Alex Staniforth

Alex Staniforth is a record-breaking adventurer, ultra-endurance athlete, author and charity founder from Cheshire who is no stranger to overcoming challenges.

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What a refreshing delight Alex is! Authentic, funny, passionate and simply genuine in every word of his heartening journey shared. If you’re looking for a real example of resilience and winning in the face of adversity - Alex is your man. He’ll have you glad to have met him and wishing him every success in all he does - as well as inspiring those in your team in a humble, unassuming way that is extremely powerful.

Marcella Kain

UK Sales Director, Kellanova

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Why you should book Alex Staniforth for your next event

Equip your team with actionable resilience strategies for tackling any challenge.
Founder of Mind Over Mountains, delivering mental fitness strategies from nature.
Achieve extraordinary results with practical tools for well-being and peak performance.

Empower your team with resilience and mental fitness strategies from record-breaking adventurer Alex Staniforth. Drawing on his extraordinary journey of overcoming Everest disasters, personal challenges, and ultra-endurance feats, Alex inspires audiences to transform adversity into opportunity and achieve extraordinary results in work and life.

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Keynotes

Keynote by speaker Alex Staniforth: Resilience through Adversity: How to embrace the unexpected

Challenges and change are inevitable; being defeated is optional. Resilience isn’t simply about bouncing back or enduring to breaking point: it’s how we recharge, prepare and move forward – even when we can’t see the top of the mountain.

Drawing lessons and insight from his extreme adventures and ultra-endurance challenges, Alex will share the tools in his ‘Resilience Rucksack’ for anyone to adapt and perform in the face of setbacks, failure, uncertainty and pressure – when the whole team depends on it.

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Keynote by speaker Alex Staniforth: Achieving our Everest: Why staying at Base Camp kills our potential

We all have our own ‘Everest’ to climb. However, uncertainty, doubt and fear of failure often prevents us from taking the first step and achieving our full potential – when staying at Base Camp might be the biggest risk of all.

Recalling two disasters on Mount Everest and challenges closer to home, Alex’s story will re-define our concept of success and failure, and what’s possible even in the face of adversity.

Adopting an adventure mindset is key to dealing with inevitable setbacks and finding opportunities. Alex will share a relatable insight into resilience, goalsetting, teamwork and motivation so that we can all achieve our own mountain; one small step at a time. Can you afford to stay at Base Camp?

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Keynote by speaker Alex Staniforth: Mountains in the Mind – How to improve your mental fitness

High performance isn’t sustainable without looking after our well-being too. With a refreshing vulnerability, Alex openly shares his own mental health journey as a young man to encourage open conversations and challenge the myths and stigma that costs thousands of lives each year, and costs businesses billions in absenteeism. For leaders, supporting the team often starts by putting our hand up first.

Drawing from his ultra-endurance challenges and lived experiences, Alex shares tools to proactively build our mental fitness so we can protect our mental health, manage stress, spot the warning signs and avoid burnout – one small step at a time.

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Customer Reviews

Marcella Kain UK Sales Director, Kellanova

Alex recently joined us at the launch event for our High Potential programme as the keynote speaker. Alex perfectly combined his story and experiences with the theme of Achieving Your Potential. He captured the audience through his ability to authentically articulate his drive and determination, overcoming many challenges in his way, as well as finding beauty and lessons through ‘failure’. Alex collaborated with my team in preparing for the event such attention to detail, ensuring his talk would not only resonate but inspire the audience. And that it did! Feedback received from participants was exceptional, so many inspired to push outside of their comfort zone and to see what opportunities lie ahead. Myself included!

Natalie Prempeh Head of Talent, Samsung UK

Alex recently supported a team get together encouraging different ways to approach challenges in or out of work. His ability to quickly grasp the messages specific to the team and our business and then weave this into his delivery was impressive. His authentic and humble articulation enabled there to be something in the messaging for everyone and this was very much appreciated. Thanks again Alex.

Jonathan Ford Off Trade Director, Heineken UK

The team were blown away and left feeling incredibly inspired. Thank you for doing what you do. I know for some in my team who are struggling at the moment it would have resonated even more. Keep doing what you're doing and THANK YOU! I also know everyone has left feeling and thinking differently because of you, in a really positive way.

Sue Harries Digital Director, Screwfix

Sometimes the approach to mental health within organisations as big and cumbersome as ours can feel a bit of a tick box, superficial exercise, but your sessions felt very different, very real, very humble and very authentic. In my view, you will have made a difference much bigger than you may think or ever know.

Chris Mead Chief Superintendent, Cambridgeshire Police

A lot of us had read about your story online, but hearing you tell it yourself yesterday was more inspiring than I would ever have imagined. Your story telling skills are second to none and I believe that you have had an incredible impact on a lot of people who were on the call by being vulnerable, sharing your struggles, and letting us into your world.

Alix Wright Internet Fusion Group

Alex delivered a virtual motivational speech via Skype to circa 150 leaders in our business. The event was very well received with many leaders commenting on the relevance of Alex’s journey to our challenges and since the event several leaders have linked back to Alex’s content – describing their “resilience rucksack” and the question “are you pulling on the rope?” has entered our lexicon. I was particularly impressed with the preparation and tailoring Alex was able to do to make the message even more pertinent to our business – it was a truly inspirational session summed up by one comment – “I can’t believe you just paid us to listen to that!

Robert Neale GM, Core Manufacture, Rolls-Royce Submarines

Thanks so much for coming down to talk with the team. You absolutely hit the brief - everyone has been talking about it ever since. It also encouraged one or two people to open up about their own anxieties and stories later in the day. And we had some really healthy conversations.

Paul Kiddle Contract Manager, National Grid

Your presentation was riveting, engaging and inspirational. We have received such overwhelming feedback on how your story resonated with the team and how it was what they needed at such an appropriate time.

Seema Hallon Head of Office Dubai, Deriv.com

Alex Staniforth

The Adversity Adventurer, Everest avalanche survivor, author & mental health charity founder

By 19 years old Alex had already overcome and achieved more than many will in a lifetime. As a teenager he survived the two most significant disasters in Mount Everest history, in two consecutive years. However, his biggest mountains have been much closer to home: epilepsy, bullying, mental ill health and a stammer since childhood.

Alex never allowed this to become his identity – only his experience. Re-framing adversity as an opportunity has driven him to discover his potential and help others overcome their own ‘Everest’.

This is not your typical success story of reaching the summit. Alex takes his audiences on an emotional journey of resilience, courage, failure, teamwork and triumph over adversity. Combining lessons from adventure and ultra-endurance with a relatable vulnerability, he ensures a Return on Inspiration with his Resilience Rucksack toolkit, that anyone can apply to their own goals and challenges.

Despite facing numerous setbacks, Alex has never wavered in his pursuit of challenges and charitable endeavors. Following a failed attempt to climb Mount Everest in 2014 and a harrowing experience during the Nepal earthquake in 2015, he continued to push his limits. Alex has raised over £100,000 for charity, authored two books, and achieved remarkable feats such as becoming the fastest person to conquer all 100 UK county tops and running the National Three Peaks challenge – 452 miles in 9 days 12 hours. In 2020 he founded Mind Over Mountains, an award-winning charity dedicated to promoting mental well-being through nature.

Trusted by global companies including Rolls-Royce, Samsung and Bank of America, he helps teams, leaders and students build the resilience, motivation and mental fitness to overcome challenges, protect their wellbeing and achieve the extraordinary.