A life built on courage, resilience, elite performance, and a calling to help others rise.

SPEAKER

Todd Blyleven has spent his entire life at the intersection of elite performance, leadership, and human resilience. Born into a Hall of Fame baseball family, Todd grew up in major league clubhouses, surrounded by world-class athletes, legendary coaches, and the highest expectations in the sports world. From an early age, he learned what it meant to compete, to lead, to fail, to rise again, and to perform when the moment mattered most.

Those early experiences shaped the foundation of his life: discipline, humility, courage, and an unwavering belief that adversity does not define us, but how we rise does.

A Career Built Across Fields, Teams, and Boardrooms

Todd went on to become a professional athlete himself, then served as a respected MLB scout, signing more than 25 players to Major League contracts. His unique ability to evaluate talent, build trust, and lead under pressure led him into executive leadership roles within global sports organizations and corporate sports companies.

Across two decades, Todd worked with partners such as MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, Pop Warner, USA Football, USA Softball, Little League International, Perfect Game, USA Hockey, US Youth Soccer, and hundreds of youth and collegiate programs.

He helped companies:

forge strategic partnerships
develop multi-million-dollar growth campaigns
build brand ecosystems
create over 1,500 educational and commercial videos
launch products into global retail
strengthen culture, communication, and leadership

Todd’s expertise bridges the worlds of sports performance, corporate strategy, leadership psychology, and personal resilience.

Few speakers can move between a boardroom, a police department, a university team, and a first responder event with equal credibility. Todd can, because he’s lived in all of them.

The Night That Changed Everything

On October 1, 2017, Todd became a heroic survivor of the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas, one of the deadliest mass casualty events in American history.

In the chaos and gunfire, Todd didn’t run. He ran in.

Over the course of eight unimaginable hours, he carried dozens of people to safety, protected the wounded, comforted the dying, and placed his life on the line again and again. His actions saved lives and changed lives.

But when the world went quiet, Todd faced a different kind of battle,

the silent, internal war of trauma, PTSD, and rebuilding a life that had been shattered.

Rebuilding Through Faith, Healing, and Purpose

Todd’s journey through healing was neither linear nor easy. It required immense courage, deep faith, therapy, humility, and the strength to keep walking, even when peace felt far away.

In his words: “I had to learn how to walk with my trauma instead of running from it.”

Through that journey, Todd discovered a new purpose, a calling to help others rise, heal, and lead through their own adversity, no matter what they’ve walked through.

This calling gave birth to:

his book Walking With Your Trauma™
the six-module trauma healing course (coming soon)
the upcoming Walking With Your Trauma™ book Volume II
dozens of poems and written songs
his apparel line is inspired by resilience and faith
his podcast, I’m Going In™, featuring stories of courage, leadership, and transformational growth

Todd’s story resonates deeply with first responders, military personnel, executives, educators, athletes, parents, and everyday people because he meets people exactly where they are, without judgment, and walks with them toward where they can be.

A Speaker Who Brings More Than a Story

Todd’s keynotes are a powerful combination of: