Raha Moharrak
Raha Moharrak is a Saudi mountaineer and speaker who helps organisations explore leadership, resilience, and decision-making under pressure through real-world high-risk experience.
- Saudi mountaineer known for high-altitude expeditions on the world’s highest peaks.
- Summited Mount Everest and is widely recognised as the first Saudi woman to do so.
- Completed the Seven Summits challenge, becoming the first Saudi woman to complete all seven continental peaks.
- Participant in the Arabs with Altitude expedition.
- Studied visual communication at the American University of Sharjah.
- Frequently engaged as a speaker on leadership and performance in extreme environments.
Full Profile
Key speaking topics
- Leadership under pressure
- Resilience and mental endurance
- Risk assessment and decision-making
- Goal setting in high-stakes environments
- Personal ambition and limits
- Performing in uncertain conditions
Ideal for
- Senior leadership teams
- Corporate conferences and leadership events
- Organisations navigating risk and uncertainty
- Audiences focused on performance and resilience
Audience outcomes
- Clear insight into leadership decisions made under extreme pressure
- Practical perspectives on resilience and perseverance
- Greater understanding of managing fear, risk, and uncertainty
- Reflections on setting and pursuing ambitious goals
Why organisations work with Raha Moharrak
- Brings first-hand experience from extreme, high-risk environments.
- Translates mountaineering challenges into clear leadership and performance lessons.
- Provides credible, real-world perspectives on resilience and decision-making.
- Offers a distinctive viewpoint grounded in achievement rather than theory.
Biography
Raha Moharrak is known for translating experience from extreme, high-risk environments into clear lessons for organisational leadership. Her work focuses on how individuals and teams make decisions, manage risk, and sustain performance when outcomes are uncertain and pressure is high.
She has summited Mount Everest and is recognised as the first Saudi woman to do so. She also completed the Seven Summits challenge, becoming the first Saudi woman to climb the highest peak on each continent. Her Everest ascent was part of the Arabs with Altitude expedition, a milestone widely covered across international and regional media.
Alongside her climbing achievements, Moharrak studied visual communication at the American University of Sharjah and has worked in creative roles. This background informs her ability to communicate complex experiences with clarity and relevance for corporate audiences.
Now based in the UAE, Moharrak speaks globally on leadership under pressure, resilience, risk assessment, and ambition. Her talks connect real-world decision-making in extreme environments with the challenges faced by leaders operating in fast-changing, high-stakes organisational contexts.