Past talks · audiences · proof

The rooms Casey has been in.

College locker rooms, leadership offsites, and business groups across Southern California — with more being added as the speaking calendar opens up for 2026.

Featured talk

Cal State Long Beach Dirtbags Baseball.

A pre-season locker-room talk on warrior mindset and the four refusals — given to a roster that has produced more than two dozen MLB draft picks.

College Athletics

CSULB Dirtbags Baseball

Pre-season locker-room talk · Long Beach, CA. Topic: The Warrior Mindset.

Business group

Long Beach Executives Roundtable

Keynote on first impressions and presence for a group of regional founders and operators.

Business group

Naples Business Network

Fireside on winning in life and business — the operating system behind a studio running since 1997.

Additional venues being added — full list available on request.

Recognition

Awards, press, and the racing record.

Award · 2026

The Jim Knaub Award

Presented by the Long Beach Century Club to an individual who has overcome tremendous physical challenges and progressed in life despite the past. Jim Knaub was a record-setting wheelchair athlete. Alongside the award, the Century Club donated $1,000 to the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

Press · HuffPost

“Ironman: Casey Kammel’s Version”

A feature on training and racing as an athlete managing a C4 spinal cord injury.
Read the article →

Endurance

IRONMAN World Championship, Kona

Raced the world championship in Hawaii as a physically-challenged athlete for the Challenged Athletes Foundation — roughly two decades after being told the probability of walking again was slim.

Endurance

IRONMAN 70.3 — seven and counting

Seven half-Ironman races completed as of 2016, and still racing. He competes for the Challenged Athletes Foundation, an organisation he supports as a competitor rather than a spectator.

Business

Founder, Executive Fitness

Opened a private training studio on E. 2nd Street in Long Beach in 1997 and has run it ever since — coaching executives, athletes and post-rehab clients.

Education

Cal State Long Beach

BS, Cal State Long Beach. The same city where he opened the studio and where he still coaches.

What people said

The talk lands.

Casey didn't give us a motivational speech. He gave us a checklist. The team was different the next morning at practice.
Coach · CSULB DirtbagsPre-season talk
I have heard a hundred speakers. Casey is the only one whose first sentence I still remember a year later.
Founder · regional executives roundtableLong Beach, CA
Direct, no filler, and earned every word. Our leadership team kept quoting him for weeks.
Operations leader · leadership offsiteSouthern California
You can tell the difference between a speaker who has a story and a speaker who has lived one. Casey lived it.
Business group attendeeNaples, Long Beach

Testimonials shown are representative; named attributions added with speaker permission.

Watch

Footage.

A full hour on camera, plus stage photography. Casey was interviewed for It’s A Long Beach Thing by Paul Forchione.

Casey Kammel racing the bike leg at the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona

The full interview (67 min) — It’s A Long Beach Thing with Paul Forchione. Shorter cuts: “Told he would never walk again” (1 min) · On racing triathlons again (4 min)

Casey speaking to a leadership group
Audience reaction during a keynote
Casey on stage during a Q&A
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