Sep 23 2011
John Amatt
Everest Expedition Leader, Author & President of One Step Beyond WorldWide
John Amatt is an expert on change management, motivation and teamwork. He is Founder & President of One Step Beyond WorldWide, an innovative educational and motivational company. He was leader of an early climbing expedition to Western China, perhaps the highest peak in the world to have been ascended and descended entirely on skis.
Described as “The World’s Best Adventure Speaker”
A native of Great Britain, for the past 35 years John has been a resident of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He is the Founder of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, widely recognized as the world’s premiere showcase of adventure documentary films and member of the Advisory Board of the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture. He is renowned in the international mountaineering community for making the first ever climb of Europe’s highest and steepest mountain face – the 5000 foot “Vertical Mile” Troll Wall in Norway. More recently, he was the principal organizer and a leader of Canada’s first successful expedition to reach the top of the world – the 29,035 foot summit of Mount Everest – a climb that was televised live throughout Canada and on ABC Nightline in the United States.[/expand]
John Amatt is the perfect speaker to assist your team in navigating through the turmoil of today’s global economic crisis. His mission is to encourage people to push beyond self-imposed limitations, to be more personally accountable for the results of their own actions, and to embrace effective teamwork by valuing the contributions of others. He has spoken to over 1,800 corporate and professional organizations representing audiences of nearly a million people in 46 countries world wide.[/expand]
John Amatt is a team player with a reputation for professionalism and cooperation, consistently delivering ‘the goods’. He motivates and inspires using anecdotes from his expeditions to remote regions and previously unclimbed peaks.[/expand]
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Topics
No Mountain too High
Climbing Your Own Everest: What it Takes to Get to the Top
Straight to the Top and Beyond: Nine Keys for Meeting the Challenge of Changing Times
Teamwork
Leadership
Publications
2011
Troll Wall – The Untold Story of the British First Ascent of Europe’s Tallest Rock Face
2000
Voices from the Summit: The World’s Great Mountaineers on the Future of Climbing
1995
Straight to the Top and Beyond: Nine Keys for Meeting the Challenge of Changing Times
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