So you want to CREATE an Inclusive Outdoor Working Environment?

Advancing the Outdoor Professional

Leaders! This one's for you! Are you truly doing the best you can when creating an inclusive working environment? Are you creating a psychologically safe place for your employees? How do you know?

Join podcast host Candace Brendler as she chats with two members of the A-DASH Collaborative, Jim Miller of Respect Outside and Emily Ambrose of Engage Coaching & Consulting, LLC. Jim and Emily share ways you can evaluate your progress and create a psychologically safe environment for all your employees.

About Emily

Trainer / Consultant / Coach / Owner, Engage Coaching & Consulting, LLC

Emily Ambrose, MS, ACC (she/hers), has dedicated her professional career and personal life to leadership development, training, facilitation, diversity, inclusion, and equity work. Currently and for over 15 years, Emily has been working at Colorado State University, is a member of the A-DASH Collaborative - addressing sexism and sexual assault in the outdoor culture, and raft guides in the Grand Canyon during the summer. She is a facilitator for the Office of Inclusive Excellence, a Safe Zone facilitator, owner of a Engage Coaching & Consulting, LLC, and taught for 14 years in the President's Leadership Program and Key Plus. Emily lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico & Fort Collins, Colorado and enjoys salsa dancing, her community, her partner, and her fur babies.

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About Jim

Co-Founder & Business Development, Respect Outside

In his almost forty-year career as a member of the outdoor recreation industry, Jim has been a raft guide for Mountain Travel-Sobek, developed marketing and retail training initiatives for brands such as Yakima Racks and Werner Paddles, owned a multi-unit retail specialty store, and consulted to manufacturers and retailers in the outdoor and action-sports areas. In his time in the industry, Jim has seen a number of game-changing initiatives implemented which have driven outdoor companies to the forefront of social awareness and worklife culture. These industry values are what first attracted him, and it is these values which he seeks to advance by creating real change in the ways people of different genders relate and interact while at work.

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Resources:

• Brene Brown Podcast
• Black Face, White Space: Reimaging the Relationship of African Americans
• Diversity wins: How inclusion matters
• How to Create a Culture of Psychological Safety