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Alison Levine
New York Times Bestselling Author of On the Edge | Team Captain, First American Women's Everest Expedition | Adventure Grand Slam Explorer | West Point Leadership Faculty
Alison Levine is a history-making adventurer, New York Times bestselling author, and a compelling voice on leadership. Team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition, she has climbed the highest peak on every continent and skied to both Poles, all while overcoming three heart surgeries and a circulatory disease. A former West Point leadership faculty member, she shows audiences how to lead when conditions are far from perfect.
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Alison Levine biography
Leadership speaker Alison Levine is a history-making adventurer who has survived sub-zero temperatures, hurricane-force winds, and sudden avalanches, and a career on Wall Street. A New York Times bestselling author and one of the most sought-after voices on leadership in extreme environments, she has spent much of her life in some of the most dangerous and inhospitable places on earth, and turned those experiences into a powerful, practical philosophy of how to lead when the stakes could not be higher.
Levine served as team captain of the first American Women’s Everest Expedition, and went on to complete the Adventure Grand Slam, climbing the highest peak on every continent and skiing to both the North and South Poles, a feat achieved by only a handful of people in history. In 2008, she became the first American to make a 600-mile traverse across West Antarctica to the South Pole, on skis, hauling 150 pounds of gear. Remarkably, she achieved all of this despite three heart surgeries and Raynaud’s disease, a circulatory condition that makes extreme cold especially dangerous for her.
Leadership Lessons from the Edge
Levine’s bestselling book, On the Edge: Leadership Lessons from Mount Everest and Other Extreme Environments, with a foreword by legendary Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, argues that the principles that keep a team alive on a mountain apply directly to today’s high-pressure business world. Levine spent four years as an adjunct professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point and serves as a strategic advisor to its Thayer Leader Development Group, and she has sat on the board of the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics at Duke. Earlier in her career she worked at Goldman Sachs, and she remains a passionate advocate for women’s leadership through her Women Moving Mountains work.
As a speaker, Alison Levine is riveting, funny, and deeply practical, delivering roughly a hundred keynotes a year to audiences that range from a few hundred leaders to several thousand. She speaks on leading through extreme uncertainty, building cohesive teams, taking smart risks, and making decisions when conditions are far from ideal, as well as the crucial difference between fear and complacency, and why complacency is what will kill you. Her core message is bracing and unforgettable: you don’t have to be the fastest or the strongest to reach the summit, you just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other and never stop moving toward it.
Alison Levine Speaking Videos
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Alison Levine Keynote Topics
Drawing on her bestselling book and a lifetime spent in the world's harshest places, Alison Levine reveals why the leadership principles that keep a team alive on Everest apply directly to high-pressure business environments. Both demand crucial decisions made on the spot when conditions are far from perfect, and when your survival, and your team's, depends on it. A gripping, story-rich keynote that leaves audiences with practical, hard-won lessons on leading under pressure and uncertainty.
On a mountain, you rarely have complete information or ideal conditions, and yet you still have to move. Levine shares how to make sound decisions amid chaos, ambiguity, and constant change, when to push forward and when to turn back, how to take responsible risks, and how to keep a team moving when everything around you is uncertain. Essential insight for leaders navigating volatility, disruption, and high-stakes calls.
In an environment where a single weak link can cost lives, teamwork isn't a nice-to-have, it's survival. Levine explores how to build teams that trust one another, communicate under stress, and perform when it matters most, and why the strongest teams aren't made of the most talented individuals, but of people committed to one another and to a shared goal. A powerful, actionable talk on teamwork forged in the most extreme conditions imaginable.
As captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition and a woman who has achieved feats few humans ever will, Levine is a powerful voice for women's leadership and empowerment. In this inspiring keynote, she shares how she overcame doubt, fear, and serious health challenges to accomplish the extraordinary, and how women can build the confidence and resilience to pursue their own summits, in any field. A galvanizing message of courage and possibility.
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FAQs on Booking Alison Levine
Why Alison Levine?
Booking Alison Levine brings audiences a genuinely history-making adventurer whose extraordinary story delivers real, practical leadership insight, not just inspiration. Team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition and one of a handful of people ever to complete the Adventure Grand Slam, she has led teams where decisions meant life or death, and she draws direct, credible parallels to the pressures leaders and organizations face today. Add her experience as a West Point leadership faculty member and bestselling author, and you have a speaker who is riveting, funny, and immediately useful. She is ideal for events on leadership, teamwork, resilience, change, and women's empowerment. To bring Alison Levine to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Alison Levine?
Alison Levine is an American mountaineer, polar explorer, leadership consultant, and New York Times bestselling author. She served as team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition and completed the Adventure Grand Slam, climbing the highest peak on every continent and skiing to both the North and South Poles, one of only a small number of people in history to do so. She is the author of On the Edge: Leadership Lessons from Mount Everest and Other Extreme Environments, spent four years as an adjunct professor at West Point, and advises its Thayer Leader Development Group. Before her adventuring and speaking career, she worked at Goldman Sachs. She achieved her feats despite three heart surgeries and Raynaud's disease.
What is Alison Levine's book On the Edge about?
On the Edge: Leadership Lessons from Mount Everest and Other Extreme Environments (2014) is Alison Levine's bestselling leadership book, which distills concrete insights from her expeditions in the world's most extreme environments, from Everest to the South Pole. Its central argument is that the leadership principles required to survive in extreme adventure, making crucial decisions on the spot when conditions are far from perfect, taking responsible risks, and building cohesive teams, apply directly to today's high-pressure business world. Featuring a foreword by legendary Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, the book offers practical, humorous, and often unorthodox advice to help readers grow as leaders and scale whatever "mountains" they face, literal or figurative.
What topics does leadership speaker Alison Levine cover?
Alison Levine speaks on leadership lessons from extreme environments, decision-making and leading through uncertainty, building cohesive high-performing teams, and women's courage, confidence, and empowerment. Her keynotes suit events on leadership, teamwork, resilience, change, and high performance. To book Alison Levine as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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