Jamie Clarke

Calgary, Alberta

Expedition Leader and Summiteer, Inspiration, Grit, Fear & Business Speaker

Jamie Clarke is a keynote speaker, adventurer, performance coach, seasoned expedition leader and entrepreneur, empowering leaders in change. Jamie Clarke shares lessons learned from journeys of contrast, courage and endurance. From the top of Everest to the deserts of Arabia. From Mongolia to The Andes. From The Rockies to Kilimanjaro. Clarke draws parallels between the dynamic environments found in business and nature to share memorable insights and actionable strategies on leadership, risk management, and goal setting. He challenges audiences to reach their unique Everest and guides them toward building and leading teams to success.

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JAMIE CLARKE BIOGRAPHY

Business is an adventure, and mountain-climber Jamie Clarke shows audiences how to strategize and succeed in their ventures. An acclaimed adventurer and entrepreneur, Clarke draws parallels between the dynamic environments found in business and nature to share memorable insights and actionable strategies on leadership, risk management, and goal setting. He challenges audiences to reach their unique Everest and guides them toward building and leading teams to success.

As a mountain climber, Jamie Clarke has reached the Everest summit twice, but only after his first two attempts were cut short by deadly storms, leaving him only a few feet short of the summit. Determined and dedicated, Clarke reached his goal in 1997 and 2010. He is also one of a handful of people in the world to hold the rare accomplishment of climbing the Seven Summits.

Always one for new adventures, Jamie Clarke has ridden camels across the Empty Quarter of Arabia, motorbiked across Mongolia with his son, and has served as a performance coach for Olympians, the NFL, Hockey Canada, and the 2018 Stanley Cup-winning Washington Capitals.

Jamie Clarke is currently a fellow and associate professor at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne Business school, where he teaches and mentors in the Centre for Advanced Leadership.

Adventurer, Jamie Clarke is also the founder and former CEO of Live Out There Inc., a mountaineer clothing e-commerce business that earned him multiple nominations for the Canada Post E-commerce Innovation Awards.

Through relaying his diverse experiences as an entrepreneur and mountaineer, Clarke provides essential tips on handling risk while navigating challenges, scaling new heights while retaining your passion, and how to foster an honest and authentic workplace culture that stays true to its mission.

Jamie Clarke’s upbeat perspectives from the roof of the world to the peaks of business success have made him a favourite with leading companies and pro sports franchises. The Stanley Cup-winning Capitals, Olympic Gold Medal Team Canada, IBM, Kraft, NFL, and The Wall Street Journal have learned from his stories of perseverance, leadership, and team building.

With boundless energy, gritty humour and palpable passion, Jamie Clarke inspires audiences by channelling the lessons of unforgiving wild places to illuminate the challenges organizations, and people face every day. Jamie offers deep insight and actionable strategy for success in business, academia or the most dynamic environment of all everyday life.

Jamie Clarke shares lessons learned from journeys of contrast, courage and endurance. From the top of Everest to the deserts of Arabia. From Mongolia to The Andes. From The Rockies to Kilimanjaro.

In stories punctuated with riotous laughter, moments of tension and evocative descriptions, Clarke will challenge your audience to find their resilient core and resolve conflicts, internal and external. As a seasoned expedition leader, motivational speaker, author, documentarian and entrepreneur, he empowers teams and individuals to pursue courageous lives at home and at work. Jamie is also an Associate Adjunct Professor at the University Calgary Haskayne School of Business.

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the map is not the terrain: charting a new course for leadership

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Jamie Clarke knows a lot about leadership and uncertainty. He has spent his entire adult life embracing the unknown. From his days as a world-renowned adventure leader and elite climber to becoming a successful business builder and professional sports consultant to a Stanley Cup-winning hockey team, Jamie has navigated countless high-pressure and challenging landscapes. Even though teams and individuals consistently ignore this certainty, Jamie knows it: Uncertainty leads to indecision. Indecision leads to fear. Fear leads to chaos. Chaos ends in failure. Always.

This program is more than 30 years in the making. It takes you inside the mindset and the leadership qualities that build team cultures that don’t shrink from uncertainty. Instead, they succeed when others fail. What to do when your old map no longer works? These cultures are everything from teams of business professionals, expeditions struggling to survive negative 70-degree blizzards in the death zone of 25,000 feet, or professional sports teams finding their collective way to break through past failures and become champions.

With an infectious sense of humor and palpable, authentic passion, Jamie challenges his audiences to think differently about success, failure, hard work and fear. In his visually stunning and always charismatic and inspiring style, audiences will learn how to:
- Adapt to forces outside of one’s control.
- Uphold one’s mission despite the unknowns and the lack of perfect information.
- Learn from failure quickly and adjust your plans in real time.
- Conquer fear through focus and practice.
- Reframe leadership through the lenses of trust, accountability, humility, reliance, inclusion and empathy.

the adventure of business

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Jamie Clarke believes that the passion that drives an adventurer is akin to that of a business leader…and he should know. The renowned adventurer and founder & former CEO of the Canadian retailer Live Out There Inc. has successfully transferred the ideas, skills, lessons and passion from summiting the world’s highest peaks. With his trademark spirit and high-energy, Clarke excites audiences as he draws parallels to the dynamic environments found in the office and in nature to provide business leaders with the framework to achieve success in any competitive setting.

Clarke shows how to adapt to forces outside of one’s control and uphold one’s mission despite distractions and dangers, all while encouraging a healthy dose of risk balanced with an ample measure of humility. Simply put: Clarke delivers insights and strategies for taking one’s organization to the peak and conquering the adventure of business.

above all else: the power of passion

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With humor and palpable passion, Jamie Clarke challenges audiences to think differently about success, failure, passion, hard work and fear, as he shares insight from his journeys scaling the world’s highest mountains, trekking through the most dangerous places and starting his own successful retail business. Perfect for audiences seeking expertise on risk-taking, project management, and team building, Clarke’s customized presentations deliver a powerful perspectives on learning from failure, the art of grunt work, conquering fear through focus, and above all—living life with passion.

how weathering unanticipated storms makes your business stronger

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Adapting quickly to forces outside of your control—like being pinned on the mountain when a storm hits—requires team building, leadership, and crisis management. In this presentation, extreme adventurer Jamie Clarke shares how businesses can adapt to unexpected change while upholding the mission. With an entire workforce suddenly working from home, with companies forced to innovate entirely new ways of doing business, leaders are facing never-imagined workplace challenges. The insights and strategies Clarke learned while surviving extreme environments will help your organization emerge from this chapter in your history stronger than ever before and ready to conquer the future.

empty quarter

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After Everest, what’s left? Clarke next ventured a 700-mile camel-back crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter, the world’s most desolate and dangerous desert. Clarke shares a journey of contrast and perseverance with breathtaking images. He will challenge your audience to persevere through obstacles and to lead others by empowering them to live passion-filled lives.

In this program laced with laughter, poignant moments, tension, and lush illustration, Clarke will challenge your audience to persevere through obstacles; to live in the now, not in an incurable past or a daydreamed future; to resolve conflict, and to lead others by empowering them to live passion-filled lives.

everyone starts at zero: selling and the power of passion

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Jamie Clarke gets it. He gets how to grab an audience of sales professionals, pull it in and keep it with him for every word, laugh, metaphor and lesson. With an infectious charisma, relatable humor and a feel-it-in-your-shoes passion, Jamie Clarke challenge sales audiences to think differently about success, drive, failure, hard work and fear. No matter your past successes, be it summiting Everest or setting new sales records, everyone at one point has to start all over again. And prove it again. To start at ZERO. Again.

This captivating program on regrouping and starting over from zero, shares hard-earned insights from his journeys scaling our world’s highest mountains, trekking through its most dangerous places and then creating and managing his own adventure outfitters business. Jamie Clarke is the perfect speaker for sales kick-off events seeking a fresh spark and an actionable blueprint for sharpening risk-taking and mindset. Clarke’s customized presentations deliver powerful take-away lessons on:
- Performing your best when it matters most
- The shift required getting the grunt work done
- Conquering fear through focusing on the results and relationships that bring you to new heights
- Building a resilient, winning mindset

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Wow! Wow! Wow! Jamie Clarke was fabulous, and I’ve already heard multiple comments from attendees that they thought he was the best conference speaker they had ever heard. His mix of wit, mountaineering information, and motivation was spot-on, and his pacing was terrific. And he threw in some really great corporate-related quips or serious references.

Lyra Ward Hankins

Director, Marketing Communications

Ventyx

Jamie Clarke was, as always, at the top of his game. The employees were ecstatic, and rave reviews started immediately following his presentation. I actually hesitate to refer to what Jamie does as a “presentation.” He is an authentic storyteller, true stories told from the heart based on real life experiences. And, as always, a kind, thoughtful, and generous ‘partner’ to work with.

Kris Horstman

Director, Meeting & Event Services

Allianz Life

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