Pinnacle Wild Leadership Programme

The course has been designed by our Expedition Training and Leadership Advisor, who is a Leading Practitioner of the Institute for Outdoor learning and a Fellow of the RGS, with many years of experience in youth development and expedition leadership. It has been designed to support you to develop yourself as an ethical Leader and to understand what leadership means in the context of environmental sustainability and the great outdoors.

This programme is unique, as all learning and development takes place outside the ‘classroom’ and gives you an opportunity to experience the wilderness whilst exploring sustainability and your own capacity as an emerging leader. Following a video application and a phone interview, you will be selected to join the first Pinnacle Wild Leadership cohort.

The programme will be delivered through seven modules from March – August culminating in you putting what you have learnt into practice on an extended 4-week overseas expedition together. The location of the final expedition will only be revealed after the team has been selected for the 2024 programme.

During your two expeditions (one in the UK and one overseas) you will be part of a Fire (group) working alongside the Leadership team to deliver your transformational expedition.

Led by experts, the expedition has been designed to take you out of your comfort zone in a challenging yet safe environment, with a real focus on the skills and personal development you will gain from the experience. The safety and support of our Explorers is the cornerstone on which we build and develop an expedition from conception through to departure and return.

The vast majority of young people return from our expeditions with a wealth of new-found practical skills, new friends-for-life and a real sense of personal development – all of which can have tangible benefits for the future.