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Warren Macdonald

Shifting Your Perception On Change

Warren MacDonald Headshot Sept 2022
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Warren Macdonald
Perception Can Change Everything
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Warren Macdonald
Warren MacDonald Headshot Sept 2022
Speaker Reel
Share a Secret
Warren Macdonald
Perception Can Change Everything
Pier to Pub

Warren Macdonald has climbed over obstacles most people cannot imagine. Having lost both of his legs in a freak accident while he was backpacking off the coast of Australia, Macdonald not only decided that his injuries wouldn’t slow him down but that they would propel him to new heights. Just 10 months after the incident, Macdonald climbed Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain and later summited both Mount Kilimanjaro and El Capitan. His inspiring story empowers audiences to turn challenge into change and fosters the desire to seek opportunities and overcome obstacles.

Macdonald is the author of A Test of Will: One Man’s Extraordinary Story of Survival, which chronicles his two-day ordeal of being trapped under a boulder, his subsequent rescue, the amputation of his legs, and his journey toward recovery. His critically acclaimed film, The Second Step, documents his epic four-week journey to Federation Peak, Australia’s most challenging mountain summit. It screened on National Geographic Television and won eight international awards including Grand Prize at the prestigious Banff Mountain Film Festival. Macdonald’s story is currently being featured on Amazon Prime’s I Shouldn’t Be Alive series in an episode called “Trapped under a Boulder”.

Macdonald has appeared on numerous news and current affairs programs, including Larry King Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos. As a speaker, his clients have included PepsiCo, Blackberry/Marketstar, HSBC, RBC Insurance, Sun Life Financial, Price Waterhouse Coppers, Shell Canada, Suncor, Novo Nordisk, among many others. In 2016, he spoke at the Million Dollar Round Table in Vancouver in a special 60-minute general session.

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

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  • The presentation you delivered was heartfelt and more than inspirational. You captured exactly what we were looking to hear and you weaved your story and teachings brilliantly throughout. We have been back to work a few weeks now and people are still talking about some of your key take-away messages. They were so simple and resounding..how could they not! Thank you again for choosing to spend time with us. We are better for it!

  • Three years later, our leaders still speak about our offsite and how impactful your participation was in seeing the possibility of transformation. We needed to see that if we wanted another outcome, we had to change the way we looked at ourselves and our future and commit to doing something about it.

  • Warren’s presence and influence at our Manager meeting was timely and effective. Inspiring our leaders to persevere through these difficult times, he gave us a choice: we can sit back and do nothing or we can choose to see our challenges as opportunities.

     

    The presentation impacted us all differently and out Leaders are still referencing his positive perspective and incredible story. Warren Macdonald is a must for any organization with Leader looking for development and obstacles that need to be turned into opportunities. I am a fan.

  • Warren delivered an important message in an engaging way that really connected with our audience. He made an outstanding contribution in being the catalyst for out people to reflect on and take control of their own circumstances, and has a material impact on the success of our conference.

  • Everyone including Mike thought that you wove the challenges we face in Major Projects into your personal story extremely well and that served to really drive home the message about creating a crisis in order to raise the performance bar rather than waiting for one to occur.

  • Your topic “One Step Beyond” was one of the best and most powerful keynotes I have had the pleasure of hearing. Some of the words used to describe your keynote were “exceptional”, “inspiring”, “very, very moving” and “this keynote makes me want to climb mountains”.

  • No testimonial I can give will do justice to what you brought to our Annual Franchise Partner Conference this year. I had the highest of expectations after booking you and you blew those expectations out of the water. I believe you received the only standing ovation of our three day event because you went out of your way to customize the message not only based on the details I’d given you earlier, but also the information that you gleaned from attending several sessions earlier. I have never seen a more captivated and inspired audience or a more dedicated speaker.

  • Warren, after hearing you speak to our new MBA students at their orientation last year, we just knew that we had to have you back this year. Thanks for sharing your story with us again this year. Your insight, wisdom and inspiration are greatly appreciated.

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