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Joyce Azzam
Dr Joyce Azzam helps organisations build resilience and teamwork through lessons from the world's highest peaks. A mountaineering and environmental leadership speaker, she's the first Lebanese woman to climb Everest and a UN Women National Goodwill Ambassador.
Dr Joyce Azzam is the first Lebanese woman to climb Everest and complete the Seven Summits. A mountaineer, conservation architect, and UN Women National Goodwill Ambassador for Lebanon, she speaks on resilience, teamwork under pressure, preparation, and environmental leadership.
Joyce has climbed 29 mountains since 2006, including Everest, Kilimanjaro, and Denali, and is one of 75 women worldwide to complete the Seven Summits. She holds a PhD in landscape and environment management from La Sapienza University of Rome and has appeared on CNN and Rai 1.
Her talks draw on what high-altitude expeditions demand: planning for conditions that can turn in hours, trusting a team when the margin for error is small, and keeping going through setbacks. Joyce grew up during the Lebanese civil war and has climbed with a chronic lung condition and hypermobility syndrome, which gives her account of resilience a personal edge.
Audiences come away with practical approaches to preparation and risk, a clearer picture of how small teams perform under pressure, and a case for environmental responsibility grounded in her conservation work. She also advocates for young people and women, and is working towards the Explorers' Grand Slam.
Book Joyce for a first-hand account of the world's highest peaks that turns expedition lessons into practical guidance on resilience, teamwork, and preparation.
Topics, sessions and talks
Joyce Azzam takes audiences through her climbs on the world's highest peaks, from a childhood spent in a bunker during the Lebanese civil war to the summit of Everest. She uses expedition stories and visuals to show how preparation, trust within a team, and the ability to adapt when plans fail decide whether a climb succeeds. The lessons carry straight into work: practical ways to prepare for risk, lead under pressure, and keep going through setbacks.
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Joyce Azzam builds her sessions around first-person expedition stories paired with visuals from her climbs, tracing each lesson on preparation, trust, and adapting to changing conditions back to a specific moment on the mountain.
Joyce Azzam speaks on resilience, preparation and risk in high-altitude expeditions, teamwork under pressure, and environmental conservation. She is the first Lebanese woman to climb Everest, one of 75 women worldwide to complete the Seven Summits, and a UN Women National Goodwill Ambassador for Lebanon.
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