45 min

Designed for organizations aiming to master sustainable growth, scale operations safely, or upskill their leadership teams.

Early in his life, a wise mentor gave Dr. Jon Solberg a piece of advice on a golf course that would shape his entire career: “Stop swinging so hard. Master a smooth, easy swing first, and the power will naturally follow.”

Years later, when medical institutions told him that becoming a full-time international expedition physician was impossible, Dr. Solberg fell back on that foundational lesson. Instead of forcing an unpaved path, he quietly focused on mastering his form: absorbing military tactical medicine in Afghanistan, dominating wilderness medical frameworks, and collaborating broadly with media networks.

By executing the basics flawlessly, the "power" eventually arrived—landing him trapped in a brutal Arctic blizzard near the North Pole, successfully navigating critical, life-saving conditions with one of the world's foremost adventurers.

Key Takeaways

• The Peril of Forcing Power: Why rushing scaling operations or swinging too hard in the market creates catastrophic failures.

• Building a Non-Traditional Strategy: How to aggregate diverse, unconventional skill sets to achieve massive, long-term goals.

• The Blizzard Test: Cultivating the calm operational composure required to execute fundamentals when sudden crisis hits.

Best For: Corporate retreats, strategy kick-offs, high-growth startups, and executive leadership seminars.

45 min

Designed for executive boards, operations leaders, and corporate committees navigating rapid industry disruptions, high-stakes mergers, or operational crises. This masterclass demonstrates how to halt organizational panic, preserve core assets, and execute elite-level crisis management when a situation spirals out of control.

The Narrative

When a medical emergency strikes in the deep wilderness, an untrained responder’s instinct is to rush in blindly to help—frequently resulting in their own injury or death. In elite wilderness medicine, we are trained to do the exact opposite: we execute a rigorous, critical pause known as the Scene Size-Up.

Drawing on high-consequence medical rescues from his military and global expedition career, Dr. Jon Solberg walks leaders through the precise mental checklist required when a "scene" goes chaotic. True leadership in a crisis requires protecting your team first, conserving finite resources, ruthlessly abandoning dead ideas, and leveraging the hidden strengths of those around you so you can steer the ship rather than drowning in the minutiae.

Key Takeaways

• Protect the Responder First: Why leaders must secure their own operational stability and team safety before attempting to salvage a crisis, preventing the company from taking secondary casualties.

• The Critical Pause: Mastering the psychological discipline to halt momentum, analyze what actually occurred, and don protective operational gear before reacting.

• Ruthless Resource Conservation: Recognizing when to cut losses and stop wasting finite capital, time, or personnel on a "dead patient"—whether that is a failing project, an obsolete product, or a toxic business strategy.

• Sizing Up the Ecosystem: Evaluating the broader landscape to identify external partners, junior leaders, or hidden assets who can augment your team, allowing you to delegate effectively and lead from the macro level.

Best For: Executive board meetings, change-management summits, operations leadership conferences, and risk-management panels.

45 min

Designed for executive boards, operations leaders, and corporate committees navigating rapid industry disruptions, high-stakes mergers, or operational crises. This masterclass demonstrates how to halt organizational panic, preserve core assets, and execute elite-level crisis management when a situation spirals out of control.

The Narrative

When a medical emergency strikes in the deep wilderness, an untrained responder’s instinct is to rush in blindly to help—frequently resulting in their own injury or death. In elite wilderness medicine, we are trained to do the exact opposite: we execute a rigorous, critical pause known as the Scene Size-Up.

Drawing on high-consequence medical rescues from his military and global expedition career, Dr. Jon Solberg walks leaders through the precise mental checklist required when a "scene" goes chaotic. True leadership in a crisis requires protecting your team first, conserving finite resources, ruthlessly abandoning dead ideas, and leveraging the hidden strengths of those around you so you can steer the ship rather than drowning in the minutiae.

Key Takeaways

• Protect the Responder First: Why leaders must secure their own operational stability and team safety before attempting to salvage a crisis, preventing the company from taking secondary casualties.

• The Critical Pause: Mastering the psychological discipline to halt momentum, analyze what actually occurred, and don protective operational gear before reacting.

• Ruthless Resource Conservation: Recognizing when to cut losses and stop wasting finite capital, time, or personnel on a "dead patient"—whether that is a failing project, an obsolete product, or a toxic business strategy.

• Sizing Up the Ecosystem: Evaluating the broader landscape to identify external partners, junior leaders, or hidden assets who can augment your team, allowing you to delegate effectively and lead from the macro level.

Best For: Executive board meetings, change-management summits, operations leadership conferences, and risk-management panels.