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"The Outdoor Leader offers guidance, mentorship, and a roadmap for educators, guides, volunteers, and all outdoor enthusiasts dedicated to fostering a vibrant community In The Outdoor Leader you'll learn how to: Evaluate good decisions Communicate effectively Create and champion a vision Develop organizational systems Understand the value of mistakes Lead change through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion Build trust and credibility Work through challenges Say yes to the adventure of personal growth There is no one ""right way"" to lead--you don't have to be the fastest, strongest, or most experienced to be a great leader. What the best leaders possess is a deep commitment to the greater good. Drawing on her decades of experience as a national outdoor leader, Jeannette Stawski explores the elements of transformative leadership. Using real-life examples from the outdoors and every day, she focuses on the essentials: resilience, grit, integrity, tolerance for adversity, and highly developed listening and communication skills. Whether you spend time in city parks, on mountains, in rivers, or beyond, you know that nature is a powerful teacher. Stawski shares inspiring stories from a range of outdoor enthusiasts and professionals, including Elyse Rylander, Kenji Haroutunian, Joe Stone, Stacy Bare, Victoria Lopez-Herrera, and more, as well as key principles from the Cornell Outdoor Education program, co-directed by Karel Hilversum."

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Jeannette Stawski serves as executive director for the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE) and is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) and a Certified Executive Coach. She was the director of Outdoor Adventures at the University of Michigan for 11 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. An illustrator and painter, Latasha Dunston Greene earned her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. Her clients include Otterbox, Range magazine, Craghoppers, SNEWs, and the Denver Art Museum. Dunston is based in Denver.

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