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Adrian Hayes is passionate about life, people and the world. He is a British record-breaking polar explorer & adventurer, documentary presenter, keynote speaker, business coach, author and campaigner.
NEWS: Kanchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world and is Adrian’s next big climb/adventure in 2025.
Adrian speaks Arabic and Nepalese and is a former Middle East Sales Director for Airbus. They are the largest aeronautics and space Company in Europe. He is also a former British Army Gurkha Officer.In his expedition work, Adrian Hayes has achieved more major goals than almost anyone in the world. Everest, K2, the North Pole, South Pole, the length of Greenland by kite-ski, the Arabian Desert by camel. He also has two Guinness world records, two documentaries and also a couple of books.
One of the few extreme adventurers in the world with a senior corporate background, including 6 years as an Airbus Middle East Sales Director, Adrian is now an internationally acclaimed, global keynote speaker and professional leadership, team and executive consultant and coach, delivering speeches, seminars and programs worldwide. He is also an Advisory Board member for a Mars mission.
In his campaign work Adrian Hayes is also an ambassador for economic, social & environmental sustainability. He is a patron of the Population Matters and CHASE Africa charities, amongst other causes. As a former qualified Paramedic and current First Responder, he is additionally involved in an ongoing project providing medical treatment in the remote areas of the Himalayas.
Adrian Hayes has featured in three documentaries: The Greenland Quest in 2011 for the National Geographic Channel, Footsteps of Thesiger in 2013 and In Inner Mongolia in 2017 for the Discovery Channel, and is now an establishing television and documentary presenter.
His first book, Footsteps of Thesiger, was published in 2013, followed by his second, One Man’s Climb: A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2, in 2019. His third book, on human development and society, will be published in 2021.
Speaking:
Adrian delivers a full assortment of keynote, motivational, leadership or sustainability speeches every month in different continents. From after dinner speeches to company off-sites or conference keynotes and ranging from 15 to 90 minutes. Utilising a unique ‘toolkit’ of stories, experiences, anecdotes, lessons, models and concepts, he aims to deliver powerful, inspiring, thought provoking and entertaining speeches tailored entirely according to client objectives and desired outcomes.
Team Coaching:
Adrian delivers change inducing, deep learning and gimmick free team development programs. He offers them to boards of directors, senior management teams, business, sports and non-profit teams worldwide. They are designed with one overriding objective – ‘teams exist to achieve results’. His programs have been developed from years of study of personal and team coaching, relationship systems. Also using work and conflict resolution techniques, together with his unique experience of putting these tools into practise in the expedition, corporate, sporting and military worlds.
Leadership Development:
Adrian’s empowering and practical leadership development programs are similarly tailored in accordance with organizational needs and to a wide range of client bases. He brings in whatever items from his ‘toolkit’ of studies, examples, exercises, models, concepts, tools and techniques that may be required to develop that person’s or group’s leadership qualities, practices and needs.
