John Amatt

"No Mountain Too High"

"The challenge of change is forcing us to rethink our values and to rekindle our spirit of adventure.  It will take courage, resourcefulness and endurance to meet this challenge - the courage to try, to commit and to take more risks; the resourcefulness to be innovative and creative in finding new ways of doing old things; and the endurance to keep moving forward despite all the setbacks."
                                                            
John Amatt knows about tough times and the value of struggle in bringing out the best in teams of people! After all, he was a leader of an Everest expedition, which suffered four tragic deaths in two unpredictable accidents before putting six climbers on top of the world. His experience on Everest taught him about the danger of falling into the trap of complacency and the importance of always questioning the status quo in seeking new ways of adapting to a rapidly changing world. John's mission in going to Everest was to place one of his team on top of the world's highest mountain. In his own words  "It didn't matter who reached the summit, because we believed that when one person stood on the highest point, the whole team had achieved the goal". 
  
A superb storyteller, John has delivered highly motivational presentations to more than 2,000 audiences in 48 countries on 6 continents worldwide.  After a career of 30 years, he is one of the world's most successful adventure speakers. An educator by training, he uses the lessons learned from his own life-and-death adventures in the world's most remote places to articulate down-to-earth strategies for meeting the challenges of change in corporate and professional life.
  
John is the Founding Director of the world-renowned Banff Mountain Film Festival, Founder and President of One Step Beyond WorldWide, and has been called "The World's Best Adventure Speaker".  In his acclaimed keynote presentations, he uses the power of metaphor and storytelling to address the following themes:
   
        - Setting Realistic Goals and Expectations
        - Taking Calculated Risk and Being Adventurous
        - Embracing Fear and Anxiety
        - Taking Calculated Risks and Being Adventurous
        - Avoiding the "Trap of Complacency"   
        - Understanding the Values of Commitment
        - Learning from Setbacks and Applying the Lessons 
        - Questioning the Status Quo by always asking "WHY?"
        - Building Trust within an Effective Team   
        - Remaining "Positively Dissatisfied"
        - Anticipating the Future and Being Prepared 
       
                                             "Adventure isn't hanging on a rope on the side of a mountain.
    Adventure is an ATTITUDE that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles of life - facing new challenges, seizing new      
       opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and, in the process, discovering our own unique potential",
                                                                                                                                                                    - John Amatt

Client Ovations: After attending the John Amatt's presentation to the Cairo chapter of YPO ... I appreciate how one has to make decisions under a sharp edge and ultimately realize that team work is how it all works out. John's talk is narrated with the same enthusiasm as if it were only yesterday that he mounted Everest and his wisdom in using metaphor to relate his experience to business and all situations of life is just fantastic.

Cairo YPO

We would like hereby to attest that Mr John Amatt made on September 21st a presentation to the Casablanca YPO Chapter on the subject "Straight to the Top and Beyond ". It was indeed a great experience to attend John Amatt 's talk . How his own experience as an adventurer and climber can be applied to the present turbulent business environment was of great value and he is a very gifted storyteller. We strongly recommend him as a keynote speaker.

Casablanca YPO

John Amatt is a modern adventurer who can not only spin a great yarn, but who possesses the rare knack of turning his journeys into universal revelations that guide his readers and listeners on how to survive and prosper in the global village."

Peter C. Newman, Best-selling Author & Award Winning Business Journalist

One veteran senior executive described your presentation as the best he had ever heard.

American Express