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Jamie Clarke

CEO, Expedition Leader, Everest Summiteer & Leadership Speaker
Jamie Clarke Headshot

CEO, expedition leader, Everest summiteer, and leadership speaker Jamie Clarke helps audiences navigate pressure, risk, resilience, and decision-making in extreme environments.

Meet Jamie Clarke

For more than 25 years, Jamie Clarke has worked with elite teams under pressure, including Olympic teams, NHL teams, leadership teams, sales organizations, and start-ups. Drawing from high-stakes expeditions and entrepreneurial leadership, he delivers presentations focused on risk assessment, resilience, decision-making, communication, and performance under pressure. His storytelling style combines humor, emotion, and practical lessons that connect with audiences across industries and organizational levels.

Jamie’s experience spans both extreme adventure and business leadership. He spent more than 14 years building and leading an outdoor gear and apparel company, guiding a 50-person team as CEO through both brick-and-mortar retail and a successful transition into e-commerce. His expeditions include summiting Mt. Everest twice after earlier failed attempts, trekking 1,000 miles across one of the world’s harshest deserts, and completing the Seven Summits challenge.

Jamie Clarke is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Jamie Clarke’s fees.

Want to book Jamie Clarke for an event?

Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at (215) 995-0905 to book Jamie Clarke for corporate or private events, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, motivational speaking, or virtual appearances. Our agency will work directly with your organization and our keynote speakers to create an unforgettable event.

The Mollie Plotkin Group is the leading keynote speakers agency and entertainment bureau bringing excitement to audiences, clients, and employees. We represent subject-matter experts in every possible field. So whether we’re your partner in creating a memorable meeting or your meeting planner’s secret weapon in securing the perfect keynote speaker, we’re in this with you.

Biography

Leadership Under Pressure

Jamie Clarke has spent more than two decades helping organizations understand how high-performing teams respond to pressure, uncertainty, and adversity. His presentations draw from firsthand experience leading expeditions in some of the world’s most dangerous environments while also building and managing successful businesses.

Audiences learn practical lessons about risk assessment, planning, communication, resilience, and leadership. Jamie shares how listening for small warning signs, adapting quickly, and maintaining trust inside a team can determine success or failure when conditions change rapidly.

Business Leadership and Extreme Expeditions

As an entrepreneur, Jamie spent more than 14 years leading an outdoor gear and apparel company. He served as CEO of both a brick-and-mortar retail operation and a growing e-commerce business, leading a 50-person team through changing market conditions and operational challenges.

Jamie’s mountaineering and expedition achievements continue to shape his work with organizations around the world. After failing twice, he regrouped and successfully reached the summit of Mt. Everest twice. He has also trekked 1,000 miles across one of the world’s most inhospitable deserts and is among the few climbers to complete the Seven Summits, reaching the highest peak on every continent.

His ability to connect with a wide range of audiences has made him a sought-after speaker for executives, engineers, sales professionals, and front-line workers alike. Whether speaking about leadership, resilience, or navigating uncertainty, Jamie combines practical business insight with stories from extreme environments that leave audiences energized and reflective.

Outside of speaking and expeditions, Jamie serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary, where he teaches and mentors through the Centre for Advanced Leadership.

How to Hire Jamie Clarke

Find out how to hire Jamie Clarke to appear at your next event. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group to inquire about Jamie Clarke’s availability and cost. When booking Jamie Clarke for an event, we need to know the type of venue and location the event will take place. Jamie Clarke is a popular choice for corporate events, private events, and virtual events. So, you can click the Check Availability button or contact us and an MPG Jamie Clarke booking agent will get back to you within 48 hours.

Jamie Clarke Booking Fee

How much to book Jamie Clarke depends on the type of event. So, the cost to hire Jamie Clarke for corporate or private events is available by contacting a Mollie Plotkin Group Agent. Notably, Jamie Clarke is available for conferences, festivals, private parties, and events. Just contact the Mollie Plotkin Group and tell the booking agent the proposed date, time, and location.

Speaking Topics & Programs

Hire Jamie Clarke

Jamie Clarke helps audiences understand how to lead, sell, and perform when uncertainty is unavoidable. Drawing on more than 30 years as an adventure leader, elite climber, business builder, professional sports consultant, and consultant to a Stanley Cup winning hockey team, he brings humor, passion, and practical lessons for staying focused under pressure.

Common keynote themes include: leadership, uncertainty, fear, failure, resilience, mindset, sales performance, trust, humility, focus, hard work, and team culture.

The Map is Not the Terrain: Charting a New Course for Leadership

Build the leadership mindset that helps teams move through uncertainty instead of freezing in it.

Jamie shows audiences what happens when old plans stop working and leaders have to act without perfect information. Through stories from extreme expeditions, business, and professional sports, he explains how strong cultures adapt, learn quickly, and stay committed when pressure rises.

  • Adapt to forces outside of your control.
  • Learn from failure quickly and adjust plans in real time.
  • Lead with trust, humility, reliance, inclusion, and empathy.

Ideal for leaders, executive teams, managers, and organizations navigating pressure, change, or uncertainty.

Everyone Starts at ZERO: Selling and the Mindset Reset

Reset your mindset, sharpen your focus, and perform when it matters most.

Jamie connects with sales audiences through humor, energy, and hard earned lessons from climbing, dangerous expeditions, and building his own adventure outfitters business. This program helps sales professionals rethink success, fear, effort, and the discipline required to start over and prove themselves again.

  • Perform your best when it matters most.
  • Do the hard work required to reset and rebuild.
  • Conquer fear through focus and practice.

Ideal for sales kick-off events, sales teams, and organizations looking for a fresh spark and an actionable mindset reset.

Closing Takeaway

Jamie Clarke gives audiences a practical and memorable framework for facing pressure, moving through fear, and building the mindset needed to succeed when the path ahead is uncertain.

Testimonials

What Jamie Clarke learned on Everest helped the Caps win on the ice.

— Barry Trotz, NHL Stanley Cup winning coach

Jamie, you knocked it out of the park!

Our client said you are the best keynote they have ever had and heard. Can’t wait until the next opportunity for you to share your magic with another one of our clients. Safe travels and thank you for always bringing IT!

— Corporate Dimensions, Ltd.

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