John Amatt

John Amatt

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Canmore, Alberta

Adventurer - Leadership, Change and Accountability Expert

John Amatt is a Mountain Climber, Motivational Speaker & World's Best Adventure Speaker who has delivered 1,800 presentations & seminars in 44 countries. John Amatt's mission is to encourage people to push beyond their self-imposed limitations, accountable for their actions and to embrace effective teamwork by valuing the contribution of others.

JOHN AMATT BIOGRAPHY

John Amatt is one of Canada’s most accomplished adventurers and keynote speakers. His presentations are focused on strategies for change management, teamwork, leadership, overcoming adversity and resilience. John Amatt knows about tough times and the value of struggle in bringing out the best in teams of people! After all, he was a leader of an Everest Team, which suffered four tragic deaths in two unpredictable accidents before putting six climbers on top of the world. His experience on Everest taught him about the danger of falling into the trap of complacency and the importance of always questioning the status quo in seeking new ways of succeeding in a rapidly changing world.

A longtime resident of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, John Amatt is President of One Step Beyond WorldWide, an innovative educational and motivational company, whose mission is to encourage people to push beyond their self-imposed limitations, to be more personally accountable for the results of their own actions, and to embrace effective teamwork by valuing the contribution of others.

John Amatt is the founder of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, a world-renowned annual event held in the Canadian Rockies and has been called “The World’s Best Adventure Speaker” by International Celebrity Management of Australia. After a career of 30 years, John Amatt is one of the world’s most successful adventure speakers. John Amatt uses the lessons learned from his own life-and-death adventures in the world’s most remote places to articulate down-to-earth strategies for meeting the challenges of change in corporate and professional life

John Amatt is renowned in the international mountaineering community for making the first ever climb of Europe’s highest and steepest mountain face – the 5000 foot “Vertical Mile” Troll Wall in Norway. In 1981, he was leader of the 1st Canadian climbing expedition to Western China, which used camels to approach a 24,757-foot mountain before skiing to the summit, this being perhaps the highest peak in the world to have been ascended and descended entirely on skis. And more recently, he was the principal organizer and a leader of Canada’s first successful expedition to reach the top of the world – the 29,035 foot summit of Mount Everest – a climb that was televised live throughout Canada and on ABC Nightline in the United States.

John Amatt’s adventures are related in his autobiography, Straight to the Top and Beyond, in which he uses the metaphor of his own adventures to develop a nine-step approach for scaling the heights in today’s rapidly changing, unpredictable global business environments. His mission is to encourage people to push beyond their self-imposed limitations, to be more personally accountable for their own actions, and to embrace effective teamwork by valuing the contribution of others.

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John Amatt Topic Presentations

no mountain too high - challenging change with the adventure attitude

  • Keynote Presentation
  • An educator by training, John uses the lessons learned from his own life and death adventures in the world’s most remote places to articulate down-to-earth strategies for meeting the challenges of challenging times. He uses his amazing storytelling ability and the power of metaphor to address the themes of goals and expectations, risk and adventure, embracing fear and anxiety, the value of commitment, and many more.

    In his acclaimed keynote presentations, he uses the power of metaphor and storytelling.

the danger of complacency in safety

straight to the top and beyond

climbing your own everest - what it takes to get to the top

meeting the challenge of change

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Thank you, again, for your inspiring presentation at this morning’s EARN event. We have received some really great feedback from our attendees and hope that you enjoyed your time in Lloydminster as much as we enjoyed having you here.

Alicia Zurba

Lloydminster Economic Development

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