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Nico Valsesia helps organisations build resilience and perform under pressure. An endurance and resilience speaker, he travels from sea level to summits such as Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua on human power, and has twice reached the Race Across America podium.
Nico Valsesia is an Italian ultra-endurance athlete known for his From 0 to challenges, in which he travels from sea level to mountain summits on human power. He speaks to organisations about resilience, performing under pressure, and chasing goals that look out of reach.
He's cycled and run from the Ligurian coast to the top of Mont Blanc in under seventeen hours, from the Pacific to the summit of Aconcagua, and from the Indian Ocean to the top of Kilimanjaro. He's also reached the Race Across America podium twice, finishing second in 2006 and third in 2014.
Many of those challenges run non-stop for more than a day, and they depend on planning, pacing, and the choices made when the body wants to stop. Nico breaks that process down for audiences, showing how a target that seems impossible becomes a series of stages. His book, La Fatica Non Esiste, written with Andrea Schiavon, sets out the mindset behind it.
Audiences come away with a practical way to split big goals into stages they can manage, a clearer sense of how to pace effort across long projects, and tools for handling setbacks without losing sight of where they're heading. They also see what keeps people moving once early motivation has run out.
Book Nico for a first-hand account of endurance at its limits, delivered in Italian, French, or Spanish, that gives teams a workable approach to their own toughest goals.
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Join Nico Valsesia, endurance athlete and adventurer, as he shares captivating stories of perseverance and exploration from his record-breaking feats, including cycling from the sea to the highest peaks. Nico's unique mindset and relentless spirit inspire audiences to push beyond limits, embrace challenges, and discover their true potential. His keynote will leave you motivated to conquer your own mountains, both real and metaphorical.
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Nico Valsesia builds his talks around first-person accounts of his From 0 to challenges, in which he travels from sea level to mountain summits on human power, using each journey to show how perseverance and resilience work in practice, and he presents in Italian, French, or Spanish.
Nico Valsesia specialises in resilience, perseverance under pressure, and pursuing goals that seem out of reach. His headline credential is the From 0 to series, in which he has reached the summits of Mont Blanc, Aconcagua, Elbrus, and Kilimanjaro from sea level on human power, alongside two Race Across America podium finishes.
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