Wolfgang Fasching is one of the most successful extreme athletes in the world. He attributes his outstanding achievements as a cyclist and mountaineer to more than just physical strength.
Fasching has competed eight times in Race Across America (RAAM), the longest and toughest cycle race from the west to the east coast of America, finishing on the podium eight times and winning the race three times. In 2001, Wolfgang Fasching became the 13th Austrian to stand on the summit of Mount Everest. With his ascent of Carstensz Pyramid in West Papua, Wolfgang Fasching completed the Seven Summits project, climbing the seven highest mountains on the seven continents.
Wolfgang Fasching lecture topics
- Embarking on the future: Mental strength leads to success
- Positive mindset – The power of thoughts and how they shape our lives
- Setting and achieving goals: You can achieve whatever you want
- At the top – Seven Summits (experiences and insights)
- Successful thinking and acting: Confidence is all in the mind!
In his rousing keynotes, motivational speaker Wolfgang Fasching addresses topics such as motivation, employee motivation, mental strength, vision, goal setting and goal achievement in a practical, impressive manner, using examples from real life. The use of impressive photographic material from his own extreme adventures in many parts of the world allows his spellbound audience to share in those dramatic moments that decide between victory and defeat!
He stood on the podium at every finish line and won the race three times. As a high-altitude mountaineer, Wolfgang Fasching reached the summits of the Seven Summits, climbing the seven highest mountains on every continent. His 2014 Russis Coast to Coast project was the first solo crossing of Russia by bicycle – covering an incredible total distance of 10,000 km. Fasching has gained experience and insights at the limits of human endurance like few others.
The extreme cyclist is a multiple author, lecturer and seminar leader on the subject of ‘mental strength’.
Wolfgang Fasching is a trained painter and decorator, a retail salesman with a master’s certificate, and was a self-employed businessman for ten years. The trained business administrator completed his helicopter pilot training in 2003. He trained as an academic mental coach and life and social counsellor at the University of Salzburg (2009). Wolfgang Fasching successfully completed an MBA (General Management) at the end of 2012.
Wolfgang Fasching has participated eight times in the RAAM – Race Across America over a distance of 4,800 km.
Wolfgang Fasching has documented his experiences and secrets to success in exciting books and prepared them for his readers. He is a multiple bestselling author and guest on television and radio programmes. The academic mental coach has an MBA in General Management and combines the fascination of top athletic performance with mental strength in his 1,400 lectures to date. He reveals how you can change your life for the better with the help of simple techniques. The art of solution-oriented thinking and acting will definitely improve your quality of life and make you more successful. Whether in professional, private or sporting situations, it is often your mind that determines success or failure.
Wolfgang Fasching’s lectures and seminars are ideal for roadshows, customer and partner events, employee development and strategy conferences.
His list of references includes top companies and organisations as well as lectures on many continents. Whether speaking to a small seminar group or several thousand listeners, Wolfgang Fasching speaks with great passion to convey his personal experiences authentically. As a certified life and social counsellor and rhetoric trainer, Wolfgang Fasching responds individually to the wishes of the participants.