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NOLS uses a wilderness classroom and expedition dynamics to teach personal and group leadership development, environmental studies and stewardship and technical outdoor skills. How do we do it? Check out this short video (or click on video at right) of one of Alice's mountaineering courses in Alaska where she had the pleasure to work with Ivy League MBA students to help them develop their leadership skills in non-contrived real-consequence situations.
Since 2008 Alice has worked in mountains and on rivers all over the world with varying populations ranging from teenagers to Navy SEALs. Accumulating over 700 days in the field, the students and wilderness areas have impacted her significantly, and they continue to shape her life trajectory, her love for teaching, and her passion for remote areas of our planet.
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left: Alice utilizes an exercise on leadership styles with a team of Navy SEALs adjacent to the Wind River mountains' Gannett Cirque (Wyoming).
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Student-of-instructor evaluations for various courses:
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NASA Leadership Expedition (NASA Astronaut Candidate Trainers, 2017)
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Naval Special Warfare Leadership Expedition (Navy SEALs, 2016)
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British Columbia Waddington Range mountaineering (2014)
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New Zealand backpacking (2013)
Additional evaluations can be made available upon request.
Teaching experience
right: Alice works with a small leadership team of Wharton MBA students to strategize on decision making processes to move the whole group over a technical glacial col, Gulkana and Canwell glaciers, Alaska
above: see how Alice utilizes the wilderness to facilitate individual leadership growth in non-traditional classrooms.
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