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Jamie Clarke Biography

For more than 25 years, Jamie Clarke has worked with elite teams who win: Olympic teams, National Hockey League teams, sales teams, leadership teams, and start-up teams. What connects them all is pressure. With his own hard-won philosophy of decision-making in extremes -- and a storytelling technique that can take you from laughter to tears in minutes -- Clarke recharges audiences with fresh perspectives on success and failure, and risk vs. reward.

Creative, humorous, passionate, and on-point, Clarke walks you through his successful planning process for expeditions and business.

  • Essential tips on risk assessment. Check.
  • How to listen for cracks in the ice — and your team. Check.
  • Weathering storms, literal and metaphorical. Check and check.

Lots of speakers talk about leadership and building, innovating and disrupting, but precious few have really done it from the ground up. As a successful entrepreneur in an outdoor gear and apparel company for more than 14 years, Clarke learned many business lessons the only way possible -- by being in the trenches. He led a 50 person team as the CEO of both a brick and mortar retail company and then successfully pivoted to an e-commerce enterprise.

Through heart-stopping challenges, Clarke has reached the peak of his profession as climber and expedition leader. After failing twice, Clarke regrouped to reach Mt. Everest’s death-zone summit, twice. He has trekked 1,000 miles across the most inhospitable desert on the planet and is one of the few alpinists to reach the “Seven Summits” – the highest peak on each continent.

These entrepreneurial experiences deeply inform his presentations and allow Clarke to speak to business audiences with authority. In short, “He gets it.”

From C-suite leaders running 10 billion dollar companies to boots-on-the-ground salespeople trying to hit quota, from highly technical professionals like engineers to the hard-working blue-collar laborers who make things work, Clarke always connects.

His high-energy programs take you to dangerous places, both real and imagined. He will guide you to the edge and bring you back safely. You’ll learn that the highs and the lows are both great teachers.

While not on the road speaking or trekking in the Canadian Rockies, Clarke is an Adjunct professor at the University of Calgary where he teaches and mentors in the Centre for Advanced Leadership.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 11/03/2026.

Jamie Clarke Speaking Topics

  • Above All Else: The Power Of Passion

    With humor, captivating storytelling and undeniable passion, Jamie Clarke challenges audiences to rethink success, failure, hard work, leadership and fear. Drawing on his extraordinary experiences scaling the world's highest mountains, navigating some of its most dangerous terrain and building his own successful retail business, Jamie brings powerful lessons to life that resonate across industries.

    Ideal for audiences focused on leadership, sales performance, team building and extraordinary results, his customized presentations offer unique perspectives on learning from failure, embracing hard work, conquering fear through focus and, above all, living and leading with passion.

    Audience Takeaways

    • Conquer fear through focus, discipline and preparation.
    • Perform at your best when it matters most to drive sales growth and achieve breakthrough results.
    • Reignite your passion and drive to achieve extraordinary results.
    • Build resilience and turn setbacks into growth opportunities.
    • Strengthen leadership, teamwork and personal accountability.

  • Courage in the Desert: The Choices That Make Great Leaders

    What happens when everything you have planned for suddenly changes?

    Jamie Clarke is the only person to have summited Mount Everest and crossed the world's largest sand desert, the Empty Quarter. After years of preparation and assembling what he believed was the perfect team, the world's leading desert expert warned him not to go. What followed became a powerful lesson in courage, leadership and navigating the unknown.

    Through riveting storytelling, unexpected humour and lessons forged in one of Earth's harshest environments, Jamie explores what it takes to lead when the map no longer matches the terrain. He reveals why courage is not the absence of fear, how decisive leadership builds trust, and why the strongest teams are not necessarily the most talented, but the ones willing to adapt, take ownership and move forward together. Audiences leave with a fresh perspective on uncertainty — and the courage to make the choices that define exceptional leaders.

    Audience Takeaways

    • Make critical decisions when the path forward is unclear.
    • Build adaptable teams that thrive when conditions change.
    • Create a culture of courage and shared responsibility.
    • Lead through uncertainty even when fear is present.
    • Trust your preparation when the future is uncertain.

Jamie Clarke Videos

Jamie Clarke - Sizzle Reel

Jamie Clarke - Sizzle Reel

Elevate Your Mind

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Jamie Clarke - Turning Up the Volume Pro Expo 2023

Failure Isn't Failure

Jamie Clarke - Workforce

Jamie Clarke - Workforce

The Power of Asking for Help

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  • What topics does Jamie Clarke speak about?

    Jamie Clarke is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Adventure, Adventure, Business, Business Coaching, Human Resources, Inspirational, Leadership, Mindset, Motivational, Overcoming Adversity, Peak Performance, Personal Growth, Resilience, Sports Coaching, Sports Motivation, Storytelling, Teamwork & Teambuilding

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Jamie Clarke is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Above All Else: The Power Of Passion and Courage in the Desert: The Choices That Make Great Leaders. The estimated speaking fee range to book Jamie Clarke for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Jamie Clarke generally travels from Calgary, Canada and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Mike Abrashoff, James Lawrence, Jim Morris, Eric Boles and Jim Davidson. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jamie Clarke for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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