Outward Bound maintains a leading position in providing highly effective values-based humanistic leadership development. We have been doing so in Australia for over 50 years, and are passionate about supporting excellent business and community leadership development.

"Leadership is the process by which a person exerts influence over other people and inspires, motivates and directs their activities to achieve organisational goals". This is text-book stuff that without the right experience and self-understanding  will be little more than words on a page. The point is, leadership does not happen in a vacuum. Leadership happens when people interact. So, theory classes and text-books are ineffective mentors in isolation.

Put the text-books aside and explore practical leadership in real-life situations. Learn what you are capable of, refine your values, reflect on your experiences, benefit from giving and receiving feedback, transfer these insights to your life and workplace and gain the practical knowledge and skills to be a better leader.

Business and society needs effective, values-based leaders, equipped with experiences and skills to focus and inspire their teams to consistently give the best they have got.

Outward Bound knows that leadership development is a dynamic process that doesn't come out of a black-box and isn't secret or mystical. It is not about using the latest jargon or manipulating facts or people. Rather, becoming a leader is an honorable journey that anyone can choose to take, learning the lessons and developing the resources all along the way.

Outward Bound provides very powerful, practical leadership development experiences. We professionally facilitate, debrief and support learning transfer back into participants' own contexts.

"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand."
                               Confucius.

Outward Bound programs are visceral. Participants will not just 'read the book', keep a copy of the manual and get a certificate on their wall for reference. We will move well beyond intellectual paradigms and artificial scenarios and 'make it real'.

Outward Bound leadership development programs can heighten self awareness and awareness of others, define personal values, highlight the importance of life-balance, explore links between individuals, motives and drives, identify keys or triggers for future learning and change, make sense of 'human versus organisation' conflicts, and explore the impacts of organisational change, team effectiveness and motivation.

We are in business to develop leaders.

What do you need us to do for your business? Contact us to explore the possibilities.