Nathan Furr
Recognized Authority on Technology Strategy, Digital Transformation and Disruptive Innovation; Professor, INSEAD
A leader in Amazon survival skills, Yossi has traveled the world, sharing his knowledge with several institutes and organizations. Speaker Yossi Ghinsberg is an incredible storyteller who has appeared on stage with prominent figures like Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, and Wayne Dyer. Organizations book Yossi Ghinsberg to learn about bringing the Amazon forest survival skills to business and the power to survive.
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Motivational speaker Yossi Ghinsberg survived 28 days in the Amazon jungle after losing three of his companions in the wilderness. He tells this story in Laws of the Jungle: Jaguars Don’t Need Self-Help Books. He also describes his adventure in Lost in the Jungle and Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival.
Yossi Ghinsberg has worked as a VP of a groundbreaking medical company and a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Furthermore, he was the driving force behind Chalalan, Bolivia’s most renowned eco-resort in the Amazon. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in philosophy and business administration.
In addition to selling millions of copies worldwide, his book Jungle was made into a major motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe.
As a leader in Amazon survival skills, Yossi has traveled the world, sharing his knowledge with several institutes and organizations. He is a true survival expert. Furthermore, he understands the importance of teaching and enforcing these survival principles in businesses. In his work with organizations worldwide, Yossi teaches people how to activate their ‘Day-to-Day Hero,’ a set of fundamental survival skills that we’ve all neglected. His ideas are truly transformational for individuals and organizations alike in today’s business world.
Despite its prevalence, Yossi believes that the old Darwinian method is incorrect, limiting, and outdated. He thinks it is time for a new way of thinking regarding business and leadership. Speaker Yossi Ghinsberg is an incredible storyteller who has appeared on stage with prominent figures like Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, and Wayne Dyer. His stories are captivating and thought-provoking.
A key insight from Yossi’s harrowing story is that the survival of the Jungle relies on collaboration. Working intelligently with his changing conditions, Yossi was able to perceive innovative ideas vital to his survival. Yossi challenges organizations to think about how they can apply collaborative thinking; expanding out from the limiting mindset of pure competition, designing environments where teamwork can thrive, skills are utilized and ideas are shared. His survival skills for business are designed to shift attendees’ perspective on what survival actually means, inspire them to always assume responsibility.
In many industries, the rapid rate of change teams are facing can leave people feeling as though they are lost in the wilderness. Something Yossi Ghinsberg has experienced first hand. After a tragic separation from his friends, Yossi was lost alone for weeks in the heart of the Amazon with no food or defenses, in the midst of one of the worst rainy season for decades.
Yossi translates his own lessons of survival – where every single moment left him at the mercy of the jungle, and his ability to adapt fast to the changing circumstances literally meant the difference between life and death – into effective strategies for those experiencing change in the work environment.
You can hear a pin drop in the room when Yossi takes the stage. But there is much more than sheer entrancement in his storytelling. Yossi translates his own lessons of survival into principal and effective strategies for business excellence.