Charlie Wittmack has been organizing major expeditions for almost twenty years. As an explorer, Charlie is best known for being the first person to complete "The World Triathlon," an 8.000-mile triathlon that stretches from rural England to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal. In 2010, Wittmack became the first American to complete the "Peak & Pond," a rare sports-double composed of swimming the English Channel and climbing Mount Everest. Wittmack is also the first American to have swum the length of the River Thames in England. Wittmack has stood atop peaks on dozens of expeditions to the Andes, Alps, Africa, Alaska and Himalaya. He has trekked across East Africa with the Maasai tribesmen, sailed the Indian Ocean in a handmade boat and completed numerous ocean marathon swims around the world. In 2010, Wittmack was elected as Fellow National in the Explorers Club in Manhattan as recognition for his contributions to the field of exploration and adventure. He is also a member of the Royal Geographic Society in London. Whether you're trying to cross the Kazakh Desert by bicycle or motivate your team to reach a sales goal in Q4, Charlie Wittmack will provide you and your team wih the tools you need for success. As a former defense attorney, Wittmack has been trained to identify and solve his client's problems quickly and efficiently. Trained by the juries in the cases he has taken to trial, Wittmack has become a master at articulating complex business topics in simple terms, while keeping the conversation entertaining and exciting by drawing on examples from his life as an explorer. As a speaker, Wittmack maximizes his clients' return-on-investment by customizing his keynote for each audience through a highly collaborative process with each host. The result is a keynote that educates and inspires, while delivering a consistent organizational message to participants in a way that few speakers can. When not exploring the world, Wittmack is a practicing attorney and an adjunct professor at medical school in Iowa. He is 34 years old and is married to Catherine Wittmack. The couple has a son, James.
What he presents:
Adventurers
Goal Setting
Motivation
Teamwork/Teambuilding
Business
Tough Times