Introduction

For three decades corporations in South Africa and abroad have called on Deshun to motivate and inspire their teams. At major staff conferences or at smaller staff functions, Deshun’s experience is trusted.

Why?

Incredible back story.
Gripping material from high altitude expeditions on 5 continents.
Depth of knowledge in areas of human behaviour (with insight into what makes individuals and teams tick).
Powerful analogies an audience can grasp
Ability to engage a diverse audience Recognition that the speaker needs to reach a workforce that is diverse in terms of gender, background, and age, qualification and position in the company.

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Motivational Speaking

Tackling The Summit

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.

Recent Tackling The Summit Engagements

Mountains and Manicures

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.

Recent Mountains and Manicures highlights

Its About the Flag

Deshun’s new flagship keynote

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.

Recent Corporate Hiking Encounter Event

Imprints In The Snow

patterns of leading; patterns of following

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.

Recent Imprints In The Snow highlights

CONSULTING WORKSHOPS - WORKING WITH CORPORATE TEAMS TO ACHIEVE PEAK PERFORMANCE

With facilitation experience spanning three decades Deshun has been helping teams and individuals to achieve peak performance.

Skilled facilitation combined with thoughtful input - Allow Deshun to assist you and your team on your “expedition”.

Corporate Facilitation

GoPeak Facilitation Process

Duration: 1/2 day; full day and two day workshops

Numbers: less than 20. (More by specific arrangement)

Is your team in transition? Is the team moving toward

is Deshun’s (copyrighted) process for small teams to achieve the breakthrough they are seeking.

Map the mountain (vision)

Name the flag

Map the path up the mountain (goal setting)

Assemble the team (team dynamics /leadership/followership/diversity

Attempt the mountain

Check in on the team (7 Areas of Effectiveness)

Return to base camp (ongoing reflections)

7 Summits In Your Personal (And Career) Life

Duration:

Themes: Personal

What makes for effectiveness?

7 Summits distils seven areas that enable peak performance. These are copyrighted in Deshun’s Peak Performance Toolkit. brings this together in a highly interactive reflection and self-examination exercise for individuals. Ideal for a session in a corporate retreat.

Deshun’s career can be distilled in a few words: enabling individuals and teams to achieve peak performance. Addressing thousands of groups and facilitating many teams - themes emerge and re—occur. These are now distilled in 7 Summits.

7 Summits can also be used by HR practitioners wishing to explore Emplify - the digital HR performance management system designed by Deshun for the 21 century worklplace. Deshun uses snippets from attempting the 7 Summits - the highest peak on each continent - to highlight aspects that can help a person to grow in their capacit