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Leadership and Legacy: Seven Steps to Leading High Achieving Teams

GES 414 -- 70 hours

Instructor Bio

Tom Whittaker is a mountaineer, trainer and corporate speaker who believes that leadership is not about responding to change, but about shaping it.

On Thanksgiving Day of 1979, a head-on vehicle collision resulted in the amputation of a foot and knee cap. After a period of rehabilitation he founded the Cooperative Wilderness Handicapped Outdoor Group (C.W. HOG). Tom's creed is 'make your own decisions about what you can do, don't let others make them for you.'

On May 27, 1998, as the leader of his own expedition he climbed to the roof of the world by summiting Mt. Everest. He had not only overcome his innate fears and personal catastrophe, but had persisted against a tide of skepticism to achieve the distinction of becoming the first disabled summiteer.

Married with two young daughters, Whittaker spends his time between Granville Associates, his motivational speaking and corporate training business, and his 7Summits Foundation, a non-profit organization that enables disabled people worldwide to be fully contributing members of society. You can read more on his website www.tomwhittaker.com