Throughout the world many leaders are struggling with the leadership challenges emerging from the current climate. Some are driven by greed, some by fear and many just running around like headless chickens not sure what to do; they all have one thing in common they do not demonstrate a flexible leadership style that enables them to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, get buy in from their followers and lead strongly forward for the good of all.
So what do horses have to do with leadership; simply put they are masters of sustainable, flexible and effective leadership. They have been demonstrating it for the last 5 million years.
Windsor based Acorns2Oaks and German based HorseDream have partnered to bring a powerful and profound leadership development programme to the UK. Both Acorn2Oaks and HorseDream have an impressive track record of bringing “Horse Assisted Education” to organisations throughout Europe. Their clients include Cisco Systems, SAP, Allied Irish Bank, CAP Gemini, Proctor and Gamble, Nokia, McDonald’s, Generali, Würth Elektronik and AOL Germany. This new partnership is the first of many spreading throughout Europe.
David Harris founder of Acorns2Oaks says” The leadership learning from the horses is the most effective, flexible and sustainable available. Together with HorseDream we have taken many hundreds of corporate leaders through our programmes and we always get amazing learning and results. Organisations often come back again and again. The partnership with HorseDream means we can now provide consistent programmes to a high standard and quality throughout Europe. This is a very attractive proposition to European companies.” Acorn2Oaks are the first of the “HorseDream” partners to run “HorseDream Partner Licensed Workshops” outside of Germany.
I am delighted to have been one of the first students to attend the HorseDream Partner Licensed Workshop run by Dave Harris. Under his guidance and mentoring I now offer Horse Assisted Education in leadership, teamwork and communication to companies and individuals. Please contact me to discuss how Business HorsePower can help you and your teams.
Julia Felton (aka The Business Wrangler) is the founder of Business HorsePower. Business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives hire her to accelerate their business performance by harnessing the energy of their people to work more collaboratively together. By aligning purpose with actions the team achieves exponential results as everyone starts pulling in the same direction.
Julia believes that business is a force for good and through designing purpose-driven businesses that leverage the laws of nature, and the herd, you can create businesses founded on the principles of connection, collaboration and community that make a significant impact in the world.
