Sports
Adventurers
Adventurers:
Six-Time Ironman World Champion
Mark Allen's first six attempts at the Ironman triathlon were all losses, until he finally won on his seventh. He shares with audiences the principles that enabled him to turn adversity into success.
6X Guinness World-Record Holder, Extreme Explorer & Author
Featured in the 2024 Guinness World-Records, Vanessa is the only woman to reach extremes on land, sea, and air and one of a handful of living female explorers that has the tenacity, grit and perseverance to transcend exploration boundaries.
11-Time IRONMAN Champion
Lisa Bentley raced for 20 years as a professional triathlete. She won 11 Ironman and 16 Ironman 70.3 races. She should not have won any of them. She has cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic lung disease.
Adventurer & Best-Selling Author
Chris Bertish has broken world records in numerous big wave surfing, Stand Up Paddle Boarding and many other water-based disciplines just as he has shattered perceptions in everything he does of what is possible.
Writer, Filmmaker & Adventurer
Writer, filmmaker and adventurer, Jon is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society’s ‘Ocean Heroes,’ his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsled.
Adventurers
Drawing on their 139-day, 9,750 mile non-stop and unsupported row from Peru to Australia, brothers Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean share what kept them moving when conditions turned, morale dipped, and there was no easy way out: the mindset that overcomes adversity, the habits that strengthen a team, and the power of combining your passion with purpose.
World Adventurer, Sportsman & Explorer
Lebanon’s foremost sportsman and adventurer, Maxime Chaya was the first person from his country to hoist its flag atop Everest (2006).
Extreme Adventurer; Entrepreneur & Performance Coach
Business IS an adventure — and mountain-climber Jamie Clarke walks you through how to strategize and succeed in your own ventures. Jamie challenges his audience to reach their unique Everest and guides them towards leading teams to success.