HOPE Services is pleased to announce that Olympic Gold Medalist, Network TV skating commentator, Special Olympics Board Member, and best-selling author, Scott Hamilton will provide the keynote speech at HOPE Services' 60th Anniversary "Building Community" Benefit Breakfast.





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Mr. Hamilton is no stranger to life's challenges both on and off the ice! He holds over 70 titles, awards, and honors, including a 1984 Olympic Figure Skating Gold Medal and membership in both the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. His personal life is no different. Mr. Hamilton has successfully recovered from a life-threatening cancer as well as a non-cancerous brain tumor. He is a constant reminder that with fortitude and determination, anything is possible. And his personal demeanor is not just lip service; as a role model he has adopted the motto: "The only disability in life is a bad attitude."

During the last ten years, Scott has inspired audiences at numerous events throughout the country, speaking to a wide variety of groups and organizations about his life and over coming adversity. He speaks 30 to 35 times a year to audiences in size from 250 to 15,000.

Never ceasing to impress, his clarity about living the life he's been given, has inspired thousands of people at numerous engagements for such organizations as Hilton Hotels, Bank of America, John Hancock Financial Network, MassMutual, Healthcare Management Systems, Institute for International Research, Elekta, Inc., America's Second Harvest, the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Liberty Mutual, Peak Vista Community Health Centers annual "Breakfast of Champions," the Toledo Children's Hospital, the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Goshen Health System, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, St. Vincent Oncology Center, Pituitary Network Association, University of St. Thomas Lecture Series, Robert Wood Johnston University, the University of Chicago Hospital, the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, the Congress of Oncology Nurses, Kansas City Life, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, CanCare of Houston, Inc., Nationwide Mutual Insurance, and Million Dollar Round Table to name but a few.

As a keynote speaker, he exudes enthusiasm and inspiration. As a figure skater, he is forever bridging the gap between sport and entertainment. As a role model, he contradicts the saying that "good guys finish last." As a humanitarian, he avails himself to any plight that will improve mankind. But, more important, as a cancer survivor he is a constant reminder that with fortitude and determination, anything is possible. Scott's much publicized bout with testicular cancer in 1997, and his November, 2004 diagnosis of a benign, non-cancerous pituitary brain tumor, from which he is successfully recovering, has touched him with a special insight into life and the human condition.



To be announced.