Alison Levine was born on April 5,1966 and is an American mountain climber, motivational speaker and leadership consultant.
14 Facts About Alison Levine
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Alison Levine is the author of On the Edge: The Art of High Impact Leadership and the executive producer of a documentary, The Glass Ceiling.
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Alison Levine has ascended the highest peaks on every continent and skied to both the North and South Poles.
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Alison Levine served as an adjunct instructor at the US Military Academy.
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Alison Levine earned her bachelor's degree in communication from the University of Arizona in 1987.
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Alison Levine worked a series of restaurant jobs throughout high school and college.
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Alison Levine left Goldman Sachs after three years and went on to serve as the deputy finance director for Arnold Schwarzenegger in his successful bid to become Governor of California.
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Alison Levine climbed her first mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in 1998 at age 32.
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Alison Levine secured funding for this expedition from the Ford Motor Company.
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Alison Levine's team turned back a few hundred feet short of Everest's summit in May 2002.
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Alison Levine finally reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 24,2010.
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Alison Levine was a board member and a featured speaker at Duke University's Coach K Leadership Conference.
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In January 2011, Alison Levine spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.
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In late 2015, Alison Levine began working as an Executive Producer with film director Nancy Svendsen on the documentary, The Glass Ceiling which chronicles the life and climbing career of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa who was the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest.