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Fortune 500 leadership advisor and former Green Beret Jan Rutherford and leadership development consultant and former assistant professor at the United States Military Academy Jacquie Jordan have created the ultimate prescriptive handbook on what it takes to design and lead energized and effective teams in an increasingly complex and uncertain global landscape.
Fortune 500 leadership advisor and former Green Beret Jan Rutherford and leadership development consultant and former assistant professor at the United States Military Academy Jacquie Jordan have created the ultimate prescriptive handbook on what it takes to design and lead energized and effective teams in an increasingly complex and uncertain global landscape.
Crafted from Rutherford’s Crucible® Expeditions wilderness experience, Becoming a Self-Reliant Leader is a practical guide that explores each step of the Crucible journey and how its lessons can be applied to today’s leadership challenges.
These lessons are based around the three pillars of Self-Reliant Leadership®—leading yourself, leading others, and leading an organization—and include how to:
Develop courage, curiosity, and grit to confront adversity and lead your team to success
Select the right people for your team—people who are selfless, adventurous, and heroic
Create the right direction, pace, and tone to achieve any goal
Design and maintain a positive and energized work environment
Build mutual, genuine trust among team members and fellow leaders
Whether they’re leaping across icy chasms or scaling slabs of rock, Crucible Expedition participants are pushed to their mental and physical limits—and emerge on the other side renewed and more durable than ever before, with a new understanding of how overcoming hardship refines our skills and accelerates our growth.
This compilation of lessons and stories from past expeditions offers business leaders more than just an exciting read—it’s a proven recipe to creating and sustaining high-performing teams.
Jan Rutherford is a former Green Beret and founder of Self-Reliant Leadership® where he coaches executives, and leads Crucible® wilderness expeditions with executives and veterans. Jan has over 25 years of business experience and has held executive roles in business development, marketing, sales, training, product management, and as a CEO. For 15 years, he was a Senior Instructor with the University of Colorado Denver Business School, teaching leadership to MBA students in the U.S. and Ireland. He’s the co-host of The Leadership Podcast, and also serves on numerous boards, and invests time with select DOD units and veteran organizations.
Jacquie Jordan, a graduate of West Point and Teacher’s College, Columbia University, is passionate about improving work through leader and organizational development. Jacquie cultivated this passion while serving as a logistics officer in the US Army, including assignments as an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy, a tour with the United States Army Special Operations Command, and culminating as a Legislative Liaison working to advance US Army personnel policy. Jacquie deployed to combat four times where she led small and large teams in support of operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. As a consultant, Jacquie brings her expertise to teams to increase the capacity of leaders to lead, teams to build trust, and organizations to produce results.
