Mike Marsteller is a life expert on resiliency and teaches young people how to turn their biggest challenges into their greatest opportunities. He’s an author, mentor, youth motivational speaker, and humanitarian. Mike learned to overcome adversity in life by taking experiences from hardships and turning them into empowering opportunities. As a civic innovator, he has a gift for creating community solutions that reach out to people, helping them right where they live. In 2009 he founded the HCM Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides opportunities and financial support for families who are significantly impacted by cancer. The foundation works with social workers to find families and help them with their household bills, rent/mortgage, prescription copayments, transportation, and medical treatments. To date, the foundation has helped hundreds of families. Mike is currently one of the most sought out youth motivational speakers on the scene today. His message connects and reaches young people in a way most can’t and inspires them to do what most don’t. Students leave his presentation with a renewed sense of direction, excited about their possibilities and prepared to take their next steps. His greatest motivation for life comes from building connections that inspire the people and communities around him. He is a graduate of Slippery Rock University and is an avid runner, cyclist, and triathlete competing at an elite level and finishing four Ironman Triathlons. You can connect with Mike at: [email protected] www.mikemarsteller.com www.facebook.com/mike.marsteller1 www.twitter.com/MikeMarsteller www.linkedin.com/in/mikemarsteller