Jamie Clarke

Extreme Adventurer, Storyteller & Performance Coach

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Calgary, Canada
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Jamie Clarke Biography

Jamie stood on the top of Everest twice — in 1997 and 2010. But failed the first two times. He’s crossed the barren Empty Quarter by camel, learning to trust ancient cultures for survival. He launched and ran a bricks & mortar retail operation for 14 years and was founder and CEO of an e-commerce start-up. And he’s been a sought-after speaker and facilitator for more than 25 years.

Jamie Clarke brings a treasure trove of stories back from the edge of an adventurous life: stories of triumph and heartache, kindness and defeat. When you hear Jamie speak, you’ll get goosebumps. But you’ll also get sore sides from laughter and share tears of compassion.

Storytellers don’t get any closer to the edge of human experience. Jamie’s upbeat perspectives from the roof of the world to the peaks of business success have made him a favorite with leading companies and pro sports franchises. The Stanley Cup-winning Capitals, Olympic Gold Medal Team Canada, IBM, Kraft, NFL and The Wall Street Journal have learned from his stories of perseverance, leadership and teambuilding.

With boundless energy, gritty humor and palpable passion, Clarke inspires audiences by channeling the lessons of unforgiving wild places to illuminate the challenges organizations and people face every day. Jamie offers deep insight and actionable strategy for success in business, academia — or the most dynamic environment of all: everyday life.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/01/2024.

Jamie Clarke Speaking Topics

  • INSPIRATION

    Inspiration literally means ‘breath’ — and Jamie Clarke knows how precious it is to have enough air in his lungs at 29,000 feet. But he also knows that without inspiration, you won’t even get to basecamp. What is this mysterious substance? Where does motivation come from and where does it go?

    By cherishing life as an adventure — outcome unknown — Jamie helps us to embrace the abundance of our imagination and the overlooked sources of inspiration around every corner.

  • GRIT

    Modern life is all about pressure: at home and at work. Those feelings of stress are real — just like standing on the edge of a crevasse on a high mountain. Jamie Clarke takes you to the edge of human experience — so that you can look deep down into your own anxieties.

    Together, you’ll climb to higher ground with a renewed appreciation for your own reserves of grit — and for the support of those around you.

  • LEADERSHIP

    How do you lead a team to the top when you’re not always winning? Jamie Clarke draws on his life of adventure to explore the most difficult terrain of all: our hearts and minds. Being a leader is recognizing the space between bravery and courage, the path from kindness to empathy — and the power of optimism.

    Jamie helps his audience to recognize that we don’t need the title of leader to lead. Together, we explore how developing character allows us all to perform under pressure .

  • The Map is Not the Terrain: Charting a New Course for Leadership

    Jamie Clarke knows a lot about leadership and uncertainty. He has spent his entire adult life embracing the unknown. From his days as a world-renowned adventure leader and elite climber to becoming a successful business builder and professional sports consultant to a Stanley Cup • winning hockey team, Jamie has navigated countless high pressure and challenging landscapes. Even though teams and individuals consistently ignore this certainty, Jamie knows it: Uncertainty leads to indecision. Indecision leads to fear. Fear leads to chaos. Chaos ends in failure. Always.

    This program is more than 30 years in the making. It takes you inside the mindset and the leadership qualities that build team cultures that don’t shrink from uncertainty. Instead, they succeed when others fail. What to do when your old map no longer works? These cultures are everything from teams of business professionals, expeditions struggling to survive negative 70 degree blizzards in the death zone of 25,000 feet, or professional sports teams finding their collective way to break through past failures and become champions.

    With an infectious sense of humor and palpable, authentic passion, Jamie challenges his audiences to think differently about success, failure, hard work and fear. In his visually stunning and always charismatic and inspiring style, audiences will learn how to:

    • Adapt to forces outside of one’s control.

    • Uphold one’s mission despite the unknowns and the lack of perfect information.

    • Learn from failure quickly and adjust your plans in real-time.

    • Conquer fear through focus and practice.

    • Reframe leadership through the lenses of trust, humility, reliance, inclusion and empathy.

  • Everyone starts at ZERO: Selling and the Power of Passion

    Jamie Clarke gets it. He gets how to grab an audience of sales professionals, pull it in and keep it with him for every word, laugh, metaphor and lesson. With an infectious charisma, relatable humor and a feel-it-in-your-shoes passion, Jamie Clarke challenges sales audiences to think differently about success, drive, failure, hard work and fear. No matter your past successes, be it summiting Everest or setting new sales records, everyone at one point has to start all over again. And prove it again. To start at ZERO. Again.

    This captivating program on regrouping and starting over from zero, shares hard-earned insights from his journeys scaling our world’s highest mountains, trekking through its most dangerous places and then creating and managing his own adventure outfitters business. Jamie Clarke is the perfect speaker for sales kick-off events seeking a fresh spark and an actionable blueprint for sharpening risk-taking and mindset. Clarke’s customized presentations deliver powerful take-away lessons on:

    • Performing your best when it matters most

    • The shift required to get the grunt work done

    • Conquering fear through focus

    • Building a resilient, winning mindset

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Jamie Clarke is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as INSPIRATION, GRIT, LEADERSHIP, The Map is Not the Terrain: Charting a New Course for Leadership and Everyone starts at ZERO: Selling and the Power of Passion. The estimated speaking fee range to book Jamie Clarke for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Jamie Clarke generally travels from CalgaryCanada and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Vince Papale, Tom Flick, Mike Abrashoff, JP Pawliw-Fry and Carey Lohrenz. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jamie Clarke for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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