Jeannette Stawski serves as executive director for the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE). She is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) and a Certified Executive Coach. She was the director of Outdoor Adventures at the University of Michigan for eleven years and has worked as a professional outdoor guide, a wilderness medicine instructor, and NOLS instructor. She is currently the chair of the Coalition for Outdoor Access (COA) and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and their two children.
On the show today, Jeannette discusses her path into and through outdoor recreation and national organizational management. She is the author of The Valiant Leader: Resilience, Integrity, and Adventure. Her story is encouraging, inspiring, and so authentic to who she is as an outdoor leader. If you wish to improve your skills as a team leader, an outdoor educator, or a nature guide, I cannot recommend her book to you enough! Make sure to pre-order to receive your copy as soon as possible.
Jeannette shared amazing advice on how to set goals, deal with failure and insecurity, balance group needs and self-care, and much much more. Do consider sharing this episode with a friend to inspire them and comment below with your thoughts on our conversation! Thanks so much for walking Between the Guidelines with us today!
How to Become a Valiant Leader