Jamie Clarke

Extreme Adventurer; Entrepreneur; Performance Coach and Professor of Leadership

Business IS an adventure—and mountain-climber Jamie Clarke walks you through how to strategize and succeed in your own ventures. Jamie challenges his audience to reach their unique Everest and guides them towards building and leading teams to success.

  • Jamie Clarke Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Jamie Clarke Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

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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 team building, leadership, and crisis management. In this virtual presentation, extreme adventurer Jamie Clarke shares how businesses can adapt to unexpected ...

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 virtual 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.

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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 & former CEO of the Canadian retailer Live Out There Inc. has successfully transferred the ideas, skills, lessons...

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.

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Above All Else: The Power of Passion

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 ...

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

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About Keynote Speaker Jamie Clarke

For more than 25 years, Jamie Clarke works with elite teams who win: Olympic teams, NHL teams, sales teams, leadership teams, and start-up teams. What connects them all is pressure.  With his own hard-won philosophy of decision-making in extremes— and a storytelling technique that can take you from laughter to tears in minutes — Jamie recharges audiences with fresh perspectives on success and failure, and risk vs. reward.

Creative, humorous, passionate, and on-point, Jamie walks you through his successful planning process for expeditions AND business. Essential tips on risk assessment. Check. How to listen for cracks in the ice — and your team. Check. Weathering storms, literal and metaphorical. Check and check.

Lots of people talk about leadership and building, innovating, and disrupting, but precious few have really done it from the ground up. As a successful entrepreneur in an outdoor gear and apparel company for more than fourteen years, Jamie learned many business lessons the only way possible – by being in the trenches.  He led a 50-person team as the CEO of both a brick and mortar retail company and then successfully pivoting it to an e-commerce enterprise.

These entrepreneurial experiences deeply inform his presentations and allow Jamie to speak to business audiences with authority and say, “I get it.”

From C-suite folks running 10-billion-dollar companies to boots-on-the-ground salespeople trying to hit quota, from highly technical professionals like engineers, to the hard-working blue-collar laborers who make things work, Jamie connects.

Through heart-stopping challenges, Jamie has reached the peak of his profession as climber and expedition leader.  After failing twice, Jamie regrouped to reach Mt. Everest’s death-zone summit, twice. He’s trekked 1,000 miles across the most inhospitable desert on the planet and is one of the few alpinists to reach the “Seven Summits” – the highest peak on each continent.

His high-energy programs take you to dangerous places, both real and imagined. He’ll guide you to the edge and bring you back safely. You’ll learn that the highs and the lows are both great teachers.

While not on the road speaking or trekking in the Canadian Rockies, Jamie is an Adjunct professor at the University of Calgary where he teaches and mentors in the Centre for Advanced Leadership.

Testimonials

Jamie was awesome! I haven’t had many speakers that keep my attention for every second/minute of a one hour session. He did a great job of picking up on some issues in our open Q&A with our CEO (tough questions / challenges) and weaving it in to his message.

Siemens

 

Jamie did awesome. He received a standing ovation which is hard to come by at AMPF.

Ameriprise Financial

 

Jamie has the exceptional ability to draw you in and deliver a powerful message of humanity, sacrifice, resiliency, leadership and team work. I thank him personally for his great work with our team during our 2018 Stanley Cup Championship year!

Barry Trotz

Former coach of the Washington Capitals

Jamie it was simply wonderful, engaging, energizing, sincere, genuine and completely on message. So, many, many thanks. I truly could listen to you all day Jamie and I find you make me stop what I am doing and focus on your story (which for anyone that knows me I am the best multi tasker!)

Trend Micro Incorporated

 

Simply put: everyone loves Jamie!! He contributed high value to the Emerging
Leaders session as well as to the full group.

Construction Industry Round Table

 

Overall, I think we were happy with event. He was a great talker and has a keen sense
of humor.

Cisco

 

Jamie was outstanding. As you know it’s been 20 years since I’ve seen him speak and
he was every bit as engaging and masterful at relating his experiences and lessons
learned to our current situation as a company and team. Read More

Avertium

 

Thank you so much again for your inspiring talk at our Sales Kick Off! As I expected, we have gotten such great feedback from the audience. We really appreciate you taking the time to learn about us and incorporating our points of view in your talk to help it resonate. Read More

OSIsoft

 

Jamie was outstanding. The team loved him and appreciated his relatable approach. I have received numerous comments that Jamie was their favorite speaker we have had in the recent years.

Midco

 

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