Kyle and Brent Pease
Leaders talk about resilience and inclusion in abstract terms. Their teams hear the words and tune out. The harder problem is making both concrete enough that a workforce under pressure recognises the behaviour, repeats it, and trusts the leader who modelled it.
Kyle and Brent Pease are brothers, IRONMAN World Championship finishers, and co-founders of The Kyle Pease Foundation, who help organisations turn resilience and inclusion from values statements into behaviours people actually adopt.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Kyle and Brent Pease
- They are the first push-assist brother duo in history to finish the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, a fact every audience can verify and few will forget.
- Their work is operational, not symbolic. The Kyle Pease Foundation has supported hundreds of adaptive athletes, run inclusive employment programmes, and raised over $12 million in cumulative funding.
- They speak as one unit, not a panel. The dynamic between Kyle and Brent is the content. Audiences see what shared accountability looks like at the level of muscle memory.
- The “Invisible Wheelchair” frame gives leaders a usable shorthand for the unseen constraints colleagues carry, without the political weight that has stalled mainstream DEI conversations.
Biography highlights
- First push-assist brother duo to complete the IRONMAN World Championship, Kona 2018.
- Six IRONMAN finishes together, with 100+ endurance races as a push-assist team.
- Co-authors of “Beyond the Finish” (Mascot Books, 2019), a dual-perspective memoir.
- Co-founders of The Kyle Pease Foundation, supporting adaptive athletes and inclusive employment in Atlanta and nationally.
- Subjects of a Hyundai Motor America six-part documentary series chronicling their road to Kona.
- Kyle holds a Sport Management degree from Kennesaw State University; Brent is a Florida State University graduate and certified endurance coach.
Biography
The Kona finish line in October 2018 was the first time two brothers had crossed it together as a push-assist duo. Brent had towed Kyle through 2.4 miles of open water in an inflatable kayak, pedalled 112 miles with Kyle reclined ahead of him on the bike, and pushed Kyle in a racing wheelchair through a 26.2-mile marathon in volcanic heat. The crossing was sport history. It was also the clearest public demonstration of a working relationship most organisations claim to want and few build.
Kyle Pease was born with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy. He went on to earn a Sport Management degree from Kennesaw State University and now serves as Chief Inspirational Officer at The Kyle Pease Foundation. Brent, a Florida State University graduate and certified endurance coach, is the Foundation’s Executive Director. Together they have completed more than one hundred races and built a 501(c)(3) that supports adaptive athletes, funds adaptive equipment, and runs inclusive employment programmes. Cumulative fundraising sits above $12 million.
Their keynote work draws on the same partnership the race made visible. The Invisible Wheelchair frame asks leaders to recognise constraints that colleagues carry without announcement. Find Your Finish reframes goal-setting around the conditions a team controls rather than the times on the clock. Together We Wheel makes the case that shared accountability is a behavioural practice, not a values statement. Their book “Beyond the Finish” (Mascot Books, 2019) tells both sides of the story in alternating voices.
For organisations rebuilding trust after restructure, threading inclusion through a fatigued workforce, or anchoring a leadership event in something the room will actually remember, the brothers offer a working example of two people producing a result neither could produce alone. The proof is on the Kona course tape.
Key speaking topics
- Resilience under sustained physical and operational constraint
- Inclusive leadership in practice, not policy
- Shared accountability and team interdependence
- Goal-setting beyond performance metrics
- Adaptive sport, disability advocacy, and the case for adaptive employment
- Brotherhood, partnership, and trust under load
Ideal for
- All-hands and town hall events where leadership wants the room to leave changed, not briefed
- Leadership offsites focused on resilience, team trust, or inclusion behaviours
- Sales kickoffs and annual conferences seeking an anchor keynote with high recall
- Employee resource group summits, particularly disability ERGs, and culture-change moments inside large organisations
Audience outcomes
- A vocabulary for the unseen constraints colleagues carry, usable in everyday team conversations
- A reframing of resilience as a shared behaviour rather than an individual trait
- A vivid reference point for what real partnership looks like when failure is not an option
- A renewed sense of why inclusion matters in operational terms, beyond compliance framing
Talks
A keynote built around the discipline of shared accountability, drawn from the brothers’ partnership on and off the racecourse.
Key takeaways:
- Why no meaningful finish line is reached alone
- How interdependence outperforms individual effort under pressure
- What teams adopt from watching two people trust each other under load
A reframing of goal-setting around presence, mental strength, and the conditions a team controls.
Key takeaways:
- How to define success on terms the team can actually influence
- What resilience looks like when progress is non-linear
- Why the finish line is rarely the point
A practical frame for recognising and supporting unseen constraints inside teams.
Key takeaways:
- Why most workplace barriers are invisible to those who do not carry them
- How empathy translates into specific managerial behaviours
- What inclusion looks like when stripped of political signalling