Heather Swan Travels from Sydney, NSW

Topics

Achievements
Adventure Sport
Female Speaker
Goal Setting
Motivational
Performance
Personal Development
Self Esteem / Bullying
Sport Other

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Heather Swan has followed her dreams to become a world record setting wingsuit pilot and adventurer. She has many audacious ‘world-firsts and one-offs’ to her credit including a wingsuit BASEjump made from a 6672 metre Himalayan mountain. She has flown across the Grand Canyon from rim to rim; made the first wingsuit flights in Antarctica; across the Australian Outback - Lake Eyre, Wilpena Pound and Mt Connor; across urban landscapes - Sydney Harbour, Melbourne and Brisbane cities, to mention just a few.

Each of these missions required the perfect balance of self-control, mastery of fear, skill, strategic planning and meticulous rick management. While her achievements seem super human, Heather is surprisingly, disarmingly normal - a former high-level marketing and then management executive, a wife, mother and grandmother. She started her adventure career in her late thirties, with no background in athleticism and an ‘over-active fear system’, yet she has consciously pushed through self-imposed limits time and time again, going on to achieve almost unimaginable things. She attributes her ongoing success to her mental and physical training - a simple, yet powerful approach centred around mindfulness that anyone can use to be healthier, happier and more effective in life and business.

Heather also has the rare talent of a natural story teller, someone who can take their own experiences and share them in a way that is not only entertaining and inspiring but insightful. As a result, she has been invited to present at major conferences all around the world. Her presentations, supported by literally breathtaking video and images, are full of insight, strategies and take-away lessons anyone can use.

A delegate at the 2017 Women in Focus conference summed up Heather’s impact perfectly - “My future self is so grateful to have been a part of the 2017 Women in Focus Conference with you and to feel your story. You’re an incredible speaker, and a raw and real story teller. You had me at hello! With your richness of experience and generosity of spirit you touch more hearts, minds and imaginations than you know.”

Heather has appeared on countless television programs, four documentaries including, ‘The Search for Freedom’ and she has authored three successful books. As her achievement list grows, so too her story changes and evolves.

Heather can surprise, engage, entertain, inspire, energise and challenge audiences toward positive personal transformation. She can show them how to be resilient in the face of constant change, to be strong and to believe in themselves. She can demonstrate the power of personal responsibility a shared vision, personal leadership, the value of commitment and the power of persistence. She can give them strategies for a healthier, happier, empowered life.

Keynote Titles

Finding Brave - Heather’s personal story and her philosophy for health, happiness and achievement
Defying Gravity - creating power and lightness in life and business
Just Begin - how small steps, can lead to big change and big results
Handmade Happiness - the power of mindfulness to harness fear and limiting beliefs to transform our reality
Planning for your Future Self - do something every day your future self will thank you for
Adventures Together - the power of partnership

Testimonials

At Business Chicks over the years we've been blessed to hear from speakers such as Sir Richard Branson, Olivia Newton-John, Dannii Minogue, Diane von Furstenberg and Sir Bob Geldof, but ask any one of our members who's been their favourite, and Heather Swan's name will appear on the list. She is inspiring just by being, and an absolute pleasure to work with. Her story and her delivery tugs at the heart strings and puts you outside of your comfort zone and her message resonates with everyone, young and old. She's a true professional and we feel blessed to have put her on our stage, many times now.

Business Chicks

The best keynote I've heard.

Optus

I can't think of a more fitting way to have celebrated International Women's Day than with Heather Swan and her powerful message of fearlessness - not of being unafraid but of mastering the ability to be determined and courageous in spite of it. She is a very strong, kind and inspirational female role model. Heather's videos, anecdotes and accomplishments in extreme sport were fascinating and the lessons are ones that could be applied to any facet of life. Feedback has been 100% positive, which isn't surprising after looking around the room at everyone's mesmerised faces during the event. Heather's message is one that inspires change and will resonate with me for a long time.

Hunter Water Corporation