Book Christian DeVries · Keynotes and workshops
Significance over success.
Christian speaks to teams, coaches, parents, schools and organizations about the people side of the game. He's coached for more than 30 years. Soccer is the vehicle. People are the mission.
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The talks
Four talks, one idea underneath
Each one comes from the work behind AOS Sports, told for the people in your room. Every talk can run as a keynote or as a workshop.
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Significance over Success
For teams, schools, conferences and organizationsSignificance = Value. Our experiences shape our feelings, our feelings shape our motivation, and our motivation shapes our performance. Christian walks that chain back from the scoreboard to the experience, and what a coach, a leader or a parent can change along the way.
Train the person, not just the player.
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Breaking the Communication Code
For teams, staffs, parents and leadersHow each of us communicates, in four styles, and how to reach the people who communicate differently. Christian built it in four voices: athlete, parent, coach and leadership, so everyone in the room has the same language.
Strengths and blind spots, never strengths and weaknesses.
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Coaching the Bigger Game
For coaches and athletic directorsMost coaches start with the team. This one starts with the coach: Elevate Self, Elevate the Player, Elevate the Team, then Leave the Legacy. One coach to another, about the people side of the job, for any sport.
The order is the whole point.
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Getting Evaluated
For clubs and high schools: a college or parent nightFor players and parents together. What college recruiting really asks of a family, and how to take your next step without chasing identification. You're never behind. You're right where you need to be; you need a strategy that works.
Recruiting is not about getting identified. Recruiting is about getting evaluated.
How to book it
Three ways to bring Christian in
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One talk
Keynote
For a conference, a banquet, a clinic or a staff day. One of the four talks, built for your audience.
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Half-day to multi-day
Workshop
Hands-on time with your coaches, captains, staff or leaders. Half-day and full-day sessions, or a multi-day retreat.
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An evening, in person or online
College and parent nights
For a club or a high school and its families. Players and parents together, with time for their questions.
Every talk starts with a conversation about who's in the room and what you want them to leave with.
About Christian
A coach first
Christian DeVries has coached for more than 30 years, across NCAA Division II and Division III, NAIA and junior college programs. In 14 years at the University of Minnesota Morris his teams won six championships, and his 2003 women's team is in the Cougar Hall of Fame.
In 2015 he founded VOLTA Sports Ventures, to take leadership into corporate America through the universal language of sports. That work became AOS Sports, where he's the founder. He's a certified John Maxwell Team Leadership coach, trainer and speaker, and he wrote The Mighty, a sports devotional, with Boyd Hamlin.
"I change the lives of young men and women at a point in their lives when they are leaving the nest and finding their wings through a sport I love, soccer."
- CoachingMore than 30 years
- ChampionshipsSix, at Minnesota Morris
- Hall of FameMinnesota Morris Cougar Hall of Fame, with the 2003 women's soccer team (inducted 2022)
- FounderAOS Sports and College Player Pathway. VOLTA Sports Ventures, 2015
- CertifiedJohn Maxwell Team Leadership coach, trainer and speaker
- AuthorThe Mighty, with Boyd Hamlin
Where we've been
Where Christian and the AOS team have spoken and taught
- United Soccer Coaches Convention
- NAIA National Soccer Tournament
- Future Business Leaders of America National Conference
- Youth Leaders Summit 2025
- Florida Youth Soccer
- Minnesota Youth Soccer
- South Dakota Youth Soccer
- Lake of the Ozarks Soccer Association
- Mobile, AL Referees Association
Coaching education for your club. Steve Richards and Matt Clark run one- to three-day programs on site, built around your coaches and your players.
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Tell us about your event
A few details are enough to start. Nothing is booked until we've talked.
- We get back to you about the date.
- A short call about your group and what you want them to leave with.
- Christian builds the talk around your room.
Email Christian
[email protected]Tell us your organization, what you're planning (a keynote, a workshop, or a college or parent night), the date or time of year, where, and who's in the room.