for students & emerging Leaders
Build the Strength Our World Needs.
The 21st Century is calling for a new kind of young leader – one who models inclusion, interdependence, honesty & vulnerability. Charles makes those skills accessible by sharing a simple, strength- based path to mastery. |
It Could be Worse – Getting Through This
Charles uses engaging stories from thirty years in wilderness leadership & mentoring to inspire student to develop light-hearted grit and dogged determination. |
Becoming an Emotional Resilience Superstar
Our times that call for more of our energy, creativity, & inner strength than ever. In this workshop, we'll dig in to recall the times we've faced challenges and risen to them. Participants leave with their own concrete, reusable resilience story to use as a tool when they need more bounce.
Our times that call for more of our energy, creativity, & inner strength than ever. In this workshop, we'll dig in to recall the times we've faced challenges and risen to them. Participants leave with their own concrete, reusable resilience story to use as a tool when they need more bounce.
for adults & experienced Leaders
Validate in Place
As a mentors and teachers, we often search for the perfect advice or wisdom to pass on. In this talk or, Charles shares how we can support intrinsic motivation in our students and build real human connection by giving less advice and guidance. |
Person-Center Leadership in a Crisis
Every leader is experiencing crisis right now as we try to adapt to and mitigate the pandemic, the downturn, and many fundamental cultural changes. In this talk I share what I learned, in my career as an outdoor guide, about how person-centered leadership builds more capacity, creates a stronger group, and actually makes leadership more enjoyable and rewarding. |
Leading with Core Values
In this workshop, Charles helps participants discover their own personal values and how to transform those into organization values. With relevant stories, Charles shows how organizational values can bolster a business through tough times and hard decisions. This values focus can reduce personal stress, build employee loyalty, and draw customers, students, and the community to you. Expect to leave this workshop with a set of defined personal/professional values and a readiness to deploy them in your school or business.
In this workshop, Charles helps participants discover their own personal values and how to transform those into organization values. With relevant stories, Charles shows how organizational values can bolster a business through tough times and hard decisions. This values focus can reduce personal stress, build employee loyalty, and draw customers, students, and the community to you. Expect to leave this workshop with a set of defined personal/professional values and a readiness to deploy them in your school or business.
Participant Take-AWays
Charles taught me to keep my "Super Hero" in my hip pocket for when I need help with the difficult times.
I learned about who I am. I learned to become the person I am inside versus the person people think I am.
Outcomes
- A greater sense of individual and collective capability to rise to challenge
- Stronger relationships between and with with your students
- Accelerated community formation in your classroom, club & school
- Increase emotional literacy, fluency, empathy & compassion
- More confident, resilient staff
- Enabling everyone to worry less about students