Jamie Clarke
Professional and Olympic-level Performance Coach, expedition leader, business builder and master motivator,
Jamie Clarke works with elite teams who win: Olympic teams, NHL teams, sales teams, leadership teams and start-up teams. What connects them all is pressure. With his own hard-won philosophy of decision-making in extremis—and a storytelling technique that can take you from laughter to tears in minutes—Jamie recharges audiences with fresh perspectives on success and failure, and risk vs. reward. Through heart-stopping challenges, Jamie has reached the peak of his profession as a climber and expedition leader. After failing (twice), Jamie regrouped to reach Mt. Everest’s death-zone summit (also twice). He’s trekked 1,000 miles across the most inhospitable desert on the planet and is one of the few alpinists to reach the “Seven Summits”—the highest peak on each continent. As a successful entrepreneur, Jamie learned lessons the hard way as the CEO of an e-commerce retail start-up. While not on the road speaking or trekking in the Canadian Rockies, Jamie is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary, where he teaches and mentors in the Centre for Advanced Leadership.
Jamie's sessions
The Map is Not the Terrain: Charting a New Course for Leadership
Tue, Oct 20, 8:15 AM to 9:15 AM - Main Ballroom (Salon 5/6) Keynote
Jamie Clarke knows a lot about leadership and uncertainty. He has spent his entire adult life embracing the unknown. From his days as a world-renowned adventure leader and elite climber to becoming a successful business builder and professional sports consultant to a Stanley Cup-winning hockey team, Jamie has navigated countless high-pressure and challenging landscapes. Even though teams and individuals consistently ignore this certainty, Jamie knows it: Uncertainty leads to indecision. Indecision leads to fear. Fear leads to chaos. Chaos ends in failure. Always. Jamie will take you inside the mindset and the leadership qualities that build team cultures that don’t shrink from uncertainty. They succeed when others fail. What to do when your old map no longer works? These cultures are everything from teams of business professionals, expeditions struggling to survive negative 70-degree blizzards in the death zone of 25,000 feet, or professional sports teams finding their collective way to break through past failures and become champions. With an infectious sense of humor and palpable, authentic passion, Jamie challenges audiences to think differently about success, failure, hard work and fear.
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