Bonita Norris
Empower your team to reach their full potential with Bonita Norris, speaker and record-breaking mountaineer. Bonita helps organisations overcome challenges through her mindset and peak performance strategies, delivering award-winning storytelling as the youngest person to summit Everest and reach the North Pole.
London, United Kingdom
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As a bestselling author of The Girl Who Climbed Everest and veteran of multiple 8,000m peaks including Everest, Lhotse, and Manaslu, Bonita has earned recognition as Cosmopolitan's Woman of the Year nominee. With 15 years of speaking experience and over 750 keynotes delivered worldwide, her adventure credentials are matched by her communication and captivating storytelling skills.
Bonita helps organisations navigate uncertainty by sharing practical insights on performance under pressure. Her experiences in extreme environments provide valuable lessons on radical responsibility, resilience, and effective teamwork, essential skills for organisations facing today's challenging business landscapes and ambitious targets.
Audiences leave Bonita's presentations with actionable strategies for developing a growth mindset, practical techniques for building personal resilience, and a renewed sense of agency to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Her relatable approach demonstrates how ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results through determination and marginal gains.
Book Bonita for your event to energise your team with spellbinding storytelling that transforms challenges into opportunities for growth.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
In this talk, Bonita Norris discusses the importance of daily resilience, motivation, and confidence in performing under pressure. She discusses how taking responsibility for our inner world can help overcome excuses and limiting beliefs. Attendees will discover strategies for focusing on small problems to achieve larger goals, building a strong team culture, and fostering fearlessness. Participants will leave equipped to tackle challenges confidently and set ambitious goals while trusting the incremental process.
In this session, Bonita Norris explores how to utilise fear as a catalyst for success. Sharing her personal journey, she reveals how a mistake in the mountains led to a significant failure that ultimately transformed her perspective. Bonita emphasises that failure and success are intertwined, teaching attendees how to turn weaknesses into strengths and adopt a compassionate approach to learning from mistakes. Participants will leave with the courage to pursue their unique paths, even when competitors go in a different direction.
Bonita Norris delves into how data and scientific rigour enabled the first ascent of Everest in 1953, highlighting Dr Griffith Pugh's crucial role in ensuring climbers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit safely. This talk reframes the ascent as a victory of data over outdated beliefs, paralleling today's opportunities with the data and AI revolution. Attendees will learn the importance of embracing change and harnessing the power of data to unlock their potential.
In this hour-long workshop, Bonita Norris builds on her session Mountains of the Mind to help teams further embed their learnings from the talk. The workshop is divided into two parts: the first focuses on identifying your team's ultimate goal, obstacles, and strategies, while the second emphasises teamwork and fostering strong connections among team members.
Looking for a custom keynote or workshop designed around your company’s goals and culture? The expert will create a tailored, interactive session that aligns with your objectives, values, and strategic priorities. From leadership and innovation to wellbeing and collaboration, each experience is built from the ground up to deliver measurable impact and lasting change.
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