Helping People
Trust their Vision with
FAITH, FOCUS, and FORTITUDE.

"Trust Your Vision and Play Through The Foul"

A Viral Video About Vision!

Vera Jones was best known as a Women’s Basketball Commentator for ESPN, and the Big Ten Network, until October 27, 2017 when a Goalcast video instantly went viral. With over 47 million views and counting, she has gained global recognition and demand by sharing her inspirational message crafted from her own life challenges of helping her 12-year old son through a brain tumor and blindness. Vera continues her mission to uplift the world with the principles and lessons of faith, vision, unity, perseverance, and purpose. Adversity is a foul that can blind us all. Vera shows us how to move from blindness to breakthrough, by finding the courage to trust your vision and play through the foul!

Vera Jones is a Motivational Speaker, Communication Coach, Author, Award-Winning Television and Radio Broadcaster, and Syracuse University Hall-of-Fame Scholar-Athlete. She is most widely known for her extensive background in broadcasting, serving as a Women’s Basketball Analyst and Reporter for various networks over the past two decades, including ESPN, Fox Sports, Madison Square Garden Network, and NBA-TV, and the Big Ten Network.

In 2020, Vera founded the Perseverance Speakers Academy and continues her Play Through the Foul Communications and Leadership Training Services, now with additional virtual presentation capabilities! Learn more about the Perseverance Speakers Academy!

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INSPIRATIONAL KEYNOTES

Adversity & Resilience

Empathic Leadership

Diversity & Inclusion

Now I See

Also known as “Trust Your Vision,” Vera’s signature story about her son losing his sight, but not his VISION, viewed over 47-million times on Goalcast is even more powerful in person! Now with a book to compliment the Keynote, Vera’s life lessons of faith, focus, and fortitude inspire us all to find purpose in our pain by playing through our “fouls” so we can win at the game of life. Click here to see the Goalcast viral.

Leadership 6-S

How awesome would it be to wake up everyday and just scream, “I GOT IT!” no matter what obstacles stood in your way? And how fulfilling would it be to know those who have been entrusted to your leadership did the same? It is the Empathic Leader who develops this superpower, and it is Vera’s 6 principles of empathic leadership that will help inspire you to this level of significance and success.

Girls Don’t Whistle?

With the help of the Andy Griffith Show theme song, Vera’s powerful and humorous presentation challenges our limiting biases, stigmas, and stereotypes, and invites us all to take a look in the mirror to see if it is our purpose or pain staring back. An empowering message for anyone who has ever felt limited or marginalized by biased perceptions. Experience and embrace the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion!

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MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING

Helping people blinded by life’s fouls trust their vision.

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PUBLIC SPEAKING COACHING

Helping people confidently develop their passion & pain into their professional speaking purpose.

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Certified Trainer in Workplace Conflict Resolution - Helping leaders manage seemingly unmanageable workplace adversity, Click Here!

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Communicating with Style

The most insightful communication seminar/webinar on the planet! There are so many “aha” moments inside of Vera’s empathic approach to communicating with others and building healthy relationships. You will learn your communication style, and the common perceptions (both positive and negative) that come with it. Vera is a Certified Trainer in Workplace Conflict Resolution, so you will also gain strategies for building self-awareness and successfully conducting those dreaded conflict conversations. Click here for communication or conflict resolution assessments and coaching with Vera!

Now I See - How to Move from Blindness to Breakthrough

Play Through The Public Speaking Foul

Studies show about 73% of the population experiences at least some degree of public speaking fear. Learn how to overcome it from a 30-year veteran national broadcaster, public speaker, and communication coach! Confidence stems from embracing your “Who.” Vera will take you on a journey of your What, Why, When, Where, and How too. This instruction is packed with presentation power. If you are looking for a Professional Speaking Coach, check out Vera’s Perseverance Speakers Academy!