Description
Franck Gazzola motivational speaker sessions come from an International Adventure and Documentary Photographer. His images are visually stunning and captivating. Franck used to wear a suit and tie in the corporate world. After 15 years, he left that life behind. He became an adventure photographer and filmmaker, working in some of the most remote and hostile environments on Earth.
Why book Franck Gazzola as your motivational speaker
Franck has explored under the polar ice. He also lived for four days and three nights on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in a tiny underwater research habitat. He has sailed the Northwest Passage in the Arctic aboard a small expedition schooner. Along the way, he has documented our fast-changing environment. He works with some of the world’s most renowned scientists, often in extremely remote locations.
It was in Sydney in 2011 that everything changed. A fortunate series of events, involving explorer Jacques Cousteau, led Franck to make a defining change. He left corporate life to join “Under The Pole,” a pioneering deep-ocean scientific expedition. Since then, he has won multiple awards for his photography, and his work has been published by National Geographic, GEO and Red Bulletin. He is also a documentary filmmaker for major international TV channels, and has delivered a TEDx talk on his journey.
In his keynotes, Franck covers change management, risk management and teamwork, drawing on real stories from his expeditions, including a shark bite 80 metres under the surface. He is honest about the fact that he is no superhero. Instead, he is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things, and he shows audiences that meaningful change is always possible, no matter where you start from.
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Keynote Topics
Change Management
Being brave is not what you think
For Franck Gazzola, the only constant is change. He has gone through many changes, some radical ones more than once, some more subtle. Over the years his willingness and ability to change became a skill. Whether it is to reach a long shot inspirational goal, to learn to new ways of working, adjust to a new team or adapt to new processes, Franck Gazzola will take you through several pivotal changes that allowed him to travel the world and document some of the most extreme projects. Whilst taking the audience on a visual journey with some breathtaking images from his different expeditions in the most remote places on Earth, Franck will share stories and anecdotes, as well as reflect on his decision-making tools and the often-ignored various support mechanisms that can support us through changes.
Risk Management
Take risks to exist, manage risks to survive
Through breathtaking images taken during his missions around the world in some of the most extreme and remote environments, Franck Gazzola will give his take on his approach of risk-taking and more importantly risk-management. Through his experience and personal story, he will help reconcile ‘‘risk’’ with ‘‘reason’’. He will explain the actual type of risks he is exposed to and how teamwork, training, and processes help mitigate unfavourable prospects. Franck Gazzola will also talk you through some exceptionally threatening situations he has been involved in, including a shark bite 80M under the surface, and will talk through the methods and tools that allow him to work with on-going risks. Whether you are a risk-owner or a risk-taker in your own working environment, what Franck Gazzola will cover will be applicable to most industries or to our private life too.
Teamwork
Live together not die alone
Franck Gazzola has worked on some incredibly difficult or harsh environments and participated in highly technical project like living underwater for several days in a light portable habitat. Whether it’s sailing the infamous Northwest Passage on a 60ft schooner and diving along the way, sleeping in the bottom of the ocean or ice-climbing in Nepal, none of this work would have been possible working alone. In such conditions, where any small issue can become a life-or-death ordeal, teams are a lifeline to safety. Of course, it is not always as extreme and Franck Gazzola will paint the picture of what teamwork actually means in a context of pioneering expeditions, when something has never been done, often in remote and isolated locations. Whether the team is about managing safety, bringing different sets of skills to the table, managing complex logistics or simply bringing social comfort and laughs, Franck Gazzola will depict how working in expeditions can help break down the silos that often get in the way of good communication and excellence in execution. In his world, colleagues and acquittance mostly become friends for life, living with such intensity that no team-building event is ever needed, and growing a common sense of pride on what has been achieved. However, teams are a make-or-break in such a high-pressure/high-risk environment, requiring strong visionary leadership and an acute recruitment instinct. Franck Gazzola will cover all the aspects of the teamwork he has witnessed over the years working on remote expeditions and how it compares to his 15 years working in a Corporate environment.
