Description
Kate Leeming Motivational Speaker
Kate Leeming motivational speaker presentations draw on three decades of world-first cycling expeditions across all seven continents. She has ridden 106,000km on her major journeys alone, more than two and a half times the Earth’s circumference. In 2023, Kate was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), detailed on her Wikipedia page, for services to adventure sport, along with the Australian Geographic Society’s Spirit of Adventure award. She has also published two books and produced award-winning films and TV series screened around the world.
In 2010, Kate became the first person to cycle an unbroken line from Africa’s most westerly point to its most easterly point. She covered 22,040km through twenty countries to highlight the causes and effects of extreme poverty. Earlier expeditions include the 13,400km Trans-Siberian Cycle Expedition, when she became the first woman to cycle unsupported across the new Russia.
In 2023, she completed fatbike journeys across Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land and 8,617km from Cape Byron to Steep Point across Australia. Then in August 2025, she rode 9,000km through Central Asia from Kyrgyzstan to Afghanistan.
What Audiences Take Away
Through the story of her journeys, audiences learn how Kate finds and holds onto purpose. They also see how she plans for missions with genuine risk and keeps going through the hardest stretches. She follows each challenge from a “DREAM” through to its completion.
Booking Kate Leeming motivational speaker sessions gives teams practical lessons in resilience, adaptability and women’s leadership in exploration and adventure. Kate delivers these lessons as a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (UK), a member of The Explorers Club, and an Honorary Advisor for the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award.
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