Open Leadership with Horses – Equine Guided Leadership

Open Leadership with Horses – Equine Guided Leadership

With Jude Jennison

We all have the capacity to be extraordinary, so why settle for anything less?

Equine Guided Leadership Development is a unique and powerful way of learning that involves leading horses on the ground through a variety of exercises to gain direct feedback on your leadership style. It’s an experiential-based learning program where you embody your leadership skills, resulting in sustainable behavioural change. You learn your personal impact, both individually and within a team.

No riding is involved and no experience of horses is required. The focus is on leadership skills that can only be learned experientially. You get direct feedback on your leadership impact by how the horse responds moment by moment which will give you the opportunity to recalibrate until you get the results you want.

Why Horses?

Horses mirror your non-verbal communication so you quickly identify the impact of your leadership, explore how to use emotional intelligence with instant feedback and recalibrate to get results. This profound way of learning creates fast results that are repeatable back in every day situations.

We work with horses because they have been proven to:

• Respond based on the 90% of your communication that is non-verbal
• Provide non-judgmental feedback by mirroring your leadership style
• Only interact with authentic behaviour
• Help you identify your core strengths and highlight the areas where you get stuck, often in the first few minutes of the day
• Follow leaders and teams who are compelling, compassionate, authentic, clear and work in unity
• Provide a different environment where leaders learn how to lead out of their comfort zone and take bold action
• Work as a cohesive team and mirror your team’s behaviour
• Require you to work collaboratively together
• Help you identify solutions to long-standing challenges
• Research from the University of Kentucky showed that people who had attended a one-day workshop with horses showed an increase in self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management.
• The learning is authentic, sustainable and transferable to all leadership situations that you may encounter in future.
• People are repeatedly surprised at how quickly behaviours are uncovered and quickly they can change them

What you can expect to gain from working with horses?

Previous clients have reported an increase in confidence, gained clarity on key challenges and overcome barriers to success that were previously holding them back.

You’ll also:

• Understand your impact
• Identify your strengths, get feedback on your leadership behaviours and increase awareness of your impact on others
• Build better relationships
• Discover how to use the subtle art of non-verbal communication to build rapport, embrace differences and influence others
• Collaborate more effectively
• Explore your default patterns of behaviour, find new ways to work with other more cohesively and overcome barriers to success

As well as:

• Take high-performing leaders to another level with increased self-awareness and ability to recalibrate their approach in the moment
• Enable more courageous leadership, creative thinking, flexibility and innovation
• Maximise the use of personal strengths to overcome obstacles and achieve business goals more quickly
• Accelerate team cohesion through greater understanding of self and other team members
• Inspire and influence clients and teams with differing personalities and needs
• Improve relationship and communication skills
• Be assertive under pressure, without resorting to coercion or avoidance
• Greater awareness of conflict and default patterns
• Increase trust within the team and the wider organisation

“I am now more interested in achieving collective results rather than individual success. I have more empathy now, not only with the rest of the team but with others in general.” Jorge Ribeiro, Head of IT Infrastructure, Telefonica

“Jude is the secret weapon called upon by major global brands to help them address hidden leadership issues that are limiting vision, stifling productivity, and damaging trust and team effectiveness.”

The cost

£6025 total for the day which is based on up to 8 people attending. This includes all preparation for your individual leadership team needs as well as including a copy of Jude’s book per person, photos from the day and a follow on 15mins coaching per person. Excludes travel to the location.

Contact us to book and discuss your requirements.  We can bespoke each workshop to your organisational needs, values and vision.