As keynote speaker and adventurer I get to explore the world. Wherever I go, I try to immerse myself in the culture and experience the numerous marvels each destination has to offer. No matter the location – there is always something novel, intriguing and extraordinary to discover.

I find that humans are often blind to the beauty that surrounds them and unaware of the adventure that awaits just outside the front door. I am deeply grateful for each opportunity to ‘see’, feel, hear, taste, smell – to meet new people, sample new cuisine, climb a new mountain and share my journey with a new audience.

Becoming a motivational speaker wasn’t always on the cards for me. While it’s become my greatest passion, I fell into it quite incidentally. The more I traveled the world and the more people I engaged with, the more I realised that others find encouragement through my own journey.

There is a type of camaraderie that’s fostered almost spontaneously in engaging with others who have overcome hardships. My message, “turning huge obstacles into opportunities”, resonates with most anyone. Everyone from those living in abject poverty to corporate executives face personal hurdles which seem impossible to cross. I share my message because it inspires others to think beyond the limitations of their own circumstance, and believe that the impossible is possible.

Louis Armstrong’s song, ‘What a Wonderful World’ may not have the same impact on those who can see that it does on the blind. While we cannot see the world as you do, we are equally mesmerised and enthralled with nature and the beauty that surrounds us. 

While I cannot see the devastation humans have caused throughout our natural habitats, I experience it in other ways. The smell of burning rubber, of decay, environments which used to be tolerable suddenly vacillating between extreme hot and cold, terrain which used to be easier to cross suddenly riddled with new streams, or dried up entirely.

This plight may not be on all corporate agendas, and yet all of us will need to face up to the future we leave our children, and generations to come. 

Please click on the video links below to get an idea of my scope of work as blind ultra-athlete, international keynote speaker, corporate mentor and global ambassador for conservation and climate change.