Climb Higher, Live Bolder! You Can!

Based on Author/Speaker Nina Spencer’s Latest Canadian Best-Selling Book,

A Time to Creep, A Time to Soar (Focusing on Business and Personal Leadership Lessons from climbing Kilimanjaro)

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

— Helen Keller

What does it take to motivate a person to leave the comforts of weekend gardening and weekday civilization—a person who has never camped or hiked on level ground in her hometown, never mind on a wild mountain for nine days, while climbing 19,340 feet above sea level to summit Africa’s highest point and the world’s tallest freestanding mountain? Take an inspirational journey with Nina Spencer, Canadian best-selling author of Getting Passion Out of Your Profession: How to keep loving your living, come what may, and find out.

 Climb Higher, Live Bolder (both the keynote and the book) takes attendees on an entertaining, inspirational, and informative journey to the top of the African continent. Nina never dreamed of climbing Kili—it wasn’t on her “bucket list,” yet Kilimanjaro found her… and just in time, too! Folding-in themes of “Being YOU,” bringing out the best and most earnest leader in you, inspiring engagement, trust, goal-setting, visioning and dealing with the challenge of daunting change, as well as rising above negativity, overcoming barriers and dealing with difficult team (and other) members, Nina uses the story of her Kilimanjaro climb as a metaphor and springboard to present lessons that are pertinent to all—for professional work and private life, for individuals as well as teams, as they focus on growing workplace unity, and refining excellence attitudes and behaviours demonstrated to colleagues and community citizens.

Climbing Kilimanjaro is no different than any major challenge we rise to meet or overcome. Whether we want to evolve our professional or personal goals, mend a fractured workplace relationship, master necessary professional skills and traits, or “tear off our shirts” and Be Our Real Superwoman/Superman Selves, we’re all climbing a mountain of one sort or another, looking for the courage to dare and risk, and the fortitude to face our challenges. These treks require us to be stronger than we think we are, endure more than we think we can, and become more awake to our full leadership and professional potential.

 Nina’s Kili keynote (and corresponding book) is filled with pertinent insights and basic truths for developing just that… the strength, endurance and awareness required to Be Authentically, Courageously, Bravely and Boldly… YOU!

Spend some time virtual trekking with Nina, to experience this wonderful blend of inspirational and practical tips for discovering how you can summit your own (business and personal) mountain... to climb higher, and live bolder!

 Speaking from the heart, and with her down-to-earth style, Nina’s messages may just make you want to take on, for yourself, the physical and mental challenge of climbing Africa’s highest mountain! Mt. Kilimanjaro? Hankuna Matata (as the Swahili guides constantly reminded!).

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

- Walter Bageho

When the dream is right for the person (or the team), and the person (or the team) is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other. — John Maxwell (emphasis mine)

 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,power and magic in it. Begin it now. — Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Make your choice. Make your choice adventurous stranger. Strike the bell and bide the danger. Or wonder ‘til it drives you mad, what would have followed if you had. — C. S. Lewis

* It was on this day, eight years ago, that Nina completed her successful climb of Kili. :)