Extreme Leadership Course

Rachael’s Flagship 12 week Leadership Development Program

Accelerate your career. Strengthen your leadership. Build stronger teams.

Whether you’re stepping into a new role, leading a team, or looking to lift how you work with others, this self-paced online program gives you practical tools that make an immediate difference.

Extreme Leadership introduces the core mindsets and behaviours that underpin effective leadership and high-performing teams. Across twelve concise sessions, Rachael shares the ideas she’s known for — delivered in her laid-back, no-nonsense style and grounded in real-world experience.

“I enrolled in the course after seeing Rachael speak and wanted something practical I could actually use. The course delivered exactly that — clear ideas, no fluff, and tools I started using with my team straight away.”

Every concept is easy to understand, fast to implement, and tested in demanding, real-world environments.


Respect Trumps Harmony

Why being liked is overrated and constructive conflict gets results

Do you strive for a harmonious, happy workplace? Then get ready for poor performance!

In Respect Trumps Harmony, Antarctic expedition leader Rachael Robertson shares her truly unique experience, backed by extensive research, to show why the highest performing teams are those that let go of harmony, and focus on respective, diversity of opinions and embrace difficult conversations - all in the service of creating remarkable results.

This practical and engaging book provides evidence-based, proven tools to:

  • create a culture of open and direct communication and foster bias-free diversity and inclusion

  • identify the small issues that are often a symptom of disrespect and end gossip and negativity

 Respect Trumps Harmony will help you to build resilient, adaptable and high-performing teams and maximise the benefits of personal differences.

“This book helped me name things I’d been avoiding in my leadership. Simple ideas, clearly explained, and incredibly useful in real conversations with my team.”


LEADING ON THE EDGE

Extraordinary stories and leadership insights from the most extreme workplace on the planet

Leading on the Edge (SIGNED)
A$29.95

In Leading on the Edge, Rachael  shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica. Leading eighteen strangers around the clock for a full year—through months of darkness and with no escape from the frigid cold, howling winds and each other—Robertson learned powerful lessons about what real, authentic leadership is.

Here, she offers a deeply honest and humorous account of what it takes to survive and lead in the harshest environment on Earth. What emerges from her account is a series of powerful and practical leadership lessons for business leaders and managers everywhere.

“I bought the book after hearing Rachael speak and found myself highlighting pages and sharing ideas with my team. It’s an easy read, but the leadership lessons really stick.”


Or… Get Both BOOKS and save $

BUNDLE! Leading on the Edge and Respect Trumps Harmony
Sale Price: A$54.95 Original Price: A$59.90

I wasn’t able to put it down. Last night, bleary eyed with tiredness, I just wanted to keep reading. I haven’t been to Antarctica but the situations you wrote about- it was like we were walking in the same shoes. I wanted to rejoice “hallelujah! Someone else gets it!”

I have read leadership books in the past. I should confess I have probably overdosed on the things. But your book, your message is different. It is real! You connected with me. You are spot on - at times it can be so lonely as a leader.

Thank you for writing a book that cuts to the heart of real issues we face when walking the leadership road.

Shalom Richmond, General Manager, First Choice Care Pty Ltd

DIY Workshops

Energised by Rachael’s Ideas? Bring it to life in your teams.

Rachael has workshops ready for your team. These self-facilitated workshops can be delivered using your own people and systems. We provide all the elements you need: the slide deck, a 12-15 minute video, the facilitators guide and all handouts.

Workshops are priced at AUD$2,500+GST each, which licenses you to conduct the workshop one time. A $1,000 discount off the total applies when you purchase two or more at the same time.