A three-part keynote on leadership under pressure: what leadership actually requires, how resilience gets built, and what research says separates leaders who hold a team together from those who don’t.
At its center is a survival story: Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance and the earlier Belgica expedition faced the same Antarctic catastrophe a generation apart — with very different outcomes. The difference came down to story itself: the hard-won lessons of the Belgica survivors, shared forward, are what let Shackleton bring his crew through. From there: how stress and trauma actually work in the body, four practical strategies for building resilience under pressure, and the seven traits shared by resilient leaders, drawn from research across 500+ leaders.
Track: Resilience & Storytelling. 90 min + optional workshop.