Colin O’Brady is an 11-time world record breaking explorer, New York Times bestselling author of The Impossible First and The 12-Hour Walk: Invest One Day, Unlock Your Best Life. His feats include the world’s first solo, unsupported, and fully human-powered crossing of Antarctica, speed records for the Explorers Grand Slam and the Seven Summits, and the first human-powered ocean row across Drake Passage.
A world-renowned expert on mindset, Colin has worked with the biggest brands and brightest minds including Fortune 100 companies such as Nike, Google and Amazon and top universities including Harvard, Yale and UPenn. His TEDx talk has over 3.4 million views.
Colin’s keynotes offer leaders and teams a practical and actionable framework to boost resilience, enhance performance, and achieve extraordinary outcomes. Drawing from his personal journey of overcoming adversity and achieving what was once deemed impossible, he shares the strategies and mindset shifts necessary for teams and individuals to not only confront but thrive in the face of challenges. His strategies are grounded in real-world exploration and psychological resilience, offering leaders the tools to inspire, mobilize, and sustain high-achieving teams, while cultivating an environment where excellence is the norm.
More About Colin O’Brady
At 22, Colin faced a near-fatal accident in Thailand, igniting a fire within him to surpass every limit set before him. From learning to walk again to embarking on the most grueling adventures across the globe, he’s been on a relentless pursuit of pushing his own boundaries.
Since then, he’s climbed the world’s highest peaks, walked across Antarctica solo, set 11 world records, written a New York Times bestselling book, hosted a television show, and produced a documentary. He’s started and sold companies and been fortunate to share his journey of resilience and peak performance along the way.
His endeavors have inspired millions of minds across the globe, demonstrating that with determination and a limitless mindset, there are truly no limits to what we can achieve.
Colin’s highly publicized expeditions have been followed by millions and his work has been featured in the The New York Times and Forbes and on The Tonight Show, the BBC, The Joe Rogan Experience, and NBC’s Today.
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He has a passion for inspiring kids and communities to live active, healthy lives and achieve their biggest dreams and is doing so partially through his non-profit, the Be Possible Foundation, which has a global impact.
Colin is a graduate of Yale University and currently resides in Jackson Hole, WY with his wife Jenna.
