Scott Kress

In this engaging presentation Scott will share the insights he has gained while climbing and leading high-altitude expeditions for over 25 years. Not only will this presentation contain gripping stories from the mountains, but Scott will share the lessons from failure and the strategies for success and how these can be applied to your personal, team and leadership development.

What is it that separates success from failure? What allows some leaders and teams to achieve greatness where others stumble? Today’s business environment is more complex than ever and presents a series of mountains, which must all be scaled. While there is always a leader breaking the trail to the top, they cannot do it alone. Sustained success comes from the synergy of great leadership, teamwork, and personal focus.

This presentation will introduce models and concepts in the areas of leadership, vision, change management, communication, circles of influence, personal accountability, personal drive, team development and goal setting. These concepts are intertwined into Scott’s riveting Everest experience. Each presentation is custom designed to meet your team’s needs so the focus can be on various team and leadership challenges depending on what is most relevant to your organization.

Scott Kress is a noted speaker, author, team building expert, former MBA Professor and leadership consultant, helping organizations turn their teams and leaders into passionate achievers.

The results?

• Motivate and inspire your teams to set and achieve stretch goals
• Meet challenges with new enthusiasm
• Engage leaders to build high performance teams
• Understand how to flourish within change and ambiguity
• Encourage ownership and accountability for results
• Create big picture thinking and generate interdepartmental collaboration

Are you striving to achieve something truly outrageous? Learn from someone who has been there and done that.

Achieve the Outrageous is aimed at helping the individual within the team perform at their peak. Any company, leadership team, departmental team or individual seeking to achieve a big goal will benefit from this presentation. Scott will share his insights into goal setting, overcoming adversity, perseverance, and so much more.

In the pursuit of bigger and bigger goals, Scott and three partners skied unsupported from the coast of Antarctica 960km to the South Pole; one of the most difficult journeys on earth. Along with this achievement comes Scott’s keynote, “Achieve the Outrageous”. In this presentation, Scott will share the story of his punishing 44-day expedition across some of the most hostile ground on the planet and punctuate it with learning and application.

Scott’s presentation is high energy, passionate, engaging, and most importantly, relevant to the challenges individuals face in reaching outrageous goals.

Scott Kress is a masterful storyteller, an author, a leadership and team building expert, a former Executive MBA and EMBA Professor and a life-long adventurer. He is the 51st Canadian to summit Mount Everest, and the 18th Canadian to climb the highest peak on each of the 7 continents.

The results?

• Inspire individuals and teams
• Set and achieve outrageous goals
• Learn the secrets to achieving big goals
• Meet challenges with new enthusiasm
• Encourage ownership and accountability
• Take performance to the next level

Custom designed for your group, Scott will effectively blend either of Scott’s motivational keynotes into a training workshop.

This half- or full-day workshop integrates Scott Kress’ extremely popular “Learning In Thin Air” or “Achieve the Outrageous” keynote with a mix of activities, models, tools and strategies that will meet your learning and development goals. The riveting true stories makes this workshop highly engaging, and the content makes it valuable to your team and your organization.

Using stunning visuals and engaging stories, Scott shares his personal insights into leadership, teamwork, and personal achievement. At specific points in the story, the group is asked to reflect upon their own challenges and goals as they relate to trust, change, communication, conflict and other aspects of team development.

Each workshop is custom designed to focus on your goals and objectives. Tool cards, worksheets, and action planning guides help participants capture their insights and act upon them. The highly interactive format makes this session as engaging as it is relevant.

Participants are not just listening to a story, they are actively participating and applying the presentation content to their real world goals and challenges.

The results?

• Motivate and educate your team simultaneously
• Promote retention with a high level of interaction and engagement
• Make follow through easier based on this retention
• Gain knowledge about important aspects of effective teamwork
• Walk away with an action plan to help your team achieve high performance