Keynote Speaker
Resilience Keynote Speaker
Most resilience keynotes are frameworks. Yossi Ghinsberg's is lived experience. He spent 20 days alone in the Bolivian Amazon with no food, no map, and no rescue coming. That is where the content comes from.
20 days alone in the Amazon
1M+ books sold
Voted Most Unforgettable Speaker
Google / Apple / Microsoft / BMW
There is a difference between resilience as a concept and resilience as something you practice at two in the morning when you are not sure you will make it. Yossi knows the second kind. In 1981, he got lost in the Bolivian Amazon. No food. No contact with the outside world. No guarantee he would be found. He survived 20 days alone before a search party reached him.
That experience is not the speech. It is the proof behind the speech. Audiences hear resilience differently when it comes from someone who had no other option. Not as inspiration. As evidence that the thing they are facing is survivable, and that they have more in them than they think.
Yossi's resilience keynotes move people from the idea of resilience to the practice of it. He gives audiences a specific framework for distinguishing real pressure from imaginary pressure, and practical tools for returning to steady performance when the system fires anyway. People leave with something they can use the next day.
Keynote programs
Every program can be tailored to your theme and audience. These are the three most often requested.
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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