Andrew Lock OAM
Extreme Adventurer & Leadership Expert
One of the world’s most accomplished high-altitude mountaineers, celebrated for being the only Australian to summit all fourteen of the planet’s 8,000-metre peaks. A highly respected leader, expedition commander, and crisis-management specialist, Andrew brings compelling insights into teamwork, resilience, risk, and decision-making drawn from some of the most extreme environments on Earth.
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Andrew Lock is one of the world’s most accomplished adventurers and an exceptional leader, known for being the only member of the British Commonwealth to have summited all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks. Specialising in leading and managing teams in the world’s most extreme environments, Andrew draws on his extensive experience in high-stakes expeditions to provide invaluable insights on resilience, risk management, and performance under pressure.
A highly sought-after keynote speaker, Andrew works with organisations across various sectors, including government, finance, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and construction. His presentations offer practical strategies for navigating uncertainty, managing change, and building teams that thrive in adversity.
Andrew’s remarkable achievements include leading the first Australian commercial expedition to Mount Everest, surviving extreme conditions such as avalanches and crevasse falls, and training members of the Australian Government’s National Antarctic Research Expeditions. His story of perseverance, resilience, and leadership has been documented in his book SUMMIT 8000 and the Discovery Channel’s mini-series Everest: Ultimate Survival. Recognised with numerous awards, including a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), Andrew is a true testament to the power of determination and effective leadership in the face of challenges.
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Summit Secrets
Leading to Succeed
Andrew Lock’s sixteen year project to climb every 8000 metre peak on earth, including Mt Everest and thirteen other ‘death zone’ mountains,
without guides, oxygen or Sherpas, demanded project management, goal setting, perseverance and team skills. But when climbers died and the teams he joined failed, he developed the key leadership skills necessary to drive both his own success and those of his teams.
Risk
Is it worth it?
Andrew’s practical insights into understanding risk attitudes and human response processes, managing risk and building a culture of safety leadership are tools that ever person can use, and his clear analogies show how great leaders succeed where so many others fail.
The Alpine Style Organisation
Embracing Uncertainty and Harnessing Innovation
Today’s corporate world is one of constant change. While that creates enormous opportunity, it can be exhausting and fraught with uncertainty. Developing flexibility, self leadership and resilience, are key to surviving and succeeding. In this keynote, Andrew identifies the tools used to create a modern, light and fast, ‘alpine style’ approach, that facilitates agile responses to threats and opportunities, and comfort with uncertainty.
Summit Ready
Creating High Performing Teams that Succeed from the Start
Few of us have the luxury to develop teams slowly. Today’s teams come together remotely, quickly and are required to perform immediately. Andrew’s practical tools for creating high performing teams with purpose, resilience and camaraderie, in the shortest amount of time, can be used by any person, right now.
Summit 8000
The Farthest Goal
An inspiring and extraordinary account of Andrew’s journey. Learn of the resilience, motivation and self leadership required to continue, as over 20 of his friends perished along the way. Laugh, cry and be inspired by the extraordinary stories of sacrifice, success, loss and joy, and the insightful leadership lessons he draws from the experiences.
