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Motivational Speaker: Sharon Wood: The First North American Woman to Summit Mount Everest | ||||||||
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Sharon Wood is the first North American woman to climb Mount Everest and the only woman to do so by a new route and without Sherpa assistance.
Sharon teaches, entertains and inspires with her story of climbing Mount Everest by a new and more difficult route, with fewer resources and, in good style. Good style in the world of elite high altitude climbing is all about accomplishing more with less.
Her story is a testimonial to rendering the impossible possible through exemplary teamwork, leadership and personal spirit. It is a story about ordinary people achieving extraordinary results. Sharon effectively conveys both the individual and the team perspective by stressing the importance of her own passion and dreams while fulfilling a role as a member of a team. A team committed to levering every component of their strategy to realize a shared vision.
Sharon's style is personal and moving. She uses powerful anecdotes and vivid analogies to convey the elements that parallel the challenges of striving individuals and organizations. Sharon's authentic, humorous and honest approach evokes listeners to consider the value of their own stories and reflect upon the resources and opportunities that foster personal and team success.
"Everest To the Summit and Beyond" is more than just an adventure story, it is a timeless, universal story about human struggle and triumph over adversity. For anyone wanting to be more effective in his or her work or life, Sharon's story is a powerful inspiration.
Sharon's story illustrates these concepts and more:
Stunning PowerPoint images and video taken live from the highest mountain on Earth support her presentation.
Take a Risk, Live Life! Risk is a factor tied to much of what we do.
Risk is often the deterrent to acting on what we need to do to live a more
fulfilling life. Sharon espouses the value of selective risk taking as a means
to experiencing our greater potential. Anticipation of loss, fear and anxiety
are feelings most often associated with risk. Sharon Founder and Chairperson of a private school in her community, President of her own company Adventure Dynamics Inc, first North American woman to summit Mount Everest, a professional mountaineer and a mother of two sons; Sharon is leading a life rich with risk, challenge and change. Through humor, passion and self-disclosure Sharon describes the elements of risk in a variety of endeavors. She draws from her personal experience in public speaking, implementing community and team projects, and climbing the highest mountain in the world to explore the balance of losses and gains in risk taking.
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I feared these people were too
"sophisticated" to respond to a motivational speaker. I couldnšt have been
more wrong. Your story, and the slides and the video that went with it
were fascinating. You clearly understood the problems we faced, and
tailored your presentation to our needs. Your low-key style set off the
message like black velvet behind diamonds.
Sharon your message regarding
team concepts, interdependencies, and maximizing onešs potential was
directly on point. You were extremely effective in applying your own
experiences in high altitude climbing to our business setting. The extra
time you spent with us to get a deeper understanding of our business was
clear to the audience and strengthened your impact. Moreover, your
engaging and relaxed communication style enabled our staff to relate sell
to you and with you. Simply put, you clearly exceeded our expectations and
our expectations were quite high. 
Everyone in the audience
unanimously agreed that your presentation was fantastic. Your message
which was delivered with such honesty, really struck home for the audience
while leaving the event they felt energized, entertained and ready to
recognize the many opportunities in front of them. I am convinced that the
success of this session was not only in your actual message and delivery,
but in the hard preparation work and the time you dedicated in prep
discussions with myself and other P&G leaders beforehand.
Most important they said that they
could relate to your accomplishment and story in a way that they had not
experienced with other speakers. Not that they thought they could climb
Everest, but that through personal commitment and teamwork they could take
their ordinary skills and develop them in a way that would allow them to
deliver more both personally and professionally than had thought possible.
Sharon Wood Spoke to over five
hundred RE/MAX sales people at a sales rally. I have helped organize these
events for seven years, and she had the greatest positive response we've
have ever had. She left the audience feeling ordinary people can do
extraordinary things, and they were as charged up as if they had gone up
Everest themselves. 
The standing ovation we gave you
was of course partly for your Everest achievement. But I think it was more
because you created for the Project Management audience a context by which
you reflected the conference leadership theme, and you drew in everyone. I
have received so many accolades on your behalf as a result.
After hearing you
recount, with great humility I might add, the significant physical and
mental challenges embedded in your climb to the summit, it really put into
perspective the business issues we face. Your concepts of "Good Style",
"Better is Possible" and "Thriving versus Surviving" have already found
their way into the vernacular of our company. Your story is so rich that I
expect we will be referencing it in internal conversations for some time
to come.
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