Alpine Highlife
A spirit lifting adventure that blends and compares wildlife adaptations to our own every day survival abilities and life choices.
Feeling a little overwhelmed with your everyday demands at work and at home? Is the new technology leaving you breathless? Our technological explosion is pushing us to work faster, harder, more efficiently, and all with less people and support. And on all of this, there’s your family needs too! What should we do to enable all of us to lead a healthier, better balanced life?
Leave town. That’s right, get out…..!
Brian uses the mountains as a metaphor to creatively illustrate some of life’s exciting options and possibilities. It’s a story that passionately illustrates the pure joy of life in high places, illustrating with a buoyant pace, the importance of taking time out for number one…..you!
This is a buoyant and humorous program with a solid ecological message that encourages people to get the most out of life and life’s possibilities.
In this presentation, Brian uses (computer) slides and video to illustrate the story. The slides and video segments are projected (using a standard LCD video projector) and live-narrated to best fit the expectations of the audience.
A little Sex, a little Adventure, and a bit of Passion
A keynote or after dinner presentation by Brian Keating
Please excuse the title, but it’s all true. This is a fascinating look at the inner workings of the Calgary Zoo that make working there one remarkable experience.
Brian Keating will take you on an adventure that only he can tell, because he was there, watching and filming, right in the thick of things. By persistence, good planning and plain old dumb luck, Keating happened upon more than you’ll bargain for during this sometimes humorous, often profound, and highly personal presentation.
In this presentation, Brian uses video to illustrate the story. The video segments are projected (using a standard LCD video projector) and live-narrated to best fit the expectations of the audience
Cold Leadership……into The Last Great Wilderness.
A presentation illustrating the extraordinary leadership capabilities of the failed Antarctic expedition of Ernest Shackleton
Brian Keating, Head of Conservation Outreach at the Calgary Zoo, is an adventurer, world traveler, and leader of some 60 expeditions to remote locations world-wide. He returned earlier this year from his twelfth voyage to the Antarctic, this time repeating a month-long expedition retracing much of Shackleton’s route.
Early last century, one of the most remarkable stories of risk taking and survival was played out in the remote frozen seascapes of the Antarctic. Shackleton was an extraordinary leader, and he somehow managed to beat all possible odds during a two-year struggle with survival.
What lessons can Shackleton teach us about life and leadership? How could his ice-bound situation of courage and endurance give us insights into the possibilities for our own future?
Brian plans on taking you on a voyage through one of the most astounding wilderness survival adventures of all time, illustrating the brilliant leadership qualities that enabled Shackleton to return home without the single loss of life. He’ll then take you into the icy waters of the Antarctic using his informative method of live-narrated video, to witness the life-abundance of sea birds, seals, whales and penguins, exploring this hauntingly beautiful icescape.
This is an inspirational and buoyant presentation, punctuated throughout with wonderful humour, and includes a solid ecological message.
Places to see before you Die
A look at several extraordinary world travel destinations
Brian Keating and his wife, Dee, have been explored some 50 countries on all 7 continents during the previous two decades. His journeys have taking them into some of the best wildlife locations on the planet.
Using a series of his own professionally edited video clips, Brian will live-narrate some of the options of modern travel opportunities, taking you on a surprising journey into the heart of some of his most memorable life experiences.
You’ll travel on some profound and sometimes surprising arm-chair journeys that are designed to get your travel juices flowing. He’ll head to the poles, into the heart of the Antarctic, retracing Earnest Shackleton’s footsteps, and to the Arctic, getting up close and personal to 3000 beluga whales. You’ll also travel by kayak into the remote fjords of Ellesmere, looking for walrus and narwhal. He’ll then venture into the heart of Africa, first climbing Kilimanjaro and then into Central Africa, gorilla watching. He promises to take you to his favourite African paradise, consisting of a float down the best river on the continent: the Zambezi, where elephant watching takes on an entirely new meaning. From there, you’ll venture deep into one of the best remote diving locations in the world, into a place of unbelievable abundance, and then dance from ocean to ocean, looking for the best whale watching.
Along the way, he’ll house you in rustic bark-cabin accommodation in the jungles of Borneo, small tents in Madagascar, space age fabrics of Kevlar in the Arctic, and into undeniably luxurious accommodation in the heart of southern Africa.
Brian will present all of this with his usual high energy, buoyant, fun and informative style, punctuated with personal anecdotes and humour, presenting remote travel in an entirely new light.
Polar Possibilities: Adventures in Paradise
The Arctic is on many peoples minds these days: it’s hot politically; it’s hot physically (or at least it’s warming), it’s hot militarily; and because of all this, it’s hot psychologically. Or at least it should be: our Canadian High Arctic backyard is 33% of who we are!
Nearly 30 years ago, Brian Keating spent four months living in the high Arctic, hiking hundreds of kilometers, often encountering wolfs, fox, musk ox, caribou and hares. He dreamed then of hiking through the only glacier-free pass amongst a dramatic mountain range that stood shimmering to the east. In July of 2002, that dream came true, and since then, he has completed four additional expeditions in the high Arctic.
With this program, Brian will present segments of these adventures with his own unique method of live-narrating his video edits, hiking through breathtaking landscapes of icy cold rivers, glaciers bulging from nearly every side valley, amongst the carpets of brilliant Arctic-alpine flowers, encountering beluga whales, musk ox, caribou and polar bears.
This is a celebration of our own Canadian Arctic wildlife and the landscapes they live in, a celebration of one of the planets last great wilderness areas.
