Trespass Leadership
Take executive coaching outdoors. Get off Zoom, get away from the desk, and get on your feet. It’s out in the world and out of our heads that the greatest discoveries are made.
Grow, decide, and innovate—
in person or from anywhere in the world.
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Worldwide
Aaron’s worked with more than 50 leaders across 5 continents. Leaders anywhere in the world can walk or hike locally and call into coaching by phone. Your coach will match your route.
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San Diego, California
If you’re a CEO, founder, or senior leader based in San Diego, meet your coach in person. Lead your business from beaches, hikes, or neighborhood walks.
Teams trespass too.
Take your team on walks to build new strategy, innovate new solutions, resolve old conflicts, and grow communication and collaboration skills. Break out of habits and patterns. Shake up how your team thinks.
Why Trespass?
The History
“A desk is no place to think on a large scale,” writes the essayist Rebecca Solnit, introducing her history of walking. “A history of walking,” she adds, “is a history of thinking.”
Thinkers like Rousseau and Thoreau. Scientists like Darwin and Einstein. Artists like Woolf and Tchaikovsky. Movers and shakers like Steve Jobs and Barack Obama. All favored walks and hikes to meet, think, and put dents in our universe.
Read Rebecca Solnit’s history of how walking changed our world.
The Science
The mind extends beyond our brains. Our bodies help us think—a concept born out across decades of research. Dementia patients benefit more from physical exercise than mental exercise. Math and science students score lower when they sit still, higher when they learn on the move. And radiologists who examine x-rays while walking spot 99% of irregularities—a 14 point-bump over sitting radiologists.
Read science-writer Annie Murphy Paul’s book on the link between our minds, our bodies, and our surroundings.
Additional Reading
Stanford Study Finds Walking Improves Creativity (Stanford.edu)
How to Do Walking Meetings Right (Harvard Business Review)
Forget Standing Meetings, Try This Instead (BBC)
Walking Meetings Have Health and Creativity Benefits (HR Morning)
Thoreau on the Art of Walking (The Marginalian)
Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity (The Marginalian)
On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking: From Charles Darwin to Toni Morrison, Jeremy DeSilva Looks at Our Need to Move (Lit Hub)
“There is something about walking which stimulates and enlivens my thoughts.
When I stay in one place, I can hardly think at all…
The sight of the countryside, the succession of pleasant views, the open air, the good appetite, and the good health I get by walking…
the absence of everything that makes me feel my dependence, of everything that recalls me to my situation —
all these serve to free my spirit, to lend a greater boldness to my thinking…”
— Jean Jacques Rousseau