Speaking
An electrical engineer, Everest summiteer, and leadership expert, Dr. Sara Safari transforms extraordinary experiences into practical strategies for everyday leadership. Combining an engineer’s analytical mindset with the resilience of a world-class mountaineer, she inspires audiences to break barriers, navigate uncertainty, and lead with courage and purpose.
Trusted by organizations including Samsung, PwC, Farmers Insurance, and Plaster Group, Dr. Sara delivers powerful, actionable keynotes that go beyond inspiration—equipping leaders and teams with the tools to overcome challenges and achieve extraordinary results.
I work with organizations that want to develop highly productive teams, that deliver profit, performance and engagement.
Signature keynotes
Keynote one
The seven steps for finding the goal that actually matters to your organisation, and then climbing it.
What the audience leaves with
Keynote two
The practical tools for assembling a team that can carry each other above the tree line.
What the audience leaves with
What she learned
For more than 10 years, she has studied and practiced human development and transformation, and more recently the neuroscientific breakthroughs that confirm and illuminate these principles. This is the part that makes it a keynote rather than an adventure story.
One
She named Everest at a seminar as the goal she was certain she could not reach. It stopped being impossible the moment it became a training plan with dates on it.
Two
An electrical engineer who had never slept in a sleeping bag became a Seven Summits mountaineer. Nothing about that was innate. All of it was sequence.
Three
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake at 20,000 feet is the stress test no offsite can simulate. What holds is the trust you built before conditions turned.
Four
Every climb was a fundraiser for girls who would never see the mountain. Dr. Sara is blunt that the reason she kept going was that the climb was not for her.
Audiences
Leadership offsites, all-hands and annual conferences for organisations building teams that deliver profit, performance and engagement.
Kick-offs and rallies where the room needs both a lift and a method it can use on Monday.
Students and community organisations — the story of an engineer who had never climbed, aimed at people deciding what they are capable of.
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