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Oli France guides teams through the world’s wildest places.
Whether speaking to small teams, hundreds of delegates, or virtually, to remote audiences, Oli’s mission is quite simple: To guide the audience on a journey, bringing empowering new perspectives on resilience, self-confidence, leadership and how we can fulfil our boldest life goals.
For over a decade, Oli’s adventures have taken him through deserts, jungles, mountains, and war-torn regions across over 75 countries.
Oli France has personally guided hundreds of people from across the globe, including industry-leading business figures, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, former CIA officers, terminal cancer patients and young people embarking on their very first adventure.
Along the way, he has faced spies, interrogators, minefields and arrest, along with avalanches, earthquakes, meningitis and severe dehydration, all while attempting to complete challenging journeys in remote corners of the world, alone or while leading a team.
What Oli has learned, however, is that in some of the darkest places and the bleakest situations, we can encounter untold beauty and unshakable strength, if we allow ourselves to find it. Oli illuminates how we can unlock true self-confidence, develop our resilience, and shift our perspectives on what we think is possible.
Oli France has guided teams through countless high-risk situations across the globe, from the highest mountain in Iraq, to the militia-filled jungles of the Congo, to the backstreets of Aleppo, Syria. The pressures and perils of expedition life mean that quickly developing high-functioning teams is vital.
Oli shares his leadership lessons from these demanding environments, where calm decision-making, intensive planning, open communication and understanding the human factor within our teams is critical.
Oli’s passion for adventure began after spending his teens and early twenties on countless misadventures, dodging bombings in Beirut and searching for lions with Army Generals in Uganda. Since then, he has climbed hundreds of mountains across dozens of countries, from Tibet to Congo to Kyrgyzstan. In 2016, Oli completed a bold 8000-mile solo winter journey across the mountainous spine of Asia.
This became the basis for his first book, the Trail of the Mountain Folk. More recently, he has guided one of the first tourist groups through Syria since the start of the civil war, and completed a solo 405-mile crossing of the world’s biggest frozen lake in Siberia.
Oli France is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, holds a degree in Outdoor Leadership and is a qualified Winter Mountain Leader.
