Rebecca Stephens MBE is a mountaineer, writer and motivational speaker.

She is known for being the first British Woman to climb the Seven Summits and as the first British woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Stephens is a professor at Hult International Business School’s Ashridge Executive Education program. Her published works include On Top of the World (1994), Everest (2001), The Seven Summits of Success (2005),) and Due South (2009).