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Hugh Culver, MBA, CSP brings passion and spirit to your event with a rare blend of business savvy, humour, and real-world advice. Dynamic keynote presentations and workshops entertain and educate audiences to the powerful choices that are always available in their work and lives.

After 15 years as a professional whitewater guide and manager of the largest adventure travel company in Western Canada, Hugh turned his interests to pioneering and marketing adventure tours. He originated trips to the South Pole — creating the only private base camp in Antarctica as well as the first private airline-expedited mountain climbing experiences, and even golfed at the North Pole.

As President and owner of Marathon Communications Inc., Hugh's vision is...

... Changing the way work serves people!

For the past 12 years, Hugh has shaped this vision by leading extraordinary events in career development, meeting facilitation, and retreat programs with emphasis on municipalities, corporations, non-profit societies, universities/colleges, and associations. Topics focus on individual/team development, leadership skills, as well as personal mastery. Presentation styles include:

• Keynotes - a wealth of insights filled with inspired passion
• Workshops - interactive in nature; using multi-media tools
• Personal Coaching - for a 1-on-1 style of facilitated guidance
• Facilitation - of those all important meetings, reteats, events

Biography

Hugh Culver, MBA
An inspired speaker with passion

Hugh Culver is the kind of person who certainly understands the incredible power of being passionate and inspired about your work. After 15 years as a professional whitewater guide and manager of the largest adventure travel company in Western Canada, Hugh turned his interests to pioneering and marketing adventure tours to the South Pole, mountain climbing expeditions, and even 'golfing' at the North Pole.

Within three years, Hugh created a company with sales of over $5 million and a staff of 35 with three offices. In that time, he sold close to $10 million in adventure programs and had created the only private base camp in Antarctica as well as the first private airline in that region.

Hugh also has lived his passions as an athlete! He has:

• competed twice in the Canadian Ironman Triathlon,
• run nine marathons,
• ranked 6th as a Canadian National Whitewater Kayaker,
• run the fastest time for the Chilcoot Trail (8 hours),
• ridden solo on his mountain bike from Cape Town to Durban,
• been a demonstration Telemark skier and instructor.

And, to quite literally "top it off", Hugh reached the summit of Mt. Logan (Canada's highest peak) in 1991.

As President and owner of Marathon Communications Inc., one of five successful companies, Hugh's vision is ...

... Changing the way work serves people!

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