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Podcast – On Equine Guided Leadership
Welcome to our episode of 'Reach Minds: Thoughts for Your Life's Journey' podcast. In today's session, we are going to explore Equine Guided Leadership (EGL) experience. Equine Guided Leadership (EGL) is a unique experiential learning approach that leverages the innate sensitivity and responsiveness of horses to help individuals and teams develop enhanced leadership skills. Equine Guided Leadership has been described as a unique and powerful learning experience that can help individuals and teams develop the essential skills and qualities needed for effective leadership in today's complex and dynamic world.
About Sumit
I am joined today by Sumit Rai, who his currently working as Chief Product Officer at Blackbird. PLC. In 2012, Sumit was the CEO and Founder of Kulu Valley, when he undertook and experienced Equine Leadership training. Sumit shares what he learned about himself and how he learnt to lead others. This experience had such a profound impact on him that he took his whole leadership team through this experience. We explore what unique insights, benefits he and his team gained and how this has continued to directly enhance their leadership skills.
In this podcast, we pose the following questions on the experience of
Equine Guided leadership
What was the catalyst for doing this leadership intervention? Why horses?
How would you describe this experience to someone who knows nothing about Equine guided leadership ?
What did you learn, what did your team learn?
12 years on what has been the lasting impact and transformation of this experiential learning
How do you think it has transformed your leadership approach?
What piece of wisdom could you share with someone wanting to do this experiential learning?
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitrai23/
Equine guided development https://www.globalwarriors.com/equine-guided-development
Welcome to our episode of 'Reach Minds: Thoughts for Your Life's Journey' podcast. In today's session, we are going to explore Equine Guided Leadership (EGL) experience. Equine Guided Leadership (EGL) is a unique experiential learning approach that leverages the innate sensitivity and responsiveness of horses to help individuals and teams develop enhanced leadership skills. Equine Guided Leadership has been described as a unique and powerful learning experience that can help individuals and teams develop the essential skills and qualities needed for effective leadership in today's complex and dynamic world.
About Sumit
I am joined today by Sumit Rai, who his currently working as Chief Product Officer at Blackbird. PLC. In 2012, Sumit was the CEO and Founder of Kulu Valley, when he undertook and experienced Equine Leadership training. Sumit shares what he learned about himself and how he learnt to lead others. This experience had such a profound impact on him that he took his whole leadership team through this experience. We explore what unique insights, benefits he and his team gained and how this has continued to directly enhance their leadership skills.
In this podcast, we pose the following questions on the experience of
Equine Guided leadership
What was the catalyst for doing this leadership intervention? Why horses?
How would you describe this experience to someone who knows nothing about Equine guided leadership ?
What did you learn, what did your team learn?
12 years on what has been the lasting impact and transformation of this experiential learning
How do you think it has transformed your leadership approach?
What piece of wisdom could you share with someone wanting to do this experiential learning?
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitrai23/
Equine guided development https://www.globalwarriors.com/equine-guided-development
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