Simon is an adventurer, New York Times bestselling author and TV presenter who has travelled to more than 130 countries and made multiple award-winning TV series for the BBC exploring and explaining the world. After more than a decade spent making nearly 100 programmes, Simon has become a familiar face on British TV, well known for his extraordinary foreign journeys.

Most of Simon’s documentaries combine travel and adventure with global environmental, wildlife, and conservation issues, and have taken him across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world. Simon’s dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the Kalahari, dived with manta rays, seals and sharks, survived malaria, walked through minefields, tracked lions on foot, been taught to fish by the President of Moldova, adopted by former headhunters, and detained for spying by the KGB and so much more.

Along the way, Simon also received a One World Broadcasting Trust Award for "an outstanding contribution to greater world understanding", the prestigious Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society. If your team need a boost of motivation to help them overcome adversity, find the best in the most unlikely of settings and truely fulfill their potential, it's time to get seriously inspired and level up with Simon.