Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/26/2024.
Work, life, and mountain climbing always include change, challenge, and uncertainty. From his four decades of adventures around the globe, Jim Davidson shares hard-won wisdom about forging resilience, encountering setbacks, and still achieving high goals.
In this riveting keynote, Jim shares his real-world survival experiences of:
Your attendees will learn practical lessons on how they can:
Jim will inspire your team to be ready and resilient for the challenges and opportunities ahead. Keynote is 30 to 75 minutes. Offered live or virtual.
Many businesspeople feel overwhelmed by global changes, resource challenges, and market uncertainties. All of these, combined with high client expectations, can create fatigue, stress, or burnout. To keep climbing these mountains of change, professionals need to elevate their resilience.
From his 42 years of high-altitude climbing experiences (including Everest), expedition leader Jim Davidson shares field-tested tips for building a resilient mindset. He shares practical tips and techniques on how your team can:
In this compelling keynote, Jim reveals resilient teamwork and leadership techniques for:
NOTE: This keynote connects especially well with fiscal services organizations and high-level sales teams. Since 2006, Jim has spoken to hundreds of such teams, both nationally and internationally, because the traits that make great high-altitude climbers also make excellent sales professionals. Keynote is 30 to 60 minutes. Offered live or virtual.
As an expedition leader, Jim has encountered many intense teamwork and leadership challenges. During remote climbs and rescues, the pressure increases, uncertainty grows, and team dynamics can become strained. High-performing organizations face these same teamwork and leadership conditions in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing world.
By examining real-world mountain rescues, that Jim has conducted, he facilitates an invigorating, interactive workshop that has your team working together to resolve complex leadership and teamwork challenges. Some of the difficult rescues that Jim has been on include:
In this hands-on session, Jim uses engaging storytelling and powerful visuals to bring these amazing experiences to life for your attendees. Then, he guides the participants to analyze the situation and distill crucial resilience lessons that they can use to be better team members and leaders. Your team will:
This engaging workshop includes interactive modules with small-group discussion, large-group facilitation, and individual self-reflection. Jim’s well-refined process enhances mutual understanding and relationship-building among work colleagues. Each person walks away with an individual written self-analysis and specific ways that they can enhance their resilience at work or home.
Also, by recording all the key traits identified during the discussions, the process distills your team's collective ideas on what makes a resilient team member and a resilient leader. This critical insight can be used later in internal communications and for enhancing corporate culture.
Attendees vigorously engage with the process because these are real challenges (not board games or simulations). Jim regularly facilitates this energizing program for top-quality organizations like Marriott, Credit Suisse, US Army, Kia Motors, and many more. Interactive workshop is 1.5 to 4 hours.
Jim Davidson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as EVEREST RESILIENCE: Overcoming Adversity and Reaching High Goals, CLIMBING MOUNTAINS OF CHANGE: Elevating Your Team’s Resilience and RESILIENT TEAMWORK AND RESILIENT LEADERSHIP. The estimated speaking fee range to book Jim Davidson for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Jim Davidson generally travels from Fort Collins, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Amelia Rose Earhart, Rudy Ruettiger, Eric Boles, Libby Gill and Jim Morris. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jim Davidson for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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