Roz Savage MBE

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An Oxford-trained lawyer, Roz Savage spent the first eleven years of her career working as a management consultant, braving nothing more intrepid than rush hour on the London Underground before an environmental epiphany led to a radical personal transformation into a world-class adventurer.

During the seven years of her ocean rowing career, Roz Savage had more chance than most to explore the far horizons of courage. Spending up to five months alone at sea on a 23-foot rowboat, thousands of miles from land and humanity, at the mercy of winds, waves and currents, she evolved from a nervous novice adventurer into the world’s foremost female ocean rower, having rowed – solo – across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

While crossing those 15,000 miles of the ocean she had to redefine her comfort zone on a daily basis and reach deep into her inner sources of strength, self-discipline, and commitment to her goal.

Roz Savage discovered the vital importance of keeping a cool head in life-endangering situations, to optimise her capacity for smart decision-making, accurate risk assessment and creative problem-solving.

In 2024, she was elected a Liberal Democrat MP for the new South Cotswolds constituency.

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Currently teaching a class at Yale – on courage, naturally – Roz Savage also combines her self-taught life skills with principles from neuroscience, psychology, personal development and leadership theory, to inform and inspire corporate audiences. She has spoken on 6 continents, with clients like Google, Disney, Kaiser Permanente, National Geographic, and TED, plus numerous schools, universities and corporations. Roz founded The Sisters, a global network of women and organisations, working together to create a more peaceful and sustainable future.

In 2024, Roz was elected as a Liberal Democrats MP, choosing to advance the Climate and Nature Bill on 5th September 2024.

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ROZ SAVAGE | SUSTAINABILITY

Roz is the founder of ‘Sisters Global, a network of women, and women’s organisations, working together to create a more peaceful and sustainable future.

An advocate for sustainability Roz is a passionate speaker about environmental challenges ‘referring to them as a ‘many-headed sea monster’.

“We can keep cutting off the heads of plastic pollution, deforestation, coral reef destruction, climate change, and so on, but they will just keep sprouting back. What we have to do is to get to the heart of the monster, and that heart is the fact that we have forgotten that we are a part of nature. When we damage the web of life, we hurt ourselves.”

Roz is a United Nationals Climate Hero, an Athlete Ambassador for 350.org, and a trained presenter for the Climate Reality Project. She sits on the board of Adventures and Scientists for Conservation, and is an ambassador for the UK-based BLUE Project. Roz promotes plastic-free communities, and as co-patron of the Greener Upon Thames campaign, she campaigned for a plastic bag free Olympics in London 2012; she is also a coalition member of the Plastic Pollution Collation. Roz is an Ambassador for Plastic Oceans, and MacGillivray Freeman’s One World One Ocean project, and she also supports the work of the 5 Gyres Institute.

ROZ SAVAGE | WRITING

Roz has since wrote four bestselling books:

Rowing the Atlantic (2009) which documents her 103-day journey across the Atlantic
Stop Drifting, Start Rowing (2013) which documents her solo row across the Pacific
The Gifts of Solitude (2020) which provides wisdom on loneliness and solitude
The Ocean in a Drop (2022) which explores theories on what it means to be human in the 21st Century

ROZ SAVAGE | AWARDS

In 2010, she was named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic; in 2012 a World Fellow at Yale; and in 2013 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to fundraising and the environment. She also holds four Guinness World Records for ocean rowing.

ROZ SAVAGE | MEDIA

Roz has appeared on numerous TV channels including the BBC, CBS, Channel 4, ESPN, and Fox News, and has also featured on radio stations including BBC Radio Four, BBC World Service, NPR, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

She has contributed in newspapers including The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Financial Times, and The Evening Standard. She has also featured in magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Red, Grazia, Outside Magazine, and Fortune.

A documentary based on her Atlantic voyage, Rowing the Atlantic, was screened in 32 countries as a finalist in the prestigious Banff Mountain Film Festival.

ROZ SAVAGE | KEYNOTE SPEAKING TOPICS

Motivation and Mind Management
Motivation > Fear = Courage
VUCA: Leadership From the Inside Out Risk Management and Resilience in an Unpredictable World
Re-Thinking Reality: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it

ROZ SAVAGE | COACHING

Roz now speaks to organisations all over the world that are keen to find new ways to inspire and motivate more engaged, happy and purpose-driven individuals.

She shares stories from the epic adventures she has experienced and the lessons she has learned.

Her speeches help audiences to take more personal responsibility for their individual and collective success, find higher levels of resilience and courage, more effectively navigate the uncharted waters of change and invest more of themselves into every challenge they undertake.

Roz Savage | Clients

AXA, BBC, Brocade, Cabinet Office, CBS, Credit Suisse, Disney, eBay, Egon Zehnder, ESPN, Forbes, Fox News, Google, Hershey, the Huffington Post, Kaiser Permanente, Maison-McDuffie, National Geographic, Qubit, NPR, the Royal Geographical Society, Royal Navy, San Francisco Chronicle, SAP, TED, TEDx, Yale, YPO

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Heroic, epic, inspiring, historic.
Sir Richard Branson

Roz recently spoke to Gannett employees about ways to face stormy seas on the path to transforming our business. Her lessons in grit and perseverance will help anyone navigating today’s rapidly evolving business landscape.
Maryam Banikarim, Gannett Co., Inc.

Roz was energetic, passionate, engaging and real. Her connection with both our employees and our clients, and the dialogue it sparked both within the room and beyond was tremendous. Everyone left with a little optimistic spring in their step, inspired to make changes and live their lives a little differently. It was an amazing experience to share her world for that hour.
Jill Ford, Credit Suisse

Women were still talking about you after the conference ended. What a tremendous inspiration you were, and are, to all of us. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Amy Belivacqua, YaleWomen

Candid, thought-provoking and visionary.
Clare Balding, TV and Radio Presenter and Author

Roz is a born storyteller. This is a haunting, moral, knee-buckling compilation of how humans have utterly lost their way, an astounding deconstruction of homo moderna, a unique species that has learned to destroy its home. In sixteen chapters, she rows across the ocean of our fading planet. When her story finally hits sacred land, the reader will never be the same. I will read it twice.
Paul Hawken, Author of Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

Roz has sifted the most vital, mind-shaping ideas from the vast mass of opinion and pseudo-fact and found the ones that make sense, feel real and will gain traction. This should be read by anyone and everyone in any position of power – political, business, cultural… it’s just glorious.
Manda Scott, Author of the Boudica: Dreaming Series

With wit, insight and a ferocious refusal to give in to despair, Roz Savage inspires us not only to confront, but profoundly to transform the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, and who we might one day become. The Ocean in a Drop is scholarly, eclectic, visionary, brimming with ideas – but above all, it’s a hymn to the power of imagination in the face of challenging times.
Sharon Blackie, Author of If Women Rose Rooted