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Susmita Maskey
Resilience
Effective Leadership
Dealing With Pressure
Susmita Maskey helps leaders build resilience and make confident decisions under pressure, drawing on 20 years of experience in extreme environments. With three ascents of Mt. Everest, she is the first Nepali woman to complete the Seven Summits, and has delivered 200+ global keynotes.
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Inspirational
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International Women's Day
Mindset
Personal Development
Susmita Maskey Niraula has climbed Everest three times and more than 16 mountains around the globe, including the Seven Summits—the highest peak on every continent. An international keynote speaker on resilience and leadership, she brings two decades of experience in extreme, high-stakes environments to audiences worldwide.
Susmita has delivered more than 200 keynotes for corporations, financial institutions, international development organisations, and government bodies. She received Nepal's Prabal Jana Sewa Shree Padak, one of the country's highest civilian honours, and has served as Honorary Tourism Goodwill Ambassador of Nepal.
Having led teams where preparation, trust, and decision-making carried life-or-death consequences, Susmita translates those lessons into practical frameworks for leading under pressure. She shows audiences how to make confident decisions with incomplete information, adapt when plans change, and sustain performance without losing focus on the people around them.
Audiences leave with practical tools for building resilience, making decisions under pressure, and strengthening trust within their teams, grounded in real experience rather than theory alone.
Book Susmita to give your organisation a leadership perspective shaped by the world's most demanding environments.
Topics, sessions and talks
Drawing on lessons from Mount Everest and other extreme environments, Susmita explores how leaders build resilience, make confident decisions under pressure, and sustain performance when the stakes are highest. She examines the habits and mindsets that separate teams who hold together in a crisis from those who fall apart, and shows how the same principles apply far beyond the mountain, in any high-pressure workplace.
Susmita shares practical lessons for leading teams through uncertainty, change, and disruption, drawn from her experience navigating some of the world's most unpredictable environments. She addresses how leaders can maintain clarity, trust, and alignment within their teams even as circumstances shift around them, offering a grounded, experience-based approach to change leadership that goes beyond theory and into what actually works when plans fall apart.
Susmita examines how leaders can make confident decisions when information is incomplete, time is limited, and there is no perfect answer. Drawing on real decisions made at extreme altitude, where hesitation and overconfidence both carry serious consequences, she offers a framework for weighing risk, trusting preparation, and acting decisively under pressure, equipping leaders to navigate their own high-stakes moments with greater clarity and confidence.
Drawing on lessons from Everest, Susmita explores how trust, communication, and accountability combine to create high-performing teams, and how these same principles translate into stronger teamwork in the workplace. She shows how the demands of an extreme environment strip teamwork down to its essentials, offering leaders a clear, tested model for building the kind of collaboration that holds up when the pressure is on.
Susmita shares a powerful story of courage, resilience, and challenging limitations, tracing her journey from Nepal to the summit of Everest and completion of the Seven Summits. She speaks candidly about the doubt and barriers she faced as a woman entering a male-dominated sport, and what it took to keep going, leaving audiences with a fresh perspective on what is possible when someone refuses to accept the limits placed on them.
Susmita is the first Nepali woman to complete the Seven Summits, a three-time Everest summiteer, and recipient of Nepal's Prabal Jana Sewa Shree Padak. She has delivered over 200 keynotes internationally, combining recognised achievement with two decades of hands-on leadership experience in extreme environments.
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Susmita Maskey structures her sessions around direct parallels between decisions made at extreme altitude and the pressures leaders face in professional environments, translating real expedition scenarios — incomplete information, shifting conditions, team breakdown — into frameworks audiences can apply to their own high-stakes contexts.
Susmita Maskey's sessions cover strategic resilience under pressure, leading through uncertainty and change, and decision-making with incomplete information. She has climbed Everest three times and completed the Seven Summits, becoming the first Nepali woman to do so, and has delivered more than 200 keynotes for corporations, financial institutions, and government bodies.
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