<p>Drawing on lessons learned summiting the world’s highest mountains, Scott Kress illustrates how those same skills can help you conquer any challenge and achieve peak performance.</p>
<p>As one of America’s top leadership and team development trainers and scholars, Scott knows a thing or two about achieving – and surpassing – personal and professional milestones. With more than 25 years leading climbing expeditions and success in conquering the world’s most famous mountains, he is the 51st Canadian to summit Mount Everest and one of less than 300 people worldwide to climb the Seven Summits. As president of Summit Team Building, he helps others use those same skills to achieve peak performance in life and business.</p>
<p>Drawing on years of mountaineering experience, a captivating style of story-telling, and consummate knowledge of leadership and training, Scott is uniquely qualified to deliver some of the most innovative corporate experiential based training available. With an eye on the relevant challenges that organizations and their teams face today, he gives audiences the tools and inspiration they need to envision the big picture, meet new challenges with zeal, and reach new heights.</p>
Mountaineer & Leadership Expert
<ul><li><strong>Learning in Thin Air</strong></li><li>In Scott’s gripping presentation, you will discover how the many skills used in climbing may be applied to summit your own personal mountains in business and in life. Through inspiring personal stories of triumph, challenge, determination and even failure, Scott shows audiences that we are all climbers of our own mountains. By rising to the challenge of change and continuous improvement, he demonstrates how lessons of life in the mountains are directly applicable to any organization’s challenges.</li><li><strong>Achieve the Outrageous</strong></li><li>Are you striving to achieve something truly outrageous? Learn from someone who has been there and done that.</li><li>Scott Kress is a masterful storyteller, an author, a leadership and team building expert, a former Executive MBA and EMBA Professor and a life-long adventurer. He is the 51st Canadian to summit Mount Everest, and the 18th Canadian to climb the highest peak on each of the 7 continents.</li><li>In the pursuit of bigger and bigger goals, Scott and three partners skied unsupported from the coast of Antarctica 960km to the South Pole; one of the most difficult journeys on earth. Along with this achievement comes Scott's keynote, “Achieve the Outrageous”. In this presentation, Scott will share the story of his punishing 44-day expedition across some of the most hostile ground on the planet and punctuate it with learning and application.</li><li><strong>Conquering Everest</strong></li><li>This highly interactive program combines the best of a motivational keynote and a fun team building program. At 8850m Everest is the tallest mountain on earth and one of the most sought after mountaineering goals. Your team will have a chance to embark on a simulated ascent of this extraordinary mountain. Participants will work together to form as a team, to create a vision of success and to make critical decisions that will lead them to the top.</li></ul>