Keynote Speakers
Available as keynote speakers for in-person events, or for virtual events worldwide, Ashley Bugge and Tiffany Duong provide valuable insight and strategies that guarantee to empower your employees or team members to navigate challenges effectively, adapt to change, and maintain a positive outlook amidst adversity. These pioneering female entrepreneur-turned-polar explorers will take your audience on an awe-inspiring journey from the icy depths of polar waters to entrepreneurial heights. Sharing personal stories of challenges faced while on expeditions, to overcoming personal adversity and tragedy, paving their own route as solo entrepreneurs in a competitive market, and challenging societal norms as moms and women forging a path forward as scuba divers and explorers. Ashley and Tiff showcase real-world experience and practical techniques and inspire teams to cultivate resilience, foster a growth mindset, and turn obstacles into opportunities for growth and innovation.
Resilience Mindset
“We can’t stop obstacles, misfortunes, and setbacks, but we can change the way we view them.”
Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Cultivating resilience across various aspects of life bolsters the resilience of one's family, business, and personal endurance. This speech focuses on topics of:
● Using adverse circumstances as opportunities
● The power of a growth mindset
● Learning from failure
● Self care and well-being during change
● Developing resilient leaders
Resilience Mindset is a 60-minute keynote session with onsite and virtual options available.
Redefining Success
Embracing Passion and Hustle in the Entrepreneurial Adventure
This dynamic keynote speech will empower attendees to embrace change, pursue their passions with purpose, and achieve balance and fulfillment in both their professional and personal lives. Through engaging storytelling and actionable insights, this keynote speech will cover topics related to:
● Changing careers or educational path
● Balancing "real" life with career, passion, and hobbies - how can you have it all?
● Building and leveraging networks
● Defining and discovering purpose and success
● Fostering resilience
Redefining Success is a 60-minute keynote session with onsite and virtual
options available.
The Entrepreneurial Hustle
Navigate Challenges, Transform Ideas into Reality, and Make Your Mark
on the World.
This keynote address explores the mindset shifts and practical strategies essential for turning ideas into action and overcoming obstacles in the pursuit of success. This includes topics topics related to:
● Brainstorming and implementation
● Forging your own path
● From idea to impact
● Risk and time management
● Hurdles and highlights - using failure as fuel to propel yourself forward
● Finding your piece of the pie
Think like an entrepreneur is a 60-minute keynote session with onsite and virtual options available.
Exploration 101
Inspiring Journeys of Female Polar Explorers Redefining Limits and Igniting Change.
Ever wondered what it's like to slide off an iceberg into -1C water? Swim with wild Orca? Dive alongside Tiger sharks and giant Manta Rays? How about deploying a zodiac into one of the most treacherous bodies of water on the planet with the hopes of furthering science?
Ashley Bugge and Tiffany Duong, two pioneers making a name for themselves in the world of polar exploration have had the joy (and often fright) of experiencing some of the most adventurous opportunities on the planet and would love to share their stories with your team! This interactive session includes discussion points for the adventure-minded, and adventure-adjacent individuals who want to know what opportunities are out there to get involved in, along with a foot in the door to make it happen. Speaking points include:
● Exploratory travel - finding confidence and gaining skill
● Citizen Science and Ecotourism
● Pathways to polar exploration
● Diving with the giants of the underworld
● Key takeaways and findings
● Finding fulfillment
Exploration 101 is a 60-minute keynote session with onsite and virtual options available
