Anthony Willoughby | TEDxTokyo 2009
Raised in Africa and schooled in the UK and the U.S., Anthony Willoughby was 22 when he bought a one-way ticket on the Trans-Siberian Express to Japan in search of inspiration, adventure and opportunities. He has ridden Nile paddle steamers, was briefly a bullfighter, and has scaled massive peaks such as China’s 7,546-meter Mount Mustagh Ata without porters or oxygen. Anthony’s experiences with a persistent complainer on his expedition across Papua New Guinea led him to establish his I Will Not Complain team-building and leadership development programs in Japan in 1989, and in China in 1992. Over the past decade he has developed a visualizing process called “Territory Mapping,” inspired by conversations with tribal chiefs in remote villages in Papua New Guinea and Kenya. The Independent recently described it as a method “that enables you to crash through civilization and see where you are and where you are going with new clarity.”