“I can’t teach you to be CEO,
but I can train you to be a LEADER.”
Phil has climbed, cycled, paddled and trekked thousands of miles across the U.S. and abroad compiling over 1,000 leadership field days with expedition-based organizations and private guide companies. He has worked in high-consequence environments leading tough populations where there is no margin for error. Where people literally die from poor preparation or execution. He has seen death first hand and has saved lives
in 1995, following an unfulfilled career in finance, Phil began working part-time in the the outdoor education field and transitioned to full-time by the summer of 1996. He brought the financial risk management strategies he learned from wall street with him to the backcountry, over time blending the unique risk challenges for both of these sectors into his proprietary strategies.
Phil has:
led at-risk and incarcerated students on backcountry expeditions of up to six weeks
trained and developed experienced and aspiring wilderness professionals
LED field-based professional development courses for tech, finance, and pharma companies
consulted on the organizational behavior module for a highly esteemed mba program
TRAINED CEOs and c-suite
Written a book on high-performance team development and management
taught wilderness emergency medicine courses in extreme environments
Earned Viristar certification as a risk management professional
led incident reviews, safety audits, after-action reviews, and critical incident stress debriefing (CISD)