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 organisation - 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 energised 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.

Foreword by: Stanley A. McChrystal