Tony Mowbray
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Tony Mowbray is one of Australia’s premier International Motivational and Inspirational speakers, routinely receiving standing ovations. Tony is equally at ease delivering passionate keynote addresses, providing powerful and humourous after dinner presentations, enhancing your team building/leadership program or guiding your event as Master of Ceremonies.
In 2000/01 The “Power of Commitment” enabled Tony Mowbray to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world, spending 181 days alone at sea. His record breaking adventure required 100% commitment, teamwork, total focus and unswerving self-belief.
In December 1998 Tony and his crew aboard his yacht, “Solo Globe Challenger” participated in the ultimate team building challenge….
To win was to live…….To lose was to die!!
In 1998 Tony and his crew competed in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, encountering the worst race conditions in its then, 64 year history. Little did Tony know that he and his crew would fight a 15 hour epic battle of life and death…nature forced them to reach further within themselves than they ever had before. “Solo Globe Challenger” surfed down the face of a 60 foot wave upside down after a monumental knock down. In 160 km/hr cyclonic winds and killer waves tall enough to engulf a 10 storey building, Tony “could see and smell death in the water”. He says “the devil took me by the hand, led me to the edge of a huge precipice and made me stand there on tippy toes for 15 hours…he then allowed me to step back from the edge but tragically 6 men died”.
Against the odds, Tony survived, however his dream of sailing around the world was in tatters. His boat all but destroyed, he was physically spent, mentally near broken and severely traumatised.
Tony is a distinctively powerful man. It is rare that such strength can be drawn from the words of one individual.
Future generations will look at him as a benchmark for challenge.
Tony, I have met people from all over the world, I have heard motivational speakers that command fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I have never been as moved, motivated and inspired by anyone like you. To have the opportunity to spend time speaking with you outside the presentations was something I will never forget. The pictures you shared, the obvious passion that inspires you, your friendliness are all rare things in this world. Thank you for spending time with us and thank you for inspiring me to be better.