Vicki Anstey is a fitness expert, entrepreneur, adventurer, and world-record-holder. She was among the first women to reach the final stages of Channel 4’s "SAS Who Dares Wins" and set a world record in 2021 for rowing unaided across the mid-Pacific.
Vicki has completed a 250-kilometre race across the Arctic in temperatures as low as -35 degrees and has raced in Kenya, where temperatures exceeded 50 degrees. She has also completed the Race Across America, a 3,000-mile cycling event through 17 states, and is awaiting confirmation of a second world record!
Also a Certified Stress & Resilience Coach, Vicki coaches using a variety of high-performance mindset and critical thinking methodologies from the worlds of Elite Sport and the military. She speaks on empowerment, self-reliance, teamwork, mindset, and emotional endurance, using her experiences to inspire women and young girls to pursue their goals. Vicki encourages her audiences to confront their fears, emphasising that personal growth stems from overcoming challenges. Her journey from advertising executive to fitness pioneer highlights her commitment to tackling significant tests of human performance.
This session is an exciting opportunity for your team to get to know Vicki Anstey and hear her inspirational story, along with time for a Q&A! In this keynote, Vicki will challenge your audience to take their first step into whatever they may be most afraid of in order to discover that true personal growth comes from handling and then overcoming adversity. To do this, Vicki draws from her unique journey from advertising executive to fitness pioneer.
Have you ever felt like you’re operating at 40%? Like you have more to give but just can’t unlock that missing 60%? Vicki Anstey’s series of eye-opening lessons will teach you that fear is just an opportunity in disguise. You’ll learn the skills needed to unlock your true potential, a new perspective on how to overcome what’s holding you back and thought-provoking insights that will inspire change.
In this session, Vicki Anstey redefines what comfort really means. Explaining that life is actually more comfortable on the other side of discomfort. The key to this is mastering the art of the mundane, creating and ‘stacking’ good habits, making consistency our focus and discharging the toxic effects of chasing dopamine and instant gratification. Vicki will leave your audience knowing how to live life determinedly and how to be ready for any opportunity that may cross their path.
In this session, Vicki Anstey explains the ‘Pressure Performance Curve’, guiding audiences through a series of simple adaptations to mindset, lifestyle and how we can better regulate pressure and stress. Your team will learn the difference between challenge and threat and how to re-wire our brains to enable higher executive functions that regulate our emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems and help us think more flexibly.
Psychological safety is not about being nice or making people ‘comfortable’, it is felt permission for candour, authenticity. In this session, Vicki Anstey shares fascinating insights from the 60 days she spent at sea with two other women feeling emotionally unsafe, isolated and bullied. Vicki shares the lessons she learned from this experience about what truly high-performing teams need to have in place to succeed with integrity.
In this session, Vicki Anstey presents compelling evidence that enhancing underlying physiology is what supports and drives human health. By improving our wellbeing and physiology, we can only set ourselves up BETTER to withstand, pressure, stress and the onset of lifestyle disease. So, take a deep dive with Vicki into the drivers of wellbeing, the impact of our thoughts, our ability to manage stress, and the difference between lifespan and health-span.
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