To be a good leader, one must be a good leader of themselves. This topic is intended to inspire others how to look at leadership in a new way so they can become high performers in their life, and in turn, inspire the teams they are in to achieve the same high performance. Ben uses storytelling of his 24 year plus career leading the best Wildland Firefighters in the world, known as Hotshots, and his struggle with mental health, to help companies, organizations, teams, and individuals find the outcomes they are looking for.
Ben speaks openly and authentically about how he has overcome his mental health issues and how he not only survived an attempt of suicide, but how to thrive afterword’s.
With Ben’s over 24 years of leading one of the most high-performance Wildland Fire teams known as Hotshots in the world, he shares with companies, organizations, teams and individuals on how to mitigate risk at the highest level. Using tools such as the “Time Wedge” and “An 80% plan now, is better than a 100% plan that's too late”. Having been involved with almost every catastrophic wildfire in the west for 24 years, he has learned how to rapidly build high performance teams to mitigate risk in some of the most extreme situations to achieve positive outcomes to save life and property.
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