Alex Harris: Adventure Speaker
Alex Harris is an Explorer, record-holding endurance athlete and keynote speaker on resilience and leadership. Everest. The South Pole. The Empty Quarter on foot. Thirty years turning “impossible” into a plan.
Quick Facts:
- First African to walk unsupported to the South Pole.
- Led a pioneering unsupported crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter.
- Everest summiteer with extensive international mountaineering experience.
- Four-time Freedom Challenge winner and founder of The Munga.
Formats:
- Keynote presentations.
Audiences:
- Executive teams, business leaders, sales teams, professional associations, and organizations navigating demanding goals or change.
Outcomes:
- Examine how assumptions and decisions influence responses to difficult challenges.
- Identify manageable actions that build momentum toward ambitious goals.
- Recognize repeated behaviors that support resilience and sustained performance.
- Travels from: Dallas, TX
- **US Fee range: $10,000 - $15,000
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Keynote Topics:
Making the IM possible!
Facing Your Own Everest
Over a period of nine years Alex has spent 180 days on Mount Everest, leading teams in varying conditions before he finally succeeded summiting in 2005. Alex relates the trials and triumph of what it’s like to fight doubt and disbelief on the icy slopes of the world’s highest mountain, before finally tasting the sweetness of success.
Alex’s message is simple. Each one of us will one day face our own personal Everest. It might not be 8848ms of ice and snow, but whatever it is, our ability to overcome self-doubt and disbelief will allow us to taste success. Focusing on Passion, perseverance and that illusive thing called Purpose, this talk will change your perspective on what are the things that really challenge us.
The Commodity of Belief – the Fuel for Future High Performance
Alex has spent the last 20 years leading groups of executives and high performance teams on some of the world’s more challenging terrain; from the slopes of Kilimanjaro to the high plateau of Tibet and the wastelands of Antarctica. During this time he has noticed a very subtle but consistent theme. Irrespective of the challenge, the teams and individuals that have thrived and succeeded, and have consistently tasted success; have had one thing in common. Incredibly high levels of self-belief.
Alex describes the particulars of what gives these teams and individuals such high self-belief; from the process of ‘trading’ belief, like any other commodity, to creating and adding to a ‘belief pool’. Key to this process in understanding the concepts of positive and negative cycles of belief, and what we can do to shift from one to the other. Alex shares anecdotes and incredible pictures from the slopes of Everest to the icy cold of Antarctica to the desperate heart of the Arabian Desert.
This talk will empower you and give your team an unbeatable competitive edge. If you are wanting to know what the future differentiator is for high performance teams; it’s this. Self-belief and a set of skills to gradually increase your belief pool and make your competitors irrelevant!
Talent Short Bio
Alex Harris was the first African to walk unsupported to the South Pole. He has been on three Everest expeditions, leading two of them, climbed on all seven continents, and in 2013 led the first unsupported, unassisted crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter on foot. On a bike, he is the only person to finish the Freedom Challenge Race Across South Africa in under ten days, and has twice finished in the top five of the Tour Divide.
A sports psychology graduate, Alex turns three decades in the world’s harshest places into practical tools for performing under pressure. He has given more than 500 talks to audiences on five continents, for organizations including Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Deloitte.
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