Daimler East Asia Pacific
When Daimler East Asia Pacific launched a new and bold strategy, they had to get everyone on board, and they knew a massive mind shift would have to be made by all.
Management invited Grant as their key note speaker – he embraced change, reinvented his life and completely changed the way he views challenges and adversity, achieving near impossible feats regardless his on-going physical challenges.
Grant connected with the audience on a personal level, with authenticity and humility.
“We could hear a pin drop, and no-one was on their mobile phones.”
CEO, Daimler Financial Services East Asia Pacific
Grant is an exceptionally determined man. His achievements are beyond what most of us could hope to achieve. And he’s done it all despite his enduring injuries from the crash and what must have been considerable pain.
You can’t ever be 100% after the devastating high-impact Injuries he sustained, so for him to achieve what he has is truly remarkable.
The Dan Nicholl Show:
The miracle cyclist who came back from the dead to achieve the extraordinary
“When I set up a question with Grant on my show, I know what the answer will be broadly speaking because we’ve chatted together so many times, but I don’t watch Grant, I watch the Springbok captain or the Olympic athlete or the leading television personality or award-winning singer on the couch beside him and watch their jaws drop as he explains what he does.
Or I look up into my studio audience and I see them going, this can’t be real. And he was dead! And he’s cycling again. And now he wants to cycle 1000km non-stop through the Alps day and night without sleeping.
You often need to see through the eyes of other people to fully appreciate the magnitude of what he does.
He’s got this new lease of life and he’s deeply appreciative of it. Don’t get me wrong there. He knows he’s got this opportunity and that’s what drives him so hard and so passionately, but it’s other people hearing his story and almost falling over that reminds you.
And I hope it reminds him as well from time to time, just what he’s been through, what he’s achieved and why he is so inspirational.”
“The thing about adversity is it is universal. We all face adversity at some point, what makes the difference is our attitude to It. My 2nd chance at life has been riddled with adversity, but I have learnt to see the opportunities it creates to grow, and to be relevant.”
Grant Lottering
Grant has addressed corporate and conference audiences in over 13 countries.
Grant’s annual Im’possible Tours are a triumph over human limitations. He’s super human non-stop cycling feats through the French Pyrenees, Alps, South Africa and California has led to Grant becoming well known in the media as Mr Im’possible.
His world first successes includes cycling the length of the French Alps, a distance of almost 1000km over 21 alpine mountains in less than 48 hours, the length of the Pyrenees and Alps in one continuous ride within 72 hours, sleeping for only 2hrs 40 min. He also became the first person to cycle through the Sequoia National Forest at night during his epic 51 hour, 960km Im’possible Tour through southern California from Shaver Lake to Big Bear Lake above Los Angeles.
Pushing himself way beyond his own personal and physical boundaries, Grant is one of a handful of athletes in the world who has cycled dozens of alpine and pyrenean mountains through the night without sleeping. Taking such extreme risks is all part of Grant’s message to audiences not to fear failure.
Grant covers numerous topics including resilience, overcoming adversity, perseverance, the impact of our thoughts and self-perception, and living life without limits, challenging and inspiring audiences that we can achieve levels of success that, at first, may seem impossible.
200 million people worldwide
His remarkable story of survival and overcoming has attracted extensive media attention in South Africa, Europe and the USA, reaching over 200 million people through broadcast, print and online media.
Grant has been interviewed multiple times on broadcast networks including M-Net, Supersport, SABC, eNCA, Kyknet, Via, 702 Talk Radio, Cape Talk, SaFm, Hot FM, Smile FM, CCFM, Tygerberg FM.
Also featured in print and online media including Mens Health, Roadbike Mag, Mountainbike Mag, Roadbike Action Magazine, Authority Magazine, Transport Magazine, Entrepreneur, Tour de France Mag, You Mag, People, Huis Genoot, Joy, and many more.