Tony Jeffery — author, speaker, pastor, and leadership communicator

TONY JEFFERY

Build a LifeThat Matters.

Author. Speaker. Pastor. Leader.

You weren't born ready. You are being built. Tony Jeffery challenges audiences to examine where they have been, recognize what matters now, and approach what comes next with greater clarity, humility, resilience, and purpose.

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Signature Keynote

You Weren't Born Ready. You Are Being Built.

Tony's central message is rooted in a simple but important conviction: life shapes us through the decisions we make, the circumstances we never chose, the people we encounter, the victories we celebrate, and the losses we never saw coming.

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B.U.I.L.T.

You Weren't Born Ready. You Are Being Built.

In B.U.I.L.T., Tony Jeffery uses powerful storytelling and lessons drawn from athletics, leadership, family, faith, failure, loss, rebuilding, and beginning again to challenge audiences with a simple but important question: What is being built in you?

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Decisions

IT MATTERS

Decisions. Consequences. Purpose. Redemption.

Inspired by Tony's book, this message explores how the decisions we make shape our lives, leadership, families, organizations, relationships, and futures — and the God who redeems every chapter of the story.

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Leadership

Lead with Clarity

Leadership. Communication. Culture. Integrity.

A leadership message addressing the importance of clarity in communication, decision-making, organizational culture, trust, and integrity. For leaders who want to build teams and organizations that last.

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Meet Tony

The Message Comes From the Life.

Tony Jeffery's perspective has been shaped by leadership, ministry, athletics, coaching, marriage, fatherhood, education, community work, adversity, successes, failures, and faith. He doesn't speak from the perspective of someone who has life figured out. He speaks as someone who has spent a lifetime being built — and recognizes he is still being formed. What he brings to every platform is not theory. It is testimony.

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Testimonials

What People Are Saying

Tony Jeffery is one of the most resilient, determined, and hard-fighting men I know.

Dr. Kem Smith

Missouri State Representative, Author, Educator

Tony shares his journey and the threads that have been sewn together throughout his life that crafted and led to a life grounded in faith.

Scott Hazelrigg, JD

President, NorthStar Foundation

I appreciate his humility and vulnerability which he displays in the book.

Ricky Horton

FCA Staff, St. Louis Cardinals Broadcaster

Tony's story is a compelling one. Tony has an awesome ability to communicate clearly and connect deeply with his audience. Fear, faith, family, and forgiveness are central to his testimony. Ultimately, Tony's story is about God's power to heal, and also, His power to restore.

Dr. Raghib Muhammad

Business & Marketing Teacher and Career Instructional Specialist, Pattonville School District

Endorsements originally shared in connection with Tony Jeffery's book, It Matters: Decisions, Consequences, and the God Who Redeems Them All.

Ideas That Live Beyond the Stage.

Words That Build

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It Matters: Decisions, Consequences, and the God Who Redeems Them All

Tony's signature book — an honest, courageous look at how the decisions we make shape our lives, families, and futures, and the God who redeems every chapter of the story.

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He Is Enough: 21 Days Rooted in God's Faithfulness

A 21-day devotional designed to help you slow down, refocus, and anchor your heart in the unchanging faithfulness of God.

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Children's Books

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Jasper and the Invisible Wall

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The Day I Hit Mr. Smith's Car

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Marriage & Relationships

We Learned to
Love Again

"Healthy love can be learned."

Tony and Veta Jeffery don't speak as people who got everything right. They speak as two people who experienced relational disappointment — and chose to learn something from it.

Over 18 years of marriage, they have learned that vulnerability, communication, trust, forgiveness, and conflict resolution are not weaknesses. They are the foundation of lasting love. And they are skills that can be developed.

Not because we got everything right.
Because we learned how to keep choosing each other.

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What audiences take away

Vulnerability as strength

How opening up — not shutting down — is what actually builds trust between two people.

Communication & conflict

Practical tools for navigating hard conversations without destroying the relationship in the process.

Choosing each other again

What it looks like to move from surviving a relationship to genuinely thriving in one.

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Tony & Veta Jeffery

Bring this presentation to your event.

Tony and Veta are available for marriage conferences, couples retreats, church events, and leadership gatherings where honest conversation about relationships is needed.

Your Audience Deservesa Message That Matters.

Tony Jeffery is available for keynotes, conferences, leadership summits, churches, schools, universities, athletic programs, and nonprofit events — delivering messages rooted in faith, forged by purpose, and tailored to your audience.