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Shaq-ify Your Life: Building a Portfolio Career
While SHAQUILLE O’NEAL may have started in the NBA, he has since blossomed into a media personality, real estate mogul, and more. As a creative cross-industry leader, Shaq encourages audiences to find their passion, leverage the market, and build an empire uniquely their own.
The Shaq Effect: Leadership & Teamwork
As one of the greatest athletes of all time, SHAQUILLE O’NEAL knows when to pass and when to score. Overflowing with empowering, actionable insights on leadership, resilience, and teamwork, Shaq reflects on the key gametime decisions he’s made on and off the court leading to his success.
Motivation: Becoming the Big Man
NBA superstar, philanthropist, and renowned successful business entrepreneur SHAQUILLE O’NEAL seamlessly weaves storytelling and audience engagement to create a one-of-a-kind audience experience. Sharing actionable advice as well as personal (and hilarious) anecdotes, Shaq inspires audiences to become the best version of themselves.
How to Dribble: Adaptability, Resilience, & Bouncing Back
Incredible resilience, adaptability, and insight were required for SHAQUILLE O’NEAL to become a 15-Time NBA All Star Player, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and cultural icon. Shaq’s amazing ability to continually excel & innovate in any pursuit inspires audiences at every smash-hit event, and he willingly shares his tools for sustained success.
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Shaquille O’Neal’s business empire
NBA superstar, philanthropist, and renowned successful business entrepreneur SHAQUILLE O’NEAL has a name synonymous with success. To “Shaq-ify,” to many, means to maintain a diverse and fruitful investment portfolio. As the featured keynote speaker for the International Franchise Association Convention in San Diego, Shaq shared his approach to his many business ventures. In many interviews as well as his live engagements, Shaq gladly shares how he leveraged his basketball success to move beyond endorsement deals into entrepreneurial ventures.
Shaquille O’Neal gives back to underserved youth
Cultural icon SHAQUILLE O’NEAL founded the Shaquille O’Neal Foundation with the mission of creating “pathways for underserved youth to help them achieve their full potential.” The foundation has built sports infrastructure for youth engagement, including a Boys & Girls Club, alongside running annual programs such as Shaq-to-School, which has provided school supplies to hundreds of elementary school students. Shaq has focused on these youth initiatives to encourage students to focus on healthy outlets of self-expression leading to later success. The legend himself told The Los Angeles Times, “Basketball was very, very healthy. The people, the OGs made sure all the nonsense stayed away.”
Shaquille O’Neal’s provides earnest advise on ‘The Big Podcast’
NBA superstar, philanthropist, and renowned successful business entrepreneur SHAQUILLE O’NEAL opens up about his life lesson, often learned the hard way, in The Big Podcast. Hosting some of the biggest names in sports and pop culture, Shaq leaves no stone unturned in his no-holds-barred discussions of everything under the sun. With nonstop laughter and unfiltered thoughts, Shaq showcases the engaging, warm conversation style he brings onstage to every event.
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Shaquille O’Neal’s memoir ‘Shaq Uncut’ shares his depth and dimension
Multihyphenate culturemaker SHAQUILLE O’NEAL shares the lesser-known story behind his wild success in Shaq Uncut: My Story. Whether rapping on any of his five albums, challenging celebrities on his hit television show Shaq Vs., studying for his PhD, or serving as a reserve police officer, there's no question that Shaq has led a unique and multi-dimensional life. Shaq discusses his remarkable experiences, from growing up in difficult circumstances and getting cut from his high school basketball team to his larger-than-life career. By the end of his stories, audiences understand that Shaq is a true cultural icon who brings his inspiring journey and unbeatable lessons in leadership and business to life at every opportunity.
Shaquille O’Neal receives rave reviews for his live events
NBA superstar, philanthropist, and renowned successful business entrepreneur SHAQUILLE O’NEAL is insightful, intelligent, and downright funny during his live engagements. Fellow NBA star Allen Iverson said, “He's also the funniest person, and smartest person that you would want to be around.” O’Neal’s industry hosts agree:
Few individuals ever become iconic enough to be known by one name—Shaq. A revered cultural icon, Shaquille O’Neal is best known for an NBA career spanning nearly two decades and earning him the sport’s highest honors, including membership in the NBA Hall of Fame. The four-time NBA Champion, 15-time NBA All Star and three-time NBA Finals MVP has been named one of the most influential athletes by Forbes magazine, in addition to being the highest ranked NBA athlete on Nielsen’s State of the Media: Year in Sports 2010 and Business Week’s Power Sports 100.
But Shaquille O’Neal isn’t only a legendary athlete; he has also established himself as a powerful media personality and businessman over the years. Ranked among ‘‘The 100 Most Creative People in Business’’ last year by Fast Company magazine, O’Neal is currently an NBA analyst on TNT’s Emmy-award winning show, Inside the NBA on TNT.
In addition to being an early investor in companies such as Google, O’Neal has managed an increasingly robust personal brand, which has included television shows, a shoe line and social media/tech products. The first verified celebrity account on Twitter, O’Neal announced his NBA retirement via Tout, a new social media app that allows users to tape 15-second video statuses.
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