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Jonny Huntington
Transform resilience into competitive advantage with Jonny Huntington, stroke survivor and South Pole expedition record-holder. Jonny equips organisations with practical frameworks for high-performance leadership and workplace wellbeing under pressure. His science-backed approach drives results for corporate clients across insurance, property, and technology sectors.
Jonny Huntington is a stroke survivor, explorer, and performance coach who became the first person with a disability to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole.
In 2014, while serving as an officer in the British Army, Jonny suffered a stroke that caused complete paralysis on his left side. After extensive rehabilitation, he competed for Great Britain as a Para cross-country skier before completing his world-first Antarctic expedition in January 2025. Over 46 days, he covered 911 kilometres of polar terrain, hauling more than 100 kilograms of equipment in temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius.
A sports scientist with expertise in psychophysiology, cognition, and nutrition, Jonny applies the lessons of extreme endurance to organisational performance. He supports leaders and teams to build genuine resilience, optimise performance under pressure, and adapt effectively to rapid change. His work with clients across insurance, property, and technology sectors demonstrates how mental fortitude, disciplined habits, and recovery strategies translate directly into business environments.
His sessions offer practical insight into reframing adversity, sustaining performance in high stress conditions, and embedding sustainable approaches to health and wellbeing. Drawing on lived experience at the limits of human endurance, Jonny connects purpose driven leadership, behavioural mastery, and long term performance with clarity and credibility.
Book Jonny to inspire your team with proven strategies for turning limitations into breakthrough performance.
Topics, sessions and talks
Jonny Huntington explores how purpose becomes a competitive advantage when pressure is relentless and uncertainty is constant. Drawing on his journey from catastrophic stroke to polar exploration, he shows how values-driven decision-making creates consistency, clarity, and long-term performance. The session connects personal responsibility with leadership impact, revealing how meaning fuels endurance when motivation fades and how purpose transforms both individual and team resilience.
Jonny Huntington examines the behavioural foundations that underpin elite performance in the most hostile environments on earth. From unsupported Antarctic travel to Paralympic sport, he reveals how mindset shapes outcomes long before physical limits are reached. Through real-world decision-making at the edge of human endurance, he unpacks emotional ownership, adaptability, and disciplined thinking, offering a framework for leading under sustained pressure and complexity.
Jonny Huntington reframes high performance through the lens of sustainability rather than short-term output. With expertise in psychophysiology, cognition, and nutrition, he demonstrates how recovery, sleep, physical conditioning, and mental wellbeing combine to extend peak capability over time. Grounded in extreme endurance sport and clinical rehabilitation, this session shows how resilience is built daily through systems, habits, and intelligent self-management.
Jonny Huntington transforms corporate teams by sharing battle-tested resilience strategies developed through his groundbreaking polar achievements and military background as a sports scientist. His unique blend of overcoming life-altering adversity and setting world records delivers actionable frameworks that help organisations thrive under pressure and turn challenges into competitive advantages. Secure Jonny now to equip your team with the mental tools that drive exceptional performance when it matters most.
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