Alex Staniforth

Alex Staniforth is a record-breaking adventurer, performance coach, author and charity founder, and an expert on resilience through adversity.

As a teenager Alex survived two of the deadliest disasters in Mount Everest history, whilst overcoming personal struggles much closer to home, with mental ill health, epilepsy, bullying and a stammer since childhood. But Alex
refused to let adversity define him.

At just 18, he raised over £35,000 whilst at school to pursue his goal of climbing Mount Everest. His first expedition in 2014 ended when a devastating avalanche took 16 lives. A year later, he survived the Nepal earthquake while
another avalanche struck Base Camp. But failure, adversity and change became opportunities for growth.

In 2025 he became the first and fastest person to run and cycle all 446 mountains in England and Wales in just 45 days: beating the previous record by more than four months. He completed the National Three Peaks Challenge
entirely on foot within nine days and holds the fastest known time to climb all 100 UK county tops by human power.

These experiences have only driven Alex to help others realise their potential. He is the author of two books (Icefall and Another Peak) and the founder of Mind Over Mountains, a charity restoring mental wellbeing through nature.
His adventures have raised over £150,000 for charity, and in 2025 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Chester for his contribution to young people’s mental health.

However, Alex is not your typical motivational speaker. He translates lived experience and remarkable storytelling into practical tools with a refreshingly relatable and human perspective, that anyone can apply to navigate their own
goals and unexpected challenges.

Alex has been trusted by organisations across the UK, Europe and Asia including Rolls-Royce, Bank of America, Samsung, Accenture and the NHS — helping teams and leaders build the resilience and mental fitness to thrive
through adversity and achieve their potential.

Are your teams ready for the challenges ahead? Let Alex help them take the first step out of Base Camp.

A typical keynote from Alex includes 40-50 minutes of presenting + optional Q&A.

His presentations are highly visual and animated, combining remarkable lived experiences with authentic storytelling and relatable, actionable tools that your team will take away and move forward.

However, Alex will work tirelessly with your brief to ensure it connects with your audience, nails your objectives, and
achieves your definition of success.

His most popular, tried-and-tested keynotes are below:

Re-defining Resilience: How to Embrace the Unexpected
Challenges and change are inevitable; being defeated is optional.
Resilience is no longer about bouncing back or enduring to breaking point: it’s how we recover, adapt and move forward – even when we can’t see the top of the mountain.

Drawing lessons from his record-breaking adventures and lived experiences, Alex shares his Resilience Rucksack toolkit to help teams successfully navigate setbacks, uncertainty and pressure, so they can sustain performance when it matters most.

Delegates will learn how to:
• Explore what resilience really means – with a framework to build it
• Recover quicker from setbacks and unexpected challenges
• Sustain performance and avoid burnout under pressure
• Build a growth mindset to reframe obstacles
• Move forward despite change and uncertainty
+ Available as a 90-minute interactive workshop

Achieving our Everest: Unlocking an Adventure Mindset
We all have our own ‘Everest’ to climb – yet fear of failure often prevents us from taking the first step.

This is not your typical success story of climbing Everest, but an extraordinary journey of high performance, teamwork and achieving the impossible in the face of adversity. Drawing from two disasters on Everest and challenges closer to home, Alex offers a powerful new perspective on success – and why staying at Base Camp may be the greatest risk of all.

Alex helps teams unlock the mindset, resilience and performance to unlock their full potential. Why settle for Base Camp?

Delegates will learn how to:
- Overcome fear of failure and imposter syndrome
- Move forward despite setbacks and pressure
- Sustain motivation and performance when the summit is out of view
- Step outside comfort zones and discover new possibilities
- Successfully set and achieve bigger goals with a new framework

Mind Over Mountains: Building Mental Fitness for Sustainable Performance
Whether in a marathon or the workplace: we can’t sustain high performance without looking after ourselves first.

With refreshing vulnerability, Alex openly shares his own mental health journey as a young man to encourage open conversations and challenge the stigma that still surrounds mental health.

Drawing on his lived experience and ultra-endurance challenges, Alex shares practical tools to help teams proactively build mental fitness so they can protect their wellbeing, manage stress, sustain performance and prevent burnout – one small step at a time.

Delegates will learn how to:
• Build positive mental fitness and well-being habits
• Open conversations about mental health to create a positive ripple effect
• Proactively manage the stress bucket and avoid burnout
• Spot the warning signs and support others
• Prioritise recovery for sustainable performance
+ Also available as a 90-minute interactive workshop

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Clients often ask about purchasing books for giveaways and delegate packs. Below you’ll find a selection of products by Alex Staniforth. Click the images to view on Amazon's website. For bulk orders, please speak with your Booking Agent.