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When Chris isn’t leading trips, she travels across the country
bringing the wisdom of wild places into conference centers
and
corporations. Her calm, gentle style, exceptional
storytelling and
challenging subjects deliver powerful insights
to even the most
urban of professionals. Topics long
discussed in the world of work,
such as teamwork and improved communication, productivity and
balance, women
and leadership, and overcoming obstacles are
revisited with humor and clarity with the help of sled dog
personalities, images from nature, and memorable stories drawn from
decades of professional leadership experience in wild
places.
All presentations are carefully customized to meet the needs of your
group or organization.
Personalities at Work: What sled dogs know that we don’t
Chris illustrates the art of effective teamwork and improved
communication through her humorous and enlightening stories of sled
dogs and how they work and don’t work together. Listeners appreciate
her fresh analogies about work styles and simple, yet easy to
implement strategies about how to blend diverse personalities into
dynamic and creative teams. Other outcomes include:
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Identify and leverage the
strengths and skills of each individual
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Discover which
personalities your team has in abundance or could use more of
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Use sled dog metaphors to
create a common language and build understanding
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Learn more about your own
style and how it impacts others.
Balance and Productivity:
Following nature’s example of slowing down to speed up
Nature’s images of harmony, seasons, and rhythms offer the perfect
backdrop for refocusing on priorities and finding peace.
Participants emerge from this experience with a sense of calm
clarity, having learned how to:
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Recognize when they’re in
“destructive busy” mode and re-direct into “productive
busy-ness”
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Make peace with their inner
critics
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Stay focused and balanced in
the midst of often chaotic environments
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Slow down, relax, and focus on
what’s important.
Women and Leadership: “You
girls out here all alone?”
With over two decades of expertise leading women’s trips, Chris’s
knowledge about how women succeed is rooted in her deep
understanding of their unique approaches to overcoming challenges.
Women emerge from Chris’s session more confident of themselves as
leaders, having gained perspective about:
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Manage their inner critics
and moving to action
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Understand and know when to
use 4 different decision making styles
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Appreciate and nurture
their unique leadership qualities
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Take their leadership to the
next level
Turning Obstacles into
Opportunities: How an alligator taught me to follow my heart
What begins as a terrifying experience is often transformed into
clarity and enlightenment. Chris’s story about her close encounter
with an angry alligator challenges audiences to examine the
alligators in their lives so they can break out of personal or
professional barriers and seize opportunity. Participants learn
tools to:
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Quiet their inner critics
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Discover the power of paying
attention
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Overcome obstacles to keep
their minds and hearts in sync
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Find courage to face their
fears and follow their hearts
The Wild Within: Keeping nature
close when you’re stuck behind a desk
A special program designed for environmental and recreation
professionals, and others who love wild places. Stay the course.
Take heart. The work you do is critical. These are the messages
Chris brings to life for those of you finding yourselves spending
too much time indoors talking about the outdoors. Participants
emerge renewed and re-focused, ready to move forward having learned:
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Five tools for keeping nature
close
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How to re-connect with their
energy and sustain their sense of hope
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The impact and importance of
the work that they do
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Techniques for teaching and
sharing their passion for nature
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