Yossi Ghinsberg
Yossi Ghinsberg
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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.

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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