The Lewis & Clark expedition provides today’s leaders with a remarkable story of people who mapped out the future of a young and growing country.

The commanders, with some thirty men, a woman, and a baby, would travel more than 8,000 miles in two and a half years. Along the way, their survival depended on the talents of the expedition members and the native tribes they encountered. The expedition provides a natural and dramatic platform for leadership study, particularly on ways a team can work successfully in an unpredictable environment. You will study this expedition from its planning stages, through the selection and hiring of the members, and then follow them through the unexpected challenges they encountered.

This popular three-day workshop can be conducted at various sites along the Lewis & Clark Trail, or from the locations where they prepared and trained for the expedition. You may hold the workshop in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, where Lewis purchased supplies and weapons for the expedition; or St. Louis/St. Charles, Missouri, where the final training was conducted; or Great Falls/Fort Benton, Montana, where the expedition encountered some of its most hazardous challenges.

What others are saying... "Use of history-outstanding. Native American viewpoints-outstanding. Guest speakers-excellent. Instructor enthusiasm-excellent!! Showing parallels of past and present-excellent!" "Being in the actual area that Lewis & Clark began their journey aided immensely in understanding the problems and leadership challenges they faced and this in turn allowed me to make correlations to my own leadership challenges."

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