Jamie Clarke Speaker Biography

Extreme Adventurer; Entrepreneur; Performance Coach and Professor of Leadership

Jamie Clarke is a natural born explorer. He grew up in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada and fell in love with the outdoors at an early age. In his teens, he was a competitive cross-country ski phenomenon, enjoying success on the national stage. Soon though, he had his eyes set on higher things.

Mount Everest

His first attempt of summiting Mount Everest came in 1991 at the age of 23. Bad weather stymied the ‘Climb for Hope’ team. Three years later, Jamie was back, this time with the Canadian ‘Lungs Without Limits’ team. Again, Mother Nature intervened within sight of the summit.

Seven Summits

Success came in 1997, and again in 2010, when Jamie stood proudly on top of the world. Between Everest expeditions, he had been collecting the other of the Seven Summits, the tallest places on each of the seven continents: Mount Aconcagua (1993), Mount McKinley (1996), Mount Kilimanjaro (2001), Mount Elbrus (2005), Vinson Massif (2006), and Carstensz Pyramid (2008). And he also spent 40 days crossing the Empty Quarter of Arabia by camel in 1999.

Entrepreneur

He retired in 2010 to spend more time with his wife Barb and their two children. He became an early e-commerce entrepreneur, launching an outdoor gear website alongside a bricks-and-mortar store. He also became a sought-after speaker on podiums across North America, Europe and Asia.

Nepal

But the call of the wild is strong with Jamie. He has been harbouring a desire to go on an expedition with his son since they spent a month together in Nepal in 2010, when Khobe was just nine. The latest expedition will have son Khobe at 18 years of age teaming up with dad Jamie at 51. It’s a completely different dynamic.“You spend all your time looking after your kids and then one day, they start to look after you. Maybe this will be that trip; when Khobe steps from boy to man and says, “Hey Dad, I’ll take it from here.”

Life Mongolia

Life Mongolia is the first of Jamie’s new ventures as an advocate for reassessing our relationship with digital media and encouraging a life connected to nature and the great outdoors.

Jamie Clarke Speaking Topics

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.

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 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 humor and a feel-it-in-your-shoes passion, Jamie 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 his journeys scaling our world’s highest mountains, trekking through its most dangerous places and then creating and managing his own adventure outfitters business. Jamie Clarke is the perfect speaker for sales kick-off events seeking a fresh spark and an actionable blueprint for sharpening risk-taking and mindset. Clarke’s 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