Boral Limited is Australia's largest building and construction materials supplier and has significant operations in the USA and in Asia. Boral has over 15,800 employees working across 682 operating sites.

Boral's values of Leadership, Respect, Focus, Performance and Persistence, provide the grounding for a common culture in the organisation and the basis for consistent business decision-making throughout the company.

Underpinning our values, is a commitment to our people - to performance improvement, learning, coaching and development.  Developing our peoples'skills, competencies and knowledge has a significant impact on our overriding objective to ensure superior performance in a sustainable way.

Rod Pearse, CEO and Managing Director

As part of this commitment to the development of their staff, Boral selects between 8-12 middle management staff or employees with potential to be frontline leaders, twice a year, to participate in a high impact leadership program facilitated by Outward Bound. This unique 5.5 day residential style "Outward Bound Leadership Experience" with a splash of wilderness, has been specifically designed to meet Boral's desired outcomes;

• To strengthen an individual's capacity, confidence and self-awareness.;
• To develop practical business leadership skills;
• To gain a deeper understanding of the human factors at play in the work environment;
• To actively explore the linkages between the individual, their motives and drives and;
• To explore the effectiveness of teams, and organisational change impacts

The program is fun and challenging on an intellectual, physical, emotional, social and creative level.   In addition, it provides a shared experience outside the work environment with colleagues and the opportunity to meet and develop friendships with staff that may work in other parts of the country .

To learn more about Boral and Outward Bound's partnership, click here.

Click here to view a film on the Boral Outward Bound Leadership Experience.