Louise McEvoy is a senior global business leader, Seven Summits mountaineer and Everest Summiteer who has spent decades navigating high-stakes environments — from leading global teams in the technology sector to standing at 29,032 feet on the summit of Mount Everest.

As Senior Vice-President of Global Channel Sales at a multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity company, Louise knows that leadership rarely follows a straight path. It requires preparation, judgment, resilience and the ability to keep people moving forward when conditions change and the route ahead isn’t clear.

She knows the same is true on a mountain.

Born in Ireland, raised in Canada and based in the United States for nearly 30 years, Louise has traveled the world for both business and the mountains. Her stories are candid, occasionally shocking and grounded in what actually happens when ambition meets adversity.

Over more than two decades of climbing, Louise has completed the Seven Summits — the highest peak on each continent — while building a global executive career. Along the way, she has learned that reaching the summit is rarely about individual strength. It’s about the decisions made long before the climb, the people you choose to have on your rope, how you respond when the plan falls apart — and knowing when to push forward and when to change course.

Today, Louise brings those experiences to audiences around the world, connecting extraordinary moments on the mountain with the very real challenges people face in leadership, business and life. She has spoken to more than 100 groups and organizations across five continents.

And she still climbs.

Through SheSummits.14ers, Louise co-leads groups of women as they attempt their first 14er — a mountain rising more than 14,000 feet — bringing together her passions for climbing, leadership and helping others discover what they are capable of.

Because after all the mountains, milestones and summits, one lesson continues to stand above the rest:

No one reaches the summit alone.