Jamie Clarke

Jamie Clarke has summited Mount Everest twice, crossed the Arabian Desert’s Empty Quarter on foot, and built successful businesses, making him one of the most accomplished adventurer-entrepreneurs on the speaking circuit. He works with elite teams who win, from Olympic and NHL teams to corporate sales and leadership teams seeking to reach their own summits.

Adventures That Teach Leadership

Clarke’s expeditions have taken him to the most extreme environments on earth, including two successful ascents of Mount Everest and a 1,200-kilometer crossing of the Arabian Desert’s Empty Quarter, one of the most forbidding landscapes on the planet. His hard-won philosophy of decision-making in extremes and a storytelling technique that captivates audiences from the first moment provide a powerful library of lessons on goal achievement, teamwork, staying committed through setbacks, and the preparation required to reach seemingly impossible objectives.

Reaching Your Own Summit

Clarke’s presentations translate the lessons of extreme adventure into practical frameworks for business performance and personal achievement at any level. His keynotes deliver powerful presentations on setting audacious goals and achieving them through preparation and perseverance, teamwork and trust in high-stakes environments, learning from failure and staying committed through setbacks, and the expedition mindset that drives extraordinary results in any field.

The Map is Not the Terrain: Charting a New Course for Leadership

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.

This program is more than 30 years in the making. It 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. In his visually stunning and always charismatic and inspiring style, audiences will learn how to:

• Adapt to forces outside of one’s control.
• Uphold one’s mission despite the unknowns and the lack of perfect information.
• Learn from failure quickly and adjust your plans in real-time.
• Conquer fear through focus and practice.
• Reframe leadership through the lenses of trust, humility, reliance, inclusion and empathy.

Everyone starts at ZERO: Selling and the Mindset Reset

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 Clarke 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.

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:

• Performing your best when it matters most
• The shift required to get the grunt work done
• Conquering fear through focus
• Building a resilient, winning mindset