Cathy O’Dowd

Join an expedition with Cathy O’Dowd as she shares her stories about leading teams and executing plans in high-risk, high-stress environments, while striving for big goals. Learn why plans fail and how teams crumble, and discover the key tools that ensure you will get to the top. Reaching New Heights draws on the lessons Cathy O’Dowd learnt from her first Everest expedition. With the focus on finances and logistics, the dynamic of the team was ignored. The team collapsed into conflict from the first day, and three members resigned before even reaching the foot of Everest. Cathy and her team-mates discovered that there are key obstacles that have nothing to do with the mountain, but there are also overlooked tools that allow the successful 25% to triumph. Cathy O’Dowd is the first woman to climb Mount Everest from both sides. She is an internationally recognised mountaineer and motivational speaker, orginally from South Africa but now living in Andorra. For more information http://cathyodowd.com, Twitter @CathyODowd, Instagram @Cathy_ODowd