Tapping the Top: The 2013 Everest Accent
On May 17th at 7:00 am, 2013 after climbing twelve hours through a storm Steve Whittington and Dawa (Danuru) Sherpa were the first to reach the top of the world. They stood alone looking down on the world, it was clear, it was bright, it was beautiful. They had the mountain to themselves with no one in sight. All the fear and suffering of the night washed away. After taking pictures and hugging each other on the summit Steve started to have problems breathing, His mask was iced to his face and beard and now at the top of the world it completely froze, denying him air.
He ripped his mask off and sucked in the thin air. Dawa pulled out his thermos and poured tea in the intake and outflow valves. The tea was cold and did not clear the valves; they both blew into the mask and dug at the valves exposing bare fingers to the lashing summit winds. The mask could not be cleared. The two of them looked down the summit ridge and in apprehension realized the danger of this climb was really just about to begin…
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Steve Whittington is President of Roadmap Agency Inc. He has also served for over a decade as a member of the Executive Team of Flaman Group of Companies an award-winning organization and has over 25 years of executive experience. Steve’s current board work includes serving as; President of Glenora Child Care Society; and Co-Chair of the Marketing Program Advisory Committee for NAIT’s JR Shaw School of Business. Previous notable board work included, Chair of the board for Flaman Fitness Canada, a national retailer, a Director for a meal prep internet Startup Mealife and Chair of Lethbridge Housing authority, the third-largest Social housing NGO in Alberta.
Academically, Steve was an instructor of Project Management at Lethbridge College for seven years. Steve holds a Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree; he is a Certified Sales Professional (CSP), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Marketing Specialist (CMS) and (CCXP) Certified Customer Experience Professional.
Steve’s first book Thriving in the Customer Age – 8 Key Metrics to Transform your Business Results teaches about the customer journey and provides a guiding framework spanning all stages of the customer experience. The book explains how every metric impacts an organization and how leaders can best utilize each metric to provide a stellar customer experience. Everyone knows the customer is the most important part of a business. This book provides the tools to improve an organization’s customer experience and drastically transform business results.
Recently Steve’s Blog has been profiled as one of the Top 75 Customer Experience blogs