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2007 Kellogg School of Management Offerings
Kellog Patagonia Leadership Expedition
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Hallmarks of a NOLS Patagonia course are exploration, remoteness and tough weather.
Photo: Milenka Heran |
Patagonia. A frontier of campos (ranches) hidden in isolated mountain valleys, ragged icy peaks, brawling rivers and cathedral fjords. This is a land that demands exploration, and you will experience its dramatic peaks, valleys and mysterious wilderness.
NOLS Patagonia is located in the heart of Chilean Patagonia. From our main base, a working farm of several hundred acres in the small town of Coyhaique, we do all of the planning and legwork to make your expedition into the wilderness an educational experience that lasts a lifetime. Here you’ll meet your instructors and get to know them and your fellow expedition members as you prepare for your course.
Hallmarks of a NOLS Patagonia course are exploration, remoteness and tough weather. Patagonia has high mountains that have never been climbed and unexplored valleys, often populated by pobladores (subsistence ranchers). The weather in this part of the world is often unpredictable, but we’ll teach you how to deal with this as you hike and camp in the valleys, explore the mountains and stop to visit with the people you meet along the way.
Leadership development comes quickly in these amazing conditions where teamwork is a necessity, not a luxury. You’ll return from Patagonia with greater leadership skills, the ability to motivate yourself and others, and with the knowledge to plan and carry out your own expeditions in the most remote corners of the world as well as the business world.
Purpose
This 7-day leadership expedition is designed to provide Kellogg School of Management students with leadership and outdoor skills in a remote wilderness setting. This expedition has it all—technical skills, incredible scenery, ample leadership opportunities, and a dose of Patagonian culture.
Leadership skills development through experiential learning will be the primary focus of this course. Curriculum will aim towards situational leadership skills applicable to school, business, and social lives as well as expeditionary settings.
There will be significant technical and environmental challenges as participants approach expedition goals. NOLS Instructors will play evolving roles as participants’ knowledge, experience, and abilities increase during this self-contained expedition. The group will take on increasing levels of personal and team responsibility for the technical and interpersonal aspects of the course. NOLS Instructors will provide structured briefing, debriefing, feedback, technical expertise, risk management, evaluation, classes and participant leadership and followership opportunities.
By the end of this course, participants walk away with the ability to coordinate their own expeditions – in wilderness and business settings – as well as having an appreciation for this dramatic Patagonian wilderness.
Kellogg School of Management Patagonia Leadership Expedition
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