Insurance Conferences
Keynote Speaker for Insurance Conferences
Insurance audiences understand risk professionally. Yossi Ghinsberg's Amazon survival story lands with particular force for people who spend their careers pricing uncertainty. He has lived it.
20 days alone in the Amazon
1M+ books sold
Voted Most Unforgettable Speaker
Google / Apple / Microsoft / BMW
Insurance professionals think about risk differently from most audiences. They model it, price it, and manage it for a living. What they rarely get is a speaker who has actually faced mortal risk without a safety net, and who can speak to what that experience teaches about judgment, resilience, and the decisions people make when the outcome is genuinely uncertain.
Yossi Ghinsberg spent 20 days alone in the Bolivian Amazon with no food and no rescue. He had no framework. He had no safety net. He had nothing except his own judgment and the refusal to stop moving. When he tells that story to an insurance audience, the connection is immediate. They understand risk in their bones. His experience gives them something they cannot build from actuarial tables: a firsthand account of what happens when the risk becomes real, and how a person navigates it.
His keynotes for insurance conferences have included major industry events across Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe, including the MDRT Main Stage in 2025. He has been voted Most Unforgettable Speaker by event professionals. His book sold over a million copies and was made into a Hollywood film starring Daniel Radcliffe. He brings all of that credibility into the room and leaves audiences with content they use long after the event.
Keynote programs for insurance conferences
Each program is tailored to your event theme and audience. These are the three most often requested by insurance organisers.
From Survival to Legacy
How to lead with clarity, courage, and creativity when the map runs out
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The Laws of the Jungle
Nature's principles for leadership, culture, and the legacy that outlasts you
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Real Survival vs Imaginary Survival
A survivor's perspective on chronic stress, and the path back to optimal performance
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What your audience walks away with
The story opens the room. These are the tools that stay after it.
Snake Breath
A breathing technique for acute stress, born in the jungle and taught live on stage. Your audience uses it the same day.
Full Sensory Activation
A practice for presence under pressure. The antidote to running on autopilot when the stakes are highest.
Real vs. imaginary survival
A framework that separates true threats from the manufactured stress that burns teams out. Most pressure is imaginary. Knowing the difference changes how people work.
A shared language
Teams quote the story for years. The next step, the river, the jungle. It becomes shorthand for how the team faces hard things.
Best fit
- Annual kickoffs and sales conferences
- Leadership summits and executive offsites
- Insurance and financial services (MDRT main stage, 2025)
- Resilience, wellbeing, and change programs
Formats and fee
- Keynote. 60 minutes, tailored to your event theme
- Keynote + fireside chat. Adds 20 to 30 minutes of moderated Q&A
- Workshop. Half day or full day, hands-on with the techniques
Most engagements fall between USD 30,000 and 50,000, depending on format, location, and travel. Every enquiry receives a tailored proposal within 48 hours.
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