Ex professional endurance athlete, author, documentary maker & serial entrepreneur, Lisa Tamati is a speaker with a powerful story and life changing messages to share.
Lisa is perhaps best known for being the first Kiwi woman to finish the infamous Badwater Ultramarathon which is through hottest desert on earth, running 217km non-stop through Death Valley. Or you may have heard of Lisa when she ran the length of New Zealand (2250km) for charity.
Even before Badwater, and certainly since, Lisa's adventures have taken her far and wide. She has canoed down the Canadian Yukon, cycle toured through over 25 countries and illegally crossed the Libyan desert. She walked 250km in 7 days, carrying her entire water and food supply on her back and over 140 extreme ultramarathons to her name from the Sahara to the Gobi to the Himalayas.
Whether you want to cover topics of goal setting, overcoming adversity, perseverance, facing your fears, project management, team building, or discipline Lisa can speak from experience!
Lisa spent a number of years cycling and tramping her way around Europe, Africa, the USA and Canada. Her passion was to explore her personal limits and what she could achieve. After a terrible cycling accident in her early twenties she was left with two broken vertebrae and two compressed discs, she also suffered from severe asthma and was advised that she would never be able to run. Lisa was determined to never let this make a difference in the life she chose to lead and has gone on to run the equivalent of over 2 and a half times around the circumference of the Earth.
She has competed in the most difficult and brutal races on earth including the Sahara and Death Valley in the USA - the unofficial world champs of ultra-running and the hottest desert on Earth!
Lisa is one of only a handful of people to have conquered the Himalayan "The High" race a 222km ultramarathon at extreme altitude which navigates over the two highest motorable passes in the world.
In 2008 Lisa was named Maori Sportswoman of the year and was nominated for "Next" Magazines Sports Woman of the year. Lisa is on The North Face Athletes team is proud to be sponsored by this prestigious brand of adventure clothing which personifies her attitude "Never stop Exploring".
She has a globally top 200 ranked health and fitness podcast called Pushing the Limits where Lisa interviews world leading experts sharing their knowledge around health, fitness, alternative medicine, biohacking, longevity, health science and more.
Lisa has written two internationally best-selling books Running Hot and Running to Extremes chronicling her adventures, successes, experiences and failures around the world pushing her body to the limits. In 2020, Lisa released her third book Relentless - How a mother and daughter defied the odds where Lisa shares the empowering story of bringing her mother back from the brink of death after she suffered a major brain injury that left her with hardly any higher function at age 74 to full health within 3 years.
Lisa is a successful and talented businesswoman, she runs many health optimisation programs, corporate wellness programs, epigenetics and gene testing programs, run coaching programs, has a longevity and anti-ageing supplements line.
Lisa has also run her own hyperbaric oxygen therapy clinic, made many full length adventure documentaries, been a TV show host, columnist for Stuff and makes regular TV media appearances, she has also owned and run ultramarathon events and her own retail and wholesale jewellery operations.
Lisa uses her inspirational story to prove that you can achieve anything you put your mind to!
Lisa is perhaps best known for being the first Kiwi woman to finish the infamous Badwater Ultramarathon which is through hottest desert on earth, running 217km non-stop through Death Valley. Or you may have heard of Lisa when she ran the length of New Zealand (2250km) for charity.
Even before Badwater, and certainly since, Lisa's adventures have taken her far and wide. She has canoed down the Canadian Yukon, cycle toured through over 25 countries and illegally crossed the Libyan desert. She walked 250km in 7 days, carrying her entire water and food supply on her back and over 140 extreme ultramarathons to her name from the Sahara to the Gobi to the Himalayas.
Whether you want to cover topics of goal setting, overcoming adversity, perseverance, facing your fears, project management, team building, or discipline Lisa can speak from experience!
Lisa spent a number of years cycling and tramping her way around Europe, Africa, the USA and Canada. Her passion was to explore her personal limits and what she could achieve. After a terrible cycling accident in her early twenties she was left with two broken vertebrae and two compressed discs, she also suffered from severe asthma and was advised that she would never be able to run. Lisa was determined to never let this make a difference in the life she chose to lead and has gone on to run the equivalent of over 2 and a half times around the circumference of the Earth.
She has competed in the most difficult and brutal races on earth including the Sahara and Death Valley in the USA - the unofficial world champs of ultra-running and the hottest desert on Earth!
Lisa is one of only a handful of people to have conquered the Himalayan "The High" race a 222km ultramarathon at extreme altitude which navigates over the two highest motorable passes in the world.
In 2008 Lisa was named Maori Sportswoman of the year and was nominated for "Next" Magazines Sports Woman of the year. Lisa is on The North Face Athletes team is proud to be sponsored by this prestigious brand of adventure clothing which personifies her attitude "Never stop Exploring".
She has a globally top 200 ranked health and fitness podcast called Pushing the Limits where Lisa interviews world leading experts sharing their knowledge around health, fitness, alternative medicine, biohacking, longevity, health science and more.
Lisa has written two internationally best-selling books Running Hot and Running to Extremes chronicling her adventures, successes, experiences and failures around the world pushing her body to the limits. In 2020, Lisa released her third book Relentless - How a mother and daughter defied the odds where Lisa shares the empowering story of bringing her mother back from the brink of death after she suffered a major brain injury that left her with hardly any higher function at age 74 to full health within 3 years.
Lisa is a successful and talented businesswoman, she runs many health optimisation programs, corporate wellness programs, epigenetics and gene testing programs, run coaching programs, has a longevity and anti-ageing supplements line.
Lisa has also run her own hyperbaric oxygen therapy clinic, made many full length adventure documentaries, been a TV show host, columnist for Stuff and makes regular TV media appearances, she has also owned and run ultramarathon events and her own retail and wholesale jewellery operations.
Lisa uses her inspirational story to prove that you can achieve anything you put your mind to!