We have a lot to learn from animals – just ask Kelly Wendorf, whose life’s work shows us what we can learn from horses about leadership. Kelly sat down with us for a chat about her work with horses, her journey to coaching and her upcoming book, Flying Lead Change (out October 2020).
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Flying Lead Change
56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living
This powerfully moving and instructional field guide for being human, published by Sounds True, is available from all major online booksellers. Flying Lead Change positions EQUUS as a leader in the field of transformational change in the personal and organizational sectors
Available now
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START YOUR JOURNEY
Be the first to know about upcoming courses, programs, retreats and special offerings. Enter your name and email and receive FREE downloads: Book Excerpt and “22 Practices That Will Transform Your Life.”
Benefits
A portion of this book’s proceeds will go to Tewa Women United. Tewa Women United is a socially inclusive, indigenous-women founded and operated non-profit: “Nurturing and celebrating the collective power of beloved families, communities, and Nung Ochuu Quiyo (Earth Mother).”
For leaders at work, at home, and in our communities—an essential guide to nature-based leadership inspired by the wisdom of indigenous teachings and horses. Is there a common element to the challenges and crises of our modern age? If so, it must be disconnection—from each other, our planet, and the sense that our lives have purpose and meaning. Where can we turn for answers? In Flying Lead Change, leadership teacher Kelly Wendorf offers a new approach to leading and living inspired by two profound sources of ancient wisdom: original peoples and Equus (the horse), grounded in evidence-based principles of neuroscience. In her groundbreaking EQUUS training program, Wendorf teaches a way of leadership modeled on a 56 million-year-old system of the horse herd––a path that has allowed humans and horses alike to survive the kinds of global and societal threats we now face, such as climate change and mass extinction. In horsemanship, a “flying lead change” allows a running horse to respond with breathtaking grace to changing conditions. “Collectively, we need a similar physics-defying maneuver,” Wendorf writes. “This book is for the called—thought leaders, visionaries, parents, creatives, and all those who sense we are being asked to participate in humanity’s ‘flying change’ through the way we live, love, and lead.”
“With compelling stories and deep insight into the shared nature of horses and humans, this beautifully-written book teaches us how to change stride in mid-gallop as individuals with each other, and as a species with the Earth. Soulful, practical, scientific, and spiritual—what a profound book!”
“Kelly Wendorf offers an equine-inspired way of knowing and being in the world. A wise, wise work—about listening, leading, loving.”
“As an assault team leader and officer in the Navy SEAL teams, I had constant access to world-class modern training and technology. But it was the ancient lessons—those of Spartans, Samurai, and stoic philosophers—that guided my leadership journey to success on and off the battlefield. Flying Lead Change is no ordinary leadership book; it is an ancient lessons manual for how to lead and live well in any century.”
“A book the horses want us to have so that we can remember our horse body and how to be in the world, our lives, our relationships, our families, and in our organizations. Let this wisdom gallop through your heart. I want to put it under my pillow and absorb it all by osmosis and dreamtime night after night.”
“Not only was this a page turner, but a tearjerker. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself on a spiritual journey. I was left with the recognition that I had received something profound, a message that I had not heard before.”
“Flying Lead Change is a nimble exploration of human potential. It is a manual, a user guide to being human, ultimately lifting up infinite possibilities for connection between nature and the human heart.”
Flying Lead Change exudes the fragrance of horses, earth, love, hope, humanity and wisdom. It is an artfully woven tome of spiritual wisdom teachings, conveyed through accessible stories and anecdotes, which is to put down. Going far beyond the standard self-help fare, Wendorf guides the reader on a profoundly enriching voyage of spiritual and emotional awakening. Be forewarned: the book you are holding has the power to change you and to change the world.
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We have a lot to learn from animals – just ask Kelly Wendorf, whose life’s work shows us what we can learn from horses about leadership. Kelly sat down with us for a chat about her work with horses, her journey to coaching and her upcoming book, Flying Lead Change (out October 2020).

Flying Lead Change
56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living
This powerfully moving and instructional field guide for being human, published by Sounds True, is available from all major online booksellers. Flying Lead Change positions EQUUS as a leader in the field of transformational change in the personal and organizational sectors
Available now
Click your favorite book seller below.
START YOUR JOURNEY
Be the first to know about upcoming courses, programs, retreats and special offerings. Enter your name and email and receive FREE downloads: Book Excerpt and “22 Practices That Will Transform Your Life.”
Benefits
A portion of this book’s proceeds will go to Tewa Women United. Tewa Women United is a socially inclusive, indigenous-women founded and operated non-profit: “Nurturing and celebrating the collective power of beloved families, communities, and Nung Ochuu Quiyo (Earth Mother).”
For leaders at work, at home, and in our communities—an essential guide to nature-based leadership inspired by the wisdom of indigenous teachings and horses. Is there a common element to the challenges and crises of our modern age? If so, it must be disconnection—from each other, our planet, and the sense that our lives have purpose and meaning. Where can we turn for answers? In Flying Lead Change, leadership teacher Kelly Wendorf offers a new approach to leading and living inspired by two profound sources of ancient wisdom: original peoples and Equus (the horse), grounded in evidence-based principles of neuroscience. In her groundbreaking EQUUS training program, Wendorf teaches a way of leadership modeled on a 56 million-year-old system of the horse herd––a path that has allowed humans and horses alike to survive the kinds of global and societal threats we now face, such as climate change and mass extinction. In horsemanship, a “flying lead change” allows a running horse to respond with breathtaking grace to changing conditions. “Collectively, we need a similar physics-defying maneuver,” Wendorf writes. “This book is for the called—thought leaders, visionaries, parents, creatives, and all those who sense we are being asked to participate in humanity’s ‘flying change’ through the way we live, love, and lead.”
“With compelling stories and deep insight into the shared nature of horses and humans, this beautifully-written book teaches us how to change stride in mid-gallop as individuals with each other, and as a species with the Earth. Soulful, practical, scientific, and spiritual—what a profound book!”
“Kelly Wendorf offers an equine-inspired way of knowing and being in the world. A wise, wise work—about listening, leading, loving.”
“As an assault team leader and officer in the Navy SEAL teams, I had constant access to world-class modern training and technology. But it was the ancient lessons—those of Spartans, Samurai, and stoic philosophers—that guided my leadership journey to success on and off the battlefield. Flying Lead Change is no ordinary leadership book; it is an ancient lessons manual for how to lead and live well in any century.”
“A book the horses want us to have so that we can remember our horse body and how to be in the world, our lives, our relationships, our families, and in our organizations. Let this wisdom gallop through your heart. I want to put it under my pillow and absorb it all by osmosis and dreamtime night after night.”
“Not only was this a page turner, but a tearjerker. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself on a spiritual journey. I was left with the recognition that I had received something profound, a message that I had not heard before.”
“Flying Lead Change is a nimble exploration of human potential. It is a manual, a user guide to being human, ultimately lifting up infinite possibilities for connection between nature and the human heart.”
Flying Lead Change exudes the fragrance of horses, earth, love, hope, humanity and wisdom. It is an artfully woven tome of spiritual wisdom teachings, conveyed through accessible stories and anecdotes, which is to put down. Going far beyond the standard self-help fare, Wendorf guides the reader on a profoundly enriching voyage of spiritual and emotional awakening. Be forewarned: the book you are holding has the power to change you and to change the world.
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