Rona Cant

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Rona Cant is an International keynote speaker, adventurer and author

For the last 8 years across 3 continents Rona has been motivating businesses and individuals to get out of their comfort zone and reach their potential.

Once an unexceptional, middle-aged single parent she became a round-the-world yachtswoman by competing in the BT Global Challenge Round the World Yacht Race (the toughest yacht race in the world), 2 days later she embarked on the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island (one of the world’s toughest trails) encountering bears and cougars. Rona helped organise and took part in the Nordkapp Expedition, dog-sledding in the Arctic Circle 600k to the northernmost tip of Europe, a trail thought to be impossible. Rona’s compelling and memorable stories will captivate her audience and help them to overcome the fear of failure and see challenges and change as opportunities.

'Great story Rona and superb lessons for Industry!' Clive Wilson, Deputy Chairman, Primeast

Talks – Master-classes – Arctic Leadership Challenges

All Rona’s products are based on her very diverse expeditions. We learn by stories of adventure when we are little and we remember those lessons throughout our life so for real value use separately or combine different elements for a programme to improve the performance of your organisation

The Benefits: Rona uses first-hand experience to pass on the lessons she has learnt on her very diverse expeditions – she has been there and done it – so her talks and master-classes are thought-provoking and the impact is longer lasting. Rona shares clear business strategies that can be utilised immediately. Her audiences are fully engaged, they understand that action is what counts not intent and they leave believing that they too can get out of their comfort zone and achieve.

Talks:

Steering the right course – dealing with what works and what doesn’t work in Leadership and Teamwork based on the BT Global Challenge Round the World Yacht Race (the world’s toughest yacht race). Rona’s personal inspiring story links the challenges of sailing the wrong way round the world with those in the business environment. You will also learn about success out of failure and effective winning strategies to put you and your organisation on course to be outstanding.

Just do it - become the best you can be! – how by thinking differently you can overcome your obstacles and challenges to reach your goals. A journey that has been beset by challenges and obstacles, Rona tells the unique, uplifting and hugely inspiring story of how she overcame her own self-doubts, fears, physical hardship, emotional turmoil and, at times, sheer exhaustion to become the inspirational success story she is today. Rona will share how you can achieve your goals, build your support team, stay focussed and by your belief and attitude become the best you can be.

Rona’s talks are dramatically illustrated with images and video clips from her expeditions.

Master-classes:

Rona also provides Master-classes based on lessons learnt on her very diverse expeditions and life. They explore issues around leadership, teamwork and teambuilding, strategic planning, open communication, change, overcoming obstacles & challenges or the popular How to make the impossible possible

Arctic Leadership Challenges

These are a unique opportunity for personal development courses for Senior Teams to experience the challenges explorers have to overcome to achieve their goals and use those experiences to enhance their business leadership skills to build better relationships in all aspects of the business environment in order to have ‘the edge’ on the competition. They are combined with professional development for the rest of the organisation.

The Challenges all take place in the northern Norway inside the Arctic Circle. Under the guidance of Rona and ex-Special Forces Per Thore Hanson they are based on dog-sledding in April and on sailing in and around the Lofoten Islands from mid-July to mid-August.

Designed to help the participants become a strong cohesive team who know what to do and understand how each of their colleagues react to a situation when a crisis strikes. These challenges also allow time for strategic planning to enable them to guide the organisation to also become a high performance team. After psychometric tests prior to embarkation each team member takes on a different role on a daily basis, feedback is given every evening and different challenges are set unexpectedly.

After the Arctic!

There will be another debriefing session together with Rona’s inspirational presentation to the whole organisation on stepping out of your comfort zone to overcome obstacles and challenges based on her expeditions illustrated by images taken on the challenge.

Author:

A Challenge Too Far? – Rona’s personal account of the BT Global Challenge Round the World Yacht Race – the toughest yacht race in the world. Why was I taking part when I am scared of water? Read the highs and lows, the frightening moments and how I wanted to give up. Was it a challenge too far? Foreword by Sir Chay Blyth.

Snow, Sleds & Silence – Rona’s account of The Nordkapp Expedition opening a thought to be impossible dog-sled trail to the northernmost tip of Europe. The story of how three different nationalities from three different cultures and three different disciplines came together (or not) as one team to achieve one goal.

What people say about Rona…

“Thank you for a wonderful event. It gave me good knowledge, learning and experience to achieve my goals.” “Had my attention the whole time.” “Good examples to apply to real life.” “WOW – what a woman.” “Amazing such an inspiration.” “Worth listening to.” IIR LTD. Dubai & Sydney

“Your presentation gave us a sense of the importance of effective teams. It also gave us a sense of urgency, and provided increased desire to knock down any obstacles that may be preventing us getting where we need to be with our business priorities.” Greg Parker, Regional Business Manager, SANOFI-AVENTIS

“Thank you very much for your superb closing Keynote - one of the true highlights from a programme of exceptional and inspiring speakers. The delegates' feedback was a quite incredible 74% gave you 5 out of 5, with the rest giving you 4. In other words, everyone thought you were EXCELLENT. Thank you for ending our conference on such a high.” Carsten Holm - Diversified Business Communications

"Highly motivational and inspiring. Rona is able to make the impossible, possible and in the telling of her adventures encourages others to try to make changes that they want to happen in their lives too. Thank you Rona for bringing your spirit of adventure to our workplace and for your help in motivating us to introduce something new or different into our work and personal lives". Teresa Aldridge, Care Index Manager, LloydsTSB (Master-class)