Rex
Pemberton

Speaker Profile
Rex Pemberton is a keynote speaker and facilitator for Peak Teams. He is also the designer of Peak Teams' Everest Virtual Adventure. Rex climbed Mt Everest at the age of 21. He then used his experience on Everest to lay the foundation for completing the seven summits – climbing the highest mountain on every continent. Rex was the third youngest person in the world to achieve this remarkable feat.
Critical to this success was Rex's ability to demonstrate ROI to sponsors, work closely with media and build relationships with a global, virtual team before every climb. Now Rex uses these lessons about personal leadership, sustainable success and teamwork to deliver inspiring keynotes and facilitated workshops around the world. To date, Rex has delivered over 400 corporate presentations to over 50,000 people across all 7 continents, including Antarctica!
His client list includes top Australian, US and global businesses, including CBRE Real Estate, Hewlett Packard, Panasonic, Seagate Technologies, Siemens and the the University of California, Berkeley.
His stories present unique insights into achieving great success by combining the passion of youth with the wisdom of experienced leaders, to get ahead of the competition.
Rex's recent awards include Young Australian Adventurer of the year 2007, Finalist - Young Australian of the Year 2006, and Young Australian Adventurer of the year 2005.
Originally from Sydney, Australia, Rex is now based in San Francisco, California.
Travels from United States
Client Comments
Client Comments
- Rex did a great job of closing the Group Training conference and delegates rated his presentation highly. The combination of visual and verbal storytelling was very powerful and Rex did a good job of relating his lessons learned back to the business environment. He was a pleasure to work with.
Tulips Meetings Management
"Always a pleasure to work with the Saxton's team. I think the service is outstanding."
Tribe Communications
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."
Carl Sagan