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Vicki Anstey

Transform team resilience and performance with Vicki Anstey, speaker, endurance athlete and world record holder. Vicki works with organisations to develop psychological safety, extreme mindset, and leadership courage, delivering powerful insights from her Pacific rowing and cross-America cycling achievements.

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Vicki Anstey, Speaker | Fitness Expert, Adventurer
Vicki Anstey

Vicki Anstey

London, United Kingdom

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At a glance

  • Set a world record in 2021 for rowing unaided across the mid-Pacific
  • Among the first women to reach the final stages of Channel 4’s ‘SAS Who Dares Wins’
  • Speaker on empowerment, self-reliance, teamwork, mindset, and emotional endurance
Vicki Anstey is a fitness expert, entrepreneur, and adventurer, renowned for her remarkable achievements in extreme endurance challenges. As a two-time world record holder, she has demonstrated exceptional resilience and determination, having rowed unaided across the mid-Pacific and cycled non-stop across America. Vicki's journey is not just about physical feats; it embodies a powerful narrative of empowerment and self-discovery. Vicki's challenges also include racing 250 kilometres across the Arctic in severe cold and traversing the plains of Kenya in extreme heat. Her 60-day unsupported row from San Francisco to Hawaii is another testament to her mental and physical endurance. Vicki's latest challenge, the Race Across America, saw her cycle 3,000 miles through 17 states, pushing herself to the limits of human performance. Through her talks, Vicki speaks on empowerment, self-reliance, and the importance of teamwork and mindset. She shares the powerful lessons she's learnt about what creates psychological safety in a team and what an unbreakable team dynamic looks like. Vicki also draws from her transition from an advertising executive to athlete and world record holder, using her extreme experiences to inspire women and young girls to embrace their potential. As a trained stress and resilience coach and founder of the pioneering Barreworks Studios, Vicki brings a unique perspective to her audience. Vicki's message encourages audiences to confront their fears, illustrating that true personal growth arises from overcoming adversity. Her journey reminds us that with determination and the right mindset, one can achieve extraordinary things.

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Topics, sessions and talks

Unlocking High Performance: Finding Your Secret 60%
Have you ever felt like you’re operating at 40%? Like you have more to give but just can’t unlock that missing 60%? Vicki Anstey’s series of eye-opening lessons will teach you that fear is just an opportunity in disguise. You’ll learn the skills needed to unlock your true potential, a new perspective on how to overcome what’s holding you back and thought-provoking insights that will inspire change.
Preparing And Training For Adversity
In this session, Vicki Anstey redefines what comfort really means. Explaining that life is actually more comfortable on the other side of discomfort. The key to this is mastering the art of the mundane, creating and ‘stacking’ good habits, making consistency our focus and discharging the toxic effects of chasing dopamine and instant gratification. Vicki will leave your audience knowing how to live life determinedly and how to be ready for any opportunity that may cross their path.
Understanding And Embracing Pressure
In this session, Vicki Anstey explains the ‘Pressure Performance Curve’, guiding audiences through a series of simple adaptations to mindset, lifestyle and how we can better regulate pressure and stress. Your team will learn the difference between challenge and threat and how to re-wire our brains to enable higher executive functions that regulate our emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems and help us think more flexibly.
How To Develop The Psychological Safety Of Your Team
Psychological safety is not about being nice or making people ‘comfortable’, it is felt permission for candour, authenticity. In this session, Vicki Anstey shares fascinating insights from the 60 days she spent at sea with two other women feeling emotionally unsafe, isolated and bullied. Vicki shares the lessons she learned from this experience about what truly high-performing teams need to have in place to succeed with integrity.
Wellbeing And Mental Fitness
In this session, Vicki Anstey presents compelling evidence that enhancing underlying physiology is what supports and drives human health. By improving our wellbeing and physiology, we can only set ourselves up BETTER to withstand, pressure, stress and the onset of lifestyle disease. So, take a deep dive with Vicki into the drivers of wellbeing, the impact of our thoughts, our ability to manage stress, and the difference between lifespan and health-span.

Why we recommend booking Vicki

Book Vicki Anstey to inspire your team with her incredible journey of resilience and empowerment. Her unique experiences in extreme challenges will motivate your audience to embrace adversity, enhance teamwork, and cultivate a powerful mindset. Vicki’s insights will ignite personal growth and encourage everyone to pursue their dreams fearlessly.

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Testimonials

Gritty, determined, inspiring… all with a heap of practical advice and easy to implement mechanisms with which to face and perform during highly pressurised moments – applicable in both our personal and professional lives. Vicki's talk on the power of applying the right mindset is something we can all benefit from hearing. Motivational and inspiring…thank you for sharing your story.

Keith Thomas

RL B2B Commercial: Sales Enablement Lead, Meta

Vicki's story is a gripping account of pain, vulnerability, discovery and reinvention. She delivered her story so well it felt like a book you can't put down. Her talk was not only riveting and inspirational, but also practical, with real life tips for how to overcome challenges and fulfill your potential. It was so great to work with someone who has so many rich experiences to draw from to bring things to life. Thank you Vicki.

Alex Phillips

Google

Vicki, thank you again! It was a fantastic event, you were phenomenal.

Szilvia Zsedely

Head of Global Strategy & Transformation, J.P. Morgan

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What is Vicki Anstey's speaking style like?

Vicki Anstey structures her sessions around a framework that maps personal and professional performance to physical endurance challenges she has completed, such as rowing across the mid-Pacific and cycling across America. She uses these experiences to introduce models including the Pressure Performance Curve, habit stacking, and mindset adaptation, translating extreme physical scenarios into applicable tools for workplace resilience and performance.

What topics does Vicki Anstey specialise in?

Vicki Anstey speaks on unlocking high performance, preparing for adversity, and managing pressure and stress. She holds two world records in extreme endurance, including a 60-day unsupported row from San Francisco to Hawaii, and was among the first women to reach the final stages of Channel 4's SAS Who Dares Wins.

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