Geoff Powter

Geoff Powter
Senior facilitator
Pacific Center for Leadership

Geoff Powter has worked as a senior facilitator with Pacific Center for Leadership since the late 1980s, and has gained a reputation for designing and providing programs that offer the potential for deep insights and powerful results.

Geoff has worked with the broadest range of clients in both the private and public sectors, and has designed and facilitated both intensive short programs and multi-day sessions. Geoff has had long-term involvements with SaskPower, ATCO Power and ATCO Gas, Nexen, ENMAX and The City of Calgary, amongst many others.

Geoff is a faculty member of the Banff Centre, and is a registered psychologist, having completed graduate training at McGill University and at the University of Calgary.

In addition to his love of facilitating change in people, Geoff has also held a lifelong passion for adventure, especially in the mountains. He has climbed extensively in the Canadian Rockies, where he has numerous first ascents to his credit, and has climbed abroad on numerous occasions — including 13 mountain expeditions to the high Himalaya.

Geoff's passion for adventure has also led him to become a highly respected outdoor writer. He is the author of two books — Canadian Summits, and Strange and Dangerous Dreams; The Fine Line Between Adventure and Madness — the latter of which won the Jury Prize at the 2006 Banff Mountain Book Festival. Geoff's magazine writings on adventure have also won him six National Magazine Awards. Geoff's commitment to the mountains of the world also saw him sit as President of the Canadian Himalayan Foundation for seven years, and he is currently a founding member of the board of the National Mountain Centre, an international education and interpretation resource planned for Canmore, Alberta.

Geoff lives in Canmore, Alberta with his wife, Christie McLaren.