Awards and Motivational Speaking
Twice voted Association of Disability and Rehabilitation 'Man of the Year' -in 1971 and 1978 - he was also awarded an OBE for his voluntary work with the disabled in 1977. In 1979 he was chosen from nominees from 121 countries as one of only three people in the world to receive an International Award for Valour in Sport. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in May 1976 and he is also available as a powerful Motivational Speaker for both company events and after dinner speeches.
Croucher also helps demoralised former employees come to terms with redundancy and to find a positive way of dealing with the new flexibility in their lives. "When my false leg broke as a result of metal fatigue, it could have been seen as a downer. Instead, I had the satisfaction of climbing 5,200ft with just one leg. The incident also prompted me to get a designer to make a better kind of leg for me when I got back down so I learnt that setbacks can prove useful, and that's the most important thing I try to get other people to understand."
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