Deeya Bajaj

Deeya Bajaj Speaker Biography

Adventurer, Mountaineer and Explorer

Deeya Bajaj is an athlete known for her climbing mountains and recently completed the Seven Summits. She is the daughter of Ajeet Bajaj, who is a Padma Shri award winner and the first person to ski to the North Pole from India.  Deeya has made adventure a mission in her life – achieving feats that dreams are made of. A modern-day explorer and adventurer, she is a living example of how to not just survive but enjoy challenges and pressures. Having travelled the most tough terrains of the world, she talks about how to think, take decisions, lead and be a team player in times of adversity.

Young Adventurer

Deeya is a PADI-certified rescue diver, has completed an advance course in mountaineering from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi and is a black belt in Taekwondo. Deeya has successfully completed several mountaineering expeditions including summiting Mt. Elbrus (5642 meters, highest peak in Russia), DKD2 (5670 meters, India) and Kang Yatse II (6200 meters, India). At the age of 14 years, she participated in a 2-week-long Indo-US sea kayaking expedition along the Greenland Coast.

7 Summits

At 17 years, Deeya was the youngest in the world to have completed the grueling cross-country skiing expedition across the Greenland Icecap which entailed skiing over 550 kms of ice, camping out for 19 days and facing temperatures going down to –40 degrees centigrade. She and her father, Ajeet Bajaj (Padma Shri), were the first father-daughter team in India to climb Mt. Everest. The duo has since climbed the 7 Summits (highest mountain in every continent), completing the last of the 7 climbs in June 2022.

Honors and Awards

Deeya was felicitated with the TIE Aspire Young Achievers Award ‘in appreciation of unrivalled contributions as a role model for the Youth of India’ and the ‘Meri Dilli Award’ in the category of Adventure sports. She was also given the title of ‘Adventurer of the Year’ by the Adventure Tour Operators Association of India in 2012.

Education

Deeya graduated from Cornell University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Sciences and from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania with a Masters in Business Administration in 2023. Deeya is also an experienced kayaker, skiier and scuba diver.

Motivational Keynote Speaker

Apart from being an athlete, Deeya is also a motivational speaker who motivates her audience with her words and stories. With her words, she motivates people to chase their dreams and never stop. She tells her skiing and mountain climbing stories to her audience and the way Deeya speaks to them, makes them step out of their comfort zones, and go follow their dream just like Deeya did. Her courage, adventurous spirit, and great public speaking skills are what have made her such a great motivational speaker.

As both a motivational speaker and an athlete, Deeya Bajaj continues to motivate her audience with her words and stories and tells them to reach new heights and realize their dreams. In her own words, “Going on these expeditions and adventures might be scary at first, but when you do it. It’s fantastic.”