Steve Riach
Steve Riach is an award-winning filmmaker, best-selling author, speaker, and subject matter expert in cultural issues. He is also the founder of a national nonprofit that is transforming the lives of underserved youth.
Steve is the producer, and co-writer, of the soon to be released feature film, ONE HEART, based on a dramatic true Texas story.
As a producer, writer, and director, Steve’s films and television programs have been distributed worldwide, as well as through ESPN, FOX Sports, NBC, and a variety of broadcast, digital platforms, and cable television outlets.
He has produced content around the Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series, NBA and NCAA Championships, NASCAR, major golf tournaments and college football Bowl Games; and has worked with legendary sports figures such as Joe Gibbs, Reggie White, Tom Landry, John Wooden and Pete Maravich.
For the past 30 years, he has produced and directed The Bart Starr Award live on the site of the Super Bowl. He was the story producer on the groundbreaking 2018 Amazon Prime series All or Nothing: The Michigan Wolverines.
As an author, Steve has written 18 books, including the bestseller, Amazing but True Sports Stories.
He is the founder of the One Heart Project, a national nonprofit devoted to providing youthful offenders and underserved youth with the tools, skills and healthy relationships necessary to experience a true second chance in life.
Steve also created Heart of a Champion, a personal development and social and emotional intelligence training system, that has produced dramatic success with Fortune 500 companies, schools, sports teams and other audiences.
The success of these initiatives has led to Steve being honored at the White House and testifying before the United States congress.
From a multi-generational real estate family, he is also a principal in two real estate companies, with a primary focus on retail properties in Texas and California.
A cancer survivor and a former college baseball player at the University of the Pacific, Steve speaks to conference audiences, universities, corporate groups and churches. He and his family reside in Colleyville, Texas.