years of public speaking, participation in films & documentaries.
thousands of people have heard my talks worldwide.
Cities visited.
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One of the most true stories of survival, resilience, and human transformation. Over the years, I have turned my experience into a message that inspires audiences around the world. Today, I share deep human and universal life lessons.
Back from the Andes
The keynote address, in which I recount my experience during our 72 days in the Andes Mountains, focused on resilience, decision-making under pressure, and
solidarity as a driving force in life.
solidarity as a driving force in life.
Resilience and leadership
A reflection on how shared leadership, empathy, and adaptability were key to survival, and how to apply these concepts in work teams and organizations.
Personal transformation
How an extreme experience led to an inner transformation, prompting a reevaluation of values, priorities, and the meaning of life.
what is my story based on?
WHO HAVE I INSPIRED?
Companies and corporations
For Human Resource Management, Leadership, Organizational change.
Educational institutions
Schools, Universities and sport institution, for children and young adults.
Private events & Philanthropic NGOs
On human development, psychology, and coaching, motivational, inspirational.
HIGHLIGHT EVENTS
TedTalk India
2013
New Delhi, India, Ted Talk for general public on survival.
Cáceres Gothic Cathedral
2026
Cáceres, Spain. San Francisco Cultural Auditorium (14th century).
Universidad de Anáhuac
2024
Querétaro, Mexico, conference for more than 2000 spectators.
INTERNATIONAL
PRESS
PRESS
Books I've Published
The biggest challenge today is to tune out the noise that overwhelms us, look within, and discover what makes us happy.
Out Of The Silence
Prologue by Carmen de Posadas, Premio Planeta Winner
What makes an event remain alive in the collective imagination of the entire world so many years after it took place? For a story to endure, it must be composed of a combination of tragedy, epic struggle, resilience, friendship, pain, death, ingenuity, and hope.
Add to this youth, beauty, and a decision as terrible as it was inevitable, and we have all the elements that make up a saga—a legend. It is not difficult to understand, then, why the Andes tragedy has—since 1972, and surely continuing to do so— inspired rivers, if not seas, of ink. Yet, *Desde el silencio* (Out of the Silence) is not just another book on the subject. Eduardo Strauch, with the collaboration of Mireya Soriano, does not aim to retell—for the umpteenth time—a story we all know and admire.
What they have undertaken is a far more daring endeavor. With the perspective and, above all, the wisdom that comes with the passage of time, they re-board that fateful Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild to recount it all again, but from a different angle. Their account covers, point by point, everything experienced on board: the excitement of the journey, the crash, the first encounter with death, the initial days of shock, the certainty that they were alone, the decision to consume human flesh, the avalanche, the rescue operation, their salvation...
But Eduardo and Mireya go further. *Desde el silencio* is not a journey into the past, but into the depths of the human soul—Eduardo’s soul and that of his fellow survivors. How is fear experienced? What does silence tell us? Can one be happy in hell? What causes some people to collapse while others—perhaps weaker or less intelligent— rise up as heroes? What role do love, friendship, and family play in the instinct for survival? Can eating human flesh become a kind of communion? How does one live alongside death, the demons of others, and—even more so—one’s own?
All these vital questions, and many more, pass before our startled (and sometimes terrified) eyes, inviting us to journey to the Cordillera as well. Not to the white hell where Eduardo and his friends lived for seventy-two days, but to another mountain—equally rugged and mysterious: our own lives.
*Desde el silencio* is not a self-help book. Nor is it a trite compendium of what the English call "how-to" guides: how to be happy, how to succeed, how to get rich. It is the intelligent, sensitive testimony of someone looking back from the vantage point of maturity. Not to understand—and certainly not to justify—the past, but to experience it anew. To see it through eyes that turn inward rather than outward, toward the most intimate and hidden depths—places where, just as on the mountain, everything is mystery and, above all, silence.
Add to this youth, beauty, and a decision as terrible as it was inevitable, and we have all the elements that make up a saga—a legend. It is not difficult to understand, then, why the Andes tragedy has—since 1972, and surely continuing to do so— inspired rivers, if not seas, of ink. Yet, *Desde el silencio* (Out of the Silence) is not just another book on the subject. Eduardo Strauch, with the collaboration of Mireya Soriano, does not aim to retell—for the umpteenth time—a story we all know and admire.
What they have undertaken is a far more daring endeavor. With the perspective and, above all, the wisdom that comes with the passage of time, they re-board that fateful Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild to recount it all again, but from a different angle. Their account covers, point by point, everything experienced on board: the excitement of the journey, the crash, the first encounter with death, the initial days of shock, the certainty that they were alone, the decision to consume human flesh, the avalanche, the rescue operation, their salvation...
But Eduardo and Mireya go further. *Desde el silencio* is not a journey into the past, but into the depths of the human soul—Eduardo’s soul and that of his fellow survivors. How is fear experienced? What does silence tell us? Can one be happy in hell? What causes some people to collapse while others—perhaps weaker or less intelligent— rise up as heroes? What role do love, friendship, and family play in the instinct for survival? Can eating human flesh become a kind of communion? How does one live alongside death, the demons of others, and—even more so—one’s own?
All these vital questions, and many more, pass before our startled (and sometimes terrified) eyes, inviting us to journey to the Cordillera as well. Not to the white hell where Eduardo and his friends lived for seventy-two days, but to another mountain—equally rugged and mysterious: our own lives.
*Desde el silencio* is not a self-help book. Nor is it a trite compendium of what the English call "how-to" guides: how to be happy, how to succeed, how to get rich. It is the intelligent, sensitive testimony of someone looking back from the vantage point of maturity. Not to understand—and certainly not to justify—the past, but to experience it anew. To see it through eyes that turn inward rather than outward, toward the most intimate and hidden depths—places where, just as on the mountain, everything is mystery and, above all, silence.
