Keynote Speaker
Stress Management Speaker
Yossi Ghinsberg knows real survival. That perspective is what makes his stress management keynote different from every other one your audience has heard.
20 days alone in the Amazon
1M+ books sold
Voted Most Unforgettable Speaker
Google / Apple / Microsoft / BMW
Most stress is imaginary survival. No bear. No race. No actual mortal threat. Just the inbox, the deadline, the pressure that never quite turns off. 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, and the precursor to disease of body, mind, and spirit.
Yossi knows real survival. In 1981, he spent 20 days alone in the Bolivian Amazon with no food and no rescue coming. He knows what the survival system feels like when the threat is real, and he knows the exact distinction between that and the chronic low-grade alarm most people live in. When he makes that distinction from a stage, it does something that no theory can do. It lands. Because the audience is hearing it from someone who has been on both sides of it.
His stress management keynote, Real Survival vs Imaginary Survival, gives audiences the discernment to tell those two states apart, and practical tools to switch the stress response off. Not through the mind, which is too slow, but through the body. Sensorial practices that move people from sympathetic to parasympathetic in real time. People leave with something they can use that night. Leaders leave with something to offer their teams the next morning.
Keynote programs
Each program is tailored to your event and audience. These are the three most 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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