Kevin Biggar
Extreme Adventurer, TV Presenter & Business Strategist
With a unique background of proven performance in both extreme adventure and business, Kevin will share powerful and highly entertaining techniques and insights into how the principles, frameworks and learnings from each can be applied to the other.
Topic: Your Oarsome Resilience
In this presentation Kevin Biggar shares what he has learned first-hand about resilience from rowing the Atlantic ocean and trekking to the South Pole. He will provide techniques to make you and your team better at taking on challenges, being resilient to setbacks, and persisting through adversity.
To keep going when the going gets tough is an essential skill because nothing worthwhile is easy. The Japanese have a wonderful saying ‘Fall down six times, get up seven.’ In many areas of life the single most important factor predicting success is mental toughness or ‘resilience’ – the ability to bounce back after shocks and setbacks and not dwell in unproductive emotions.
Many people find this difficult. There is a tendency to internalise the reasons for a failure, generalise the failure to other areas and to believe that things won’t improve.
While some people are lucky enough to have a natural predisposition towards resilience, the good news for the rest of us is that there are skills and techniques which can dramatically improve our mental toughness.
More about Kevin..
Kevin was a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group when he decided he had to take control of his life. So he quit his job, sold his house, left his girlfriend and went back home to live with his mum. He sat on the sofa, watched TV, ate fast food and put on weight.
Two years later he stood on the pier in Barbados, winner of the trans-Atlantic rowing race and the holder of two world records. Kevin shares with you the strategies and techniques for how he set these outrageous goals, overcame extreme obstacles, and persevered through adversity to achieve success.
Kevin is the author of three books, including the award winning Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower and now a presenter on the hit TVNZ documentary series First Crossings – he will take you on a fast-paced unforgettable journey toward high performance.
