Gavin Bate's guest appearances

Gavin Bate

Building Better Cultures

The Travel Growth Podcast

Colin Gordon

Stuart Lancaster

Paul Johnson

Nick Morgan

Dave Cornthwaite

Sean Murray

Ryan Campbell

John Simmons

Tom Murphy

Josh Schneider

Jenni Field

Mike Klein

Jonathan Reed

Cooper Parry

Jamie Heaslip

OwlTail

Gavin Bate is the founder of Adventure Alternative, an adventure travel company that offers climbing expeditions, trekking holidays and safaris around the world. He also founded Moving Mountains alongside this - an international charity working in Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal, aimed at relieving poverty through education, health and social welfare programmes.Gavin has walked across the Sahara Desert solo, climbed Everest 5 times, numerous without oxygen, raised £200,000 for Comic Relief by summiting the highest peak on every continent for the millennium celebrations, and has raised millions of pounds for Moving Mountains through his extraordinary exploits over the years. He is quite a man.I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Gavin for a few years now, and I believe the most surprising thing about him is how unassuming and down to earth he is when you understand the context of what he's done.Underneath it all, he’s a wonderful human being and it was a pleasure to sit down with him and force him to share some of these incredible stories which he otherwise keeps under his hat in most situations! This conversation has everything from crazy adventure stories to life-affirming advice that will help you get more out of your day-to-day existence. There is also plenty to take from it from a business perspective, whether that’s the importance of having a mission and meaning behind your work, or the future of travel and how to create a business that has a successful future and much more besides.

Gavin Bate is the founder of Adventure Alternative, an adventure travel company that offers climbing expeditions, trekking holidays and safaris around the world. He also founded Moving Mountains alongside this - an international charity working in Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal, aimed at relieving poverty through education, health and social welfare programmes.Gavin has walked across the Sahara Desert solo, climbed Everest 5 times, numerous without oxygen, raised £200,000 for Comic Relief by summiting the highest peak on every continent for the millennium celebrations, and has raised millions of pounds for Moving Mountains through his extraordinary exploits over the years. He is quite a man.I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Gavin for a few years now, and I believe the most surprising thing about him is how unassuming and down to earth he is when you understand the context of what he's done.Underneath it all, he’s a wonderful human being and it was a pleasure to sit down with him and force him to share some of these incredible stories which he otherwise keeps under his hat in most situations! This conversation has everything from crazy adventure stories to life-affirming advice that will help you get more out of your day-to-day existence. There is also plenty to take from it from a business perspective, whether that’s the importance of having a mission and meaning behind your work, or the future of travel and how to create a business that has a successful future and much more besides.

Gavin Bate - Walking the Sahara, Climbing Everest & the Importance of Having a Mission

"Don’t fall in love with your wins – positively seek out what might kill you next" ​If you want to hear from someone with a varied, wide-ranging and interesting career, you need to look no further than Gavin Bate. He's travelled thousands of miles around the world, summited the seven highest summits on the planet, walked across the Sahara (solo!), driven aid trucks in Africa and taught in Kenya's slum schools. And that's only the half of it! Today, Gavin is an International Mountain Leader, runs Adventure Alternative, which he started in 1991, and is the founder of Moving Mountains Trust, an international charity working with disadvantaged children and communities primarily in Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal. He is also an experienced speaker and lecturer on leadership and leadership psychology, much of the context for which he takes from his experiences in the mountains. Show Notes: 2.40 - A bit about Gavin – 6.30 – Leadership through climbing – 8.45 - Mindfulness, mental health and getting off the grid – 11.50 – What makes a great leader – ‘know thyself’ – 15.10 – The changing focus on Mountain Guide training – 17.40 – Managing the psychology of men and women and optimal compromise – 19.05 – Transformational leadership and leading from the middle – 21.20 – Hierarchy kills progress – 24.40 – The danger of generational stereotypes – 26.50 – A leader’s role in change – IQ vs EQ vs AQ (adaptability) - 29.00 – Adaptability – ‘What if’ scenario planning - 31.20 – The power of unlearning and heuristic traps – 35.35 – Exploration vs exploitation 38.50 – Silos get in the way of transparency and communication. – 42.20 – Gavin’s advice for himself – ‘Get off your high horse!’

"Don’t fall in love with your wins – positively seek out what might kill you next" ​If you want to hear from someone with a varied, wide-ranging and interesting career, you need to look no further than Gavin Bate. He's travelled thousands of miles around the world, summited the seven highest summits on the planet, walked across the Sahara (solo!), driven aid trucks in Africa and taught in Kenya's slum schools. And that's only the half of it! Today, Gavin is an International Mountain Leader, runs Adventure Alternative, which he started in 1991, and is the founder of Moving Mountains Trust, an international charity working with disadvantaged children and communities primarily in Kenya, Tanzania and Nepal. He is also an experienced speaker and lecturer on leadership and leadership psychology, much of the context for which he takes from his experiences in the mountains. Show Notes: 2.40 - A bit about Gavin – 6.30 – Leadership through climbing – 8.45 - Mindfulness, mental health and getting off the grid – 11.50 – What makes a great leader – ‘know thyself’ – 15.10 – The changing focus on Mountain Guide training – 17.40 – Managing the psychology of men and women and optimal compromise – 19.05 – Transformational leadership and leading from the middle – 21.20 – Hierarchy kills progress – 24.40 – The danger of generational stereotypes – 26.50 – A leader’s role in change – IQ vs EQ vs AQ (adaptability) - 29.00 – Adaptability – ‘What if’ scenario planning - 31.20 – The power of unlearning and heuristic traps – 35.35 – Exploration vs exploitation 38.50 – Silos get in the way of transparency and communication. – 42.20 – Gavin’s advice for himself – ‘Get off your high horse!’

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