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PAST Outdoors Leadership Development Program

for Business Leaders & Public Figures

Because true leadership isn't built in comfort.

Why choose a PAST Outdoors Executive Travel experience?

Every executive eventually reaches a point where experience, intelligence and strategy alone are no longer enough.

The PAST Outdoors Executive Leadership Development Program places you in an environment where there are no titles, no offices and no shortcuts—only mountains, weather, teammates and decisions.

Through physical challenge, shared hardship, you'll discover strengths you didn't know you possessed and confront limitations you've spent years avoiding.

This isn't about climbing a mountain.

It's about becoming the leader your family, your team, your organisation and most importantly, you, deserve.

PAST Outdoors Executive Travel Experiences

What you'll experience on our Leadership Development Program

Throughout the week you'll experience:

  • Alpine traverses
  • Remote wilderness
  • Navigation and team problem-solving
  • Leadership rotations
  • Physical endurance
  • Fireside conversations that matter

The expedition deliberately creates moments where perseverance, teamwork and resilience become the only path forward.

From this experience you will become more resilient to change, to work pressure and to the demands of work and life.

This will challenge you on every level. You’ll come back stronger, sharper and with more clarity.

Ultimately, you’ll truly feel ALIVE.

PAST Outdoors Executive Travel Experiences

Trip Inclusions

Our immersive leadership program is limited to 4–6 executives, professionally guided through New Zealand's Southern Alps. Every aspect has been designed to create transformation on all levels.

✓ 7-day all-inclusive experience

✓ Premium accommodation before and after the expedition

✓ All meals prepared and provided

✓ Specialist mountain equipment supplied

✓ Experienced wilderness guides

✓ Leadership facilitation

✓ Reflection and debrief sessions

✓ Optional hunting, fishing and alpine activities (conditions permitting)

Leadership Development for elite leaders

PAST Outdoors Executive Travel Program

Our Program offers professionals an inspiring blend of world-class hiking, meaningful connection and breathtaking landscapes. You’ll be challenged on every level, creating a more resilient, inspiring leader. Through our program you will:

Resilience

Build resilience under physical pressure

Clarity

Develop calm decision-making in uncertainty

Strength

Overcome fear & self-imposed limitations

Endurance

Improve endurance physically & mentally

Purpose

Return with renewed purpose & perspective

What kind of leader are you?

Our greatest challenges in life can make us stronger, more resilient, more inspiring leaders. Are you ready to level up? Slide the slider below:

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After your Executive Experience

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Man with a large backpack and hiking poles standing in a grassy field with mountains in the background hiking in New Zealand

Our Executive Leadership Team

Dave Parker

Dave Parker, CEO of PAST Outdoors, spent 20 years in the Australian Special Forces, time that built the leadership and calm-under-pressure instincts he now brings to every step of our New Zealand hikes. His military background, paired with an MBA from UNSW's Australian Graduate School of Management, gives him a rare mix of field-tested outdoor expertise and lived experience as an entrepreneur, CEO and Exceutive leader.

Years spent operating in remote, demanding terrain taught Dave what makes the difference between an uncomfortable slog and an unforgettable trek: preparation, the right gear and the right expertise. He carries this into our experiences where he focuses on getting exectives comfortable in the uncomfortable, to be able to withstand pressure in highly challenging environments.

Male hiking in New Zealand South Island with backpack and trekking poles as a tour guide.

Our Executive Leadership Team

Seth Brown

After serving in the New Zealand Police for more than five years in tactical policing roles, and previously serving within New Zealand Special Operations Forces, Seth combines his professional experience with an obsession for lightweight hunting equipment, practical fieldcraft and evidence-based decision making.

Through years spent hunting, tramping, and testing gear in some of New Zealand’s harshest alpine environments, he developed a philosophy centred on simplicity, reliability, and carrying only what genuinely adds value in the field.

Whether testing ultralight shelters in alpine weather, evaluating hunting equipment, or exploring practical skills for safer and more effective travel in the mountains, his goal is to provide honest, experience-driven information that helps others spend more time enjoying New Zealand’s wild places.

PAST Outdoors Leadership Development Program

Application Criteria

This experience is designed to be both physically and mentally demanding. As a requirement, to be suitable to apply all applicants must have the following:

✓ Hold a passport and be eligible for a tourist visa in NZ and have valid travel insurance

✓ Be physically fit enough to complete the trip

✓ Be employed in or moving into a leadership position

✓ Be prepared to submit a physical fitness test

✓ Be prepared to attend an interview panel (online) prior to acceptance to the program

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