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Chris Moon
Chris Moon MBE helps teams build resilience, adapt to change and lift performance. A former army officer who survived Khmer Rouge captivity and a landmine blast, Chris became the world's first amputee ultra-distance runner.
Chris Moon MBE is a former army officer and the world's first amputee ultra-distance runner. He helps individuals and teams perform better through change, pressure and adversity.
After leaving the army, Chris joined a charity clearing landmines. In Cambodia he was taken prisoner by the Khmer Rouge and negotiated his release. In 1995 he lost his right arm and leg to a landmine in Mozambique and treated himself at the scene to survive. Within a year of leaving hospital he ran the London Marathon, and in 1997 he completed the Marathon des Sables. He has since run the Badwater Death Valley 135-mile ultra, walked the 500-mile Camino in record time and led teams up Kilimanjaro and the length of Cambodia by bike.
Chris holds a master's in human behaviour and has worked with psychologists and business schools, so there's academic rigour behind the principles he draws from his experiences. His keynotes and workshops cover resilience, leading through change, health and safety, and mental wellness, and he tailors each one to the client's outcomes, often following up with online sessions and coaching.
Audiences leave with practical tools for handling setbacks, a clearer grasp of the psychology of change and a stronger sense of personal ownership. He delivers it all with humour and plenty of interaction.
Book Chris for a story people won't forget and principles they'll use the next day.
Topics, sessions and talks
Chris Moon survived capture by the Khmer Rouge and later lost his right arm and leg to a landmine while clearing mines for a charity in Mozambique. He went on to become the world's first amputee ultra-distance runner. Drawing on both experiences, Chris challenges the idea of limitation with humour and plenty of interaction, showing how individuals and teams can step beyond perceived limits. The result is higher engagement, renewed enthusiasm, and practical tools for building resilience and lifting performance.
Chris Moon spent years leading large teams through high-risk operations in hazardous areas, and he knows first-hand the human cost of an accident. He explains the causes and effects of accidents from both a psychological and a practical perspective, bringing a fresh angle to health and safety. Chris also shares principles of mental wellness and resilience, so the session covers the whole person. Teams come away more engaged with safety and better equipped to look after their mental health.
In the natural world, things are either growing or dying, and Chris Moon argues that people and organisations are no different. He explains the psychology of change and the emotional journey most people go through when their reality shifts, then shows how to move more quickly to acceptance, adaptability, and action. Drawing on his own experience of adapting after losing an arm and a leg, Chris reassures audiences and equips them to adapt with confidence to whatever comes next.
Chris Moon has been close to the line between life and death and has tested the limits of human endurance, from the Marathon des Sables to the Badwater ultra in Death Valley. He uses those experiences to illustrate principles anyone can apply in daily life and work to step beyond their limits and do what they do better. The session generates energy, enthusiasm, and commitment, leaving teams with a clear sense of what they are capable of.
Chris Moon brings the humorous side of surviving a landmine blast to the after-dinner stage, using it to show that we choose the way we think. He explains the power of the right mindset, how to stay positive when we don't feel like it, and how to turn challenge into opportunity. Humour is tailored to the organisation and audience by agreement, and the speech can be built around the client's chosen calls to action. Guests leave entertained and thinking differently.
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