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Bonita Norris

Bonita Norris became the youngest person to summit Mount Everest and reach the North Pole, and helps organisations build resilience, growth mindset, and teamwork under pressure. A bestselling author, she won Best Speaker Storyteller at The Speaker Awards 2024.

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Bonita Norris, Speaker | Everest & North Pole
Bonita Norris

Bonita Norris

London, United Kingdom

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  • Youngest person to summit Everest and reach the North Pole
  • Climbed multiple 8,000m peaks, including Lhotse and Manaslu
  • Awarded Best Speaker Storyteller at The Speakers Awards
Bonita Norris is the youngest person ever to reach both the summit of Mount Everest and the North Pole, transforming from novice climber at age 20 to Everest conqueror just two years later. As a bestselling author of The Girl Who Climbed Everest and veteran of multiple 8,000m peaks including Everest, Lhotse, and Manaslu, Bonita has earned recognition as Cosmopolitan's Woman of the Year nominee. With 15 years of speaking experience and over 750 keynotes delivered worldwide, her adventure credentials are matched by her communication and captivating storytelling skills. Bonita helps organisations navigate uncertainty by sharing practical insights on performance under pressure. Her experiences in extreme environments provide valuable lessons on radical responsibility, resilience, and effective teamwork, essential skills for organisations facing today's challenging business landscapes and ambitious targets. Audiences leave Bonita's presentations with actionable strategies for developing a growth mindset, practical techniques for building personal resilience, and a renewed sense of agency to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Her relatable approach demonstrates how ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results through determination and marginal gains. Book Bonita for your event to energise your team with spellbinding storytelling that transforms challenges into opportunities for growth.

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Topics, sessions and talks

The Mountaineer's Mindset
Bonita Norris draws on her journey from novice climber to conquering Mount Everest to explore how mindset determines performance under pressure. Combining vivid storytelling with an actionable framework, she shows how taking responsibility for our inner world helps overcome limiting beliefs and excuses. Bonita covers thriving in uncertainty, embracing change, and building resilient team culture. Audiences leave equipped with practical tools to unleash their potential, become stronger leaders and team-mates, and tackle ambitious goals with renewed confidence.
In The Death Zone
In this session, Bonita Norris explores how to utilise fear as a catalyst for success. Sharing her personal journey, she reveals how a mistake in the mountains led to a significant failure that ultimately transformed her perspective. Bonita emphasises that failure and success are intertwined, teaching attendees how to turn weaknesses into strengths and adopt a compassionate approach to learning from mistakes. Participants will leave with the courage to pursue their unique paths, even when competitors go in a different direction.
Data Over Dogma: The First Ascent Of Everest
Bonita Norris delves into how data and scientific rigour enabled the first ascent of Everest in 1953, highlighting Dr Griffith Pugh's crucial role in ensuring climbers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit safely. This talk reframes the ascent as a victory of data over outdated beliefs, paralleling today's opportunities with the data and AI revolution. Attendees will learn the importance of embracing change and harnessing the power of data to unlock their potential.
One Goal, One Team
In this hour-long workshop, Bonita Norris builds on her session Mountains of the Mind to help teams further embed their learnings from the talk. The workshop is divided into two parts: the first focuses on identifying your team's ultimate goal, obstacles, and strategies, while the second emphasises teamwork and fostering strong connections among team members.

Why we recommend booking Bonita

Bonita Norris, the youngest person to summit Mount Everest and reach the North Pole, inspires organisations with her powerful insights on resilience, teamwork, and performance under pressure gained from conquering multiple 8,000m peaks. Book this bestselling author and award-winning speaker to energise your team with spellbinding storytelling that transforms challenges into opportunities for growth.

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Trusted by Oracle, Duracell, Greene King, BlackRock, Microsoft

Testimonials

Bonita crushed it. We were so inspired. Feedback has been incredible and we loved her mantra: Focus Not Fret.

Google

Bonita is a rare combination of qualities – she is determined yet humble, really human yet clearly incredibly driven – she made our course delegates feel that if she could achieve what she had from such a standing start they could too. She particularly connected with the women in the audience; young, female and super-successful she was a genuine role model for our talented women.

M&S

Genuinely the most informative and relatable talk I have listened to at these data/ AI events.

Richard Riley

Greene King

Featured Projects

Bonita Norris - The Girl Who Climbed Everest book cover
Bonita Norris - Power Up Podcast E3: Power Up Your Goals podcast cover
Bonita Norris - BBC Outlook Podcast: My Body Has Given Me Everything podcast cover

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What is Bonita Norris's speaking style like?
Bonita Norris structures her talks around first-person expedition narratives, drawing on specific moments from her climbs — such as a pivotal mistake in the mountains — to illustrate principles of resilience, failure, and marginal gains that she then translates into actionable frameworks for business audiences.
What topics does Bonita Norris specialise in?
Bonita Norris speaks on mindset and performance under pressure, using fear and failure as catalysts for growth, and the role of data and scientific rigour in achieving ambitious goals. She is the youngest person to have summited Mount Everest and reached the North Pole, having made the Everest ascent just two years after taking up climbing at age 20.
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