Alan Mallory
CSP, M.A., B.Sc., P.Eng., P.E., PMP.
ON, CANADAEverest mountaineer, electric violinist and adventurer Alan Mallory helps inspire and empower audiences to reach new heights in work and life through his engaging keynotes and workshops
Alan is an international speaker, author and performance coach who is passionate about reaching new heights in all that we do. His unique philosophy of life revolves around empowering people and embracing an agile mentality focused on goals and results. By understanding what drives and motivates us, we are able to cultivate more innovative and effective ways of thinking and taking action. He has a degree in Engineering from Queen’s University and a Masters in Psychology from Adler University giving him a well-balanced approach to the inner and outer challenges we all face. Building experience through a lifestyle of adventure and challenge, Alan embarked on the journey of a lifetime and set a world record on Mount Everest along with three members of his immediate family. It was a two-month expedition through some of the most exciting yet terrifying conditions imaginable and their success demanded an unwavering perseverance and resilience in the face of adversity. Alan is also an accomplished violinist and entertainer, a talent that he integrates throughout many of his programs as well.
Alan is an international speaker, author and performance coach who is passionate about reaching new heights in all that we do. His unique philosophy of life revolves around empowering people and embracing an agile mentality focused on goals and results. By understanding what drives and motivates us, we are able to cultivate more innovative and effective ways of thinking and taking action. He has a degree in Engineering from Queen’s University and a Masters in Psychology from Adler University giving him a well-balanced approach to the inner and outer challenges we all face. Building experience through a lifestyle of adventure and challenge, Alan embarked on the journey of a lifetime and set a world record on Mount Everest along with three members of his immediate family. It was a two-month expedition through some of the most exciting yet terrifying conditions imaginable and their success demanded an unwavering perseverance and resilience in the face of adversity. Alan is also an accomplished violinist and entertainer, a talent that he integrates throughout many of his programs as well.
Summit Secrets: 7 Essential Keys to Project Success
Throughout this fast-paced and exciting session, Alan speaks about the 7 essential keys for project success. Whatever the nature of the project is, there are certain steps and key processes that should be in place in order to help ensure a successful outcome. By drawing parallels between situations encountered while mountaineering and in the real world, Alan makes it clear what these keys are and why they are so important.
Key Points and Learning...
Continuous Innovation: Ascending from Vision to Reality
This engaging session explores the innovation approach and methods to increase the chances of successful innovation. It is all about opening our minds to innovation and allowing ourselves to think outside the box. The simplest path is usually to follow the status quo of how things have always been done but only by taking a step back and expanding our minds to consider new thoughts and ideas, can true progress be made.
The innovative process has a lot of parallels to what Alan and...
Technically Speaking: Communication Excellence for the Technical Professional
Alan's session on Communication Excellence for the Technical Professional is a fast-paced and engaging message specifically for engineering and technical groups. Technically minded individuals have so much great knowledge and wisdom to share but often the lack of effective communication skills makes information transfer a challenge.
University programs in engineering and other technical studies focus so much on the theoretical and specialized knowledge...
The Apex Advantage: Team Building for Group Success
Alan's session on Team Building is a fast-paced and engaging message specifically designed to enhance and encourage working effectively and efficiently as a team. In order to succeed and reach full potential in any given organization, teamwork is a must. This session explores ideas and methods of growing stronger as a team and working together to achieve common goals.
Key Points and Learning Objectives:
- The importance of teamwork and...
Expedition Leadership: Expanding the Leadership Mindset
Throughout this presentation on leadership mentality, Alan focuses on the some of the moral dilemas that we are often faced with, especially when working in teams and when there is internal tension and feelings involved, and the attitudes and mindsets that help get through these dilemas.
Alan share some of his family's dynamics and some of the challenges they have gone through both as a family and as a climbing team. Maintaining integrity at all times in what we say and do is of...
A Mountaineer's Guide to Risk Management
Alan's presentation on risk management focuses on safety challenges and the different ways ofcontrolling and mitigating the risks that arise when executing projects and pursuing goals. Ideally, we want to eliminate any and all possible risks but this is very difficult to achieve.
Being able to control and reduce risks is essential for a safe and successful outcome. This was of course of paramount importance on...
Exposure to Change: The Importance and Fundamentals of Change Management
Change is a fact of life. Situations change, people change, teams change, businesses change, budgets change and environments change.
It is how we deal with these changes that makes the difference. This presentation on change management explores ways of effectively accepting change when it is important to do so and working with change instead of fighting it. It focuses on methods of embracing the changes that occur andcapitalizing on times of...
The Importance of Building Trust in Relationships
This engaging presentation focuses on the fundamentals of how to develop a strong level of trust in professional relationships and why it is so important to do so especially between team members. It highlights the major elements involved in building trust in relationships, maintaining a high level of trust between individuals and rebuilding trust that has been broken.
Alan shares many of the techniques that he and his team used before and during their expedition to the top of Mount...
The Family that Conquered Everest...and the Secrets to Their Success
Climbing Mount Everest is considered one of mankind's greatest feats of human endurance. The two month quest to reach the highest point on earth is a journey filled with unparalleled challenges and some of the roughest and most extreme conditions imaginable. In 2008, Alan and his family decided to undertake the challenge becoming the first family of four to successfully reach the summit. It was an expedition that challenged the mental, emotional and physical limits of their entire beings...
Scaling the Hillary Step: Proven Steps for Approaching and Overcoming Challenges
When approaching and undertaking any given endeavour, there are certain steps that we need to follow in order to increase our changes of success. It is vitally important to have a plan in place and follow through with the steps of the plan one at a time. A successful plan includes methods of dealing with and working through challenges that arise along the way.
Alan shares these important steps throughout this entertaining and informative session and draws parallels between the steps...
Connecting by Communicating: Developing Strong Professional Connections
This session focuses on the types of coummunicaiton that are important to capitalize on in todays society. Communication difficulties are one of the biggest reasons teams fall apart and businesses fail. In order to succeed as a team or as an organization, communication is probably the most important element to maintain and improve upon on a daily basis. Recognizing communication difficulties and how to resolve and improve them through advanced communication and the use of technology is...
The Fundamentals of Focus: Setting Your Sights on the Summit
This exciting session explores the fundamentals of focus and the importance of developing vision and visualizing the desired outcome long before it begins to become a reality. It is important to never lose sight of the mark but also to focus at times on achieving the smaller steps that have to be achieved along the way in order for the end goal to be manifested.
Key Points and Learning Objectives:
- The importance of developing a...
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