John Amatt
Mountain Climber Motivational Speaker, Known As “The World’S Best Adventure Speaker”.
John Amatt is the perfect speaker to guide a team through the constantly changing and often tumultuous global economic environment. He was the leader of an Everest team that suffered four tragic deaths in two unpredictable accidents. His team ended with six climbers making it to the top of the world.
John tells audiences how the experience taught him of the dangers of falling into complacency and why you should always question the status quo. It also taught him to seek new paths in changing environments.
John, a native of Great Britain and a long-time resident of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is well known in the international mountaineering community for being the first to climb the 5,000-foot Vertical Mile Troll wall in Norway, which is Europe’s steepest and highest mountain face. He led early climbing expeditions to Western China, which included both camels and skis.
He is also the founder of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which is recognized as the world’s premiere showcase of adventure documentary films. His adventures are chronically in his autobiography, straight to the Top and Beyond. He used his adventures to create a nine-step approach to scaling today’s business environments and that is the focus of his presentations.
No Mountain too High: Challenging Change with the Adventure Attitude
An educator by training, John 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 challenging times. He uses his amazing storytelling ability and the power of metaphor to address the themes of goals and expectations, risk and adventure, embracing fear and anxiety, the value of commitment, and many more.
An educator by training, John 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 challenging times. He uses his amazing storytelling ability and the power of metaphor to address the themes of goals and expectations, risk and adventure, embracing fear and anxiety, the value of commitment, and many more.
Straight to the Top and Beyond: Nine Keys for Meeting the Challenge of Changing Times
By definition, adventure involves dealing with the uncertain, the unpredictable and the unknown, just as change involves moving towards a future in which there are no guarantees. To succeed in the uncertain world, we must learn to embrace change, and to become visionary and adventurous in dealing with the economic, social, and political environments in which we must all operate.
Climbing Your Own Everest
John Amatt’s most popular presentation explores the metaphor of striving to reach the top of the world. Illustrated by magnificent color photography from his successful expedition which climbed Everest, this presentation investigates the qualities we must all bring to bear in climbing to the top in the difficult and unpredictable economic environments.
Meeting the Challenge of Change
Designed as an in-house program, this thought provoking seminar has also been effectively integrated into annual meetings or conventions. Meeting the Challenge of Change will motivate your staff to embrace new opportunities in a changing world, to open up their minds to new realities, and to develop the “Adventure Attitude” strategies that will be the key to success in the future.
“This was the best presentation we have ever heard. The message was clear and all participants left as if they had climbed Everest that day, but more importantly, they now have a full understanding of what skills they need to climb their own mountains.”
Motorola Paging Products
“The feedback from everybody was very positive and very motivating. We all believe that your presentation came just at the right time as Shanghai demands to ‘meet the challenges of change’ on a daily basis.”
International Hoteliers Association of Shanghai
“You were FANTASTIC, POSITIVE, and MOTIVATIONAL. You were everything we expected you to be. The audience loved you and admired you and received you with great pride, as evidenced by the thunderous standing ovation.”
Million Dollar Round Table
“John’s colorful and personal presentation provided an excellent vehicle for focusing management and individual attitudes… (he) set the tone for delegates in aiming for the top, overcoming problems, anticipating needs, and the essentials of teamwork.”
Asian Sources Media Group
“Without qualification I can say that your presentation was the most dynamic ever given to an A.O.A. group in recent years. Your artful integration of the principles of leadership into your narration of your dramatic mountain climb was superb.”
American Optometric Association
“In view of restructuring we have just gone through and the changes in all our jobs, your comments and the details of your quest on Mount Everest could not have been more timely or appropriate.”
Eckerd Drug Company
“…I’ve heard a lot of great speakers in my career… you’re clearly one of the best! Simply outstanding! Finding a ‘better’ speaker for next year’s club will be a real challenge for me.”
The Limited Stores
“As we continue to attack our own ‘Everest’ daily, the parallels between your climb and our own were brought to light very vividly. Most of the people in the audience shared my opinion that this was our best effort in bridging our philosophies and ideas with an emotional speaker.”
Betz Process Chemicals
“I admit to not fully comprehending how we could apply your experiences endured in such extreme conditions to our own everyday lives. It is now clear that all work environments rely on that same team spirit to reach common goals, and I am truly grateful to you for imparting such learnt wisdom in a human and touching manner.”
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