Jason Tharp

Jason Tharp is an award-winning speaker, author, and illustrator who challenges the status quo of the impossible to inspire audiences to embrace their authentic selves and work together towards success. Through his unique storytelling abilities and team-oriented approach, Tharp delivers engaging and dynamic speeches at conferences across the country, sharing his own broken impossibles that include surviving brain cancer, obesity, negative self-talk, and self-doubt. His work focuses on leadership and self-leadership, encouraging individuals and teams to overcome challenges and pursue their full potential.

Tharp is a best-selling children's book author, including "The Best You!" and "It's Okay To Be A Unicorn!". His books inspire self-leadership and inclusivity, while encouraging creativity and self-acceptance. Tharp is also working on "Love, Future Me," inspired by his experience with glioblastoma. His unique approach to storytelling emphasizes collaboration and encourages readers to embrace their unique qualities and work together towards a common goal.

Tharp has delivered numerous keynotes since 2015, providing audiences from schools to conferences with a blueprint to break their own impossibles.

Tharp has earned a reputation as a trusted source of dynamic and impactful leadership advice for high-level companies. He is renowned for inspiring audiences to break through their own impossibles while emphasizing teamwork and self-leadership. Tharp's speeches inspire audiences to stay focused, committed, and to never accept the impossible.

Tharp's interactive speaking style uses personal storytelling to inspire audiences to self-reflect on their own experiences. He creates a bridge of empathy through vulnerability, using a “HOPE” acronym to provide audiences with a “PowerUp” to stay focused on their goals. Tharp's keynotes are empowering, with moments of laughter, tears, and joy that have a transformative effect.

Tharp is a trailblazer who has defied the odds and shattered barriers in his personal and professional life. His inspirational journey of overcoming impossibles and achieving success against all odds has inspired many. Tharp has accomplished remarkable feats in his career as a storyteller and inspirational expert, but he believes that his greatest achievements lie in his life's highest moments.

Successful organizations and companies like Better Business Bureau, Novocure, Sonova, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, NRG, Best Buddies, and MacMillan each year invest in Tharp’s message and teachings, booking him again and again.

He has been featured on many of the major media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, USA Today, Washington Post, The Hill, HuffPost, CBC, The Independent, all major local news channels across the country, as well as many podcasts and radio shows have interviewed him about his story. Tharp has also written many op-ed pieces for numerous media outlets.