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Ema Dantas Biography

Ema Dantas is a mountaineer who has climbed the Seven Summits, an entrepreneur who founded a Canadian translation and interpretation company, and a philanthropist who established Peaks for Change Foundation, a charity focused on ending stigma surrounding mental illness.

Dantas shares her experiences of resilience and strength, drawing from personal challenges related to family mental health issues and the impact of limited awareness and support. Her work highlights the importance of mental health advocacy and demonstrates how adversity can be transformed into opportunities for change.

Dantas founded Language Marketplace as a professional interpreter, identifying a need for respectful treatment of language professionals and building trusted relationships across Canada. Language Marketplace grew into a multi-million dollar company, earning Dantas recognition as one of Canada’s Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs by Chatelaine Magazine and inclusion on the Profit 500 list of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies. She also received the President’s Award from WBE Canada for her public policy work supporting women business enterprises. Language Marketplace later joined NATIONS Translation Group, where Dantas serves as vice president of interpretation solutions.

Dantas established Peaks for Change Foundation to raise awareness and funds to end the stigma surrounding mental illness, inspired by her mother’s mental health challenges and the barriers faced by those seeking help. As board chair, Dantas leads initiatives to promote mental health awareness, particularly within communities where stigma remains prevalent.

To further her advocacy, Dantas chose mountain climbing despite her fear of heights and slight stature, completing the Seven Summits for Mental Health with her ascent of Mount Everest. She became the first Portuguese person to complete both versions of the Seven Summits (Bass and Messner) and is among a select group of women and individuals worldwide to achieve this milestone.

Dantas has been recognized as a keynote speaker at mental health and leadership conferences, sharing expertise on resilience, overcoming adversity, and mental health awareness. Her entrepreneurial journey and philanthropic impact have been featured in Canadian business publications. Through public speaking and media appearances, Dantas continues to advocate for mental health, sharing her personal journey and insights on overcoming both physical and mental obstacles.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 11/10/2025.

Ema Dantas Speaking Topics

  • Leadership

    Ema has a lot of experience with leadership, especially Women's Leadership, and Personal Leadership. As the founder of Language Marketplace, Ema was the owner of a successful women’s enterprise for over 20 years. In that time Ema witnessed the changing landscape for women leaders, including the influence women can have on the changing world. Ema discusses how care, empathy and a more human approach helped her grow her company into a multi-million dollar, award winning translation company. She attributes her success to focussing on her translator's basic needs (making sure they were paid!) and in return she developed strong relationships with translators built on trust and respect. This created a workforce that was dedicated to the clients they served and based on that service, clients returned. Ema also attributes her success to the premise of always giving back to the community. And so she also shares her story of building charity into her company, and then eventually creating her own charity, Peaks for Change Foundation, so she could focus her efforts on matters close to home.

    In terms of personal leadership, Ema shares her journey of overcoming some of her biggest fears and challenges while preparing, training, and eventually climbing the Seven Summits

    • the tallest mountains on each continent. Ema shares her journey of why she created a foundation that works to end the stigma of mental illness. And she shares why she chose the Seven Summits despite the fact she is petite, and also terrified of heights. Ema successfully completed both versions of the seven summits, climbing a total of eight mountains over the course of 6 years. She has many experiences to draw from on these journeys!

  • Resilience and Overcoming Adversity

    Ema focuses on two key areas when it comes to resilience and overcoming adversity: Mindset and Attitude, and Resilience Through Change. Ema draws on her personal life experiences, as well as experiences as a women entrepreneur, and as a woman mountaineer, to demonstrate how we can gain better control of the world around us by taking action. Ema speaks to how taking control of simple things like nutrition and exercise can translate into having better control over more complex things like mindset and attitude. She shares how took action in her own world by creating a charity that gives back to a cause that is part of her story, and how she tested her own mind set by taking on the biggest challenge of her life. She also dives into how all of these same approaches can be used to navigate and adapt to change on a personal level, as well as within the business environment. Ema has over two decades of experience to draw on as President and CEO of a company that has moved through a ton of change over the years, including the rapid change to online service delivery in 2020.

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  • What topics does Ema Dantas speak about?

    Ema Dantas is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Adventure, Adventure, Business, Business Leadership, Christian, Christian, Climbing, DEI, Diversity & Inclusion, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Executive Leadership, Extreme Sports, Female Leadership, Fitness, Health & Wellness, Influential Women, Inspirational, Leadership, Mindset, Non-Profit, Nutrition, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth, Philanthropy, Resilience, Social Activism, Storytelling, Women, Women's Empowerment

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Ema Dantas is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Leadership, Resilience and Overcoming Adversity, Health & Wellness, Mental Health and Mental Wellness and Diversity and Inclusion. The estimated speaking fee range to book Ema Dantas for your event is available upon request. Ema Dantas generally travels from Toronto, Canada and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Lucy Westlake, David Snow, Erika Obando, Jan Reynolds and Dave Dravecky. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Ema Dantas for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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