Background
Usher grew up in Barnard Castle, Company Durham, England and attended the Barnard Castle School.
Usher grew up in Barnard Castle, Company Durham, England and attended the Barnard Castle School.
Following school, he lived on a kibbutz in Israel and traveled through Europe. He gained a B.Ed teaching degree in Outdoor Education at Liverpool Polytechnic in 1985. In 2001, he moved to Australia where he worked in sales, marketing and management.
He has presented inspirational talks for companies in both the United States of America and Europe.
In November 2013, he spoke to an audience of 900 at the VolksTheater at TEDxVienna. The talk, "A Life Unlimited", can be viewed online.
He gained world wide notoriety. the final price ended up at $399,300. His two-year "bucket list" ended in New York City in the crown of the Statue of Liberty on July 4, 2010.