Motivational Speaker for Tech Teams, Product Squads & Engineering Orgs
Devon Harris
Olympian | High-Pressure Performance Coach
Break Bottlenecks. Ship Faster. Own the PodiumTogether.
Olympian Devon Harris equips tech teams to Keep On Pushing, aligning product, engineering, DevOps, and leadership so releases land quicker, quality climbs, and burnout drops.
Mission Ignition
You run on tight sprints, massive backlogs, and a market that pivots by the hour. Speed without alignment costs features, and people.
Devon knows pressure. He trained at Britain’s elite Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, then rocketed down icy tracks at 90 mph as a founding member of the Jamaican bobsled team. In his keynotes he turns that “launch-under-fire” mindset into a playbook your developers can use tomorrow: focus fast, steer true, finish strong.
Why Tech Leaders Book Devon
Optimize Team Velocity Under Sprint Pressure
35% average improvement in story points delivered per sprint. Devon's Olympic coordination strategies help distributed engineering teams synchronize like a bobsled crew, every millisecond and every line of code matters.
Master Async Collaboration Across Time Zones
Remote team productivity up 45%. Learn how Olympic teams coordinate complex maneuvers across distance and time pressure. Apply these frameworks to code reviews, standups, and cross-functional product planning.
Build Incident Response Team Resilience
40% faster mean time to recovery (MTTR). When production breaks at 2 AM, your team needs Olympic-level composure. Devon teaches the mental frameworks that turn high-pressure incidents into learning opportunities.
Scale Engineering Culture Without Losing Performance
Maintain team velocity through 10x growth. Devon helped his bobsled program scale from 4 athletes to national program. Apply these principles to growing engineering teams from startup to enterprise scale.
Combat Technical Debt Decision Fatigue
50% improvement in technical decision-making speed. Olympic athletes make split-second decisions under extreme pressure. Engineering teams face similar choices: refactor vs. ship, technical debt vs. feature velocity.
Transform Code Review Culture Into Performance Advantage
Engineering team satisfaction scores improve 60%. Turn code reviews from bottlenecks into acceleration points using Olympic feedback principles that build both individual skill and team performance.
You’ll also learn about Devon’s speaking fee
and availability to speak at your event
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Program Formats
In-Person & Virtual Keynotes
Dev Summits
Hack Week Openers
All-Hands Kickoffs
Customized to your stack, culture, and release cadence.
The Keep On Pushing Guarantee
If your post-event engineering team satisfaction scores don’t improve by at least 15%, Devon will provide a free follow-up virtual workshop for your technical leadership team.
Why Devon?
“Olympic teams and engineering teams solve identical problems: How do you coordinate complex, interdependent actions under extreme pressure while maintaining individual excellence within collective success?”
Devon Harris bridges the gap between athletic high performance and technical team optimization. As a founding member of Jamaica’s bobsled team, he learned that the fastest individual doesn’t win, the most coordinated team does.
Ready to Optimize Your Team Performance?
Whether you’re planning a tech conference keynote, engineering all-hands, DevOps summit, or technical leadership retreat, Devon brings Olympic-level energy and a practical playbook your teams can ship with.