Maybe the world is changing faster than your team can keep up with. Maybe the playbook that got you here has stopped working and you’re not sure why. Maybe you’ve hit the goal you’ve been chasing for years — and the next one feels impossibly far away…
Not from a chair in a boardroom. From a bicycle seat in Siberia, wondering what on earth I’d signed up for.
If you could have met me straight out of university, you wouldn’t have thought I was the adventurous type.
I was a geography teacher and not a particularly exceptional one at that.
A friend invited me on my first big adventure – the one that began in Siberia – and for some reason, I answered the call.
There was no movie montage where I drank raw eggs and worked out until I had washboard abs. There was a lot of sweating, panic, and thoughts of backing out.
But for some reason, I didn’t. I joined my friend, and we faced deadly winter conditions in Siberia, not because I particularly wanted to but because there was no other way home.
Including Siberian ice, the jungles of Papua New Guinea, and the monstrous sand dunes of the “Desert of Death” (the Taklamakan desert), and more, I’ve traveled more than 70,000 km of this planet going only the speed my bicycle or my feet could take me.
And strangely, that is when the real adventure began. I met my wife Christine, raised over $100,000 USD for charity, and started a family. Along the way, I learned that the adventures of “real” life can be just as grand and daunting as the epic, death-defying ones.
For more than 15 years, I’ve spoken at leadership conferences, corporate events and company offsites around the world, as well as appearing on National Geographic, BBC, and multiple TEDx stages. I’ve shared how the mindsets needed to survive journeys through earth’s harshest conditions is the exact same one needed to navigate work and life in a world that never stops changing.
Today, I deliver motivational keynote presentations for organisations around the world, helping leaders and teams build resilience, adaptability and a growth mindset through unforgettable adventure stories.
Whether you’re leading a team through change, navigating uncertainty, or pursuing ambitious goals, we all face moments when the path ahead is unclear. That’s when we need to think like an adventurer.
I’d be honored to share my story with you, but even more importantly, I’d love to be just a small part of your journey.
We all need the encouragement and skills that help us build the resilience, confidence, and agility we need to thrive in the face of the unknown.
I can’t walk your path for you, but I can help you find a way forward – or create one for yourself.
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Leadership conferences worldwide
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