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Sara Safari

PhD
Leadership Expert, Mountain Climber
Climb Your Everest
Country or state 
United States
Available to 
Global
City 
San Diego
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
Yes

Personal Details

Bio

Dr. Sara Safari is an author, speaker, mountain climber, college professor, Electrical Engineer and advocate for women empowerment. She has received the award for The Global Citizen from United Nations Association in 2015. She is a founder and president of Climb Your Everest organization. She is a board member and director of development in Empower Nepali Girls foundation. She also has received the award for Outstanding Practice with Broad Impact in the area of women and leadership from International Leadership Association in 2017.

Sara will be the first Iranian in history to climb the Seven Summits, the seven highest peaks in each continent. She is climbing to raise funds for seven organizations who are empowering women. She published her books “Follow my Footsteps”, “Above the Mountain Shadow” and “Making a Difference” to share her story with the world. She is working on a featured film and a documentary with a talented team of directors and producers who have extensive experience working on complex social justice issues.

Current position (3)

Leadership Expert, Mountain Climber

Climb Your Everest

CEO & Founder

Climb Your Everest

Leadership Professor

Southern California Institute of Technology

Degrees (2)
PhD in Leadership and Change
Antioch University
2016 to 2019
Electrical Engineering
UCLA
2005 to 2009

Presentations

Presentations (3)
Leadership is Climbing Everest

Leading an organization is similar to climbing in extreme environments. As an electrical engineer who had never climbed any mountains, I had to learn quickly how to push myself out of my comfort zone and train for the highest mountain in the world. I learned many valuable leadership skills by climbing mountains and surviving a 7.8 earthquake at 20,000 feet on Everest. Using these new learned skills taught me how to be a better leader, professor, board member and daughter.

Climb Your Everest

Every day we are dealing with different obstacles to reach our goals. Sometimes, these hurdles look like huge mountains to climb. Getting a promotion at work, achieving your educational goals, and maintaining good relationships with our loved ones are examples of challenges we deal with on a daily basis. We are all capable of overcoming our fears and climbing all these mountains if we believe “there is no limit to human potential, there is only limit in human belief!” This is a motivational talk to empower and inspire people to look at life differently and positively.

Break the Glass Ceiling

Growing up in Iran, I experienced first-hand the oppressive and restrictive environment that makes gender discrimination possible. This gave me an incentive to climb Everest to raise funds and awareness for the girls who become victims of human trafficking or are forced to get married at an early age. Coming from a patriarchal culture myself, I experienced discrimination such as “women shouldn’t climb mountains.” In this talk, I share personal stories of breaking the glass ceiling and climbing some of the highest mountains in the world.

Past talks (3)
Women & Leadership
Cadence
Virtual
What Is Your Everest?
Ebay
Virtual
Find Your Everest
Samsung
Virtual
June 3, 2021
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  • Press information (2)
Climb Your Everest | Sara Safari | TEDxIHEParis
Speaking at CPA Conference
Speaking at CPA Conference
Dentists Conference
Dentists Conference
Women Realtor's Conference
Women Realtor's Conference
International Women's Day
International Women's Day
NSA
NSA
Climb Your Everest
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TEDX Talk
Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake

Books & Articles (7)

Above the Mountains Shadow
Cognella,
2019
Making a Difference
Cognella,
2019
Follow My Footsteps
Create Space,
2016
National Geographic
OC Register
Voyage LA
LA Times

Expertise (39)

Leadership
Education
Travel & Adventure
Skills & Trades
Sport & Hobbies
Inspirational Speaker Leadership High Performance And Passion Focus and Productivity Mt. Everest Advancement of Women athlete entrepreneur Stage performance and Public speaking Athlete speaker mountain climber Survivor self management Self-Leadership Anti Human Trafficking phd book motivational speakers Women Empowerment women and fitness Breakthroughs for Women business challenges for women Collaborative challenges Overcome obstacles Dealing with Failures Being a Team Player Build Effective Teams Agile Teams Building Communication in Teams Creating Energy in your Team Holistic Entrepreneur Mentoring Servant Leadership Transformational Leadership growth mindset Adaptive Leadership Entrepreneur and Leadership Development

Awards & certifications (2)

The Global Citizen
United Nations Association
2015
Outstanding Practice with Broad Impact in the area of women and leadership
International Leadership Association
2017

Reviews

Testimonials (4)
  • The passion and the dedication that came from her story not only moved our salesforce, but we saw productivity go up by over 25% throughout the rest of the fiscal year. Her personal, moral, and spiritual journey can apply to any group of individuals and any organization looking to be inspired, motivated, or looking for a new direction in both their personal life and their professional life. To think that somebody went through this, and survived it, and now we are all able to benefit from her words is a tremendous opportunity to take advantage of.
    Alex Duquette
    District Manager
    Farmers Insurance Group
    Verified
  • Sara's story of climbing her everest weaved in actionable things for our team to help them on their personal journeys. Her story was powerful and inspired action and change. Thank you Sara!
    Jessica Daviaux
    Partner Sales Organization, Central Partner Sales Team
    Cisco
  • Sara’s story is compelling and inspiring. It is enhanced by her ability as a storyteller to convey the joy and heartbreak of her journey. Sara is an exceptional speaker that makes her story come alive for her audience. I would recommend her highly to business leaders, schools, and community groups. Sara leaves the audience with the desire to become engaged in the world.
    Lori Hotmann
    Executive and Transition Coach
    Expedia
  • “Somehow she managed to play on the whole emotional scale, and I was empowered, inspired, sad, and proud. It is safe to say that not one single person in the room was left unmoved.”
    GUÐRÚN HARPA BJARNADÓTTIR
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