David's leadership of the landmark 1st Singapore Mt Everest Expedition in 1998 met with hilarity and derision on the onset - being a dweller of flat, tropical city state. However, in a classic underdog story, David led his team to success. A week after his return from Everest, he was totally paralysed by the rare nerve disorder Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Artificially ventilated for 42 days, he spent six months in hospital.

Though he was permanently disabled in both legs, he made a dramatic comeback in climbing the world's great mountains, and returned once more to Everest in 2001. His remarkable story made the cover of the Readers Digest magazine, and his adventures have since been covered by OUTSIDE magazine's " GO", The Wall Street Journal, and other media; and translated into 7 languages. He masterfully links experiences from the great mountain to everyday, applicable skills in the workplace; lending energy, improved belief and positive mindsets to any meeting

Widely experienced in speaking to multi-national audiences in 73 cities and 30 countries, David has engaged and entertained thousands, preferring to show as well as tell, and using a variety of audience partcipation methods. Clients do  not receive a keynote, they get to 'join' an exciting journey of discovery, with laughs, tension and tears.

While there are many other "Everest" speakers in the marketplace, David's value-add include:
- outstanding experience in making an impact with international audiences

- showing and telling a classic underdog, bounce-back story,  where every one  gets a chance to actually participate in the presentation instead of just listening

- able to help event organisers with his team's  teambuilding expertise, providing a seamless experience in  meetings where the most  popular option is often combining a keynote and a separate teambuilding session to internalise much of the keynote's lessons

- offering a raft of spin-off business potential for speaker bureaus through other competencies which include, but are not limited to coaching, teambuilding, leadership and team development tools, corporate retreats

In his lavishly illustrated presentations based on Lessons From Mt Everest, David speaks on importance of passion and vision. He also focuses on the need for embracing change, re-defining success and the boundaries of the possible. What are the right kind of people for projects? What are the right sort of mindsets? 

-Lessons from Everest

-Beyond the Limits

-Building High Performing Teams

Audience Take-aways:

In a highly interactive presentation, audiences will learn:

- how to create crystal clear goals - and get them

- finding or rediscovering your purpose and why it matters

- the 5 ' C's of team membership essential for performing teams

- why chanhge is hard and what you can do to choose the right change rather than wait for it to happen

- Fact/Belief Tool in overcoming disempowering attitudes

- 3 keys to to create  a winning culture

- How to do more with less

All presentations can be tailored to meet duration requirements as well as specific desired client outcomes, themes and take-aways

What people are saying

" Your keynote speech left ..many speechless and lost in introspection; others were searching for words to express a sudden surge of self-belief; and at least one participant kept repeating that it was an event that has already changed his life.

When we did a re-cap the next morning, participants fell over each other to call out their favourite point from your presentation. We filled 3 slides with the points that were recalled. "

Shyam C Raman
General Manager - HR - Financial Services Group
Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Limited
Chennai, India

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" Thanks again for your keynote speech at UGS' executive client event in Qingdao, China. Your speech was the highest rated session at the event. The themes in your presentation were very well aligned with the business challenges that our clients face. The time that you spent with my team preparing for this event was also extremely valuable. "

Ron Close
VP Asia Pacific Business Strategy and Marketing
UGS Asia Pacific

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" Very few people have the ability to capture people's hearts and minds and truly inspire them- to dream larger dreams and set their goals higher than they thought possible....You have earned this rare, wonderful power. "

Ms. Lien Siaou-Sze
Senior Vice -President Asia Pacific
Hewlett-Packard Operations
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David and his team have delivered programmes and presentations in 30 countries and over 70 cities worldwide.

Clients include Walmart, Linkedin, Google, Danaher, Novartis, Thomson Reuters, Accenture, INSEAD Business School, UBS, Citibank, AIA, Prudential, TATA Motors, ANZ and many more.

David was educated in Singapore and Britain; and graduated with a law degree from Cambridge University. In the corporate world, he spent nearly a decade in the media industry with positions in marketing, journalism management and multimedia.

David is author of the books "How Leaders Lead",  "Mountain to Climb" , and " Against Giants " (published by Epigram). He is an accredited coach and certified to administer many human-change tools.

Contact: contact@davidlimspeaks.com or visit http://www.davidlimspeaks.com

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