Allie Pepper
Allie Pepper is Australia’s most accomplished female high-altitude mountaineer, with twelve 8000-metre summits to her name, more than any other Australian woman. In 2024, she became the first Australian female to summit Makalu (8485m) without supplemental oxygen, setting a national benchmark for women climbing at extreme altitude.
Currently on a mission to climb all fourteen of the world’s 8000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen within four years, Allie brings extraordinary physical endurance, mental clarity, and the ability to perform under relentless pressure to the stage.
Her journey is one of transformation and tenacity. From navigating a marriage breakdown and the challenges of menopause to pursuing a lifelong dream in the world’s highest mountains, Allie inspires audiences to see that the second half of life can be the most powerful and limitless.
In her keynotes, she combines gripping mountaineering stories with practical strategies for resilience, focus, and high-performance living, leaving audiences energised and motivated to reach their own summits.
Based in Canberra
Keynote Topics
The Limitless Mindset
This keynote explores what it truly takes to perform at a high level when pressure is constant and certainty is gone. Drawing on lessons from extreme environments, The Limitless Mindset challenges the idea that resilience is built through force, grit, or constant proving.
Instead, this keynote introduces a practical framework built on passion, purpose, and power. It shows how limiting beliefs quietly shape behaviour, decision-making, and leadership style, often long before pressure hits. Audiences are guided to recognise where misalignment drains energy and performance, and how clarity and responsibility restore both.
Designed for leaders navigating complexity, change, and high expectations, this keynote delivers grounded insights and practical tools to help audiences lead with focus, self-trust, and sustainable momentum, even when the stakes are high.
The Second Act
The Second Act is a deeply human keynote about what happens when old strategies stop working and a new chapter demands to be written.
This keynote explores identity shift, personal responsibility, and the courage required to let go of who you were in order to become who you are now. It examines how burnout, life transitions, and internal pressure can signal the need for recalibration rather than retreat.
Blending lived experience with leadership insight, The Second Act challenges audiences to take ownership of their next chapter, reconnect with intuition, and redefine success on their own terms. This keynote resonates strongly with leaders navigating change, reinvention, and the question of how to lead with clarity and confidence in the second half of their careers.
Balance the Scales
Balance the Scales is a powerful keynote exploring why progress in leadership is shaped not only by systems and culture, but by the beliefs women carry about their own worth, authority, and capacity.
Through compelling stories from male-dominated environments and high-stakes leadership settings, this keynote examines how over-functioning, self-doubt, and the need to prove can quietly undermine confidence and impact. It challenges audiences to identify where imbalance is being reinforced internally, not just externally.
Grounded, authentic, and practical, this keynote offers women and leadership teams a new way forward, built on boundaries, self-trust, and conscious decision-making. Audiences leave empowered to lead with clarity, courage, and authority, without sacrificing themselves in the process.
