MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

Inspiring Teams To Reach New Heights.

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To perform under pressure, we need to find daily resilience, motivation and confidence.

In The Mountaineer’s Mindset, Bonita Norris shares how we can achieve extraordinary feats when we take responsibility for our inner world and learn how not to let excuses, limiting beliefs and fears define how we show up for our goals, our teams and ourselves. 

This immersive keynote is packed with actionable takeaways that audiences can implement immediately, leaving them motivated and inspired to conquer their own or your team’s Everest.

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Keynote Key Messages

• Learn it All, not Know it All 

How learning fast, being adaptable and using curiosity super charges growth and transformation.

• Success by smallness  

How big outcomes are achieved through small, consistent actions.

• Focus not fret  

How to stay calm and effective under pressure by focusing attention on the next controllable step.

• The biggest mountain is the one in the mind

Practical tools to identify and overcome limiting self talk

• Resilience comes from keeping the moment in perspective

How taking a figurative “step back” in tough moments can help us recalibrate and give us the motivation to keep moving forward.

• Be great, make others great

How the foundations of high-performing teams are built through consistent and intentional small acts of connection, recognition and support.

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Audiences Will Learn

• To be more fearless and tackle daily challenges with confidence

• How to become more connected as a team

• To ambitiously work toward big goals and trust the process of incremental gains

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Client Testimonial

“Bonita was awesome! Such an inspiring storyteller – funny, passionate, and very polished. She took on our messages and wove them seamlessly into her own story.
We’ve had so much positive feedback from the team – many calling her the best speaker they’ve seen.”

Oracle

How To Learn From Failure To Achieve Success

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We all hate making mistakes, and nobody wants to fail.

Yet if we want to achieve extraordinary goals then both mistakes and failure are inevitable parts of the journey to success.

In this immersive keynote, Bonita shares her own personal story of how a simple mistake in the mountains led to a failure that she initially struggled to mentally recover from, until she understood that failure could be, and then later became, the catalyst for even greater success.

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Keynote Key Messages

• Growth Mindset

• Learning From Failure

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Audiences Will Learn

• That failure and success are often part of the same journey

• How to transform weakness into strengths and failure into success

• How to take a proactive and compassionate approach to learning from mistakes within a team

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Client Testimonial

“Exactly what we were looking for to push our audience to keep on fighting to achieve their goals however impossible the challenge might seem. Moving out of one’s comfort zone to seek new challenges was perfectly voiced.”

Culdesac

How Data Made The First Ascent of Everest Possible

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Bonita Norris explores how the first ascent of Everest was made possible by data and scientific rigour after 30 years of failed attempts on the world's highest peak.

The story we all know and love about the first ascent of Everest in 1953 is that of man over mountain: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's superhuman effort to make it to the summit. But is that the whole story behind the first ascent?

This inspiring keynote tells of the unsung hero of Everest, Dr Griffith Pugh, who unlocked the mystery of how to get the two climbers to the top and back down again - alive, using data.

Today, we are grasping to understand how the data and AI revolution will transform our lives. Within this uncertainty there is a reluctance to change, and a fear of leaving old ways behind. We wouldn't be alone in feeling this way: 70 years ago the pioneers of Everest were grappling with much the same- their belief system, so closely held onto, was actually holding them back from realising their potential.

In this talk, Bonita Norris explores how a reluctance to change stifled the British from the first ascent of Everest for nearly 30 years, until an outsider to the climbing community became the disruptor they didn't want- but desperately needed. 

This keynote reframes the story of the first ascent of Everest as a triumph not of man over mountain but of data over dogmatic thinking. 

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Keynote Key Themes

• How reluctance to change holds us back from progress, becoming the biggest obstacle and how we can all fall victim to being change-haters.

• Why outsiders become disruptors, often at great personal cost

• It is still humans that harness data and AI- as Bonita knows, even with the world's most advanced data and equipment, she still had to push her body to the extreme to reach the summit of Everest. It's the relationship of the two: human and data, that is a potent force.

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Client Testimonial

"Loved the talk. A great story, well-told. Her ability to take a room full of self-confessed 'data nerds' into the 'death zone' (and, most importantly, back again!) was a masterclass in storytelling. Bravo!"

Microsoft