Leadership Archives - Lei Wang | Adventurer. Speaker. Author

Executive Presence and Strategic Leadership.

November 11, 2024 by Lei

In today’s complex corporate landscape, executive presence is more than just “commanding a room.” It’s about embodying reliability, authenticity, vision, and resilience in every interaction, every decision, and every challenge. For leaders aspiring to be more strategic, executive presence is the foundation that amplifies their influence and solidifies their authority. In this article, I’ll explore… Continue reading Executive Presence and Strategic Leadership.

EVEREST LESSONS: WHY

May 1, 2022 by Lei

Now you can imagine, if you don’t have deep WHY for climbing this mountain, what kind of torture would it be to debate every day “Is it worth it?” You have to want to climb because you are truly passionate about mountains. Passion can help make those pains just part of the journey; Passion can… Continue reading EVEREST LESSONS: WHY

Everest Lessons: HOW

April 30, 2022 by Lei

This famous quote from Nietzsche is the absolute foundation if you want to be successful in any hard endeavoring. To avoid making it an abstract philosophical discussion, let me share with you the “how” one has to bear on Mount Everest, the “how” that caused one-third of climbers to quit before the summit push …… Continue reading Everest Lessons: HOW

What does it take to climb Everest?

April 19, 2022 by Lei

Everest Summit – summary written on May 27, 2010 It has been a few days since the summit, but I’m still trying to digest the fact that I just climbed Everest. Was it hard? It depends. If you have read the previous blog “Why Everest is hard” and after two months of suffering through… Continue reading What does it take to climb Everest?

How can you stay motivated?

November 4, 2020 by Lei

How do I motivate myself through so many years of arduous training and during the hardest time of my climbs? It is a question I get often. It’s the same question I pondered again and again on mountain tops and in my everyday life. The answer is simple. It’s what we are all looking for everywhere every… Continue reading How can you stay motivated?

There’s no magic program.

October 23, 2020 by Lei

I went to my coach David Memont (you can read the original post here) hoping for a magic training program that would make me strong and fast enough to climb Everest climb. One month later, I complained that my body composition didn’t change much (I was still too fat) despite my training “hard”. I thought that… Continue reading There’s no magic program.

The Secret of High Achievers

October 1, 2020 by Lei

Have you noticed, all top athletes in the world have a coach? You may even wonder why. What does a coach provide that athletes need to succeed? Let me show you. Here’s how my coach helped me train for Mount Everest. October 2009, with less than six months until my Everest expedition, the last objective… Continue reading The Secret of High Achievers

Everest Lessons: How did it start?

May 26, 2020 by Lei

Before I dive into the lessons I learned from Everest, first of all, how did the whole thing start? The credit goes to the documentary movie “Touching the Void”. It was my first winter in Boston. As a fresh MBA graduate, I was working a 12-hours-a-day corporate job and focused on my career track only.… Continue reading Everest Lessons: How did it start?

The most important lessons from Everest

May 22, 2020 by Lei

It’s that time of the year again … May always brings back the memory of Mount Everest. This year is the 11th year anniversary of my Everest summit. In 2004, inspired by the movie “Touching the Void”, I had this daydream of climbing Mount Everest. Yet, growing up an unathletic book nerd in Beijing, I… Continue reading The most important lessons from Everest

Learning Leadership through Art

April 18, 2019 by Lei

As part of the “Nature of Leadership” retreat I helped run last week, everyone painted an oil painting. For most, it was their first one ever and it was clear that this experience deeply impacted each person and the team on many levels. First, though oil painting is not as “adventurous” as mountain climbing, our… Continue reading Learning Leadership through Art