Bernard Voyer
A renowned explorer and mountaineer, Bernard Voyer has over 30 years of expeditions and adventures to his credit. He reached the North Pole in 1994, the South Pole in 1996 and, in 1999, the roof of the world, Mount Everest. He has stood at all three poles of the Earth, and has completed a World Tour via the highest summit of each continent. He is a gifted communicator who knows how to engage his listeners, convey his passion, bring his experiences to life and encourage his audiences to take action.
Voyer is a popular bilingual speaker and has given more than 750 presentations in English and French, in North America, Europe, China and Japan. He has given talks to university students for Canadian universities (McGill, Montreal, Queen’s etc), Amherst College in the USA and even in Beijing (China) for the department of Engineering of the University of Tsinghua. He has spoken for a number of organizations including the Ordre national du Québec, the Royal Institute of British Architects, NASA and the Assembly of European Regions.
Speaking topics
- Strategies and Summits
“You have to climb one summit to be able to see others”
Aiming for a summit and reaching it: what does it take to be a leader for this kind of challenge? You have to choose your team, design and adapt a strategy, motivate yourself and others and find the energy to keep going, develop your ability to analyze a critical situation and carefully weigh your decisions …
Bernard Voyer highlights the many parallels between the corporate world and his experiences on his numerous expeditions. A lecture and a fascinating discussion with participants that focuses on the inner workings of leadership and the values underpinning action and the importance of commitment.
- A World Tour: From Dream to Reality
A passionate speaker, Bernard uses his motivational talks to communicate his drive to excel, the strength of teamwork, co-operation and initiative and the importance of digging deep within ourselves to find the inner resources to reach our goals.
Bernard Voyer gives a human face to an extraordinary triumph of determination. In his presentations, he appeals to the audience’s imagination, but above all, he succeeds in summoning forth listeners’ desire to excel, to prove their own courage and motivation.
- Losing the North: An environmental perspective, a human story
With our eyes turned toward the Far North and the Arctic, we can only wonder about the future of our planet as we hear leading scientists announce major climate change. Just thirty years ago, no one dreamed that the Arctic Ocean would ever be ice free during the summer…
Bernard Voyer is a privileged witness to the beauty, and especially the fragility, of our planet.
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Speaker testimonials
You have done many amazing things and we can all learn from your experiences! I hope that we will be able to get you to come back in the future as our Exploration Branch moves toward preparing astronauts for moon and Mars missions.
Voyer had already established himself as Canada’s most accomplished extreme explorer […] Voyer’s many expeditions have made his name synonymous with outdoor exploration and a sought-after inspirational speaker.
Mr Voyer, I have attended hundreds of presentations, but none of them has impressed the way yours did. […] You motivated everyone who attended this wonderful presentation, and will continue to inspire them. There will always be a bit of Bernard Voyer at Léger Marketing.