Leadership Without Walls
Developing leaders and teams beyond the board room through experiential, outdoor-based learning.
Leadership Without Walls is our flagship leadership development framework, integrating experiential learning, guided reflection, and practical application to create lasting behavioral change.
What Is Leadership Without Walls?
Leadership Without Walls is our philosophy and practice of developing leadership capability through immersive experiences that reflect real-world complexity. By stepping outside traditional corporate environments, leaders gain clarity, adaptability, and insight that directly translates back to their organizations.
How We Do it Differently
Depth, Safety, and Stewardship Matter
Unlike trend-driven outdoor programs, our work is grounded in decades of experience in wilderness leadership, risk management, and facilitation. We operate legally, ethically, and responsibly—ensuring that leadership development never comes at the expense of safety or environmental impact.
Who it's for
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Executive teams
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Senior leaders
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Organizations navigating change
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High-performing teams seeking alignment
Half-day (3-4 hours)
Short challenge + guided reflection + action commitments
Best for:
Offsites with limited time
Full-day (6-8 hours)
Multiple modules + leadership dialogue + transfer plan
Best for:
Deep team work
2-3 Days
Immersive journey + team alignment + durable behavior change plan
Best for:
Executive retreats
Benefits of Experiential Leadership Development
Research Driven Outcomes
Created using evidence based research and best practices.
Your Self
Develop self-awareness, reflective thinking, and deeper relationships. Brain changes in problems, behaviors, and feeling. Accomplish projects more successfully.
Your Team
Leaders who are trusted are more effective at motivating their teams leading to better team cohesiveness and interpersonal communication, higher levels of trust, and better problem-solving abilities.
Your Culture
Improved cultural awareness of our differences and attitudes towards others, and promotes more local community involvement. Â
Your Business
Developing problem solving abilities and leadership relationships has been found to significantly related to business success metrics in lower employee turnover, lower absenteeism, high productivity, better job performance.
Research / Evidenced Based Practices:
As a thought leader in the field of Experiential Leadership Development, we use evidenced based practices and methods in the field leadership development; consequentially we are conducting our own research. Our research focuses on the measurable's or outputs of the leadership events, training and education we offer.
When we confirm a program, we will discuss our measurables for each program and are happy to share the status of results current research we are conducting. We will also ask about participants being included in a pre and posttest questionnaire and/or assessments to further help with identifying the benefits or specific leadership development training and future program modification. The ultimate goal is to produce search and a publication on our research.
" We used Colorado Wilderness for a large corporate event. They offered a great selection of tours and everyone came back raving about how much fun they had and how great the guides were."
- US BUSINESS