The Sweeney Agency

About Stacy Allison - Mount Everest Climber and Inspirational Speaker:

Stacy Allison has climbed the world's most famous mountain. Now she's helping organizations across the globe scale their own monumental challenges. Stacy understands mountains: she has been climbing mountains and leading expeditions for more than 20 years in remote regions around the world, including Tibet, Pakistan, and Russia. She also understands business: Stacy is president of Allison Construction, a residential building company in Portland, Oregon. She is also author of Beyond the Limits; A Woman's Triumph on Everest, and Many Mountains to Climb; Reflections on Competence, Courage and Commitment.

Stacy combines her business acumen and her spirit for adventure to show her audiences how to thrive in their organizations through courage, leadership, vision, teamwork, risk taking, and personal accountability. Stacy's high content, tailored, dynamic presentations will encourage and inspire you to take a visionary look at opportunities and move beyond your limits. The future will never look the same!

What Stacy Allison Talks About:

Many Mountains to Climb!
Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives, will we have the confidence and courage to risk - Stacy Allison

Stacy will take you and your organization on an exciting journey to Mt Everest and into the world of high altitude climbing. That journey provides a powerful metaphor for many of the challenges businesses face today. Mt. Everest is one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth. For every three people who reach the summit of Everest, one dies trying. When the challenges are this great and the stakes are this high, each team member plays a critical role, not only in the team's success, but its very survival.

Decisions don't get much starker, and that's why mountains, though seemingly a planet apart from the world of construction, are a rich source of insights for managers and executives. More than just symbols of upward striving, mountains are high-altitude laboratories for leadership, team dynamics, risk-taking, vision, and change. Even though you and your associates may not experience arctic temperatures, hurricane force winds, or seemingly bottomless crevasses, you do face an increasingly competitive marketplace, a more dynamic and demanding customer base, and the challenge of consistently balancing profitability and growth. Running a successful organization is like climbing a mountain. Just like an expedition, you must forge an inspiring vision, build an accomplished team, overcome obstacles and stay focused, to consistently be your best and reach the top. Each team member's leadership, teamwork and motivation play critical roles in this success.

We Can Get There From Here: Teamwork, It Works!
If you see yourself trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them - Stacy Allison

It's true for any team project--cooperation works! More than an idea, teamwork is essential for your organization's success and survival. Learn how to create a team environment that will improve the quality of life, level of performance, and the bottom line for you, your co-workers and your organization.

Reaching New Heights: Risk Taking
Our sense of adventure keeps us alive, and through challenge - pushing ourselves beyond our limits - we grow. - Stacy Allison

Our accountability to others and ourselves defines our character. It determines our success and our ability to adjust to the challenges, changes and risks confronting us in today's world. Stacy demonstrates how the principles involved in climbing mountains apply to our everyday lives and how all of us can tap into our abilities and climb into the future with confidence and courage.