Inspirational speaker · Mental toughness coach · Everest summiteer

Follow Your Dreams.

From a council estate in Glasgow to the summit of Everest — Ricky Munday helps people and teams build the resilience, confidence and purpose to reach objectives that once felt out of reach.

Chartered Accountant · Churchill Fellow · Director of Finance at a £100m global humanitarian charity · former Director of Corporate Services, British Antarctic Survey

Mindset, forged in hard places

It wasn’t given to him. It was built.

Ricky’s own mental toughness wasn’t given to him — it was built, through failure, recovery and a life spent a long way outside the comfort zone. His classroom was the death zone on the world’s highest mountains and the Sahara on ultra-endurance races. He found his purpose supporting the most vulnerable people on deployments to crisis zones across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. He speaks openly, where it helps others, as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse — because how we respond to adversity matters more than the adversity itself.

What can Ricky do for your team?

Raise their aspirations. Build their resilience.

Ricky partners with organisations through live and virtual keynote talks that lift ambition, mental toughness assessment and coaching that sharpens performance, and virtual and outdoor challenges that build resilience and cohesion. He engages authentically and with humility, to inspire change that lasts.

Ways to work together

Four ways in.

Inspirational Talks

Raise aspirations and set stretch goals.

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Mental Toughness Coaching & Assessments

Coach individuals and teams to perform under pressure.

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Summit Coaching

Prepare, body and mind, for a big mountain objective.

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Virtual & Outdoor Challenges

Build cohesion, health and wellbeing, safely out of the comfort zone.

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Mental Toughness in the Death Zone.

Listen as Ricky describes how he responded positively to failure & adversity after turning back just below the Death Zone on Everest in 2017, before returning in 2018 to reach the summit.

Failure & success on Everest

Is your team primed for change and ready to unleash their potential?

  • Inspirational Talks

    Inspiring your team to raise aspirations & set stretch goals

  • Mental Toughness Coaching

    Coaching individuals & teams to turbo-charge performance

  • Virtual Challenge Events

    Building team cohesion & improving health & wellbeing

  • Outdoor Challenge Events

    Expertly guiding your team safely out their comfort zone

“I cannot recommend Ricky highly enough - the feedback and engagement across the firm was outstanding. Ricky is able to inspire you to work on your goals and realise that anything is possible.”

- Louise McCosh, Managing Director of FD People

The stories behind the mindset

Earned on the mountain, and in the field.

The lessons Ricky teaches were earned on the mountain and in the field. Read the long-form stories — turning back below the death zone on Everest in 2017 and returning to the summit in 2018, the race across the Sahara that changed everything, and the harder chapters off the hill.

Climbing for a reason — the Munros Project

282 Munros. Twelve months. One cause.

Ricky is climbing all 282 Scottish Munros in twelve months for fellow survivors of childhood abuse, raising funds for the Moira Anderson Foundation. Follow the challenge and support it.

Book a call

Discover how Ricky can inspire your team or transform their performance. Book a free 15-minute discovery call to decide whether he’s the right speaker, coach or guide for you.

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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu

Glasgow · Finnieston, G3