TODD’S BIO

Klematis Klematis Klematis

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • World record holder for climbing the highest elevation of each state in shortest time–beat able bodied record by 35 days as a leg amputee
  • Author More Than Mountains: The Todd Huston Story
  • Featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, a second helping.
  • Featured in True Tales of the Mountains.
  • Awarded Ten Outstanding Young Americans 1999.
  • Awarded Everyday Hero Award by American Red Cross 1999.
  • Awarded Ten Outstanding Young Tulsans 1997.
  • Awarded Henry Iba Award for citizen athlete of the year 1997.
  • Selected as Distinguished Oklahoman in 2002.
  • Awarded Class Act Award from Phillips Petroleum.
  • Awarded Memorial High School Hall of Fame (Tulsa).
  • Elected City Councilor for Tulsa, OK in 2000.
  • Patented inventor of prosthetic device.
  • Featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, TBN, C-SPAN, Inside Edition, Extra, Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power and many other televised programs.
  • In hundreds of articles including, Sports Illustrated, L.A Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes.
  • International speaker who has performed from Australia to Bosnia and throughout the United States.
  • Hired by schools to do programs of personal responsibility for school-children teaching, honesty, citizenship, caring, responsibility and respect.

EDUCATIONAL / PROFESSIONAL

  • Masters in Counseling Psychology, graduated Magna Cum Laude, Certificate of Leadership Bachelors of Science in Business Administration, concentration in finance.
  • Financial Advisor – Series 7 Licensed.
  • President Huston Resources, Inc. 1994 to present.
  • Vice President Amputee Resource Foundation of America, Inc. 1999 to present.
  • Elected CEO Tulsa Christian Business Alliance.
  • Prior work included clinical director of Amputee Resource Center; psychiatric assistant to psychiatric hospitals; child, adolescent and family therapy.