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Speaking
Inspirational presentations for conferences, workplaces, schools, nonprofits, podcasts, panels, and community events.
Book Me for Speaking →Books
Three autobiographical and reflective books about disability, adversity, recovery, identity, and resilience.
Explore My Books →Course
One self-paced six-week educational course with structured lessons, reflection prompts, and practical exercises.
Explore the Course →Not Sure Where to Start?
- • For an event, podcast, conference, or community program, explore Speaking.
- • For autobiographical stories and personal reflection, explore the Books.
- • For independent, self-paced learning and practical exercises, explore the Course.
Questions My Work Explores
Life experiences can shape identity, expectations, and the way people understand themselves.
My work considers resilience, disability, recovery, inclusion, limiting beliefs, and what it can mean to continue forward when circumstances change.
I draw on selected lived experiences to open broader conversations rather than centring every presentation on my personal story.
The purpose is honest reflection and practical learning, without promises of quick fixes or personal transformation.
What I Explore Through My Work
- Resilience, disability, identity, and recovery through lived experience
- How assumptions and limiting beliefs can shape what people believe is possible
- How individuals, groups, and communities respond to adversity and change
- Disability inclusion, self-understanding, and the value of honest conversation
- Practical ideas that audiences and readers can consider in their own lives
Meet Sheldon S. Crocker
I’m Sheldon S. Crocker, an award-winning author, inspirational speaker, disability advocate, and founder of Crocker’s Transformative Thinking. My work is shaped by lived experience of disability, trauma, addiction, homelessness, recovery, and rebuilding my life. I speak and write about resilience, identity, inclusion, and continuing forward when life does not go as planned.
Through inspirational speaking, my books, and one self-paced educational course, I share honest reflection and practical ideas that audiences and readers can connect with their own experiences.
My role is to speak, write, and offer educational material that encourages reflection on resilience, disability, identity, recovery, inclusion, and moving forward.
What Others Say
These comments describe how audience members have responded to my stories and presentations.
“Because of your story, I finally believed I could change mine.” | Workshop Participant
“You helped me remember my worth after everyone else forgot it.” | Summit Attendee
“You don’t just speak. You make people feel seen, heard, and ready.” | Nonprofit Leader
“I’m alive because of Sheldon’s story.” | Community Member
Speaking, Books, and One Self-Paced Course
I offer inspirational speaking for events and organizations, autobiographical and reflective books, and one self-paced educational course. Each part of my work draws on lived experience and explores resilience, disability, identity, recovery, inclusion, and moving forward.
My Signature Course: Unleash Your Inner Strength
One Self-Paced Six-Week Educational Course for Reflection and Self-Understanding
Built from my lived experience and honest reflection, the course provides structured lessons, reflection prompts, and practical exercises. Participants work independently at their own pace, one section at a time.
- Practical exercises and guided reflections about thoughts, patterns, and choices
- Six modules that participants complete independently at their own pace
- Educational material focused on resilience, identity, self-understanding, and change
Grounded in Lived Experience and Honest Reflection
My work is shaped by lived experience, but my presentations do not centre on retelling my life. I use selected experiences to introduce broader questions about resilience, disability, identity, recovery, inclusion, and how people respond when circumstances change.
My books are autobiographical and reflective. I also offer one self-paced educational course with structured lessons, reflection prompts, and practical exercises. The books and course are intended for independent reading, reflection, and learning.
Organizations can contact me about presentations, workshops, panels, podcasts, media conversations, author events, and other suitable collaborations.
Explore Speaking, Books, or the Course
Choose speaking for an event or organization, books for autobiographical and reflective reading, or the course for an independent, structured six-week learning experience.