Duncan Chessell draws on his expertise as a mountain climber and adventurer to inspire and entertain an audience. He weaves a multi-layered story with his fantastic images and expedition video footage, and carefully tailors the content to suit his audience.

To date he’s delivered after-dinner speeches, motivational speeches, seminars, management workshops and key note presentations to groups ranging from 8 to over 1,100! in a wide range of industries and community groups and for virtually all levels of organisational responsibility. (Some of Duncan’s clients…)

Duncan’s superbly illustrated audiovisual presentations offer valuable learning experiences and new perspectives while being marvellous stories into the bargain.

Duncan’s presentations based on themes such as ‘Lessons from Adventure’, “The art of delegation from the boardroom to the summit of Everest”, ‘Follow Your Dreams’, or ‘Journey to the Roof of the World’ can be tailored to suit the needs of your organisation or team, from fascinating conference keynote addresses and after dinner presentations to customised workshops or presentations for your senior management team.

What does mountaineering have to do with you?

Mountaineering is one of the few remaining outlets for the modern-day adventurer. It offers physical and mental challenges far in excess of those available from more mainstream undertakings. Serious teamwork and reliance on both self and others are paramount, as they are in business. Mountain leadership is the unrivalled opportunity for experiential learning – to learn about yourself and put what you discover into practice.

Expeditions also pose a significant management challenge. They require a leader who is able to bring together the tasks of project management and planning, promotion, event management, leadership of disparate team members, logistics, training and mentoring, as well as being an athlete. In this environment good management, judgement and teamwork are as important as good lungs, strong legs and good technique – probably even more important.

Expedition leadership has taught Duncan many lessons and his stories of Everest and The Seven Summits lend themselves to a number of main concepts including:

• Vision – setting a clear goal
• Living your dream – inspiration
• Leadership – situational leadership and teamwork
• Breaking ‘impossible’ tasks into bite-sized chunks
• Project learning cycle – plan, do, reflect
• Project management – planning, logistics,
• Risk management
• The importance of self awareness

The solution to your group’s needs might be an inspirational tailored presentation, or a seminar presentation with debriefing that fits into a larger overriding program. Perhaps you would gain increased value from a breakout session or workshop. Duncan will work with you to customise a solution.