Ryan Stramrood

Ryan is a master on stage! An entrepreneur, extreme open-water swimmer, and keynote speaker who draws direct parallels between high-performance sport and high-performance business. His work connects discipline, risk assessment, resilience, and decision-making under stress, making extreme lessons immediately relevant to boardrooms, sales floors, and executive teams. He is not academic. He is not theatrical. He is experiential, commercial, and deeply relatable.

Ryan Stramrood is one of the world’s top ultra-extreme open water and ice swimming adventurers. His journey has seen him push human boundaries in some of the planet’s most hostile waters and it is this environment that has acted as Ryan’s ‘impossible’ classroom. He now shares these lessons and his vision on stages around the world.