Leaders' Challenge: Forest Edition
🛑 You Can’t Solve a 10x Problem From the Same Chair That You Use to Answer Emails!
When you run a business, you get stuck in a loop. Your days start repeating and mirroring each other.
You look at the same laptop, in the same chairs, look at the same dashboards, and talk in the same office room.
Even when you take a holiday, every holiday feels the same with just changed locations in different hotels/ resorts.
This loop quietly stops your creative problem solving.
Why? Because you are still trying to think "outside the box" while sitting inside a box. If your environment stays identical, your thinking stays identical.
Your next big business breakthrough is not going to happen inside a box (your office, home or hotel room)!
Staring at laptops and phones constantly forces your eyes into a tight, close-up view. Biologically, this narrow focus keeps your brain in a low-grade, hyper-stressed state.
You end up spending your premium energy managing small, everyday fires.
It’s time to stop looking at 13-inch problems. It’s time for a 13-kilometer view.
Qutub Minar visible from Sanjay Van - Sunset hill, Delhi.
Hence, we invite you to an exclusive:
Founders' Circle of 'The Leaders' Challenge'
- a physical real-world reset!
It is an experiential Navigation event where you and a small group of leaders/ founders will head out into a Sanjay Van - a city forest with a physical map.
No GPS, and no mobile phones allowed. You will have to find your find your path in real, unscripted environment, using pure strategy, teamwork, and logic.
If you are currently sitting on a important business decision, this is the space where you will finally find your answer.
This is a rare, distraction-free space to think clearly and differently.
🎯 Who Is It For?
To maintain the high-level caliber of the Founders’ Circle, this experience is strictly for established decision-makers:
Business Owners & Founders making tough, high-stakes business decisions.
Startup Founders leading established teams of 50+ employees.
Senior Corporate Leaders & Executives managing critical business verticals.
Investors & Portfolio Managers overseeing multiple companies.
Professionals (CAs, Lawyers, Doctors & others) doing very specialized and complex nature of work.
Event Details
🗓 Date: Friday, July 3, 2026
⏰ Start Time: 5:00 pm (Reach by 4:45 pm)
⏰ End Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Sanjay Van, Delhi
Original Investment: Rs. 2000 .... Waived for this time
Actual Investment: Complimentary... for the 15 Leaders in the Founding Circle.
Why in Forest?
Chaos Free: When you step away from office screens and city noise, your mind finally relaxes. Free from Whatsapp notifications and email pings, your brain resets. This is exactly when deep creativity and genuine problem-solving kick in.
To Calculate Risks in Real Time: In the wild, the terrain changes with every step. It forces you to adapt instantly. This perfectly mirrors how you witness sudden market shifts, competitor moves, or sudden team challenges back at work.
To Reclaim Your Long-Range Vision: Looking at a laptop all day triggers stress. Looking far out into the distance signals safety and clarity to your brain. We shift your view from 13 inch laptop to 13 acre greenery to completely open up your mind.
FAQs:
It is too hot and humid!
Do you stop running your daily business tasks when things get heated up and saturation is reached on the office floor?
If not, then you have your answer...
Its Raining!
This experience has been designed to take place in Rains, which present a real business scenario of unexpected bad days.
If your business doesn't stop on rainy days, your problem solving shouldn't either.
It will be slippery and dangerous!
If you are wearing good hiking/ sports shoes, you are quite protected.
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About Nimesh Sharma
Nimesh Sharma is a Sportsperson, Author, Consultant, Marketeer, Founder of Good Guys - an Outdoor Engagement Expert.
A grad from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (Delhi University), he has worked in corporates for 13 years, in startups, in MNCs as Marketing & Communications expert across multiple industries and as a journalist. He is ex - Microsoft and Ex - United Nations.
In last 10 years in personal life, Nimesh has been a Half Marathon runner, Swimmer, Cyclist, Trekker, Rock Climber, Sea Surfer, Kayaker, and avid Bird Watcher and Forest Observer, learning immensely from each of these.
He is a certified Teacher of Swimming & Water Safety from “AUSTSWIM” (Australia), and has undergone Military Survival Training.
After learning immensely from the world's oldest coach - Nature - the real world, and having undergone immense mental & physical transformation and learning crucial life skills, he decided to share that transformation with a lot of other people.
In that direction, in the last five years, he has impacted the lives of over 20,000 people who participated in his professional running and cycling events, across India.
He creates high-impact experiences via unconventional activities in nature, sports, and adventure, for business leaders ditching boring corporate workshops and predictable setups.
Instead, he designs real-world challenges which simulate the unpreditable business challenges.
He helps leaders build real peer trust, uncover hidden team strengths, and gain sharp business clarity.
He is also Author of the book - "Employee Engagement Playbook".
Overtime, he has served organisations such as following as his clients for sports / adventure events.
The Body Shop
Skoda
Redbull
HCL
Nike
Metlife
Birla Group
Ctrl S Datacenters
Assam Rifles
Delhi Government
Gujarat Tourism
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His best achievement till date is that,
His 6 YO daughter tells everyone:
“My dad is my swimming coach”.
About Ankur Malani - The Instructor
Ankur Malani is an experienced outdoor leader, backpacking instructor, and rock climber based in Delhi. He uses real-world environments to help corporate teams and business owners break out of their everyday routines.
Ankur believes that true strategic breakthroughs cannot happen when leaders remain trapped inside the comfort of their office spaces. He specializes in designing challenging navigation and path-finding sessions that build deep group trust and sharp, first-principles logic.
Achievements & Certifications:
70+ High-Altitude Expeditions: Successfully led over 70 teams through demanding Himalayan terrains since 2021.
Corporate Learning Facilitator: Designed and guided experiential programs to test group dynamics and decision-making under pressure.
Mountaineering Qualification: Completed his formal mountaineering training with a top 'A' Grade from the National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (NIMAS), Arunachal Pradesh.
Wilderness Advanced First Aid (WAFA): Certified in safety and emergency medical response by the Hanifl Centre, Dehradun.
Ice Climbing Training: Completed specialized advanced training in Keylong and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh.
Regional Hikes: Regularly organizes strategic route-finding and tracking sessions in the Aravalis and the Delhi NCR region.