<p>Business IS an adventure—and mountain-climber and entrepreneur Jamie Clarke walks audiences through how to succeed in reaching their own unique Everest.</p><p>From world-renowned adventurer to CEO to sought-after performance coach, Jamie Clarke has built and led strong teams, navigated high-pressure landscapes, and overcome setbacks in order to achieve success. Now he inspires organizations and individuals to brave their own Everest with memorable insights and actionable strategies on leadership, risk management, and defining and achieving goals.</p><p>Drawing from his years as an elite mountain-climber, Jamie shares enthralling stories like reaching the Everest summit twice—but only after his first two attempts were cut short by deadly storms. Determined and dedicated, he reached his goal in 1997 and 2010. Jamie is also one of a handful of people in the world to hold the rare accomplishment of climbing the Seven Summits. Always one for new adventures, Jamie rode camels across the Empty Quarter of Arabia, and motorbiked across Mongolia with his son.</p><p>Jamie also relays the lessons he learned as CEO of a successful mountaineer clothing e-commerce business—as well as his experience as a performance coach for Olympians, the NFL, Hockey Canada and the 2018 Stanley Cup-winning Washington Capitals. Jamie also offers insights garnered from his current role as fellow and associate professor at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne Business school, where he teaches and mentors in the Centre for Advanced Leadership.</p><p>With humor and high energy, Jamie provides his proven keys to scaling the heights: thorough planning and preparation, understanding risk management, and creating an honest and authentic culture in your team. He inspires organizations and individuals to set high goals, overcome their obstacles, and remain passionate in their entrepreneurial adventures. </p>
Extreme Adventurer; Entrepreneur; Performance Coach and Professor of Leadership
<ul><li><strong>The Map is Not the Terrain: Charting a New Course for Leadership</strong></li><li>Jamie Clarke knows a lot about leadership and uncertainty. He has spent his entire adult life embracing the unknown. From his days as a world-renowned adventure leader and elite climber to becoming a successful business builder and professional sports consultant to a Stanley Cup-winning hockey team, Jamie has navigated countless high pressure and challenging landscapes. Even though teams and individuals consistently ignore this certainty, Jamie knows it: Uncertainty leads to indecision. Indecision leads to fear. Fear leads to chaos. Chaos ends in failure. Always.</li><li>This program takes you inside the mindset and the leadership qualities that build team cultures that don’t shrink from uncertainty. Instead, they succeed when others fail. What to do when your old map no longer works? These cultures are everything from teams of business professionals, expeditions struggling to survive negative 70 degree blizzards in the death zone of 25,000 feet, or professional sports teams finding their collective way to break through past failures and become champions. With an infectious sense of humor and palpable, authentic passion, Jamie challenges his audiences to think differently about success, failure, hard work and fear. </li><li><strong>Above All Else: The Power of Passion</strong></li><li>With humor and palpable passion, Jamie Clarke challenges audiences to think differently about success, failure, passion, hard work and fear, as he shares insight from his journeys scaling the world’s highest mountains, trekking through the most dangerous places and starting his own successful retail business. Perfect for audiences seeking expertise on risk-taking, project management, and team building, Clarke’s customized presentations deliver powerful perspective on learning from failure, the art of grunt work, conquering fear through focus, and above all—living life with passion.</li><li><strong>Everyone starts at ZERO: Selling and the Mindset Reset</strong></li><li>Jamie Clarke gets it. He gets how to grab an audience of sales professionals, pull it in and keep it with him for every word, laugh, metaphor and lesson. With an infectious charisma, relatable humor and a feel-it-in-your-shoes passion, Jamie challenges sales audiences to think differently about success, drive, failure, hard work and fear. No matter your past successes, be it summiting Everest or setting new sales records, everyone at one point has to start all over again. And prove it again. To start at ZERO. Again.</li><li>This captivating program on regrouping and starting over from zero, shares hard-earned insights from his journeys scaling our world’s highest mountains, trekking through its most dangerous places and then creating and managing his own adventure outfitters business. Jamie Clarke is the perfect speaker for sales kick-off events seeking a fresh spark and an actionable blueprint for sharpening risk-taking and mindset. Clarke’s customized presentations deliver powerful take-away lessons on: <ul><li>Performing your best when it matters most</li><li>The shift required to get the grunt work done</li><li>Conquering fear through focus</li><li>Building a resilient, winning mindset</li></ul></li></ul>