Robyn Benincasa

Extreme athlete, and world record-breaking challenger, Robyn Benincasa is igniting action in audiences as an award-winning motivational speaker, through her personal journey and accomplishments. From founding leading businesses to competing at the highest levels of adventure sport, Robyn’s drive has steered her on a unique and impressive career, which in turn has allowed her to become an equally unique and impressive speaker. Learning the qualities required for effective leadership, teamwork and peak performance throughout her various ventures, Robyn now instills these capabilities in audiences of her captivating talks as one of the World’s Top 50 Keynote Speakers of 2020.

A veteran firefighter, Robyn, who was a member of America’s first all-female fire crew, has used her ambition to push human potential. Taking part in some of the world’s most intense competitions, Robyn has achieved the title of World Champion Expedition Adventure Racer on two occasions in addition to finishing the notoriously difficult Iron-Man Triathlon 10 times. Undeterred by harsh environments or seemingly impossible escapades, Robyn thrives under pressure to gain world-class results. For her heroic feats, Robyn is currently the Guinness World Record holder of three kayaking achievements, the latest being the greatest distance travelled by a woman on a stand-up paddleboard in 24hrs.

Named as the Number 1 Female Speaker for Meetings.Net, the impact of Robyn’s work as a motivational speaker is influential. Exploring with audiences how she has honed the skills of leadership and teamwork over the best two decades in order to achieve such monumental achievements, Robyn offers implementable advice for guests to replicate her success. Effective on an individual and corporate-wide basis, Robyn’s talks, infused with personal experiences, give clients the tools to ‘cross their own finish lines’ and secure milestones they thought were unobtainable. Having already shared motivational presentations with clients including Deloitte, Microsoft and Walmart, in addition to being featured in the Top 10 Speakers by the Harvard Business Review, Robyn’s speaking reputation is internationally renowned.

Proving there are no limits to her success, Robyn’s business ventures as the Founder of Colorado Adventure Training and World Class Teams, have seen her inspirational platform grow further. In 2007 she founded Project Athena Foundation to support women who have endured medical or traumatic hardship to achieve their athlete and adventure dreams, which gained her the CNN Hero award. Named amongst the Top 10 New York Times Best Selling Authors, Robyn’s insight into a winning mindset is truly transformational.