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Adventure

Andy Pag has driven a chocolate-powered lorry to Timbuktu.
He’s captained a sailboat across the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific.
He drove around the world in a scrap-yard bus fuelled only by scavenged waste cooking oil.
He cycled across Central America, paddleboarded through Venice, and flew passengers around the Himalayas in his paraglider.

Andy Pag, keynote speaker and adventurer, 20 years of vehicle based expeditions across the Sahara, West Africa and beyond.
Andy Pag, ocean yachtsman, keynote speaker, adventurer
Andy Pag, sustainability speaker and adventurer, reef-renewal diver.
Andy Pag, long distance cyclist, kenynote speaker and adventurer

The aim was always to travel sustainably, but none of these adventures started as polished success stories.

They started as imperfect ideas, constrained resources, sceptical onlookers, and a high likelihood of failure. This is how change looks from the ground on day one.

Along the way, he’s broken down in the Sahara Desert, broken his back in a 50m fall in Nepal, been just feet from the lightning strike that hit his boat in Guatemala, and been locked up with a murderer in an Indian prison.

Failures turned out to be the moments that mattered most: the stepping stones to success. Accepting that failure was an option created the space for him to experiment and innovate. This mindset made room for creativity, adaptability, and the confidence to let go of ideas that weren’t working — even after a lot had already been invested.

It’s the same challenge organisations face when navigating change. Whether the goal is sustainability, innovation, or cultural shifts, progress depends on how people respond when the original plan starts to unravel. Andy’s stories show that failure doesn’t stop the momentum — handled well, it’s often what creates it.

Would you like to hear about Andy’s successes, or the failures that made them possible?