Tim Jarvis - Sustainability and Environmentalists - Environmental scientist, author, adventurer, publi ...

Travels From South Australia

Speaker Topics

Adventure

Anecdotes and lessons from Tim's polar adventures and more. Fascinating, thrilling and often amusing tales of endeavor and endurance. Read less

Isolation

Applying lessons from a lifetime of expeditioning to a life in a time of Covid-19, whether one is stuck in a boat on the Southern Ocean or in a studio flat in Melbourne, the challenged and solutions are surprisingly similar! Read less

Leadership and Team Motivation

How to recognise the individual skillsets of disparate team members and draw the best out of them; how to inspire and motivate individual team members with varying outlooks and bring the team together, in challenging times as well as smooth times. Read less

Organisational Goal Setting, Teamwork and Motivation

Lessons for corporates and not-for-profits alike on how to recruit and manage effective teams, inspire and lead while empowering team members to take ownership, and achieve one's goals. Read less

Personal Goal Setting

Lessons on setting goals for oneself and following through to completion taken from Tim's expeditions and applied to any set of circumstances Read less

Sustainability

Leadership in a modern world beset by the challenges of climate change; what we can do to help, whether we are leaders of organisations or individuals wanting to contribute independently Read less

Tim Jarvis

Environmental scientist, author, adventurer, public speaker

Environmental scientist and adventurer Tim Jarvis AM is committed to finding pragmatic solutions to major environmental issues related to climate change and biodiversity loss and uses his expeditions, films, books and public speaking engagements to promote thinking in these areas.

Having worked in sustainability for over 30 years, he currently provides strategic and practical sustainability advice to government and a range of corporate organisations and advocacy groups.

Known for his historically authentic recreations of the Antarctic survival journeys of Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton, Tim is founder of The Forktree Project, a native revegetation project on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula, Global Ambassador and Governor of environmental NGO WWF, Southern Ocean Ambassador to Save Our Marine Life and a Vice President of Flora and Fauna International.

He received the Order of Australia in 2010 for services to the environment, community and exploration and has recently been named South Australia’s Australian of the Year 2024.

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Testimonial

Tim Jarvis held a full house audience of 170 adults and children spellbound with a riveting account of his polar expeditions, how the lessons learned from these experiences can be applied to everyday life, and his work as an environmental scientist with the consulting engineering firm Arup … Tim’s talk was eye-opening, fascinating and inspiring for everyone in the room.

Royal Geographical Society

Tim Jarvis was the guest speaker at the Anniversary Dinner. Tim’s inspirational tales of his polar expeditions had the audience mesmerised – there were 240 guests and you could have heard a pin drop.

RANZCO Eye Foundation

Tim was the perfect opening speaker to our workshop. He inspired our group with his personal Polar projects and experiences, showing them that big ideas can be made into reality. His key message stayed with the participants throughout the workshop, enabling them to channel the “thinking is good, doing is better” philosophy into innovative thinking in sustainability.

WWF Australia

There are not many people who can speak on leadership in challenging times, as Tim can. It was refreshing to have someone speak on this topic that is outside of the public sector and non-political.. Tim Jarvis is not only a proven inspirational leader of our day who has an interesting mix of academia and adventurous spirit, he is a wonderful, caring, and engaging individual who although has walked on roads less travelled, has achieved the unachievable and consults with authoritative bodies, it is obvious he has not lost the ‘common touch’.

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