“as I learned well through my teenage years, my impatience was never rewarded with good performance.”
Allison Wright
20 years ago October, Allison Wright handed over her Stampede Crown and began a career with the Calgary Stampede. Starting in the accounting department, she got a grasp on the numbers of running a year round facility and The Greatest Show on Earth. Over the years Allison has held a number of positions in Agriculture Programming and now heads up the Mid-way portfolio. She describes her responsibility as “The guest experience from Gates to Corndogs and everything in between.” For ten days each year Allison’s team grows from 4 to over 800. How do you manage the commitment of that size? Well Allison believes you need to be an adrenalin junkie and love chaos.
“There is no free ride. From the moment you get on your horse to the minute you get off, you are working and doing something, you are never just sitting.
Leaders are the same, there is no time when you are just present without really being there, just occupying the chair.” Eva Friesen
This blog has typically captured my leadership learning through horsemanship journey, but there are a lot of horses in Alberta and that got me wondering “How have horses influenced others on their leadership journey?
So I began asking. In the coming months I will be publishing a series of interviews with those willing to share what they have learned about their leadership from their relationship with horses.
Being Present in a Relationship
From saddling Rhys to regaining consciousness on the ground, I had no memory of what happened.
I was asking the same questions over and over, symptoms of a serious concussion.
In emergency, that diagnosis also included hairline vertebra fractures.
Had I landed differently this could have been a whole different story.
Creating a business with horses?
“In Business to Define is quite simply the ONE business book I would recommend for all EFP/EAL businesses to get clear on the essentials they need to move forward. It cleanly and clearly states the ‘what’, ‘why” & ‘how” of defining key elements most often overlooked. Nancy has done a great service to the community with this little gem.”
Thanks for writing it. I will be putting it down as a Key Biz Resource for 2012….it’s really well-done. Congrats!” Shannon Knapp Founder/President, Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc.
Starting up your equine related business or simply trying to grow an existing one? In Business to Define is designed to complement your business and marketing plan with specific details on how to get crystal clear on your ideal client.
Looking for more reference tools? Check out The Games People Play with Horses and Creating Exceptional Leaders through Learning with Horses.
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Facilitators Guide Creating Exceptional Leaders through Learning with Horses – one or two day program outline.
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Creating Exceptional Leaders through Learning with Horses. The Facilitator’s Guide reflects our learnings from four years of programs partnering the concepts from The Leadership Challenge® with activities with horses. Presented at The Leadership Challenge Forum in Chicago August 2009.
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Our first publication The Games People Play with Horses – a series of activities in lesson planning format.
A two Volume series of activities for effective learning with equines. Each Volume contains the combined wisdom of five different practitioners of experiential learning with horses providing 16 different activities in lesson planning format.
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I am not one for making New Years Resolutions, mostly because what I hear seem like empty promises. The yoga studio is full in January something I know will change in the coming weeks.
Each ride, every program I am looking to fine tune one of my actions as I recognize and better understand my own behaviours. So rather than a resolution, this is more of a confessional.
Silver Award – Blended Learning The Institute for Performance & Learning