Jasper Shackleton, Motivational, Leadership and After Dinner Speaker is related to Sir Ernest Shackleton and has the sea and open-boats in his blood. As his debut he undertook what can only be described as a highly dangerous 4,500 mile voyage through the coral reefs and Open Ocean of the South Pacific. The idea was born while Jasper was visiting remote Pitcairn Island - the distant hideout of Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers. His scheme was to retrace the voyage of Lieutenant William Bligh after he and his supporters had been cast adrift in an open-boat. Bligh, together with seventeen men, sailed their over-loaded launch 3,600 miles from Tofua to Timor, with barely sufficient food and water to sustain life. As a tribute to Bligh and to mark the bi-centenary of his outstanding achievement, Jasper Shackleton resolved to make an identical voyage in a replica twenty-three foot open-boat using only traditional navigation methods. On his return home from Pitcairn Jasper had a little less than two years to prepare … Never having built a boat before, and with only limited sailing experience, Jasper set to work, and exactly 200 years to the day after Bligh was cast adrift, Jasper’s boat, the Elizabeth Bligh, complete with crew, were standing off Tofua, and the perilous voyage began…......more

Former Marketing Director of Sellotape, John Grantham says “I have hired many Motivational, Leadership and After Dinner Speakers for conferences and other events over the years, but I wish I had known earlier of Jasper. His success used, and his talk demonstrates, all the key tenets of Leadership – including Vision; Target-setting; Planning; Team Selection; Skills Audit & Team Building; Determination & Commitment; Delegation & Accountability; Motivation; Crisis Management; Flexibility and Turning Adversity to Advantage; and yet he had had no formal training in any of these.
Moreover, the talk inspires and is highly entertaining”.

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