We are all leaders to some extent in our lives, but heroes are something more. Decided and committed to the exceptional, they are on a journey to develop and live an ethos that guides their behavior on an individual, interpersonal and team, organization, and community levels. A Call to Adventure leads you on this journey using the mountain as the medium to develop your Hero’s Ethos.

Trekking Challenge: Climbing a Colorado 14’er to explore your individual and interpersonal assets and liabilities. Mountaineering Challenge: Basic mountaineering skills and team challenges to explore your team assets and liabilities.

The Hero’s Ethos: Using the mountains as a metaphor to understand your essential elements and define your performance methodology at every level of influence.

A Single Act of Change: You will return from your adventure not only with your ethos, but with a commitment to enact this in a singular, focused area of your life.

What our participants say:

“As a financially driven business executive I approached this with skepticism—but came away a champion! David, Jeff and Bruce have a unique blend of talents that resulted in an amazing experience with real growth on both a personal and team level.”

-Jack Pottle
Managing Partner
Viridian Investment Partners LP

Our three-day corporate leadership experiences include:

An inspirational conversation about the No Barriers mindset with world-class speaker and adventurer Erik Weihenmayer. Here’s how the president of a financial services firm describes Erik’s message: “Over the years we have hosted more than a dozen political leaders, military leaders such as General Norman Schwarzkopf, sports leaders such as Duke Basketball “Coach K,” and leaders of the arts such as Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Yet among all of these outstanding speakers, none has been as impactful as Erik Weihenmayer has proven to be with our senior management and clients.”

A field experience using the mountains as a metaphor for the challenges of the business environment. Our team synthesizes the strength of some of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers and business thought leaders to challenge your team to work together, confront challenges, and identify best practices to achieve mutual objectives. Moving well beyond a typical corporate retreat experience, our expeditions include a professionally designed curriculum, challenging—but safe—mountain experiences, and personal and team assessments, as well as open and honest feedback mechanisms. We use the mountain experience to help individuals assess their interpersonal styles and skills to identify the core values that impact their personal and interpersonal effectiveness.

A deep connection to a meaningful cause providing your team members an opportunity to work alongside one of our wounded veterans in our Soldiers to Summits program, for example.

We offer a limited number of retreats annually to companies with leaders who are ready to a) embrace the challenge of living a No Barriers mindset, b) engage in open and honest dialogue with their team members, and c) support our nonprofit cause.

The No Barriers Mindset

These three-day transformative leadership experiences help corporate leaders embrace a No Barriers mindset as they discover that we can build the vision, tools, and support systems to harness adversity, creating a professional and personal life that is rich in fulfillment, purpose, and impact. Mindsets are difficult to teach and even harder to embrace. That’s why No Barriers believes in authentic and challenging immersion experiences that push us outside our comfort zones. These experiences challenge us intellectually, emotionally, and physically. And, in the process, we open up a rich arena to share core values through a framework that includes beliefs and principles, attitudes and perspectives, qualities and virtues, and rules and standards.

Sample Itinerary

Each program is tailored to the unique goals of participating companies. All include some element of a challenging, safe, and accessible outdoor experience that pushes our comfort zone. This sample itinerary adapts based on client goals.

• Arrival Night: Dinner with No Barriers facilitators; shuttle from Denver airport to mountain retreat center.
• Day One: Introduction to the No Barriers Mindset with Erik Weihenmayer; individual and team leadership assessment of flow assets and liabilities; reflective hike up a Colorado peak and application of Mindset to real world corporate challenges; dinner discussion.
• Day Two: Glacial mountaineering discussing building trust, openness, and honest communication; work alongside wounded veteran from Soldiers to Summits program; team debrief and continued application of No Barriers Mindset; personal and team goal development and sharing; single act of change and concluding dinner and ceremony.
• Day Three: Return home

About Our Facilitators

Erik Weihenmayer is the only blind person to reach the Seven Summits and is one of the most prominent speakers in the world.  Learn more at www.touchthetop.com.

Jeff Evans is a guide, mountain climber, physician assistant and corporate facilitator. Want to learn more...keep exploring this website.

David Fedler is an entrepreneur, business owner, and high altitude adventurer with more than 20 years experience working with many of the world’s most admired organizations. Learn more at www.summitofeverest.com.

 

About No Barriers

Our mission is to unleash the potential of the human spirit.  We provide transformative experiences that empower people to embrace a “no barriers” mindset and discover the potential that lies within themselves and the world.  Discover more by watching the short video below.