When you think it’s the end, it’s really just the beginning

Jonathan Spinks, OSU Tour
President / CEO

Jonathan Spinks is an over-achiever and sits in a unique position as a former professional athlete and a successful Dallas business owner. His success comes as no surprise to those who know him well. As a successful Dallas businessman, he made going the extra mile a standard, reliability his promise, and integrity his trademark.

As a successful businessman who has experienced the pains it takes to get there, he possesses a profound knowledge and passion regarding conservative principles that can set people apart in the business world and in their communities. After retiring as a professional athlete, he went back to school to become a financial planner specializing in investments. While working at the investment firm representing Smith Barney for 8 years, his company branched out into the mortgage industry. He then transitioned into the mortgage industry and worked in the mortgage industry 8 years, the last 3 years of which he eventually started, and fully owned, a Mortgage Bank Branch and operated as its Bank Branch President.

Jonathan understands the importance of high-energy hard work, integrity, character building, and the value of a good team behind you. While fighting on a world-class level, Jonathan beat the odds against all that challenged him and became a champion in boxing, kickboxing, and tough man contests. Jonathan began his boxing career as an amateur at age 13. He trained as an Olympic boxing team hopeful before turning pro. As a professional fighter, he acquired a kickboxing title by knocking out the 7th ranked contender in the world. During his eight years as a professional fighter, he remained undefeated in over 20 fights before retirement. He achieved notoriety as "The Knock Out" artist by sending every single opponent he faced during his career to the mat.

For the past 18 years, Jonathan has traveled all over the country, in constant demand as a motivational speaker. His schedule already includes events throughout 2009 in New York, Arizona, Chicago, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, Colorado, California, Puerto Rico, Texas and more. His schedule is fully loaded year after year with speaking engagements in places ranging from corporate events, schools, churches, prisons, universities, NFL (National Football League) to the Pentagon. Jonathan speaks as many as 45 weekends a year. Aside from being a nationally known speaker and, in spite of a grueling schedule, he strives to spend quality time with his wife of 8 years and his 3 children Jeffery, Gabriel and Abigail.

Jonathan is also very active in his community and seeks to deliver excellence in every area of his life, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. His uniqueness appeals to a very wide range of audiences. As a former professional athlete, he shares captivating stories of an unbelievable commitment, dedication, and deep understanding of what it takes to reach the top “in life” as well as the bottom that brings results of anger, addictions, divorce, and death. This deep understanding has been the result of lessons learned through failures that arise from a life out of balance as well as the consequences that come from wrong choices, bad friends, and a love for money. He learned at the age of 19 that all his possessions of Cadillacs, Mercedes, houses with swimming pools, cigarette boats, expensive motorcycles, accomplishments, fame and fortune could not deliver what he was seeking.

Today Jonathan is the Executive Director of OSU Tour. OSU Tour is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization with links to the Pentagon that strives to ease the pain of divorce, suicide, domestic violence and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder within our troops coming back from the War in Iraq.
           

E-mail: office@osutour.org