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.
21 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 21 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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