Lessons from the Wall Leadership Workshop
Turn the lessons from the mountain into leadership habits your team actually uses.
About This Workshop
Bring the lessons from the mountain into your organization through an engaging, highly interactive leadership workshop designed to turn inspiration into action.
Built around the principles of Lessons from the Wall, this experience combines storytelling with facilitated discussion, individual reflection, small-group exercises, and practical leadership application. Together, the group explores several of the book's most impactful lessons, including purpose, resilience, accountability, navigating uncertainty, creating defining moments, sustainable leadership, and becoming the best version of ourselves.
Participants leave with practical tools, meaningful commitments, and a shared language that strengthens leadership long after the workshop ends.
Workshop Facilitator
Matthew Spence
Four-time finisher of the 29029 Everesting Challenge, turning one extraordinary climb into leadership lessons for thriving at the edge of uncertainty
Matthew Spence is an executive coach, author, and four-time finisher of the 29029 Everesting Challenge, an endurance event in which participants climb the height of Mount Everest in under 36 hours. Author of Lessons from the Wall, he has spent more than 25 years developing leaders at Meta, Nike, Levi Strauss & Co., and Gap Inc., and now helps organizations build leaders who thrive at the edge of uncertainty.
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Who This Workshop Is For
Leadership teams, executive offsites, manager development programs, and organizations navigating growth, transformation, or change.
Workshop Details
Customization Available
Every workshop is customized to your organization's goals, culture, and current leadership challenges. It can be paired with Matthew's keynote or delivered as a standalone session.
Tailoring is done through a content alignment meeting with the speaker prior to your event.
Trusted by Leading Organizations
Matthew Spence has worked with these organizations and more.
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