Yossi Ghinsberg

Yossi Ghinsberg is an adventurer, bestselling author, and motivational speaker whose extraordinary survival story in the Bolivian Amazon has become one of the most powerful metaphors for resilience, adaptability, and the human will to overcome. His harrowing experience was dramatized in the 2017 film Jungle, starring Daniel Radcliffe, and featured on Discovery Channel’s I Shouldn’t Be Alive.

Three Weeks Lost and Alone in the Amazon

In 1981, the 22-year-old Israeli backpacker ventured into an uncharted part of the Amazon jungle in Bolivia. When his group split apart, Ghinsberg found himself lost and alone for three weeks, surviving without food or weapons through the worst rainy season in decades, enduring floods, near-drowning, and hallucinations before being miraculously rescued. Born and raised in Israel, he served three years in the Israeli Navy, studied philosophy and business administration at Tel Aviv University, and has spent a lifetime studying the religions and philosophies of diverse cultures.

The Power to Survive and Thrive Through Change

Ghinsberg has channeled his survival experience into a powerful keynote message about facing uncertainty and embracing change. His presentations take audiences on a journey rather than delivering a lecture, drawing on his Laws of the Jungle philosophy to teach that adversity is part of life but being a victim is a matter of choice. His keynotes address resilience, adaptability, leadership through uncertainty, and the power of the human spirit to survive and thrive in the most extreme circumstances.

The Power to Survive

“Adversity is part of life; being a victim is a matter of choice,” speaker Yossi Ghinsberg says. His amazing true story of survival is a timeless metaphor for how to face up to the challenges and uncertainties of everyday life. After being separated from his friends, Ghinsberg wandered lost and alone for three weeks in the heart of the Amazon. He somehow managed to survive without food or weapons and during what was the worst rainy season in decades, until he was miraculously saved. His message of fortitude and survival is always timely and always appropriate for any group, anywhere. He speaks to what it means to be human and shows us how we all possess the power to survive, even in the most extreme situations. His message is inspiring and hopeful, leaving his audiences uplifted and empowered.

Sailing the Seas of Change

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives or the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change,” Charles Darwin once wrote. A real-life example of this tenet, speaker Yossi Ghinsberg offers a keynote that delivers a journey, not just a lecture. He takes his audiences away from their everyday realities, offering them a different perspective on what change really is – and how to use it. Accepting change as a natural phenomenon is the basis of sanity; knowing how to flow with the change is the greatest of virtues. This is the most basic and relevant wisdom that can help us better manage our work and our lives. Ghinsberg explains how surrendering to the power of change doesn’t mean one is helpless or powerless. Individuals and organizations will always be faced with change. His insights help everyone see change in a positive way – not as an obstacle to be overcome, but an opportunity to be grasped.

The Laws of the Jungle

A master practitioner of corporate spirituality, speaker Yossi Ghinsberg introduces this pioneering work of incorporating principles and guidelines from nature, the natural world, the planet as a whole, and the cosmos into the management of our personal and professional lives. Audiences are intrigued by this unique cutting-edge thinking that provokes and challenges the conventional, suggesting an alternative outlook on life and a new path of action toward wellness and success. Empowering and encouraging, Ghinsberg’s “Laws of the Jungle” teaches us that we are the co-creators of this life; that assuming responsibility yields power; that what we resist persists; and that casting our vision upon the future forms a new path.