One hour that changes the room.
Three keynotes. Every one built on one of the most extraordinary true adventure stories, in recent times.
Yossi doesn't give speeches. He creates felt experiences. His keynotes are visceral. They bypass the analytical mind and land somewhere deeper. Audiences leave not just informed or inspired, but genuinely shifted. Something has moved. Every keynote is tailored to your audience, your theme, and the outcome you need.
For organisations that dare to move their people beyond performance into purpose.
From Survival to Legacy
How to lead with clarity, courage, and creativity when the map runs out
The map has run out. Every organisation is navigating terrain that didn't exist five years ago: disruption, volatility, the quiet collapse of certainty as a management tool. In 1981, Yossi Ghinsberg spent 21 days alone in the Bolivian Amazon. No map. No food. No rescue coming. He did not have a framework. He had instinct, will, and the refusal to stop moving. He came out the other side with something no course teaches. That is what this keynote offers. Not theory. Not optimism. A way of thinking that works when nothing is certain. Leaders leave making faster decisions and trusting their own judgment. Teams stop waiting for the map to reappear and start navigating the terrain in front of them.
Key Takeaways
Redefining Stress
Redefining stress as a misdirected survival instinct, the clarity tool no framework teaches
The Illusion of Control
Why adaptability beats certainty as a leadership strategy
Innovation Under Pressure
The creative muscle every organisation needs now
Best For:
Technology, financial services, professional services, any organisation navigating disruption
The Laws of the Jungle
Nature's principles for leadership, culture, and the legacy that outlasts you
21 days alone in the Amazon. No food. No rescue. No certainty of survival. What happened in those three weeks became a book, a film, and 25 years of standing in front of people who needed to hear it. This is not a talk about the jungle. It is a talk about you. About the moment you stop waiting to be rescued and start making yourself useful. About the difference between pain and suffering. About what is still possible on the other side of the thing you were sure would break you. Teams walk out of this room changed. Not inspired for a day. Changed.
Key Takeaways
The Bigger Your Goal, The More Resistance You Face
And why that's the signal you're on the right path
Pain Doesn't Mean Suffering
The distinction that changes how people navigate hardship
When Failure is Not an Option
From paralysis to usefulness to unstoppable momentum
Best For:
All corporate audiences. Financial services, insurance, technology, healthcare, professional associations.
Real Survival vs Imaginary Survival
A survivor's perspective on chronic stress, and the path back to optimal performance
Most stress keynotes are delivered by experts. This one is delivered by a survivor. In 1981, Yossi Ghinsberg spent 21 days alone in the Amazon. He knows real survival. He also knows that most people, teams, and organisations are not running on real survival. They are running on something else entirely. Real survival is not the enemy. Real danger calls out the best in us. Senses sharpen. Decisions speed up. Courage shows up. When it is real, it is an invitation. What most of us actually experience is imaginary survival. No bear. No olympic race. Just the grind of the mundane and its mundane pressure. The body cannot tell the difference. The survival system fires anyway. We call it stress. It is the malady of our time, the biggest modern killer, the precursor to disease of body, mind, and spirit. This keynote gives audiences the tools to switch the system off. Not through the mind, which is too slow. Through the body, through sensorial practices that act on the organism directly, moving people from sympathetic to parasympathetic in real time. Peaks are for peaks. The rest of the time we are meant to operate at optimal performance. People leave with the discernment between real and imaginary survival, and the practices to use it at work and at home. Life changing. Sometimes life saving.
Key Takeaways
Real Survival Is Not The Enemy
Why real crisis calls out the best in us, and why imaginary crisis quietly grinds us down
Peak Is For Peaks
Why optimal performance, not peak, is the sustainable goal for leaders and teams
The Switch Is In The Body
How to move from sympathetic to parasympathetic through sensorial practices, not through the mind
Best For:
All corporate audiences. Especially leadership teams, sales organisations, healthcare professionals, and any group running too hot for too long.
Format & Logistics
Keynote (60 min)
The standard format for main-stage plenary audiences of 500 to 10,000.
Keynote + Fireside Chat
Keynote followed by a 20-30 minute moderated conversation.
Duration: 45-90 min | Format: In-person, Virtual, Hybrid | Languages: English, Hebrew | Audience: 50 to 10,000+
When a keynote isn't enough
The full-day workshop.
A keynote moves a room for an hour. A full day moves people through something they don't forget.
For organisations that want more than a talk, Yossi designs and leads a workshop built around the outcome you are after. On premises or off-site. The length, the location, and the shape are decided with you, after a deep brief.
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A deep brief
We talk about what you are trying to shift, what is in the way, and what your people actually need.
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You and Yossi shape the day
Length, location, on-site or off, the questions the day must answer. Decided together.
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Yossi curates the team
Top facilitators for the modules that fit. Yossi runs the entire program and personally delivers the two signature techniques — full sensory activation and the snake breath — that he teaches nowhere else. Learn what they are →
Only when things shake, a shift is possible. The day is built to shake the system, with care.
— Yossi
The body of work behind it
Two decades of leading groups through long-form journeys. Hundreds of people, across cohorts, retreats, and intensives. The shapes have changed; the principle has not. Yossi does every practice he gives. He is part of the group, not separate from it.
Best for:
- Leadership offsites that need to count.
- Sales kickoffs that need a real shift, not a pep talk.
- Culture work for teams going through change.
- Executive teams at an inflection point.
- Executive teams ready to ask what comes next.
“It was a moving and emotional talk, probably the best I have ever listened to. Our guests were excited, sad and inspired at the same time.”
Francesco Prandoni
Event Producer, DOC-Events
“Our audience really were amazed by your story and in awe of everything you endured and overcame. You definitely made an impact.”
Dee Knopp
Executive Director, Diversity Alliance for Science