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Steve Backshall

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Steve Backshall MBE helps organisations build resilience and sustainability awareness through the lens of real-world exploration. A two-time BAFTA winner and MBE recipient, Steve is a leading wildlife, conservation, and leadership speaker recognised globally through the BBC's Deadly 60 franchise.

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2x BAFTA-winning naturalist and explorer
Presenter of the BBC's Deadly 60 wildlife series
MBE recipient for services to charity and wildlife conservation

Steve Backshall MBE has spent decades exploring the planet's most remote and dangerous environments, turning first-hand encounters with wildlife into stories that move people to act. A two-time BAFTA winner and MBE recipient, Steve is best known for the BBC's Deadly 60 franchise and has presented landmark series including The Secret Life of Bees, Ice Age: A Frozen Planet, Whale with Steve Backshall, and Our Changing Planet. His sell-out live tours across the UK and Australia have placed him in front of hundreds of thousands of people of all ages. Steve is also a published author, including his memoir Deep Blue and Wildlings: How to Raise Your Family in Nature. Steve draws on real expeditions to some of the world's harshest landscapes to speak about resilience, leadership, conservation, and the human impact on the natural world. His sessions cover leadership under pressure, building a resilient mindset, confronting fear, and the urgent challenge of protecting the planet's ecosystems, translating complex environmental realities into clear, human stories that resonate across corporate, educational, and public audiences alike. Audiences leave with a renewed sense of curiosity about the natural world and a sharper understanding of how boldness, preparation, and a clear sense of purpose drive meaningful results.

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Wildlife And Conservation

The natural world is disappearing at a pace that most people struggle to comprehend, and Steve Backshall has witnessed it firsthand. In this session, he brings audiences closer to the ecosystems and species under greatest threat, making the case for conservation not as an abstract cause but as an urgent, collective responsibility. Compelling, visually rich, and grounded in decades of field experience, it is a session that changes how people see the planet they inhabit.

Facing Fears

Steve Backshall has come face to face with some of the most formidable predators on the planet and built a career out of it. In this session, he explores what fear actually does to us, why the instinct to avoid discomfort is so powerful, and what happens when we choose to move through it anyway. Honest, specific, and grounded in real experience, it leaves audiences with a practical framework for stepping outside their comfort zones with purpose.

Leadership

Steve Backshall has led teams through some of the most demanding environments on earth; places where the consequences of poor leadership are immediate and real. Drawing on decades of expedition experience, he examines what genuine leadership looks like under pressure: how confidence is built rather than assumed, how adaptability separates good leaders from great ones, and how the ability to bring others through difficulty defines those who leave a lasting mark.

Resilience

Setbacks in the field are not the exception; they are the rule. Steve Backshall draws on a career spent navigating hostile terrain, unpredictable wildlife, and the physical and psychological limits of human endurance to explore what resilience actually means in practice. This session moves beyond motivational platitudes to examine how the capacity to absorb difficulty, adapt, and keep moving is built, and how those same habits translate directly into professional and personal life.

Human Impact On Nature

Climate change, habitat destruction, and unchecked human activity are reshaping the natural world at a rate that science is only beginning to fully document. Steve Backshall has spent decades in the environments most acutely affected, and in this session, he translates that experience into a clear-eyed account of what is being lost and why it matters. It is a session designed to inform, challenge, and move audiences toward a more deliberate relationship with the world around them.

Why we recommend booking Steve

Steve brings a rare ability to connect audiences emotionally to the natural world in a way that inspires real action. He is equally compelling as a leadership speaker, drawing on decades of high-stakes expedition experience to deliver stories that are as practical as they are memorable.

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Testimonials

Steve Backshall gave an excellent talk that had us all enthralled from the start. He provided the perfect blend of career highlights interspersed with personal memories from his childhood. We didn't want it to end but when it did he generously gave his time to allow photos and 'selfies' with his many fans.

Suffolk Youth Climate Conference

Not only was he totally engrossing and fantastically well-received, but he was really friendly and totally professional.

Aston University

He provided the perfect blend of career highlights interspersed with personal memories from his childhood.

Remaids High School

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