Motivational Speaker
Motivate Your Team
Steve is highly motivated to succeed in a variety of endeavours, and has studied and tested how to turn this motivation into winning reality, giving him the knowledge to be a natural motivational speaker.
Combine this background with his eagerness to share his knowledge and his true-to-life honesty, mixed with loads of integrity, and you get a highly enthusiastic, entertaining, and motivational speaker.
- Using winning adventure sport concepts to thrive in business.
- Turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
Email steve@stevegurney.co.nz
"Steve was inspirational, a real catalyst for positive change throughout our team. We look forward to him coming back next year."
High Adventure
Inspirational Stories
The primary aim of Steve Gurney's adventures is the fun and excitement of pushing boundaries. They also have a second benefit: they create incredible stories to share!
A Few Popular Adventures
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Crossing the Sahara - Mad Way South
World Records: 1st team to cross the Sahara Desert by wind power alone + Longest Kite Buggy Journey (2100 km)
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A Most Ambitious Journey - Harper Pass
The original Coast to Coast & other historical vs modern gear re-enactments of kiwi journeys.
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Malaysia & The Bat out of Hell
How Steve fought his way back to health, after nearly dieing in Malaysia, so successfully he won seven Coast to Coast races in a row afterwards!
Email steve@stevegurney.co.nz
Resilience & Change
Mental Strength
Life is full of obstacles & opportunities.
The important thing is to appreciate that the obstacles themselves are commonly opportunities when viewed from a positive angle.
During the Raid Guloises Adventure Race in Borneo, Steve was infected with Leptosporosis by bat dung as his team raced through the Mulu caves.
Steve suffered circulatory collapse and pulmonary oedema followed by renal failure while being dragged through intensive care wards in Malaysia and Singapore. He came very close to death.
Read more of this story in Lucky Legs, and on kidney researcher John Pickering's blogs.
It is Steve's fight back to winning form (winning 7 Coast to Coast races in a row afterwards) in just 2 years, in the face of medical professionals' skepticism and doubt that spawned many requests for speaking engagements.
Learn how he turned this, and many other of his life's large obstacles into a winning opportunity.
Favourite obstacle / opportunity topics:
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Getting out of the comfort zone, and into the growth zone by embracing risk & failure as part of the adventure
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Hey! I'm not dead yet!
How to stage a come-back.
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Turning stumbling blocks
into stepping stones
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Resilience Seminars
Email steve@stevegurney.co.nz
"The voice of considerable experience and knowledge, delivered with inspiration. Brilliant & invaluable!!"
- Roger Twiname
Senior Structural Engineer & Director
Mental Health
Depression & Anxiety
Even top athletes fall victim to poor mental health...
Steve has had many close calls with death, but none closer than his Leptospirosis infection from bats in the Mulu Caves.
Following this lepto episode Steve had two years of suicidal depression, (and this tendency is still ongoing btw).
He candidly and constructively shares his research, philosophy and strategies for cultivating healthy mental states of mind and habits.
"Steve was fantastic – a very engaging and enthusiastic speaker, and person in general."
- Scott Mai
Director/Business Manager Chester Grey Chartered Accountants New Zealand
"FANTASTIC! A perfect tonic at the end of the day, couldn't have been a better match."
"Superb performance! Your combination of humour, pathos, motivation, inspiration and more humour, made for excellent after dinner entertainment."
"Your personal accounts of how you obtained and sustained peak performance have contributed to advancing the development of sport in New Zealand."
"Your address was extremely well received, and stimulated a lot of discussion."
"Personable, professional and a pleasure to deal with throughout, plus providing a memorable presentation."
"Steve's ability to read the audience was great, and used humour appropriate to the situation. His messages were fresh and motivating."
"Steve was the perfect choice for our fabricator conference - he related well to his audience, gave them great “giveaway” lines for their businesses.
He was structured but amusing and the stories he told were great."
- FMI Group - Sue Williamson
"The best workshop over the two days. Very inspirational and positive and its great because it is something I can use in all ways of life/work etc."
- Team Link Training
"The morning after hearing you, the kids faced a 6-foot wall on a confidence course. They started with “I can’t do this, it’s too high.” We said, “What did Steve tell us? Use your visualising technique." Within moments the girls were over the wall. It is hard to measure how this one technique will help to positively shape their lives moving forward…. And you spoke of lots more. "
"We had a great chat on the phone prioir to the event to cover the theme, and he did a great job wrangling the theme in to his keynote. I have passed his contact information to everyone who attended [the keynote at the national conference], so they can reach out if they would like to engage Steve as a guest speaker."
CONTACT
Brainstorm Ideas
Are you working on a documentary, have an upcoming grand adventure, organising a TV show, planning an event or anything else that could use some Gurney input?
Give me a call, or send me an email and we can talk through your ideas and work towards making your dream a reality.