Will Gadd

Will is one of the top adventure sports athletes in the world and has been at it for more than 30 years. He has safely led numerous large TV and research expeditions into highly dangerous — and rewarding — environments, climbed Niagara Falls and taught his kids (and doctors and oil sands workers) to positively manage risk with the direct, entertaining and effective tools he learned through a lifetime of living on the edge.

He speaks with personal humor and professional depth on effective and widely applicable tools to stay safe, build team resiliency, succeed in low-knowledge environments and do what the experts said was, “Impossible!”

He has presented more than 200 high-end presentations to groups from Exxon Mobil to incarcerated youth. Most recently, he and his teams found new life forms in glacial caves for a Discovery TV show and helped a planetary scientist sample the world’s oldest rocks in Canada’s Arctic.