What We Do

At LCE, Jess is highly skilled in delivering equine-led leadership programs, facilitation, coaching, and mentoring. Her versatile skill set allows her to assist individuals, partnerships, and teams alike. By leveraging the presence of horses as a powerful medium in her leadership educational model, Jess enables people to cultivate a profound sense of self-awareness and an understanding of human behaviour—crucial foundations for all leadership and team development. Her unique approach with horses offers a transformative experience that surpasses traditional training methods.

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Jess's Philosophy

Jess believes that humans are the company's biggest asset. She is committed to delivering a leadership and culture-building experience that goes beyond the confines of traditional training environments. Training can become stagnant within four walls, but Jess ensures an active and dynamic process. Transformation is achieved through a profound shift in feelings within an experience. 

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Our Model: Cultivate, Connect & Culture

Our LCE approach with the Cultivate, Connect & Culture Model develops a psychologically safe workplace or family environment where people feel happier, more connected, more understood, more understanding, more cooperative and more belonging - resulting in higher productivity. The process begins with individual leadership development, empowering each person to build self-agency in their thoughts, attitudes, behaviours, and interactions with others. This foundational step is the prerequisite for the team training element as it ensures that individuals can effectively contribute to a harmonious and cohesive workplace culture.
 

Our Focus

Jess is your people expert. She doesn't assist businesses with technical skills. Her focus is on developing the human side of leadership and teamwork, ensuring that your people are empowered, emotionally fit & psychologically equipped to work with other people and perform at their best at work. 

By engaging with our unique programs, individuals and teams embark on a journey that shifts their perspectives, connects them with their natural feelings, and engages them in experiences that foster a deeper connection with themselves, others, and our horses. This powerful development takes place in an environment filled with the natural unpredictability of working with horses, mirroring real-world uncertainty, and allowing your team members to implement their newfound skills in a dynamic and challenging setting. The quality of our life (including at work)...  is directly related to our relationship with uncertainty! 

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Tailored Programs and Workshops

All programs and workshops are tailored to your specific objectives and will address any team dysfunctions while building practical leadership skills and emotional culture rooted in self-insight, behavioural insights, relational dynamics, and impactful leadership competencies. The workshops and programs facilitated by Jess are distinguished by their kinesthetic learning approach, where participants engage with horses in a natural setting to learn about shared leadership and how to develop a high-trust team culture. Jess can also work remotely, supporting individuals and teams away from the property.

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The Role of Horses

Horses are remarkable teachers for developing human-centered leadership & high-trust teams. Their innate responses to human interactions offer insights beyond our conscious awareness, enabling us to better understand ourselves and others. They teach the art of interpersonal skills and EQ leadership, as well as the principles of sustaining a collaborative and cohesive team culture. Jess aims to foster a psychologically safe team environment where feelings are intentionally considered and discussed.

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Remote and Non-Horse Programs

While Jess's distinct LCE approach involves horses, she also offers a non-horse model with her 3-pillar framework:

1. Lead SELF

2. Lead PEOPLE & ENGAGEMENT

3. Lead FUNCTIONAL TEAMS
    

Specialisation in Social Emotional Intelligence (SEI) Leadership

Leadership with Horses represents an equine-centered leadership development initiative that connects individuals and teams with horses to develop deep awareness of human behaviour and practical leadership skills, fundamentally enhancing their aptitude for effective collaboration and leadership. These programs are rooted in the principles of social intelligence (SI) and emotional intelligence (EQ), which are the bedrock of successful teamwork and leadership.

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Real-Time Learning and Application

The most effective way for leaders to enhance their leadership and people skills is through real-time learning and application. Conventional training methods often fall short in cultivating social emotional intelligence. This is why engaging with horses in experiential settings ensures the grasp of SEI leadership concepts and enables actionable outcomes that far outperform traditional classroom-based sessions.

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What exactly is Equine Assisted Learning?

Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) or Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL) is a learner based educational experience with horses. More specifically, EAL is an effective approach to people development that encourages individual and team growth. Participants engage in objectively driven exercises and find themselves learning valuable life and leadership skills in a fun and exciting atmosphere while working with horses.
Equine Assisted Learning has proven to be effective, powerful, positive, educational, kinesthetic and creative. As aptly quoted by Albert Einstein;