Dez Bartelt; Speaker, Life Coach, Workshop Leader, Travel & Lifestyle Writer, Media Personality/Entrepreneur, World

Class Athlete, Owner Best of Both Adventures.

• Earned credentials as an speaker, life coach, mentor entrepreneur, world-class athlete, international activist/advisor for human rights and the environment, media personality, and philanthropist.
• Written for AP, CaribbeanTravelMag.com, Examiner, Matador Travel, National Post, Woman’s Day, Woman’s Outside Magazine and Reader’s Digest, and a contributor writer for the New York times. She’s been in 20 different commercials from Nike to the Honeywell Corp. with a new novel to be released in 2012.
• One of America’s leading alpinists spending more than 20 years conquering the world’s most challenging mountains and cliffs. She is trained in wilderness survival and has taught police and fire rescue units across the US.
• Worked with the Federal Bureau of Land Management and helped them develop programs to preserve our public lands.
• Co-designed interactive adventure programs in cooperation with Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks.
• Founder of a women’s motivational retreat and does extensive charitable work in Africa where she sends personal funds to assist homeless and exploited children.
• Founder of the “Best of Both Women’s Adventure Company” and has developed and implemented complex programs in the Rincon Surf School in Puerto Rico.