Keynote topic by Steph Davis Lessons from the Edge
Change – Risk – Fear Problems to avoid? Or compelling challenges that will push you to step over the edge and fly? A shift in mindset can lead your team to embrace adversity, welcome change, and rise to the next level. By learning to meet challenge with strategy and choosing to step forward into the unknown, we can all face our own edge with confidence and excitement.
Pushing past the edge is what Steph Davis does on a daily basis—she climbs the highest peaks and flies off them in a squirrel suit.
From an unlikely start as a classical piano student, Steph shares her story of following a simple passion for climbing rocks to becoming an icon in the extreme sports world. Steph has pushed the limits of climbing and flying for over 3 decades by combining a mindset of huge vision with a strategic approach to risk management. Her message of taking on challenge with humility, focus and determination is accompanied by jaw-dropping photos and video that will take your team out of the conference room and to the highest peaks around the world, and will inspire them to rethink their own vision of what it means to stand at the edge.
Format: Steph’s keynote presentation is 50 minutes, with option for Q&A, with breathtaking videos and images.
Keynote topic by Steph Davis Learning to Fly - Lessons from the air TO FLY
In today’s ever changing world, businesses and individuals are faced with a constant stream of information, choices and change. The traditional pathways to success are also changing, as are perceptions of risk, sustainability and achievement.
Extreme experiences are a compelling metaphor for life and work. Steph speaks on the lessons she’s learned in the mountains and in the air as a professional climber and wingsuit pilot, and in choosing a highly nontraditional career path.
The audience will take away Steph’s tools for:
- Managing change.
- Embracing failure.
- Understanding risk and fear.
- Cultivating adaptability.
- Preparing for opportunity.
Audiences are encouraged to view their own challenges through a new lens, recognizing the power of adversity and evolution, and the value of crafting an uncommon life.
Format: Steph’s keynote presentation is 50 minutes and illustrated with breathtaking videos and slides plus 15 minutes for open Q & A with the audience. Steph also offers a 20 minute Ted-length presentation.
Keynote topic by Steph Davis Further keynote topics
Presentations can be adapted for focus on the following themes:
Collaborating With Fear
Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable: learning to rename fear and use it to move forward.
Extreme Risk Management
Lessons from the most high commitment sports: free solo climbing and wingsuit BASE jumping: how you can manage risk, deal with loss and embrace growth through discipline and calculated risk.
Going From Impossible to Possible
Learning to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses with honesty in order to go to the next level when the time is right. Achieve huge goals, step by step, through assessment, preparation, training and mental attitude.
Change and Transformation
Why you need crisis: how to adapt to it, how to rename it and how to grow from it.
Plant Based Power
How a whole foods diet took my climbing to the next level and how you can improve your health and your athletic and professional performance.
Personal Sustainability
Create a foundation of inner strength and balance through small, daily choices that have a ripple effect on your community, relationships and personal happiness.