Mountaineer & Motivational Speaker; Youngest British Woman to Summit Everest & Ski to the North Pole; Author of "The Girl Who Climbed Everest"
Bonita Norris Biography
Bonita Norris is a mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker known for her journey from novice climber to reaching the summit of Mount Everest and the North Pole. Norris became the youngest person to achieve both feats, having started her mountaineering career with no prior experience before age 20 and summiting Everest at 22. To support her expeditions, she secured nearly £50,000 in corporate sponsorship through outreach to British businesses.
Norris has climbed several 8,000-meter peaks, including Everest, Lhotse, and Manaslu, and skied to the North Pole. She attempted to become the first British woman to summit K2 and became the third British woman to reach the summit of Lhotse. Norris has raised funds for organizations such as Global Angels Foundation and Forces Children's Trust during her expeditions. Her achievements in adventure and mountaineering led to a nomination for Cosmopolitan's Woman of the Year Award.
In her memoir, "The Girl Who Climbed Everest," Norris discusses her experiences growing up with anxiety and an eating disorder, and how a university lecture on mountaineering inspired her to pursue climbing. The book details her expeditions and the lessons she learned about resilience, mindset, and courage. "The Girl Who Climbed Everest" has reached number one in the Amazon mountaineering and adventure chart.
Norris began sharing her experiences in schools and has since delivered more than 750 talks worldwide, addressing topics such as overcoming fear, performing under pressure, and personal development. She received the Best Speaker Storyteller honor at the Speaker Awards in London. Norris emphasizes the philosophy of "success by smallness," focusing on incremental progress to achieve significant goals in high-altitude mountaineering and beyond. Her insights continue to resonate with audiences in the adventure, leadership, and motivational speaking sectors.
Bonita Norris Speaking Topics
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Mountains of the Mind - Inspiring Teams to Reach New Heights
To perform under pressure, we need to find daily resilience, motivation and confidence.
In Mountains of the Mind, Bonita Norris shares how we can achieve extraordinary feats when we take responsibility for our inner world and learn how not to let excuses, limiting beliefs and fears define how we show up for our goals, our teams and ourselves.
This immersive keynote is packed with actionable takeaways that audiences can implement immediately, leaving them motivated and inspired to conquer their own Everest.
Keynote Messages:
- Success by Smallness : If you want to solve big problems, focus on solving small ones
- Focus Not Fret: A formula for fearlessness that builds confidence and resilience
- Be Great, Make Others Great: Understanding what matters when building a great team culture
Audiences Will Learn:
- To be more fearless and tackle daily challenges with confidence
- How to become more connected as a team
- To fearlessly set big goals for themselves, and trust the process of incremental gains
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In The Death Zone: How To Utilize Fear To Achieve Success
We all hate making mistakes, and nobody wants to fail.
Yet, if we want to achieve extraordinary goals then both mistakes and failure are inevitable parts of the journey to success.
In this immersive keynote, Bonita Norris shares her own personal story of how a simple mistake in the mountains led to a failure that she initially struggled to mentally recover from, until she understood that failure could be, and then later became, the catalyst for even greater success.
Keynote messages:
- Growth Mindset
- Learning From Failure
Audiences will learn:
- That failure and success are often part of the same journey
- How to transform weaknesses into strengths and failure into success
- How to take a proactive and compassionate approach to learning from mistakes within a team
- How to have the courage to follow their own paths, even when competitors go in a different direction
Bonita Norris Videos
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Bonita Norris is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Mountains of the Mind - Inspiring Teams to Reach New Heights, In The Death Zone: How To Utilize Fear To Achieve Success and Data Over Dogma: How Data Made The First Ascent Of Everest Possible . The estimated speaking fee range to book Bonita Norris for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Bonita Norris generally travels from London, UK and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are David Snow, Jan Reynolds, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, Adriana Brownlee and Ema Dantas. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Bonita Norris for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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