Kevin Vallely
Adventurer, Author, Motivational speaker, and Architect.
Why you should book speaker Kevin Vallely
- Kevin has a unique exploratory background, he showcases how business and adventure are similar in many ways, and when implemented together, it creates a world class team of motivation and individual growth.
- He is resilient. Kevin thrives in adverse conditions; he shows companies how to use creative thinking and innovation within your company and not make decisions through fear.
- He connects. Speaker Kevin Valley knows what it means to be part of an elite, high-performing team operating in a challenging, ever-changing environment. He connects his experience to your company's current pain points and helps you make changes.
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Build your organization with motivation and grit
This extreme adventurer uses his experiences to inspire audiences and teams on positive, creative ways to infuse leadership into your organization. He encourages businesses to remain resilient, embracing failure, and becoming inspired. Using his unique background as a dynamic explorer, Kevin is able to connect and engage audience members to step into their fullest full potential.
Speaker Kevin Vallely successfully juggles his life as a registered architect, leadership mentor, author, keynote speaker, and father and still finds the time to become an internationally recognized explorer. Kevin was named one of Canada’s leading explorers in 2001 and has been building onto his resume ever since. Kevin is both a business professional and world-class explorer. He fully understands how the ‘wild-wisdom’ garnered in the adventure world maps directly to the challenges faced by the modern business professional because he’s lived through it.
Kevin works for the leadership development company The AIP Group based out of California, as a facilitator, storyteller, and keynote speaker. They focus on building leadership among executive leadership teams using adventure to inspire performance. Clients include Microsoft, Google Cisco, HPE, Aruba, Dell, The Wonderful Company, Deloitte, Time Warner, Blackrock, and many other Fortune 50/500 companies.
Kevin’s adventuring career spans nearly two decades, with one of his many highlights happening in 2009 when he and two teammates broke the world record to the South Pole. He is a member of the esteemed Explorer’s Club and was honored as an Explorer’s Club Flag recipient for my expedition to the Northwest Passage in 2013.
After spending nearly twenty years testing the limits of human endurance in the most inhospitable environments on the planet, Kevin has developed a sixth sense, ‘wild wisdom,’ that allows him to succeed at everything he does. “
There’s nothing special about me,”
he says steadfastly when asked,
“I don’t have some hidden talent or gift, I just know how to get things done.”
He inspires audiences with his core belief that all of us are capable of achieving big goals
Kevin works for the leadership development company The AIP Group based out of California, as a facilitator, storyteller, and keynote speaker. They focus on building leadership among executive leadership teams using adventure to inspire performance. Clients include Microsoft, Google Cisco, HPE, Aruba, Dell, The Wonderful Company, Deloitte, Time Warner, Blackrock, and many other Fortune 50/500 companies.
Kevin’s adventuring career spans nearly two decades, with one of his many highlights happening in 2009 when he and two teammates broke the world record to the South Pole. He is a member of the esteemed Explorer’s Club and was honored as an Explorer’s Club Flag recipient for my expedition to the Northwest Passage in 2013.
After spending nearly twenty years testing the limits of human endurance in the most inhospitable environments on the planet, Kevin has developed a sixth sense, ‘wild wisdom,’ that allows him to succeed at everything he does. “
There’s nothing special about me,”
he says steadfastly when asked,
“I don’t have some hidden talent or gift, I just know how to get things done.”
He inspires audiences with his core belief that all of us are capable of achieving big goals
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Kevin Vallely:
The Courage to Succeed
The Courage to Succeed is a unique high seas adventure of self-discovery and empowerment on the Northwest Passage. Learn how to embrace fear, make decisions, and cultivate resilience on this unique interactive journey.
Join Kevin Vallely on an interactive journey through the Northwest Passage. Discover courage through his experiences as an adventurer. Learn how to embrace fear, make decisions, and cultivate resilience. Reflect on personal growth, positive mindset, and calculated risks. Embark on a unique high seas adventure for self-discovery and empowerment.
Key Themes Covered:
Accepting Fear:
Acknowledging and naming your fears is the first step in overcoming them. In times of uncertainty, lead by focusing on what you can control.
Building Resilience:
Resilience is not a character trail but a skill to be cultivated and grown. Discover the three key
elements to help build this essential performance skill.
Commit to Courage:
Embrace calculated risks, view challenges as opportunities for growth, and strive to leave a lasting legacy, both as individuals and in business.
Join Kevin Vallely on an interactive journey through the Northwest Passage. Discover courage through his experiences as an adventurer. Learn how to embrace fear, make decisions, and cultivate resilience. Reflect on personal growth, positive mindset, and calculated risks. Embark on a unique high seas adventure for self-discovery and empowerment.
Key Themes Covered:
Accepting Fear:
Acknowledging and naming your fears is the first step in overcoming them. In times of uncertainty, lead by focusing on what you can control.
Building Resilience:
Resilience is not a character trail but a skill to be cultivated and grown. Discover the three key
elements to help build this essential performance skill.
Commit to Courage:
Embrace calculated risks, view challenges as opportunities for growth, and strive to leave a lasting legacy, both as individuals and in business.
Keynote by speaker Kevin Vallely:
Building High Performing Teams
Building High Performing Teams is unique, interactive keynote presentation about forging robust teams in extreme conditions. It combines real-world examples with actionable strategies to empower organizations to excel in challenging environments.
Kevin Vallely shares insights in his keynote about forging robust teams in extreme conditions. Highlighting inclusivity, authenticity, trust, and alignment of actions and words, he draws from his polar expeditions to guide audience members in building enduring teams for diverse fields.
Key Themes Covered:
Shared Vision and Goals:
Team success hinges on a shared purpose, clear objectives, and a unifying vision guiding their effort.
Diverse Skills and Talent:
Diverse team members with various skills, backgrounds, and strengths bring a broader perspective and expertise high-performing teams.
Collaborative Culture:
Fostering a culture of collaboration, where team members respect each other's ideas, actively share information, and work together towards common objectives.
Trust and Psychological Safety:
A psychologically safe environment encourages individuals to take risks, share their thoughts, and admit mistakes without fear of judgment or reprisal.
Kevin Vallely shares insights in his keynote about forging robust teams in extreme conditions. Highlighting inclusivity, authenticity, trust, and alignment of actions and words, he draws from his polar expeditions to guide audience members in building enduring teams for diverse fields.
Key Themes Covered:
Shared Vision and Goals:
Team success hinges on a shared purpose, clear objectives, and a unifying vision guiding their effort.
Diverse Skills and Talent:
Diverse team members with various skills, backgrounds, and strengths bring a broader perspective and expertise high-performing teams.
Collaborative Culture:
Fostering a culture of collaboration, where team members respect each other's ideas, actively share information, and work together towards common objectives.
Trust and Psychological Safety:
A psychologically safe environment encourages individuals to take risks, share their thoughts, and admit mistakes without fear of judgment or reprisal.
Keynote by speaker Kevin Vallely:
Growing Resilience
Growing Resilience is an interactive keynote exploring the 3 key elements of Resilience, emphasizing partnership, positivity and perspective in the face of setbacks. This engaging presentation equips individuals with practical tools to foster resilience, enabling them to thrive even in adversity.
Kevin's interactive keynote explores the 3 Key Elements of Resilience, emphasizing partnership, positivity and perspective in the face of setbacks. Inspired by a question posed during his 2009 South Pole expedition, he reflects on the qualities and behaviors that have sustained his journey. Kevin highlights that resilience is a learned trait, even more vital than intelligence for predicting success. Throughout the keynote, he engages the audience in three meaningful conversations to internalize the message. With his record-breaking South Pole achievement, Kevin's insights on resilience inspire and empower audiences to keep moving forward.
Key Themes Covered:
Partnership:
Teamwork amplifies our power and effectiveness. Just as medical crises prompt support-seeking, connecting with others is vital. A single word of encouragement, given or received promotes, well-being.
Positivity:
Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity to take decisive action and shape your future. Recognize our natural bias towards negativity, a survival instinct, and strive for positivity to unlock creativity, collaboration, and efficiency.
Perspective:
We often take for granted the most important things—health, family, food, and shelter. Consider the long term and embrace cognitive reappraisal to turn challenges into growth opportunities.
Kevin's interactive keynote explores the 3 Key Elements of Resilience, emphasizing partnership, positivity and perspective in the face of setbacks. Inspired by a question posed during his 2009 South Pole expedition, he reflects on the qualities and behaviors that have sustained his journey. Kevin highlights that resilience is a learned trait, even more vital than intelligence for predicting success. Throughout the keynote, he engages the audience in three meaningful conversations to internalize the message. With his record-breaking South Pole achievement, Kevin's insights on resilience inspire and empower audiences to keep moving forward.
Key Themes Covered:
Partnership:
Teamwork amplifies our power and effectiveness. Just as medical crises prompt support-seeking, connecting with others is vital. A single word of encouragement, given or received promotes, well-being.
Positivity:
Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity to take decisive action and shape your future. Recognize our natural bias towards negativity, a survival instinct, and strive for positivity to unlock creativity, collaboration, and efficiency.
Perspective:
We often take for granted the most important things—health, family, food, and shelter. Consider the long term and embrace cognitive reappraisal to turn challenges into growth opportunities.
Keynote by speaker Kevin Vallely:
Unlocking Your Creative Potential
Unlocking Your Creative Potential is an interactive keynote that explores the significance of creativity and innovation in everything we do. This thought-provoking presentation inspires participants to tap into their innate creative abilities and provides practical techniques to harness innovation for personal and professional growth.
Explore the significance of creativity and innovation with Kevin Vallely. Leveraging his dual roles as an award-winning architect and internationally recognized explorer, his keynote challenges the misconception that creativity is confined to art. It emphasizes how innovation is vital for solving problems, refining processes, and generating ideas to enhance lives. In today's evolving landscape, creative thinking and innovation are not optional but essential for survival.
Key Themes Covered:
Partnership:
Teamwork amplifies our power and effectiveness. Just as medical crises prompt support-seeking, connecting with others is vital. A single word of encouragement, given or received promotes, well-being.
Positivity:
Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity to take decisive action and shape your future. Recognize our natural bias towards negativity, a survival instinct, and strive for positivity to unlock creativity, collaboration, and efficiency.
Perspective:
We often take for granted the most important things—health, family, food, and shelter. Consider the long term and embrace cognitive reappraisal to turn challenges into growth opportunities.
Explore the significance of creativity and innovation with Kevin Vallely. Leveraging his dual roles as an award-winning architect and internationally recognized explorer, his keynote challenges the misconception that creativity is confined to art. It emphasizes how innovation is vital for solving problems, refining processes, and generating ideas to enhance lives. In today's evolving landscape, creative thinking and innovation are not optional but essential for survival.
Key Themes Covered:
Partnership:
Teamwork amplifies our power and effectiveness. Just as medical crises prompt support-seeking, connecting with others is vital. A single word of encouragement, given or received promotes, well-being.
Positivity:
Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity to take decisive action and shape your future. Recognize our natural bias towards negativity, a survival instinct, and strive for positivity to unlock creativity, collaboration, and efficiency.
Perspective:
We often take for granted the most important things—health, family, food, and shelter. Consider the long term and embrace cognitive reappraisal to turn challenges into growth opportunities.
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