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Peter Schindler
Pity the customs official who needs to deal with Peter when he crosses a border by car. His documents can be rather confusing, if not downright suspicious: his car has an Austrian license plate; he holds a Swiss passport, but it shows that his residence is in Hong Kong; as for his driving license, take your pick: two from China, one from the U.S., and several others; and his miniature laminated marriage certificate says that his Malaysian–Chinese wife is Australian.
When he was a lot younger, he raced cars in Europe – Formula 2, Formula 3, Formula Super–V and Renault Elf – for four years, on occasion even successfully.
He then entered the ‘dark years’ of his life during which he studied I.T. at M.I.T. and business at INSEAD. Painfully, he heaved himself up to become an associate partner in Accenture’’s China practice. Then it was time to move on. His passion for driving has never left him, however. In 2005, it resulted in what BBC Radio called a love letter to the pleasures of being on an open road: On the Road – Driving Adventures, Pleasures and Discoveries.
Having driven over the years a million–plus kilometres on roads in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, and loving every moment of it, he nowadays quenches his thirst for driving by taking to the roads of China. The upshot is www.ontheroadinchina.com, a company through which he offers driving holidays in China and wants to show the world just how beautiful China can be.
Most recently, between May 9th and August 12th 2007, a dream came true for Peter. After two years of preparation, Peter took off on a 100–day road trip through China, not in a Land Rover or a Porsche Cayenne or a Hummvee, but in the granddaughter of a 1950s Lotus, a car made for British race tracks and Sunday morning leisure rides on the smooth–as–a–baby’s–bottom country roads of England. Peter’s 21,000km journey along China’s two great rivers – the Yangtze and the Yellow River – took him from the artificial glitz of Shanghai to the natural splendour of the Tibetan Highlands, and from the terraced rice fields of Longsheng to the plains of Inner Mongolia.
At the end of the journey, Miss Daisy – as Peter’s open –top mother of all sports came to be called – was auctioned off at a gala charity event hosted by Yao Ming. Nokia, the title sponsor of this adventure, donated the proceeds to the China Youth Development Foundation.
Peter’s website: http://www.ontheroadinchina.com/
Sample Topic
What are you waiting for? The Madness and Magic of Making a Dream Come True in China.
The talk tells the story about Peter’s incredible driving journey through China in a 1950s Lotus. The talk will engage you because: it’s motivational (if not inspirational) because it is about realizing one’s dreams
First, in order for extraordinary things to come about, you must not only have dreams, but take risks and then persevere, especially when you try to accomplish unusual things in China.
Second, that if you have a dream, don’t put it off forever, because if you pursue a dream, great things can happen.
It’s just simply good entertainment – you will spend an hour forgetting about work and per chance dream yourself about what can happen if ask “What if?”
~ It offers rare insights into China – In the talk I share with the audience a perspective of China that they are unlikely to have seen.
~ It’s just simply good entertainment – you will spend an hour forgetting about work and per chance dream yourself about what can happen if ask “What if?”
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