Bear Leadership is committed to helping you develop your leadership ability and personal courage, and your ability to step up and lead in a new climate reality that threatens the world as we know it.
WHAT WE DO
We run unique immersive workshops designed to give you the closest experience possible to actually leading your team through a real-life wilderness raw leadership emergency.
Our workshops recreate actual events, presented to you in full 360 degree detail, and based on first-hand experience. Everything you will face has already been faced by a remote expedition. And the biggest challenge? There may be more than one effective way to respond. As leader, you must choose with courage, knowing that in real life people could die.
Each workshop offers you extremely valuable insights that cannot be acquired in any other way, helping make you a natural leader that everyone will turn to for support in the face of emerging global climate challenges that increasingly confront governments, businesses and societies worldwide.
HOW WE DO IT
Our leadership workshop programs can be operated in capital cities worldwide and our unique process is based on real expeditions.
We recognise that leadership is far from easy; in fact it's tough, lonely and unappreciated. Leadership is not the smooth tarmac, but the gravel road.
Even the best leaders can face personal attack from the very people they are trying to help. That's anxiety, that's fear, and that's leadership life. You will be exposed for who you really are, sometimes even feeling a stranger to yourself.
We give you no hypotheticals, theories, fads or 'styles'. Every situational detail we immerse you in has actually occured. As leader, you must act quickly under situational pressure to fully understand and manage the threat or challenge.
You will determine what realistic solutions are available to safeguard your team. You will discover what tools and resources you have, or can create, and choose what actions must be taken, by whom, and in which order.
This is how Special Forces troops are trained, because what matters is being fully prepared. But unlike the military, an upward reporting heirarchy, expedition-level Raw Leadership means you are totally on your own, where all the fears of outcome uncertainty are yours alone.
When this becomes your new norm, you are ready for leadership. And the leader you discover within yourself may be a wonderful revelation.
WHAT YOU GET
In short, confidence in your own judgement, intuition, and leadership, no matter what.
Through the direct experience our workshops give you, the visceral and psychological dimensions of taking leadership and making decisions under great pressure will develop your ability to take leadership anywhere, any time, with almost any team. You will be ready.
By working through real-life raw leadership challenges, you will develop a unique way of sensing where you need to take your team in critical situations and instinctively know what personal, emotional and psychological challenges that each member faces at that moment of unique crisis.
What you can expect is to develop the readiness and willingness to be the leader who is recognised and is called into action.
By sharing raw leadership insights that I have gained in wild and dangerous places, I want to inspire you to reach beyond your imagined limits and seek your own leadership strengths.
“Earle de Blonville is a great, but unsung, Australian hero, with outstanding leadership qualifications."
- Professor The Hon. Barry Jones, AC: Minister for Science 1983-90
"Earle provides timeless insights into the hidden depths of leadership”
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt, OBE, FRGS: World’s greatest living explorer
“Earle gives deep insights into complexity and unpredictability.”
- Sir Gustav Nossal, AC: Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
“Fully captures the reality of leadership.”
- Dr Iain McCormick, PhD, FNZPsS: Polar Psychologist
“Reveals that leadership cannot be taught, no leader is infallible and there is no single recipe for success.”
Richard Gilmore, MA: Executive Director: Carbon Market Institute
SAVAGE COAST
SAVAGE COAST offers an almost unrivalled look inside the reality of complex leadership decision-making when almost everything conspires against the expedition’s success, or even its survival. In this story of ongoing crises there are non-stop insights and valuable lessons for those who can expect to be engaged in tomorrow's global front-line climate crisis leadership. This is raw leadership in action.
Here is the leader’s true story of Australia’s 1985-86 historic first Arctic expedition, to an uncharted coast in early winter. It’s an epic of what happens to a $2.5 million voyage to the end of the world when all your plans are blown away by a winter hurricane and all that’s left is slow starvation in a frozen sleeping bag on a wave-battered coastal rock, with no possibility of rescue , or of your bodies being discovered, except by hungry polar bears.
Reviews - "Timeless insights into the hidden depths of leadership” -Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt, OBE, FRGS, world’s greatest living explorer
“Fully captures the reality of leadership.” - Dr Iain McCormack, Polar Leadership Psychologist
“Deep insights into complexity and unpredictability.” - Sir Gustav Nossal, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
“Reveals that leadership cannot be taught, no leader is infallible and there is no single recipe for success.” - Richard Gilmore, Executive Director: EarthWatch Trust