You will laugh

and you will cry,

but you will never
be the same!
 
Faced with the challenge of total blindness,
Jim Stovall has gone on to become:
An International Humanitarian of the Year;
A National Olympic weightlifting champion;
An Emmy Award winner;
The President and Co-Founder of Narrative Television Network;
One of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans awarded by the U.S. Jaycees;
A National Entrepreneur of the Year;
A recipient of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Blue Chip Enterprise Award;
A world-renowned author and speaker;
The author of the best selling book, The Ultimate Gift. Now a 20th Century Fox major motion
picture.

Jim Stovall has shared the stage as a keynote speaker with:

General Colin Powell
Christopher Reeve
Tony Robbins
Dr. Denis Waitley
Barbara Bush

Jim Stovall will teach you and your organization how to:
Change your life by changing your mind;
Turn your dreams into reality;
Be the best you can be;
Take action starting today;
Find and fulfill your destiny regardless of your circumstances.

Author of:
The Lamp
You Don't Have To Be Blind To See
Success Secrets of Super Achievers
The Ultimate Gift
Wisdom of the Ages
The Ultimate Life
Today's The Day
Ultimate Productivity
 Keeper of the Flame
The Way I See the World

Featured on:
Good Morning America
CNN
Reader's Digest
TV Guide
TIME Magazine
Wall Street Journal

Jim Stovall is an American writer best known for his bestselling novel The Ultimate Gift.[1] The
book was made into the movie The Ultimate Gift, distributed by 20th Century Fox. The Ultimate
Gift has a sequel out called The Ultimate Life.

He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University. On May 3, 2008, he received an Honorary

Doctorate of Law from ORU for his work with the disabled.

Stovall is blind and is an advocate on behalf of people with blindness. He advocated for the blind
by making television and movies accessible to the blind through his work as President of the
Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network.

In the book, Forbes Great Success Stories: Twelve Tales of Victory Wrested from Defeat
(Hardcover) by Alan Farnham, Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr., president and CEO of
Forbes magazine, says, “Jim Stovall is one of the most extraordinary men of our era.”. [2]

Jim Stovall Biography

• Motivational speaker
• Author
• President of Narrative Television Network

Jim Stovall has been a national champion Olympic weightlifter, a successful investment broker and
entrepreneur. He is Co-Founder and President of the Narrative Television Network, which makes movies
and television accessible for our nation’s 13 million blind and visually impaired people and their families.
Although originally designed for the blind and visually impaired, over 60% of NTN’s nationwide audience
is made up of fully-sighted people who simply enjoy the programming.

Jim Stovall hosts the Network’s talk show, "NTN Showcase." His guests have included Katharine
Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, Carol Channing, Steve Allen, and Eddie Albert, as well as many others. The
Narrative Television Network has received an Emmy Award and an International Film and Video Award
among its many industry honors.

NTN has grown to include over 1,200 cable systems and broadcast stations, reaching over 35 million
homes in the United States, and NTN is shown in 11 foreign countries. NTN programming is also
presented via the Internet at NarrativeTV.com, serving millions of people around the world.

Jim Stovall joined the ranks of Walt Disney, Orson Welles, and four United States presidents, when he
was selected as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Americans" by the U. S. Junior Chamber of
Commerce. The President's Committee on Equal Opportunity selected Jim Stovall as the 1997
Entrepreneur of the Year. Jim was recently selected as the 2000 International Humanitarian of the Year,
joining Jimmy Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Mother Teresa as recipients of this honor.

He has appeared on "Good Morning America" and CNN, and has been featured in Reader's Digest, TV
Guide and Time magazine. He is the author of You Don’t Have To Be Blind To See, Success Secrets of
Super Achievers, and The Way I See the World, and the recently released The Ultimate Gift.