Jamie Clarke

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• How Weathering Unanticipated Storms Makes Your Business Stronger

  Adapting quickly to forces outside of your control — like being pinned on the mountain when a storm hits — requires teambuilding, 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.

• Above All Else: The Power of Passion

  With humour 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 powerful perspective on learning from failure, the art of grunt work, conquering fear through focus, and above all — living life with passion.

• Everyone starts at ZERO: Selling and the Mindset Reset

  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 humour, and a feel-it-in-your-shoes passion, Clarke challenges 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 Clarke’s journeys scaling our world’s highest mountains, trekking through its most dangerous places, and then creating and managing his own adventure outfitters business. Clarke is the perfect speaker for sales kick-off events seeking a fresh spark and an actionable blueprint for sharpening risk-taking and mindset. His customized presentations deliver powerful take-away lessons on:

  • Performing your best when it matters most.
  • The shift required to get the grunt work done.
  • Conquering fear through focus.
  • Building a resilient, winning mindset.

• The Adventure of Business

  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 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.

• Empty Quarter

  After Everest, what’s left? Jamie Clarke next ventured a 700-mile camel-back crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter, the world’s most desolate and dangerous desert. He shares a journey of contrast and perseverance with breath-taking images to challenge audiences 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.