Outdoor Leader: Resilience, Integrity, and Adventure

By Jeannette Stawski

The Outdoor Leader offers guidance, mentorship, and a roadmap for educators, guides, volunteers, and all outdoor enthusiasts dedicated to fostering a vibrant community

In The Outdoor Leader you'll learn how to:

Evaluate good decisions Communicate effectively Create and champion a vision Develop organizational systems Understand the value of mistakes Lead change through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion Build trust and credibility Work through challenges Say yes to the adventure of personal growth

There is no one "right way" to lead--you don't have to be the fastest, strongest, or most experienced to be a great leader. What the best leaders possess is a deep commitment to the greater good.

Drawing on her decades of experience as a national outdoor leader, Jeannette Stawski explores the elements of transformative leadership. Using real-life examples from the outdoors and every day, she focuses on the essentials: resilience, grit, integrity, tolerance for adversity, and highly developed listening and communication skills.

Whether you spend time in city parks, on mountains, in rivers, or beyond, you know that nature is a powerful teacher. Stawski shares inspiring stories from a range of outdoor enthusiasts and professionals, including Elyse Rylander, Kenji Haroutunian, Joe Stone, Stacy Bare, Victoria Lopez-Herrera, and more, as well as key principles from the Cornell Outdoor Education program, co-directed by Karel Hilversum.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680515888
• ISBN13: 9781680515886
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"