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Achieving seemingly impossible challenges takes extraordinary teams. Jeff MacInnis knows what it takes for teams to go to the extreme and succeed. As a world-class speaker on teamwork, he has inspired, coached and motivated over 400 audiences in nine countries.

Jeff MacInnis achieved a 400-year old challenge when he led the first team to sail the Northwest Passage. This epic journey covered 4,000 kilometres over 100 days in an 18-foot boat. The expedition survived one of the harshest environments on the planet, through an ice-choked passage that has claimed more lives than Mount Everest. The expedition was front-page news and became a National Geographic story, an international television special and a best-selling book.

In athletics, Jeff competed on the Canadian National Ski Team, racing in World cup events and winning the Belgium National Downhill Championships in 1984. This was the era of the “Crazy Canucks,” and Jeff learned valuable insights into outstanding team effort.

As an explorer, Jeff was the only North American member of the Overland Challenge, a 12-nation team endorsed by the United Nations. This team achieved a world record by travelling overland from London to New York. The expedition recorded a $7 million, eight-part prime time, “live-action” television series. The team succeeded despite extreme temperature, terrain, time and language barriers.

Most recently, Jeff competed in two Eco-Challenges 2000 & 2001, the world’s most difficult expedition race. As the captain, Jeff led his team through 500 kms, over nine days through dense rainforest, ancient caves and some of the most beautiful coral reefs on the planet at Eco Challenge 2002 in New Zealand. With more than 50 percent of the teams dropping out, his team celebrated a 24th place finish in his first year, and led his team to a top 10 finish in 2001 at these World Championships of Expedition Racing.

From the Northwest Passage to the rainforest of Malaysia, Jeff’s accomplishments gives his message a tremendous power and the audience leaves with strategies for success and a belief that they can Dream, Dare and Do anything they want to.

Presentations Include:

The Business Race:  Six Practical Steps to Improve the Financial Performance of Your Business
In this 60 minute presentation, Jeff MacInnis outlines a clear and compelling program to create confidence and commitment in the financial goals of your organization.  He opens with a riveting story about his perilous 3,000 mile journey in a small boat through the ice-choked Northwest Passage – and what it taught him about challenge, courage and commitment.  He describes the hardships of the Eco-Challenge and what he learned about the values of “meaningful racing”.  Jeff’s focus is always on the human side of racing – the talent and tenacity of achieving a time-essential goal.

Jeff’s presentation transforms the audience’s focus on their annual “business race”.  He points out that since the beginning of history individuals and organizations have always raced towards great goals such as finding a route to the Orient or putting a man on the moon.  He applies the principles of these grand enterprises in the form of six “race-to-win” rules.  They include Vivid Visualization, Gathering Greatness and Course Correct and will help your corporate team achieve next year’s financial objectives.

Jeff MacInnis has spent the past 10 years applying the ethos of racing to the corporate world.  Recently he completed three Eco-Challenges.  Racing against the world’s best teams in New Zealand Eco-Challenge - the pinnacle of expedition racing – his team finished 10th.
 
In business, he has designed and delivered more than 500 performance-enhancing projects in 16 countries.  Among his Fortune 500 clients are; Apple, IBM and Nike.  Currently Jeff and his team are working with clients whose financial objectives exceed more than 10 billion dollars. 

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