Youngest British Woman to Conquer Mount Everest & Reach the North Pole; Adventurer, Motivational Speaker & Author of "The Girl Who Climbed Everest";
Bonita Norris Biography
Bonita Norris is the youngest person ever to reach both the summit of Mount Everest and the North Pole.
She has successfully climbed multiple 8,000m peaks including - Everest (8,849m), Lhotse (8,516m), Manaslu (8,163m) and attempted to become the first British woman to successfully climb K2 (8,611m).
In just two years, Norris went from having never climbed to becoming the youngest British woman to ever climb Mount Everest.
Norris’s keynote speech - "Mountains of the Mind" - helps galvanize and motivate teams to achieve their seemingly impossible goals through the delivery key lessons on topics such as teamwork, courage, resilience and mindset.
Since 2010, Norris has delivered over 750 speeches to clients including: Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, HSBC, Pfizer, BlackStone, Rolex, GSK, Astra Zeneca.
She is the bestselling author of "The Girl Who Climbed Everest."
She previously presented both live and recorded TV shows for RedBull Cliff Diving.
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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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What topics does Bonita Norris speak about?
Bonita Norris is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Adventure, Adventure, Author, Climbing, European Heritage, Inspirational, Motivational, Sports Motivation, Storytelling -
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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 $10,000 - $20,000. 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 Jan Reynolds, David Snow, Ed Viesturs, Wendy Booker and Silvia Vasquez-Lavado. 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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