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FLAGSHIP KEYNOTE · 2026 SPECIAL
It's About The Flag
30 years ago, a team of inexperienced but fearless South Africans stood at the foot of Everest carrying a brand new flag and a mandate from Madiba. What happened next changed everything.
60 minute keynote
Resilience
Uncertainty
Focus
Leadership under pressure
Duration: 60 minutes Themes: Uncertainty - Resilience - idealism - choice - focus 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the historic 1st South African expedition to Mount Everest. May 1996 is sketched into mountaineering folklore. Two feature films and the mountaineering bestseller book Into thin Air document the catastrophic storm that claimed the lives of … climbers. As though scripted, this event occurred in the same week that South Africa signed her democratic constitution into being, declaring to the world the ideals by which the nation intended governing. Caught up in controversy within their own team - and the devastation of the storm - the inexperienced but idealistic SA mountaineers were faced with a choice. It’s about the Flag is an unmissable account of how a team grasped hold of the essentials - the mandate given to them by Madiba to plant the SA flag on the summit - and persevered. Deshun’s new keynote takes the uncertainty of that week on Everest and blends it with the idealism of the times. She compares it with the uncertainty and cynicism of today, and calls us back to focusing on what’s important: It’s about the flag.
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING
Stories From The Summit
Three decades. Five continents. Fifteen high-altitude expeditions. Every keynote is drawn from real experience — not theory.
KEYNOTE · 45 MIN + Q&A
Tackling The Summit
Vision |
Goal-Setting |
Resilience |
Attitude
Three decades. Five continents. Fifteen high-altitude expeditions. Every keynote is drawn from real experience — not theory.
Key themes & outcomes
Duration: 45 minutes* (and 15 minutes Q and A) Themes: Vision - Purpose - Goal-Setting - Goal implementation - Attitude -perseverance - Opportunity thinking - Focus - Motivation; breaking moulds and rejecting limiting behaviour - Resisting Prejudice What does it take to climb Everest? . Deshun draws her audience into the physical and mental processes involved when on expedition on the world’s highest mountain. Tackling the Summit provides insights on vision and goal-setting - and the resilience and courage needed to translate these into practical success. Let Deshun inspire your team with reflections on what lies in store when you reach for your highest dream.
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING
KEYNOTE · 45 MIN + Q&A · WOMEN'S EVENTS
Mountains and Manicures
A lighthearted, elegant, and deeply relatable keynote for women — capturing the highs, lows, and quiet victories of navigating a world not always built for them. Expandable panel trigger:
Key themes & outcomes
Can-Do |
Women in Leadership |
Courage
Duration: 45 minutes* (and 15 minutes Q and A) Themes: can-do If you are planning an all-women event, then Deshun’s lighthearted and elegant take on being a woman in a male-dominated sport will bring sparkle to proceedings. Mountains and Manicures is full of those head-nodding a-ha! moments as Deshun captures the highs and lows (and perils) of high altitude climbing, while relating it to the down-to-earth terrain women negotiate in their careers and personal lives.
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING
KEYNOTE · 45 MIN · ALSO AVAILABLE AS 2HR WORKSHOP
Imprints In The Snow
On the mountain, poor team dynamics cost lives. In business, they cost everything else. Drawing from 15 expeditions, Deshun unpacks how teams lead, follow, and find strength in their differences. Expandable panel trigger:
Key themes & outcomes
Leadership |
Team Dynamics |
Diversity
Duration: 45 minutes (also available in two hour workshop format) Themes: Leadership - Followership - Team dynamics - Role Definition - Diversity - Attitude In the extreme conditions on a mountain, good team dynamics and crisp decision-making is vital to success - even survival. Imprints in the Snow explores how on expeditions - and in corporate life - individuals with vastly different life-experiences, personalities and perspectives find themselves working together. Drawing on material from 15 high-altitude expeditions, Imprints examines patterns of leadership and followership. Deshun shares how strengths in one situation, become weakness in another. She enables a group to consider the role each is playing in a team, and the styles of interacting they use in pursuit of common objectives, ensuring that diversity becomes a practical strength - not a hinderance.
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Take The Metaphor
Off The Page
The climbing-the-mountain metaphor takes on real power when your team is actually on one. Two extraordinary experiences led by Deshun herself.
TEAM BUILDING WEEKEND
Mount Formosa | Tsitsikamma · Southern Cape · 1676m
Weekend itinerary
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Friday — Arrive and settle
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Saturday — Full day hike, 9km, 800m vertical rise
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Sunday — Rest, reflect, depart
Strenuous. Bonding. Unforgettable. Nine kilometres and 800 vertical metres that will test your team in ways no boardroom exercise ever could.
CORPORATE HIKING ENCOUNTERS
EXPEDITION · 8 DAYS
Kilimanjaro| Tanzania · Africa's Highest Peak · 5,895m
Climb Africa's highest mountain with a guide who has stood on its summit five times. Eight days. One team. One summit. Led entirely by Deshun.
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