Vicki Anstey is a leading fitness expert, an Entrepreneur turned Adventurer and a World Record Holder. She was one of the first women to reach the final stages of Channel 4’s ‘SAS Who Dares Wins’. She is a 2 x World Record holder, having rowed the mid-Pacific unaided in 2021 and cycled non-stop across America in 2024.
Vicki has raced 250kms across The Arctic in temperatures as low as -35 degrees and across the plains of Kenya in temperatures over 50 degrees. Her latest endeavour, the World-famous Race Across America, involved 3,000 gruelling miles of cycling through 17 states. But perhaps nothing can compare to her 60-day unsupported Pacific row from San Francisco to Hawaii.
Vicki speaks on themes of empowerment, self-reliance, teamwork, mindset, facing challenge and the often over-looked power of emotional endurance. She uses her extreme experiences to empower women and young girls to be who they want to be. She challenges her audiences to take their first step into whatever they may be most afraid of in order to discover that true personal growth comes from handling and then overcoming adversity. Drawing on her unique journey from advertising executive to fitness pioneer who now takes on some of the biggest tests of human performance
This session is an exciting opportunity for your team to get to know Vicki Anstey and hear her inspirational story, along with time for a Q&A! In this keynote, Vicki will challenge your audience to take their first step into whatever they may be most afraid of in order to discover that true personal growth comes from handling and then overcoming adversity. To do this, Vicki draws from her unique journey from advertising executive to fitness pioneer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
