Bonita Norris

Bonita Norris is the youngest person 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 reached the summit of Everest only two years later, at the age of 22. Norris has gone on to climb multiple 8,000m peaks, including - Everest (8,849m), Lhotse (8,516m), Manaslu (8,163m), has skied to the North Pole, guided teams on Mt Kilimanjaro and attempted to become the first British woman to successfully climb K2 (8,611m). Her expedition experiences culminated in the successful publication of her memoir, "The Girl Who Climbed Everest," in 2017, which topped the Amazon Mountaineering book chart in 2022.

Norris believes that 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 overcome. Through spellbinding storytelling, mountaineer Norris adeptly imparts valuable lessons on teamwork, marginal gains, and mental fortitude, providing memorable mantras and actionable advice that teams can apply immediately to take your business to new heights.

Norris has delivered over 650 motivational speeches to teams working in the world’s most successful companies. In these speeches, she demonstrates how, with a clear plan, the right mindset, and a great team, our most challenging goals can and will be realized. Her recent clients include Microsoft, Google, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, Dyson, Virgin O2, Rolex and Mercedes F1.

Norris is a 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, humor, and a desire to pass on to others the lessons she learned as an ordinary person facing up to the world’s highest mountains.