepreneur, author, and international speaker who lost both his arms and legs at 19 after contracting a deadly disease and being given a 2% chance of survival. After learning to walk with prosthetics and adapt to life with hooks, he built a successful entertainment company and platinum record label, curated iconic nightclub events, and became one of the country’s most in-demand DJs.
Today, Tom speaks on antifragility over resilience, turning adversity into advantage, universal design, impostor syndrome, and the strategic value of adapting under pressure. With more than 3,000,000 TED views, appearances from TED to SXSW, and a style built on dark humor, sharp wit, and hard-won wisdom, he delivers talks that challenge perspectives and help audiences embrace change.
Want to book Tom Nash for an event?
Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at (215) 995-0905 to book Tom Nash for corporate or private events, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, motivational speaking, or virtual appearances. Our agency will work directly with your organization and our keynote speakers to create an unforgettable event.
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From Survival to Antifragility
At 19, Tom Nash lost both his arms and legs to a deadly disease and was given a 2% chance of survival. His life after that moment became a study in adaptation. He learned to walk with prosthetics, navigate the world with hooks, and rebuild his future around the belief that pressure can do more than test people. It can strengthen them.
Tom went on to build a successful entertainment company and platinum record label, curate iconic nightclub events, and become one of the country’s most in demand DJs. He has performed at sell out shows and major music festivals worldwide, bringing the same adaptive mindset from his personal life into creative, commercial, and live audience settings.
Speaking on Adaptation, Design, and Advantage
Today, Tom speaks internationally on antifragility over resilience. His talks challenge audiences to rethink problems, use pressure as feedback, and turn obstacles into opportunity. His most requested keynote, Beyond Resilience: The Strategic Mindset, explores how stress, setbacks, and volatility can help teams self correct, adapt, and improve.
Tom also speaks on universal design and impostor syndrome. In Think Different by Design, he explores how designing for the extremes can create better products, services, environments, and user experiences for everyone. In Imposter Power, he reframes self doubt as a strategic advantage that can sharpen perception, reveal opportunity, and help people grow in unfamiliar territory.
Tom’s work has been featured by TED, Forbes, BuzzFeed, SXSW, Fox News Channel, ABC, Sky News, and SBS. He has worked with organizations including Microsoft, Mars, Christian Dior, Medtronic, SAP, Genentech, CDW, Bupa, and Gartner.