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Quote:Leading Adversity Quotient (AQ®) expert Paul G. Stoltz, Ph.D., and world-class blind athlete Erik Weihenmayer team up to take you on a climb up the Seven Summits.Summit 1: Take It On. Learn how to overcome frustration, helplessness, and anger — and benefit from adversity.Summit 2: Summon Your Strengths. Challenge the conventional wisdom that natural strengths drive success. Exceed expectations of what you and others can, or should, attempt to do.Summit 3: Engage Your CORE. Learn how to handle adversity better and faster. Engage your CORE (the four dimensions that determine how you respond to adversity ) and learn how to turn adversities into advantages.Summit 4: Pioneer Possibilities. Devise signature systems for turning the impossible into the possible. Learn to create strategies that others fail to see.Summit 5: Pack Light, Pack Right. Learn how packing poorly cripples you… but how choosing the right things, people, obligations, and pursuits strengthen you. “Spring clean” so you can rise up, rather than crumble, under the weight of adversity.Summit 6: Suffer Well. Character is forged in the flames of adversity. Done right, suffering can fuel greatness.Summit 7: Deliver Greatness, Everyday. This summit, the culmination, weaves together the most important ideas of the book, providing a coherent, portable package of practices that you can apply anywhere, anytime. Paul G. Stoltz, Ph.D.: Originator of Adversity QuotientDr. Paul Stoltz is the originator of Adversity Quotient® (AQ®) and the world’s leading expert on the subject. He founded PEAK Learning® in 1987 and now works with top leaders and thinkers worldwide within a broad range of organizations ranging from startups to NGOs to the Fortune 100. Stoltz serves as a global-level resource for YPO, Young President’s Organization, working with top leaders in dozens of countries, across all industries. A sought-after presenter and thinker, he combines inspiration with application, delivering a compelling, practical message to his audiences. He remains highly active in the classroom, teaching AQ to groups of all levels and sizes, and he has presented in some of the world’s largest venues.As Director of the Global Resilience Project, Dr. Stoltz oversees research in 17 countries. His partners include top thinkers at Yale University, Stanford University, and more than a dozen universities overseas.Hailed by Executive Excellence as “one of the 100 most influential thinkers of our time,” Dr. Stoltz is a member of Stanford University’s Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series. He was also selected as the Millennial Thinker for Singapore and the “Guru of the Year” in Hong Kong. He serves as a frequent resource for the world’s top media — CNN, CNBC, Business News Network, NBC Nightly News, Public Broadcast Service, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Many notable publications have quoted him or featured his ideas — The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Management Update, Investor’s Business Daily, Asia 21, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, and the Drucker Foundation’s prestigious Leader to Leader.Dr. Stoltz brought AQ to the world through his internationally acclaimed bestselling book, Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities, which has been published in nine languages. He also wrote Adversity Quotient @ Work and The Invincible Investor.Dr. Stoltz received his B.S. in Organizational Communication and Economics from the University of California. He earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Organizational Communication, Development, and Leadership from the University of Minnesota.Along with his family, Dr. Stoltz resides in San Luis Obispo, California. They were honored by USA Today as “America’s Most Creative Family.”Erik Weihenmayer: Blind Athlete & VisionaryA former middle school teacher and wrestling coach, Erik Weihenmayer is one of the best-known athletes in the world. Despite losing his vision at the age of 13, he has become an accomplished mountain climber, paraglider, and skier, never allowing his blindness to interfere with his passion for life. Erik’s feats have earned him an ESPY award, recognition by Time Magazine, induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, an ARETE Award, the Helen Keller Lifetime Achievement award, and the Freedom Foundation’s Free Spirit Award. He has also carried the Olympic Torch.On May 25, 2001, Erik became the first blind man to summit Mount Everest. And on September 5, 2002, when he stood atop Mt. Kosciusko in Australia, he completed a 7-year quest to climb the Seven Summits — the highest mountains on each of the seven continents — joining only 100 others who have accomplished that feat. Erik also competed in Primal Quest, the richest and toughest multisport adventure race in the world. His team surged past the finish line on Lake Tahoe and was featured on an ABC special.In addition to being a world-class athlete, Erik is also the author of Touch the Top of the World. In this memoir, Erik recalls his struggle to push past the limits of vision loss. He has also been published in Time, Forbes, Reader’s Digest, Outside, Climbing Magazine, and Chicken Soup.His extraordinary accomplishments have gained him abundant press coverage including repeated visits to NBC’s Today Show and Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Oprah, Good Morning America, and the Tonight Show, to name a few. He has also been featured on the cover of Time magazine and in Sports Illustrated, People, and Men’s Journal.Erik’s award-winning film, Farther Than the Eye Can See, is an intimate look inside one of the most successful Mount Everest expeditions ever. Bringing home first prize at 17 film festivals and nominated for two Emmy’s, the film beautifully captures the emotion, humor and drama of Erik Weihenmayer’s historic ascent as well as his team’s four other remarkable firsts: the first American father/son team to summit, the oldest man to summit, the first High Definition film footage shot on the summit of Everest, and the most people from one team to reach the top of Everest in a single day. The film has raised significant funds for charitable organizations.Erik speaks to audiences around the world on overcoming life’s challenges, the importance of teamwork, and the daily struggle to pursue your dreams. Clearly, his accomplishments show that one does not have to have perfect eyesight to have extraordinary vision. His corporate clients include Google, Bank of America, General Mills, Proctor and Gamble, Cisco Systems, IBM, AT&T, General Electric, America Online, Microsoft, Merrill Lynch, UBS, and many others.