Colin O Brady: Motivational Adventurer
Endurance athlete and world-record-breaking motivational speaker Colin O’Brady empowers audiences with high-performance strategies, resilience frameworks, and actionable insights drawn from redefining human limits.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- First person to cross Antarctica solo, unsupported, and unassisted
- World-record holder for the Explorer’s Grand Slam and Seven Summits completion speed
- Completed the 50 High Points Challenge across all U.S. states in record time
- Bestselling author of The Impossible First
- Formats: High-Performance, Resilience, and Human Potential Keynote Speaker
- Audiences: Corporate teams, leadership groups, sales organizations, athletic programs, associations, universities, and events focused on mindset, performance, grit, and transformational inspiration.
- Outcomes:
- Tangible, repeatable strategies for building resilience and navigating adversity with clarity and purpose.
- High-performance mindset tools drawn from extreme-environment decision-making.
- Renewed motivation to stretch beyond perceived limits and embrace bold personal and professional challenges.A
- Travels from: Jackson, WY
- **Fee range: On Request
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Keynote Topics:
What’s Your Everest?
Goal Setting and Overcoming Obstacles
Striving to reach the next level? What is it that holds you or your team back? What’s your Mt. Everest and what stands in the way of you achieving it? What is the motivation you need to high perform? These are the questions that many of us struggle with at work and in our personal lives.
Colin will bring you and your team on his harrowing journey from being told he might never walk normally again to breaking two world records no one believed he could. He will inspire, amaze, and energize your audience, empowering them to discover and define what their personal Everest is and share the tools they will need to conquer it.
Be Possible
Change Your Mindset and Achieve Anything
There is a quote Colin continually shares, “He who says he can, and he who says he can’t are both usually right.” In order to build high functioning team, high performing leaders and increase the performance of your workforce, it always starts with mindset. Colin has been on adventures that have taken him around the world to some of the most remote and harsh environments on the planet.
But at every step, Colin was confronted with hardships, both internal and external, and it was in the face of that adversity, he found that the impossible was possible. This keynote isn’t about the achievements of Colin, but instead it shows how ordinary people have the capacity to do extraordinary things. Find out what it takes to be a leader, to overcome self-doubt and closed-mindedness to reach peak performance, and how anything is possible if you set your mind to it.
Stronger Together
Harnessing Leadership and Collaboration
Colin O’Brady’s whole life has lead him to world record success. And at no point along the way was he truly by himself on his journey – whether he was walking across the unpredictable frozen tundra of Antarctica or taking his first step to walk after a tragic accident, he always had a team supporting his efforts.
Colin knows that in order to succeed, it takes a high performing team that understands how to work together and seamlessly conquer the challenges that are sure to arise along the way.
In this talk, you will learn how to build effective teams and strengthen the ones that already exist. Colin dives deeper into business principles by illuminating the benefits of teamwork, team building, leadership, and risk management to ultimately achieve success at the top of the world on the summit of Mt. Everest and the bottom of the world in Antarctica.
Talent Short Bio
Colin O’Brady is a pioneering adventurer, elite endurance athlete, and bestselling author whose world-record expeditions have redefined what is possible for the human body and mind. Best known as the first person in history to complete the solo, unsupported, and unassisted crossing of Antarctica, Colin has become a globally recognized voice on resilience, mindset, and peak performance. His achievements span some of the most challenging feats ever attempted, including summiting the Seven Summits, reaching both poles in the Explorer’s Grand Slam, and completing the 50 High Points Challenge across all U.S. states in record time.
Colin’s path to becoming one of the world’s foremost adventure athletes began after a life-threatening accident left doctors warning he may never walk normally again. Through determination, discipline, and an unwavering belief in human potential, he made a full recovery and transformed his adversity into a springboard for extraordinary achievement. With a degree in Economics from Yale, Colin blends analytical thinking with experiential wisdom, offering audiences practical, repeatable frameworks for improving performance in high-stress situations.
His bestselling book, The Impossible First, chronicles his historic Antarctica expedition and has inspired readers around the world.
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Colin O’Brady is a world-record-breaking endurance athlete and a pioneering force in adventure and motivation. Known for his awe-inspiring achievements, including becoming the first person to cross Antarctica solo, unsupported, and unassisted, Colin captivates audiences worldwide with his story of courage, resilience, and pushing human potential beyond limits.
With his keynote speaking engagements, he doesn’t just recount his adventures; he translates them into actionable insights that empower individuals and organizations to redefine their own boundaries. Colin’s journey from a life-threatening accident to an elite athlete and motivational leader has inspired millions, making him one of the most sought-after speakers in the realm of human performance and adventure.
Beyond his physical achievements, Colin’s experience extends to his philanthropic efforts. Through his non-profit, Beyond 7/2, he supports youth and community initiatives, further demonstrating his commitment to creating lasting impact beyond the stage. These experiences collectively establish Colin as more than an athlete; he’s a mentor, teacher, and pioneer in the field of human potential, qualified by years of pushing boundaries and advocating for the power of resilience.
His keynote sessions are more than motivational—they’re transformational, equipping audiences with the tools to overcome adversity and unlock their potential. Event planners can trust that Colin will deliver an inspiring message grounded in real-life triumphs.
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