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Oli France is an international keynote speaker, expedition leader and adventurer who helps world-class teams thrive in uncertainty.
For more than fifteen years, Oli has led teams through some of the world’s most remote, complex and hostile environments – from Iraq to Syria, Somalia to Congo, Yemen to Siberia. These experiences have given him a unique perspective on what it takes to lead with clarity under pressure, navigate complexity, take intelligent risks and sustain high performance when the stakes are high.
On stage, Oli translates lessons from the extreme into practical ideas for business: how leaders create clarity amid uncertainty, how teams build trust and execute under pressure, why intelligent risk-taking drives progress, and how a relentless focus on ‘World-Class Basics’ separates the good from the great. His clients include McKinsey, Google, Accenture, Rolls-Royce, Prudential, AIA, DHL, HP, AbbVie and Equinor.
Across 85+ countries, Oli has navigated deserts, jungles, mountains, warzones, minefields, avalanches, earthquakes and interrogations – experiences that underpin his belief in curiosity, conviction and the power of the Explorer’s Mindset.
In 2024, Oli completed a 64-day, 3,588-mile human-powered journey from Death Valley to Denali, generating global coverage from the BBC, Reuters, National Geographic, Red Bull and The Times. The expedition forms part of his world-first Ultimate Seven project: journeys from the lowest to highest point on every continent.
How do leaders create confidence when the path ahead is uncertain?
Oli explores how to cut through complexity, focus on what matters most, make better decisions under pressure and give teams the clarity and conviction to keep moving forward.
What separates good teams from great ones when the stakes rise?
Drawing on experiences leading teams in extreme environments, Oli explores trust, communication, decision-making, zero complacency and the World- Class Basics that drive consistent execution under pressure.
How do we respond when there is no clear map?
Oli shows how curiosity, adaptability, intelligent risk-taking and the courage to act can help leaders and teams embrace uncertainty, build momentum and become pioneers who shape change rather than simply react to it.
Oli delivered a gripping story of adventure and exploration to an audience of ca 200 people at our recent Google team event. He is full of energy and passion and his talk covered many learnings that apply to businesses of all kinds: from the importance of cultivating a growth mindset and taking calculated risks to push your own self development to inspiration for how to build and motivate psychologically safe, resilient, high performance teams. Oli is a joy to work with as an individual. He is enthusiastic, engaging and dependable and fine-tuned his talk to perfectly complement our program for the event
We invited Oli to be our keynote speaker at our company conference in September 2024. Every interaction with him leading up to the day was a real pleasure: he is friendly, personable and very professional. On the day itself, he delivered a keynote that demonstrated that he had really listened to our brief and had tailored his content to meet the objectives for the session. He engaged the room with his style and content and was more than happy to stay for coffee and informal discussions with the team afterwards. We’ve had nothing but positive feedback about Oli from the team and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him for motivational and leadership sessions
