Chris Moon | Challenging the Concept of Limitation

The former army officer has run the world’s toughest ultra-marathons including the Badwater Death Valley 135 mile ultra, the Devon Coast to Coast 117-mile Race and walked the 500-mile Camino Way in record time. He’s led numerous teams to complete rigorous challenges ranging from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to cycling the length of Cambodia. He shares his unique experiences in a humorous and uplifting way to illustrate principles people can use in their daily lives. He has a master’s in human behaviour and has worked with psychologists and business schools so there’s academic rigour behind the principles he demonstrates with his incredible experiences.

Chris is a veteran adviser to the NHS on state-of-the-art prosthetics and has been involved with many charities in roles including President, Trustee and fundraiser.

Chris was awarded an MBE for his work in demining and in recognition of his humanitarian work, he was given the honour of carrying the Olympic Flame into the stadium at the opening ceremony of the Nagano Winter Olympics. His achievements have been featured in the media, with coverage on TV, radio & in national newspapers and magazine articles.

Chris Moon | Farming

As well as his military background, Chris has a farming background, having studied agriculture in college and working as a dairy farmer before joining the army. His mantra of “we can all go one step beyond our limits” is a message that has resonated with the agriculture industry and how it has worked with complications from Brexit. Chris appeared at the 2019 Wales Farming Conference, looking at: time to recharge and face the future head-on whatever the challenges.

Chris Moon | Speaker

As a keynote and after-dinner speaker Chris delivers humour, passion and inspiration. Topics include change, motivation, risk and safety, communication, improving sales and personal and strategic leadership. He runs short workshops to improve individual and team performance & coaches and mentors a wide variety of executives.

Chris has a passion for the process of achievement and has been a bespoke motivational speaker delivering to specific client briefs for ten years obtaining top feedback scores. In everything he says and does he challenges the concept of limitation.

His keynotes and workshops are more than stories; they are lessons in pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Through his engaging, humorous and interactive sessions, Chris empowers individuals and teams to step beyond their perceived limits, enhancing personal and strategic leadership, resilience and performance. He equips audiences with practical tools and mindsets to tackle their own challenges, creating ownership and inspiring a ripple effect of positive change in personal and professional environments. Chris’s supercharge sessions are tailored to the client’s desired outcomes and actions.

Some clients want a degree of profile, recognition and academic rigour. Chris has worked with psychologists and psychiatrists in the last ten years to understand the process behind his principles. Resilience and improving human performance are complex subjects. He’s been academically published and his autobiography One Step Beyond was published by Macmillan.

Chris believes it takes 10 years to become a good keynote speaker able to understand the complexities of an event, different organisations, the needs of all parties involved and how to deliver the message in an appropriate way.

Chris Moon | Popular Talks

Against all Odds: Lessons in Resilience and Achievement: Through his uplifting, humorous, and interactive sessions, Chris empowers individuals and teams to step beyond their perceived limits, and increases engagement, enthusiasm resilience, and performance. He survived against all odds as a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge and being blown up by a landmine in remote East Africa losing his right arm & leg. He became the world’s first amputee ultra-distance runner. His keynotes and workshops are more than stories; they are lessons in challenging the concept of limitation.

How to Rise Above the Things that Drag Us Down: Principles of endurance and tenacity which can be used to rise above adversity, challenge & uncertainty to rise to the challenge and achieve extraordinary results.

Making the Best of Life in Challenging and Changing Times: In this uplifting and humorous presentation for our time, Chris shares learnings from unique experiences surviving as a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and being blown up whilst clearing landmines for a charity in Mozambique to illustrate principles that can supercharge individuals and teams.

Step Beyond: Chris shares experiences on the balance of life and death and limit of human endurance to illustrate principles everyone can use in their daily lives to help them step beyond limits and do what they do better. This presentation generates energy, enthusiasm and commitment to step beyond limits.

Blown Up Not Down: In this hilarious after dinner speech Chris shares the humorous side of his experiences to demonstrate we choose the way we think and how we can constructively convert challenge into opportunity. He explains the power of choosing the right mindset and how to be positive when we might not feel like it. He can make this bespoke with desired calls to action. Humour will be tailored to the organisation and audience by mutual agreement.

Health & Safety & Mental Wellness: Chris’s background is leading large teams in high-risk operations in hazardous areas. He creates awareness of the human cost of an accident and explains causes and effect from both a psychological and practical perspective. He provides a fresh invigorating insight to health and safety creating engagement. Principles of mental wellness and resilience are shared to assist participants in improving their mental health.

Change – Keep Up or Get Left Behind: Chris reassures people about dealing with change, empowers and equips them to adapt and deal with any new reality. In the natural world things are either growing or dying; they don’t stand still. He explains the psychology of change, the emotional journey and how to go straight to acceptance adaptability and action.

Keynote and Workshop Outcomes:

• Understand the psychology of change and how people behave.
• Understand why change is necessary and the reasons.
• Gain a sense of perspective, recognise we have a lot we take for granted and we can do more than we think.
• Believe they can deal with change in a constructive and positive way.
• Understand what it might cost if we don’t change.
• Hear remarkable and truly inspirational stories which inspire change.
• Develop a personal strategy for surviving and thriving during change and moving forward positively to achieve measurable objectives.

Chris Moon | Diversity, Disability and Inclusion Talks

Chris has been involved with many disability organisations and acted as host and facilitator at a number of diversity days, some for disability networks. He and his associates create a bespoke powerful and innovative experience which enables difficult issues to be faced and solutions found. Topics include:

• Celebrating Difference
• Communicating The Challenge
• Engaging – It’s Everyone’s Problem
• Speaking up when you can’t stand up
• Creating New Thinking
• Chris and his expert associates can advise on all aspects of diversity and help create disability and user groups in addition to
• Keynote and Workshop experiences.

Chris Moon | Clients

Ricoh, Barclays, Xerox, John Lewis, Cisco, Danske Bank, Bank of Scotland, Aggregate Industries, Skanska, Google, Abbvie, BP, British Gas, BMW, London Business School, Iosh, NHS, South Lanarkshire College, IBM, Zurich.

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