Chris Hendricks blends powerful storytelling, actionable leadership insight, and live music to help teams rethink vulnerability, resilience, inclusion, and human connection in a rapidly changing world.
“An experience people feel, remember, and carry back into the way they lead.”
Get a feel for how Chris blends storytelling, live music, vulnerability, and practical leadership insight into an experience that moves audiences.
Turning your greatest vulnerabilities into your most powerful strategic assets. This is where lived experience, leadership, inclusion, resilience, and performance meet.
Own Your Mirror blends live music, storytelling, and actionable insight to transform how organizations approach adversity and leadership.
Drawing from his lived experience with cerebral palsy, Chris shows how vulnerability builds trust, strengthens teams, and turns perceived limitations into performance advantages.
More than inspiration, it reframes inclusion as a strategic driver of engagement, innovation, and results.
Give teams a practical way to lead with honesty, courage, and connection.
Help people move through pressure with creative problem solving and focus.
Shift inclusion from a checkbox into a performance advantage.
Chris works with organizations that want more than a motivational moment. His keynotes help teams build trust, think inclusively, and reconnect with the human side of performance.
For leaders building trust, courage, and adaptable cultures.
For teams improving belonging, engagement, and connection.
For audiences that serve, care, teach, and lead under pressure.
For finance, technology, and executive audiences navigating change.
The experience is designed to give audiences emotional resonance and practical tools they can take back into how they work, lead, and collaborate.
Authentic, vulnerable leadership builds trust, empowers teams to collaborate, and creates space for smart risks.
Inclusive hiring and thinking expands talent, strengthens culture, and drives innovation and performance.
Practical mindset tools help people stay focused, adapt, and move forward confidently during challenging seasons.
Chris has performed for thousands across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, blending music and story in a way that meets people where they are.
Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at four, music became more than a craft - it became a way through. That perspective still shapes everything he writes and performs.
His sound lives somewhere between country, rock, blues, and folk - what he calls Americana pop.
Chris brings an authentic perspective on leadership, vulnerability, adaptability, and inclusion, challenging audiences to redefine strength and connection.
Chris Hendricks is a transformational speaker and recording artist who helps organizations rethink leadership, connection, and resilience in a rapidly changing world.
With over 20 years as a speaker and recording artist, Chris brings a dynamic presence to the stage, using music to deepen engagement, spark reflection, and create moments of shared humanity.
Speaking from lived experience as a person with a disability, Chris offers an authentic perspective on leadership, vulnerability, and inclusion.
From HR leaders to corporate executives across healthcare, technology, finance, and education, Chris equips audiences with practical tools to lead with courage, build trust, and navigate change with purpose.
Choose the experience that fits your audience, event goals, and desired level of music integration.
High-impact storytelling and leadership insight with moments of live music woven through the message.
A deeper keynote/concert hybrid designed for emotional connection and shared reflection.
Practical sessions for teams wanting to explore resilience, inclusion, and courageous leadership.
Whether you’re planning a leadership conference, employee engagement event, university program, or inclusion-focused keynote, Chris delivers an experience that blends emotional depth with practical takeaways your audience can use immediately.