Terry L. Fossum is a #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, USA Today bestselling author, TEDx speaker, former USAF Captain, and winner of Fox’s Kicking & Screaming (2017). His two signature keynotes — Never Miss a Goal Again, for sales-driven organizations, and Throw Away the Box, for leaders facing reinvention pressure — have been delivered on more than 1,500 stages. He serves as President and Endowment Chair of the Boy Scouts of America’s Inland Northwest Council.
Terry L. Fossum is a #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of The Oxcart Technique. His TEDx talk was ranked the #2 New TEDx Talk in the World. He has delivered more than 1,500 keynote engagements and helped raise millions of dollars from the platform.
He delivers two signature keynotes. Never Miss a Goal Again, built on his Oxcart Technique® and grounded in Nobel Prize–winning behavioral economics, is the keynote sales-driven organizations bring in when traditional training stops producing — insurance agencies, real estate brokerages, financial advisors, dealership groups, and direct-sales companies. Throw Away the Box helps leadership teams and organizations reinvent themselves in the age of AI, built on original interviews with the leaders behind NASA, Tesla, The North Face, E!, and FANUC.
In 2017, Terry won Fox's prime-time network reality competition Kicking & Screaming, representing the Boy Scouts of America. He is a former Captain in the United States Air Force, a graduate of Texas A&M University, and the President & Endowment Chair of the BSA's Inland Northwest Council. He lives in Spokane Valley, Washington.
Terry L. Fossum is a #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, a USA Today bestselling author, and a TEDx speaker whose talk was ranked the #2 New TEDx Talk in the World. He is a former Captain in the United States Air Force, a winner of Fox's network reality competition Kicking & Screaming (2017), and a longtime leader within the Boy Scouts of America, where he currently serves as President and Chairman of the Endowment of the Inland Northwest Council.
Terry was born in Mission, Texas, and raised in McAllen — part of a Texas border-region metropolitan area repeatedly ranked among the poorest in the United States. He attended Texas A&M University, where he was appointed the first ever Honor Guard Commander — a Cadet Major position created specifically for him. He served as Executive Officer of the 92d Operations Group flying nuclear B-52s out of Fairchild Air Force Base, where he was named Officer of the Year. The Strategic Air Command later named him Humanitarian of the Year.
His four books — all published by his own house, Raidho Publishing — are The Oxcart Technique (#1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller), Never Miss a Goal Again, Throw Away the Box, and The S.I.M.P.L.E. Guide to Public Speaking. He has delivered more than 1,500 keynote engagements and helped raise millions of dollars from the platform. He has also worked as an actor, earning Best Supporting Actor and Fan Favorite honors at the Christian Film Festival in 2021 for his role in Agape, and has hosted television and streaming programs including Made in America and Montana Department of Transportation.
Today Terry's primary work is from the stage. He delivers two signature keynotes: Never Miss a Goal Again, built on his Oxcart Technique® and grounded in Nobel Prize–winning behavioral economics, for sales-driven organizations whose people need to close the gap between knowing and doing; and Throw Away the Box, for leadership teams, associations, and corporations facing reinvention pressure in the age of AI. He lives in Spokane Valley, Washington, with his wife and three stepsons.