A 12-month leadership journey combining Leading Teams’ Personal Trademark Program with an 18-day mountain biking expedition through Upper Mustang, Nepal.
The journey to extraordinary leadership requires more than just training —it demands a profound shift in perspective.
Forget the boardroom. We’re taking leadership to the limit.
High-performing teams are built on trust and accountability — but those qualities can’t be taught in theory. They have to be lived.
On this expedition, you’ll do just that. Each day combines immersive physical challenge with reflective leadership work. Between rides and climbs, you’ll take part in facilitated Leading Teams sessions designed to deepen self-awareness, strengthen relationships, and apply the High Performing Teams model in real time.
| When | Milestone | What Happens |
|---|---|---|
| 12 months out | You commit | Secure your place on the expedition. Your journey officially begins — trip preparation, training guidance and a community of fellow adventurers. |
| 9 months out | Personal Trademark Program opens | Receive full access to Leading Teams' Personal Trademark Program — a self-paced leadership course and workbook that guides you through deep, structured self-discovery. |
| 9 months – departure | Four facilitated sessions | Meet four times (one hour each) with Leading Teams facilitators to work through the Personal Trademark process together — sharing insights, testing your thinking and refining your trademark alongside the group. |
| Days 1–18 | The expedition | Eighteen days mountain biking through Upper Mustang, Nepal, with Leading Teams facilitators embedded in the group — guiding journaling, reflection and leadership lessons on the trail. |
| Home | Living your trademark | Return with a clearly defined Personal Trademark, a set of goals and affirmations, and the lived experience of being tested — ready to lead differently at work, at home and in life. |
Nine months before departure, you’ll be given access to Leading Teams’ Personal Trademark Program — the same process Leading Teams has used to develop leaders in elite sport and business.
Your Personal Trademark is four words that capture who you are as a leader: three that represent your strengths, and one that names the gap standing between you and the leader you want to become. Arriving at those four words is the work — and it’s confronting, clarifying and deeply personal.
Through the self-paced course and workbook, you will:
Map the defining moments of your life and uncover how they shaped your leadership style.
Examine where you’re investing your energy across work, relationships and life.
Audit your internal dialogue and surface the beliefs that quietly limit you.
Seek honest feedback from the people who know you best and see you clearly.
Define your Personal Trademark, and set affirmations and goals to close the gap.
You won’t do this alone
In the months leading into Nepal, your expedition group meets four times with Leading Teams facilitators. These sessions guide you through the Personal Trademark process, create accountability and begin building the trust your team will rely on in the mountains.
Ready to discover how you lead when the environment changes everything?
Join the journey where leadership isn’t just taught—it’s earned, leaving a legacy of high performance that lasts long after you leave Nepal.
Build/test your leadership philosophy and personal trademark in a challenging team-based environment.
Further explore and apply Leading Teams leadership models in real time, whilst challenging yourself, both physically and mentally.
Daily reviews, personal reflection and journaling
Building strong relationships with other senior leaders
Sharing leadership challenges and providing support for other leaders
Consolidating your personal trademark and leadership philosophy.
18 days where your trademark gets tested
Upper Mustang is a former forbidden kingdom on the Tibetan plateau — a landscape of wind-carved cliffs, ancient walled villages and high mountain passes. For 18 days, you’ll ride through it with a team of fellow leaders, supported end-to-end by ENFP’s directly managed crew and expedition-grade health and safety standards.
Leading Teams facilitators travel with you. Every day on the trail becomes leadership material:
Facilitated journaling that captures what the mountains are teaching you, while it’s raw.
Guided group reflections at day’s end — how you showed up, how you responded under fatigue and pressure, and what your team saw in you.
Short, sharp lessons delivered on the trail, when the terrain has just made the point for us.
Fly Australia to Kathmandu
Fly from Kathmandu to Pokhara – Pokhara Free Day – Staying at Raniban Arcade
Hire paddle boats and explore the lake. Visit Peace Stupa and Hindu Temple on the Island. Option: Tandem Paragliding from Sarankot.
Fly 20 min from Pokhara (820m) to Jomsom (2743m). – Ride from Jomsom to Kagbeni (2804m) – 10.2km Riding – 229m Altitude Gain – 133m Altitude Loss
Ride from Kagbeni (2804m) to Samar (3660m). – Ideal single track riding. – 26.6km Riding – 1358m Altitude Gain – 595 Altitude Loss
Ride from Samar (3660m) to Ghami (3601m) – Ideal single track riding – 30km Riding – 1050m Altitude Gain – 1050m Altitude Loss
Ride from Ghami (3601m) to Lo Manthang (3804m) – Via Ghar Gumba – 26km Riding – 1010m Altitude Gain – 758m Altitude Loss
Rest day in Lo Manthang – Optional: Border Visit and Cave Expeditions
Ride from Lo Manthang (3804m) to Yara (3607m) – Uphill, 197m total climb – 15km Riding – 556m Altitude Gain – 777m Altitude Loss
Ride from Yara (3607m) to Tange (3250m) – Downhill riding – 357m descent – 15km Riding – 538m Altitude Gain – 791m Altitude Loss
Ride from Tange (3250m) to Chhusang (2980m) – Another descending day, 270m – 23km Riding – 1014m Altitude Gain – 1402m Altitude Loss
Take a Jeep from Chhusang to Muktinath – Enjoy lunch then ride from Muktinath to Phedi (4190m) – 4km Riding – 509m Altitude Gain – 11m Altitude Loss
Ride from Phedi to Muktinath – Hike the La Thorong Pass from Muktinath back to Jomsom – 1447m Descent – 32.7km Riding – 1583m Altitude Gain – 2955m Altitude Loss
Take helicopter from Jomsom (2743m) to Lake Tilicho (4919m) – Ride from Lake Tilicho (4919m) to Manang (3919m) – 23km Riding – 404m Altitude Gain – 1785m Altitude Loss
Ride from Manang (3919m) to Jagat (1300m) – Enjoy the Hot Springs in Chame – 61km Riding – 1138m Altitude Gain – 2276m Altitude Loss
Ride from Jagat (1300m) to Bessisahar (760m) – Jeep from Bessisahar (760m) to Pokhara (820m) – 27km Riding – 557m Altitude Gain – 1081m Altitude Loss
Fly from Pokhara to Kathmandu Enjoy final dinner with the team
Fly home from Kathmandu to Australia
You’ve seen what the journey looks like. Now it’s your turn to step into it.
To preserve the depth of experience and intimacy of discussion, only 15 places are available.
Each participant will gain unprecedented access to Leading Teams facilitators throughout the journey — in structured sessions, spontaneous trail conversations, and powerful group reflections that shape lasting change.
Experience Not Felt Possible
Matt is the founder and co-owner of The Custodian Way, a group of businesses (including ENFP) that focus on maximising human potential. Matt is a qualified physiotherapist and chiropractor, and he has been facilitating mountain biking tours in Nepal for the past 10 years.
Leading Teams
I began my relationship with the Leading Teams while in senior management at the Gordon Institute of TAFE in Geelong. I saw firsthand the benefits of the program in my teams and across the organisation. The Gordon became the most successful TAFE commercially in Australia. I began full time employment with Leading Teams in 2012 and I am now a Director of the business.
Leading Teams
Justin joined Leading Teams in 1996 as an athlete facilitator when he was a footballer at St Kilda Football Club. He retired in 2006 following a career that spanned 17 years and 252 games with the Saints. I would like to be described as someone who is engaged, interested, a hard worker, available, a role model, wise, funny, a trusted and valued business partner.
A clearly defined Personal Trademark — the four words you lead by, tested in the toughest classroom imaginable
A named growth gap, with affirmations and specific, measurable goals to close it
Honest feedback from people who watched you lead under real pressure
A tribe of leaders who shared the journey with you — the kind of bonds only 18 days on the trail can build
A page in your book of life you’ll return to for the rest of it
Cost per person: $15,000 + GST
Mustang Valley, Nepal
18 days, from 27 October to 13 November, 2027
Open to any leader without a serious medical illness who is willing to push their personal limits and transform potential into high performance.
To preserve the depth of experience and intimacy of discussion, only 15 places are available.
This isn’t just another trip. It’s a chance to transform, connect, and push beyond what you thought was possible.
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No. Upper Mustang is remote — transporting spare batteries is a genuine headache, charging is unreliable, and if a motor fails halfway up the valley, there’s no fixing it. Plus, we kinda think it’s better old school.
No. The main thing is that you arrive fit — we’ll help you with training guidance from the moment you commit. Some basic bike skill is needed, but you’ll always ride within your own limits, and there’s no prize for being first down a hill. You can walk any section that’s beyond you.
Honest answer: some days are big. Riding days range from 10 km to 60+ km at altitudes between 2,700 m and 4,900 m, with rest days built in and vehicle support on certain sections. You set your own pace. Ask any past rider about the rocky descent into Chhusang — it still gets talked about in the group chat years later. That’s rather the point.
There are inherent risks in mountain biking and in travelling through remote areas — we won’t pretend otherwise. What we can tell you is that we take safety extremely seriously: Australian-trained guides, established safety systems, communications with built-in redundancies, and we carry a defibrillator. Our crew is directly managed by ENFP, not subcontracted. You can read about our approach to safety here.
Yes — bikes and riding gear aren’t included in the trip cost. We handle the logistics once you’re there: bike transport from Pokhara to Jomsom, porters for your luggage, and your bike box stored and returned to Pokhara for the trip home. Not sure if your bike is up to it? Ask us — we’ve seen what survives Mustang and what doesn’t.
All 17 nights are included: comfortable hotels in Kathmandu and Pokhara, and traditional tea houses through the mountains. Tea houses are simple — think shared rooms and the occasional drop toilet. Fair warning from a past guest: months after getting home, she admitted she missed the drop toilets. Nobody misses the boardroom.
The trip ends. The group doesn’t. Past expedition groups are still in daily contact years later — training for events together, turning up to support each other’s races, reuniting at our documentary screenings, and coming back for the next adventure. You’ll come home with your Personal Trademark and a tribe of leaders who watched you earn it.
ENFP expeditions are typically captured by our film crew and premiered at a documentary screening back home — past films include For the Last Time and Get Out of Your Way. It’s a chance to relive the journey with your team, and for the people in your life to understand what you actually did out there. Whether you appear on camera is always your choice.
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