Lene Gammelgaard

First Nordic woman to summit Mount Everest

Categories: Adventure, Leadership, Motivational, Performance

Lene Gammelgaard, being the first Nordic woman to summit Mount Everest in 1996 – and survive, has gained an extreme experience and rare insight through unpredictable and life threatening situations. Lene knows adversity and strives to study the latest research mapping the human brain to constantly adapt her work with leaders and organizations to stimulate maximum capabilities in any given situation.

Lene Gammelgaard has hands-on experience with vision creation, organizational strategy and concept development and implementation.Lene Gammelgaard holds a degree in Law from University of Copenhagen and degrees in Journalism and Psychotherapy. Her book, “Climbing High,” discloses some of the dynamics that lead to the triumph and tragedy while summiting Everest May 10 1996. The book became a global breakthrough. Lene Gammelgaard has since published three books. Her success has since been followed by 17 years of successful inspiration and mobilization of others.

The Everest Way

True Innovation starts inside – New Hights Mindset!
Skills and strategies to become outstanding. Do you actually know what major trends will affect your industry, profession and career in the next 5 years?
Vision lead mental attitudes – to carry on – no matter what. Risk doing something!
Because there is no other choice! The world won’t wait for you to take action.

Vision leadership – Discipline WILL to act!

Smoother organizational adaptation processes. Create a company where everybody gives his or her best. Install Self-responsility to greatness and creativity.
Effective interventions to build mental resilience to prepare and cope successfully – with low stress – for the ever changing future.
Opportunity in a world of constant change is limitless.

Ultimate edge willpower

Visionary people and organizations outperform others by a factor 12. Promote yourself into a higher league as Innovator and Mobilizator. Where are you now? – What do you want?
How to manage the human dimension of organizational and global transformation?

How do you scale excellence?

Turn underperformance into High Performance
Promoting vision through inspired example. New ways to self-motivate and coorporate to create desired progressive momentum in employees – especially during adverse reality and the aftermath of the global downturn. Navigating with new values. Make things happen!

Change to win! The will to suffer!

Are you prepared to cope with the unforeseen?
Responding to crisis and setbacks with improved skills to achieve successful outcomes. Relearn quickly. Shift your focus – change
from complacency into an innovation-mindset- one that will helpyou turn change into opportunity. Become forward-oriented!

If you have a team of high achievers and want them to become even better, get Lene to show them how to mentally push the self-limits that we all semi-consciously put to stay in our comfort zone. Be ready for a very positive attitude booster. We were in positiv chock!
~ Jacques R. Essinger, Ph.D, Symetis, Zürich

Lene’s presentation was inspiring and very well received. In addition to relating the hard work, dedication to team work and adversity associated with climbing Mount Everest, I was most impressed with her ability to relate those experiences to the challenges each of us face on a daily basis in the business world. She continued to link her experiences to the challenges we are confronting in our organization. Lene Gammelgaard’s presentation was exactly what we needed to help align and motivate our employees. Lene’s contribution was significant in making this a successful event. I can highly recommend Lene for her motivational capabilities and her knowledge of the essential skills and capabilities required to succeed in the business world.
~ D.D. McDavid, Daimler Chrysler Corporation, Vice President International, USA.

Lene Gammelgaard has on two occasions presented her ideas on leadership and people development to different leader groups in Lego. We find her ideas and research highly valuable in developing leaders, people and organizational culture. I therefore highly recommend Lene’s invaluable contribution.
~ Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, Owner LEGO Company, Billund, Denmark.

Holding the attention of a multicultural audience is hard enough. Leaving us with new ways of attacking our business areas is professionalism. Lene’s dynamic presentation style made the session truly valuable and was absolutely right for the audience and occasion.
~ Claus Skytte Nielsen. Director at Maersk, A.P Møller

An extensive list of clients is available at www.lenegammelgaard.dk

Lene Gammelgaard

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