What an interesting speaker!

Book him: steve@gurneygears.com - ph:+64 3 384 3223

Steve is in demand as a keynote speaker, as an NLP trainer for workplace training, sports group motivation, and as a one to one success coach.

Steve has some fantastic stories, near-death learnings and lots of real-life experience for achieving goals.

He is trained as an NLP trainer and runs his own workshops on Motivation, Goal setting, Life-purpose and Attitude, in addition to teaching how we can use our brains for peak performance with NLP.

He has an Engineering degree, is a Member of NZ Order of Merit, twisted and twirled on Dancing with the Stars, raced as a professional athletic with 9 Coast to Coast wins and numerous Adventure racing teams wins, he twice represented NZ at the world Mountain-biking Champs, staged a dramatic comeback after near-death Leptospirosis, invented some very zany race stuff, and writes books.

Obviously Steve speaks to audiences on a variety of topics, but each presentation is designed to match the desired outcomes of each organiser.

Some examples are:

• Hey! Im not dead yet! How to stage a come-back.

• Turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

• Developing a winning attitude.

• Goal-setting that works

• Death by Cotton-wooling

• Adapting with change.

• High performing teams

• Risk, the spice of life. Learning from and managing risk

  
  

Humour

Steve is a likeable and personable speaker who is easy to listen to and in popular demand. The natural humour and the real stories that he spices it all with makes him captivating.

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Motivation

As a highly motivated enthusiast, Steve is a natural motivational speaker.;

It is his true-to-life honesty, mixed with his integrity that makes him so motivational.

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Innovation

He started out as a mechanical engineer with a BE from Canterbury Uni. Well actually, it started when he modified his trike as a kid. So it is little wonder that he designed every gadget imaginable to get a winning edge in his racing.

Steve loves talking about innovation.

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Luck? There is no such thing.

Steve shows how to make your own luck through clever goal-setting, planning and preparation.

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Adventure

Adventure does not have to be outrageously risky activities. Steve talks about how to grow through using exciting challenges to stretch our personal sphere of comfort. Risk in all of its forms is a part of this. The most dangerous thing is to do nothing at all.

Champion teams

He has an exciting new product for Team development and conferencer. It's a new company called HOTteams.

To find out more visit: www.hotteams.co.nz

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As a quick summary, he's a passionate nutter, well known as that "Crazy Coast to Coast guy"...Invented a bike with wings. Won the Speights Coast to Coast a couple of times. Poisoned by bat dung while racing in Borneo jungles. Nearly died, and then fought back to win the Coast to Coast seven times more, in a row.

Steve has won the Coast to Coast a record 9 times, in '90, '91, '97, '98, '99, '00, '01, 02, 03.

He won a BMW for breaking the race record in 1991.

Recognised as a bit of a "Gyro Gearloose", Steve has a long history of racing innovations, some sensible and some wacky. Like the Evolution kayak, now the accepted standard in NZ racing kayaks, and of course there is the controversial, (and consequently outlawed), fully enclosed bike Pod which shaved a massive 30 minutes from the final cycle leg of the Coast to Coast.

Of course there are other races that Steve competes in both domestically and internationally such as:

Southern Traverse (Queenstown)
Head to Head (Auckland)
Mountains to the Sea (Wanganui)
Survival of the Fittest (Idaho)
Leppin Ironman (Johannesburg)
Uhmkomas Kayak marathon (Durban)
Japan Snow Triathlon (Nagano)
Zofingen Duathlon (Switzerland)
There were the Television competitions of "Clash of the Codes" and "Blood Sweat and Fears".

Steve also raced Adventure Races. These are the most enduring of endurance races. Traversing jungles, swamps, rivers, seas, deserts and mountains as a team, the athletes navigate their way through the course by foot, horse, raft, kayak, bike, and sometimes camel. For 8 to 10 continuous days, they sleep only when they dare. As you might expect, Steve has interesting tales to tell that will make you cringe, cry and crack up with laughter.

Ironically, it was one of these adventure races that toppled Steve from his reign as N.Z.'s winningest multisport athlete. Infected by bat dung as they raced through the Mulu caves, Steve suffered circulatory collapse, pulmonary oedema followed by renal failure. This saw Steve dragged through intensive care wards in Malaysia and Singapore, coming very close to death.It is Steve's fight back to winning form in just 2 years, in the face of scepticism, doubt and uncertainty of health that has spawned many requests for speaking engagements. Steve responded to these requests by increasing his skills as a public speaker. He has achieved CTM (competent toastmaster) level in Toastmasters.

Steve has an Engineering background, having worked as a professional engineer for 4 years before pursuing his sport as a professional athlete. Steve graduated from Canterbury University in 1986 with a mechanical engineering degree.