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We need to navigate change and uncertainty
Into the Unknown
Navigate uncertainty with confidence and build the mindset and resilience to achieve bold goals together.
Keynote · workshop
Don't just hear the story. Become part of it.
Grant 'Axe'Rawlinson Motivational speaker, Singapore. The Human Powered Explorer.
Helping leaders and teams achieve the boldest of goals in the world's most uncertain environments.
Fastest human-powered crossing Tasman Sea · 22d 04h 40mworld record · 2025
More than a keynote
Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson doesn't just deliver traditional speeches. He builds Axeperiences™.
They are immersive and emotionally engaging learning experiences that help leaders and teams navigate uncertainty, strengthen collaboration and achieve bold goals.
Based in Singapore, he delivers keynotes and leadership programmes across Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
The evidence
The lessons weren't developed in a boardroom. They were earned.
Every principle Axe teaches was tested somewhere it could not be faked: on a ridge, in a storm, or three weeks into an ocean with no way back.
World record · 2025
The fastest human-powered crossing of the Tasman Sea
22days
04hrs
40min
122 kmPhuket, world-first swim
1,300 kmRuapehu to Cook, non-stop
14,000 kmSingapore to New Zealand
50+summits, Everest among them
See the Full Journey
The Tasman Sea has been crossed by fewer people than have stood on the Moon. Axe holds the world record for the fastest human-powered crossing, set in 2025 and still unbroken.
It sits alongside a world-first swim around Phuket Island and the first human-powered crossing of the Bay of Bengal, the largest bay on earth.
What brings you here?
Every organisation faces different challenges
Choose the Axeperience™ that best fits yours.
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We need to build stronger teams
For Those Who Dare
Build highly aligned and empowered teams that achieve more together in complex environments.
Team Axeperience™
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We want our people performing at their best
Human Power
Develop the mindset, habits and discipline for sustained high performance.
Programme · multi-week
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We need to achieve more with less
From Peak to Peak
Turn constraints into catalysts for innovation and exceptional results.
Keynote · immersive workshop
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We need leaders who influence, not just instruct
Waves of Impact
Help leaders communicate with influence and purpose to inspire action.
Leadership programme
Looking for something unique?
A bespoke Axeperience™
Every organisation is different. Let's design one around your people, strategy and goals.
Why Axeperiences™ work
Three things happen, in this order
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People love them!
Immersive and emotionally engaging. An experience people take part in, not a talk delivered at them.
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People use them!
Practical frameworks and a shared language teams can apply the week they get back.
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People remember them!
Meaningful change that lasts, and conversations that are still running months later.
Trusted by organisations around the world
They expect more than an engaging speaker
When organisations bring their people together, they want meaningful outcomes that last.
Also HP Enterprise, Anglo American and the Supreme Court of Singapore. Delivered for leadership teams of five through to global audiences of 1,500+, in person, virtually or hybrid, across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and beyond.
What clients say
Success isn't the applause. It's what happens next.
“A world-class experience and Axe taught me more practical take-home value in three hours than three weeks at business school.”
Allegis Global Solutions
Many organisations across Singapore and Asia first engage Axe for a single keynote. What brings them back is what the room does with it afterwards.
“The best value session of the entire conference.”
Big Dutchman
“Simply game changing.”
S&P Global
“A very high level of interaction with close to 1,000 people over 2 hours. The audience feedback was awesome.”
HP Enterprise
Showreel
See what happens in the room
Two minutes of what an Axeperience™ actually looks like from the floor: the room, the reaction, and what people do with it.
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About Axe
Driven by curiosity. Grounded in family. Built on discipline.
For nearly three decades, every expedition has been a living laboratory, exploring what people and teams are capable of when the outcome is uncertain.
AdventureFamilyDiscipline
Associate Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation · former chair, Royal Geographical Society (Singapore).
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Ready to create your next Axeperience™?
Whether you're planning a conference, developing your leaders or building a stronger team, let's create an Axeperience™ your people will love, use and remember.