John Amatt | Mount Everest Climber, CEO and Author of Straight to the Top and Beyond

John Amatt

Mount Everest Climber, CEO and Author of Straight to the Top and Beyond

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$12,000
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Alberta)

John Amatt
Biography

For over 30 years, John Amatt has led expeditions to remote regions of Northern Norway, Peru, Nepal, China, Greenland and has explored areas of the Arctic on six occasions, making many first ascents of previously unclimbed peaks. At the age of 20, John spent two weeks lashed to tiny ledges while making the first ever ascent of Europe's highest and steepest mountain precipice - the 5000 foot "Vertical Mile" Troll Wall in Norway.

Later in 1981, he was a leader of the 1st Canadian mountaineering expedition to Western China, which made a lightweight ascent of 24,757 foot Mount Muztagata - the highest peak in the world to have been ascended and descended entirely on skis.

More recently, John fulfilled a lifelong dream by organizing and taking part in Canada's first successful expedition to reach the top of the world - the 29,035 foot summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.

An educator by training, John established One Step Beyond WorldWide in 1984 and he has since delivered more than 1,800 keynote presentations and seminars to total audiences of over 1,000,000 people in 44 countries around the world. 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.

In his latest book, Straight to the Top and Beyond, he uses the metaphor of adventure to develop a nine step approach for scaling the heights in today's unpredictable and rapidly-changing global business environments.

John Amatt
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Climbing Your Own Everest
What it Takes to Get to the Top

John Amatt's most popular presentation, the highly innovative and inspirational 'Climbing Your Own Everest' explores the metaphor of striving to reach the top of the world. Illustrated by magnificent colour photography from his successful expedition which climbed Everest, and supplemented by music, sound effects, and taped radio conversations, this presentation investigates the qualities we must all bring to bear in climbing to the top in the difficult and unpredictable economic environments of the 1990's.

Concepts explored include:
Teamwork
Preparation
Commitment
Adapting to Changing Environments
Setting Realistic Goals
The role of positive attitude

Straight to the Top and Beyond
Nine Keys for Meeting the Challenge of Changing Times

Based upon his best selling book of the same name, this program uses the metaphor of his lifetime of adventure to investigate how the
"A-D-V-E-N-T-U-R-E Attitude" will be vital to success in the uncertain global environments in which we all reside today:

A - Adaptability
D - Desire & Determination
V - Vision & Values
E - Experience
N - Natural Curiosity
T - Teamwork & Trust
U - Unlimited Optimism
R - Risk-ability
E - Exceptional Performance

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