Through his 20+ year motivational speaking initiative, Life Beyond the Game, Ray McElroy, unlike any other, has managed to capture the hearts and minds of youth, organizations and companies nationwide! As a leader in the marketplace, Ray’s amazing and uncanny ability to entertain while delivering a profound message of desire, discipline and dedication has impacted the lives of thousands regardless of gender, age, or profession. Ray's list of satisfied clients includes CITGO, Discover Financial Services, The Chicago Cubs, The Chicago Bears, The Jacksonville Jaguars, Dairy Farmers of America, Independent Community Bankers of America, Countrywide Financial, Christ Advocate Hospital, Precision Payroll of America, and State Farm Insurance; just to name a few. Ray's fire for seeing individuals, companies, and organizations take their prospective businesses to the next level comes from his athletic background spending six seasons in the NFL from 1995-2001 with the Indianapolis Colts, Detroit Lions, and the Chicago Bears. A native of Chicago and graduate of Eastern Illinois University, Ray also served as Team Chaplain for the Chicago Bears Organization from 2008- 2012.

In addition to his speaking profession, Ray is devoting his post football career to empowering youth, transforming lives, and making a difference one life and community at a time through his faith-based non-profit organization, A Ray of Hope on Earth. Ray puts on youth football camps for at risk, underserved youth, where he uses his platform professional football to share the love of Jesus. He and his team also run a mentoring program in Chicago working with approx. 80-100 middle school student weekly, and in partnership with the Global Leadership Summit, he does quarterly leadership summits designed invoke the leadership qualities within our urban middle school and high school students; activating them to take their leadership back to their campuses, communities, and eventually the entire city. Ray also served as the associate pastor of teaching and outreach at Central Christian Church in Beloit, WI. From 2019-2021 and is now in the process of starting a brand-new church on the West side of Chicago designed to reach traditionally unchurched people for Christ. If that isn’t enough, Ray partners with his wife Michelle McElroy on her newly developed venture

AIM; which stands for Activating Intentional Marriages. Through this initiative, Ray and Michelle uses their 28 years of marital experience, merging the psychological with the spiritual to coach couples in business, churches, and those in professional athletics; equipping them with the tools necessary to take their game to the next level relationally. Whether he is delivering an encouraging word at his church or on game day to NFL players,

speaking at school assemblies or youth programs, or challenging businesses on how to boldly go where they haven't been before, Ray is truly committed to delivering tangible, life-changing results to whomever he is front of.