ABOUT BONITA

Bonita Norris is the youngest person ever to reach both the summit of Mount Everest and the North Pole.

She did this having never climbed a mountain before the age of 20 and then reached the summit of Everest only two years later at the age of 22.

This rollercoaster journey that taught her the power of taking radical responsibility- for our own mindset, for how we show up in our team, and for finding the resilience to keep moving forward in life’s toughest moments.

Bonita went on to climb multiple 8,000m peaks including - Everest (8,849m), Lhotse (8,516m), Manaslu (8,163m), has skied to the North Pole, and attempted to become the first British woman to successfully climb K2 (8,611m).

It is her rich and diverse experiences in the mountains that have honed her understanding of high performance under pressure- and now she shares these unique insights with audiences all over the world.

AWARD WINNING MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

We all have mountains to climb, whether that’s targets to achieve, being asked to do more with less, uncertainty to navigate or setbacks to pick ourselves up from. People are feeling overwhelmed by macro economic pressures out of their control, and are losing sight of their own motivation and potential.

Bonita reminds individuals of the power they have within themselves to rise to these challenges, energising them to claim their agency and take action.

Through spellbinding storytelling, mountaineer Bonita Norris will take your audience on a rollercoaster journey to the roof of the world. This energising, humorous and emotional story is how Bonita hooks her audience’s in, and then shares three life changing lessons learned from facing up to the world’s highest mountains memorable mantras and actionable advice that they can apply immediately to take your business to new heights.

Bonita has 15 years experience as a keynote speaker. She is a master storyteller and has delivered over 750 motivational speeches on conference stages all over the globe. Her high energy keynotes are the perfect open or close to your conference, leaving audiences inspired, motivated and equipped to put into action their learnings from her keynote and from your event.

Bonita is testament to the power of setting an arguably impossible goal and working successfully toward it from a standing start. She shares her failures and successes with humility, humour and a desire to pass on to others the lessons she learned as an ordinary person facing up to the world’s highest mountains.

Bonita’s recent clients include Microsoft, Google, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, Dyson, Virgin O2, Rolex and Mercedes F1.