Good leadership in high-consequence environments follows the same principles whether your team is paid or volunteer: clear roles, strong
relationships, deliberate practice, and honest feedback. Volunteer SAR adds unique challenges—you can't mandate attendance, accountability
looks different, and people's identity is deeply tied to the work—but the core framework still applies. This interactive session offers practical tools for preventing and resolving conflict in volunteer SAR, both within your team and across the agencies you work alongside, drawn from 30 years of
leading teams in environments ranging from backcountry rescue to undersea research to lunar mission design. Bring your hard cases; we'll work through them together.