Amanda Lindhout
Amanda Lindhout isn’t just another resilience speaker. She survived 460 days as a hostage in Somalia and turned that experience into tools for leaders and teams navigating a fast-c...
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Adventurers & Explorers
Adventurer Speakers captivate audiences with tales of resilience, risk, and discovery. Whether they’ve summited the world’s tallest peaks, crossed oceans, or explored the extremes of human potential, these speakers know...
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Matthew Corkum
Matthew Corkum is a dynamic and passionate keynote speaker who fearlessly tackles difficult topics. He embodies a lifelong drive to excel in diverse settings, despite living with c...
Dr. David Suzuki
Dr. David Suzuki has made it his life’s work to help humanity understand, appreciate, respect and protect nature. A scientist, broadcaster, author, and co-founder of the David Suzu...
Warren McDonald
Warren Mcdonald’s life’s boundaries were redefined in April 1997 with his accident on North Queensland’s (Australia) Hinchinbrook Island. Climbing to the Island’s tallest peak, he...
Lucas Arsenault
Lucas Arsenault is a resilience speaker and former professional athlete whose life changed in a matter of seconds. While snorkeling on vacation, a shark attacked Lucas and turned a...
Steve Joordens
Professor Steve Joordens is an award-winning psychologist, educator, and global innovator passionate about learning and organizational transformation. As a Professor of Psychology...
Adam Kreek
Adam Kreek is one of North America’s leading leadership speakers and executive coaches. He trains and mentors leaders at Amazon, Microsoft, Pfizer, Shell, GE, Mercedes-Benz, L’Oréa...
Seb Terry
Based in Venice, California, Seb Terry is an Australian entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker known for his infectious passion for life. His journey, centered around his famous...
Cameron Atlas
As a leading authority on adaptability, resilience & continuous improvement, Cameron Atlas has spent the past 15 years helping organizations, leaders, and teams break through limit...
Robyn Benincasa
Robyn Benincasa is a World Champion Adventure Racer and a full-time San Diego Firefighter. For decades, she has competed in grueling, multi-day endurance events in the most remote...
Jaclyn Whittal
Jaclyn Whittal has been forecasting and reporting on the most extreme weather across North America for 12 years. She has stood in front of the world’s largest ever recorded tornado...
Robin Esrock
Robin Esrock’s career as a global adventurer, award-winning travel writer, bestselling author, and international TV host began with an unexpected twist. After a bike accident left...
Colin Angus
Colin Angus is a fearless adventurer, bestselling author and Canadian filmmaker. He was awarded National Geographic’s Adventurer of the Year award for being the first to circle the...
Dr. Roberta Bondar
The world’s first neurologist in space, Dr. Roberta Bondar is globally recognized for her pioneering contributions to space medicine research, fine art photography and environmenta...
Julie Angus
Julie Angus is an accomplished adventurer, scientist and bestselling author of Rowboat in a Hurricane, Rowed Trip and Olive Odyssey. She is the first woman to row across the Atlant...
Jean-François Carrey
Jean-François Carrey found himself at a crossroads at just 17, uncertain about his future. Little did he know that a year later; while traveling in Nepal, he would lay eyes on the...
Urs Koenig
Urs Koenig is a bestselling author, one of the world’s leading experts on humble leadership, a former UN peacekeeper and NATO peacekeeping commander, a highly accomplished ultraend...
Tanya McCready
Tanya McCready, co-founder of Winterdance Dogsled Tours, has built a life centered around adventure, leadership, and the wilderness. Twenty-five years ago, Tanya and her husband Ha...
Mike Shoreman
Recently recognized by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the House of Commons, Mike Shoreman is the first athlete with disabilities to cross all five Great Lakes. Through...
Gregory Robinson
A 33-year veteran of NASA, Gregory Robinson is the former director of the $10 billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope (Webb). With 100 times more power than its predecessor, the...
Ricky Forbes
Ricky is the driver for one of North America’s best professional storm chasing teams, and star of the hit show Tornado Hunters. Additionally, he has hosted “Woods’ Canada’s Greates...
George Kourounis
George Kourounis travels to the most remote and inhospitable corners of the Earth to document the extremes of nature. An award-winning explorer, one of the best-known storm chasers...
Dr. Wade Davis
Wade Davis is a Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 2000 and 2013, he served as...
Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Severn Cullis-Suzuki gained international attention at the age of 12. She delivered her famous speech at the Rio Earth Summit. There, she pleaded for delegates to preserve the plan...
Jamie Clarke
Jamie Clarke works with elite teams who win: Olympic teams, NHL teams, sales teams, leadership teams, and start-up teams. What connects them all is pressure. With his own hard-won...
Genevieve von Petzinger
Genevieve von Petzinger is a Canadian paleoanthropologist, author and explorer. She is one of the world’s leading experts on Ice Age art and the origins of graphic communication. G...
Erik Brown
Erik Brown is the Founder of Hydronauts Diving, a premier recreational and technical diving school in Koh Tao, Thailand. In 2018, he was the only North American diver involved in t...
Mohamed Fahmy
Mohamed Fahmy is an award-winning Egyptian-Canadian war reporter, journalist, author and human rights activist. He spent most of his career covering conflict zones and some of the...
Chris Bashinelli
Chris “Bash” Bashinelli is a former television actor who left the industry to pursue a more meaningful path. He is the executive producer and host of “Bridge the Gap” on PBS and th...
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