Derek Loudermilk is the creator of AdventureQuest Travel, which combine transformative adventure travel and personal development coaching. He is the host of the Art of Adventure podcast, one of the top rated travel and entrepreneurship podcasts. many of his guests run transformative experiences such as festivals, conferences, and retreats. Interview and case studies from the podcast will be featured in the book.
In 2017 and 2018, Derek wrote a popular column for the Good Men Project about Fatherhood and Travel, which serves as a mission statement for his work in Adventure questing and helping his clients achieve transformational experiences.
Derek Loudermilk is the author of Superconductors: Revolutionize Your Career and Make Big Things Happen, which was long listed for the 2018 UK Best Business Book awards. Experience: The Revolution is the next book after Superconductors (2018). Superconductors was about acquiring the skills that would make a person valuable in an unknowable future. Experience: The Revolution is about how leaders can integrate these transformational experience into their lives.
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How Transformational Experiences are Shaping Leadership and Culture
Experience: The Revolution looks at how transformational experiences like travel and festivals are shaping the next generation of leaders.
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Experience: The Revolution looks at how transformational experiences such as travel and festivals are shaping the next generation of leaders and may be the key to solving humanity's greatest challenges.
World traveler and adventure podcaster Derek Loudermilk argues that embracing unconventional means of leadership development, curiosity and a bit of weirdness are the best means to get out of our comfort zones. Derek highlights certain leadership traits, values, big visions, and personal characteristics that directly result from seeking and achieving transformational experiences.
Luckily, the timing is perfect. Now more than ever, people are seeking experiences rather than material possessions. They already understand that fulfillment lies on the other side of experiences. This book will use the lens of the mythological "Hero's Journey" to understand how transformational experiences build leaders.
The time for this book is NOW. Our next wave of leaders must think and be different than leaders of the last 200 years. The global social and economic systems of the industrial age have left us with a slew of unintended problems: Anxiety, depression, disengagement, for workers. Pollution, global warming, ecological collapse make our planet fragile. Famine, human migration, disease threaten billions.
If we are to solve these problems, we must solve them in entirely new ways, and it will take our leaders BECOMING a new type of leader. We hear stories about someone who went into the jungle confused and then came out and started a billion dollar company.
Derek draws on hundreds of interviews from the Art of Adventure with leaders like Emily Utter, Tyler Gage, Antesa Jensen, Chase Boeringer, Estela Kun, Johan Ernst Nilson, Dave and Amy Freeman, Colin O'Brady, Sean Conway, and many more. He will distill the lessons from these people and their experiences, so you can use them in your own life as a leader.
He takes you to some of the most dramatic transformational festivals and events from around the world: Burning Man, Bali Spirit Fest, Tony Robbin's Unleash the Power Within, Yestival, and Freedom X Fest. I'll show you how these experiences are created, curated, and delivered for maximum effect.
This book will be your guide to become the leader that you need to become, and understanding how these experiences are shaping our future. If you are starting your hero's journey, this book will help guide you to what types of experiences might be the best for you.
This is also a call to those who have been on a long journey of transformational experiences to step out of the wilderness and come back with your knowledge and start being a leader.
This book is for people who see things a little differently (they probably always have). They are already or want to be in a position of leadership. They have had an experience that’s created a "positive, awakened” vision for the future that they want to see manifested, but they don’t know how to take the energy from the experience and create change in themselves, their organizations, communities, or the world.
Derek Loudermilk practices curating transformational experience for his clients on AdventureQuest trips. He has been traveling full time for that last 5 years on a Hero's journey. He’s experienced visiting remote tribespeople, attended events like Bali Spirit Festival and Freedom X Fest, participated in plant medicine journeys with Peruvian shamans, done week-long fasts and vision quests.
His clients list includes young, digitally-savvy entrepreneurs and employees who are looking to expand or acquire the experiential knowledge that will separate them from the rest of their techie-brained cohort. They are adventures and influencers themselves with subscribers, podcasts and exposure to a similar audience. As some of their stories are mentioned in the books they will help this book reach thousands of more hands.
He has already pre-sold 500+ copies in less than 30 days on Publishizer. In the first year, with his partners, channels, speaking and endorsers he will sell at least 5,000 copies.
Derek is committed to this book becoming a global phenomenon. His multi-pillared marketing platform is in place:
The Art of Adventure is one of the top rated Adventure + Business podcasts in the world. Over 200,000 downloads, and about 5,000 per month
We also have 20,000+ engaged followers across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Our email list is around 10,000 subscribers
Derek is a regular public speaker at events and corporations, including about topics from 'Experience the Revolution'. We will do large bulk book orders for organizations.
He will be hosting a virtual summit on this topic as community building and research. We will promote the book to 5-25K expected attendees
Derek has a proven track record as a quality guest on other podcasts and YouTube channels, and has been featured on TV and newspapers around the world.
There will be a video series for YouTube and IGTV documenting Derek's experience researching and attending some of the featured transformational events.
I had great conversations with leading thinkers and theorists about transformative experiences: Nathaniel Boyle - founder of Holocene, Jake Haupert - cofounder of the Transformative Travel Council, and Andres Roberts, Founder of Bio-Leadership, and Antesa Jensen of Adventure Awake
We propose a national book tour (RV trip around the US), traditional radio and newspaper interviews, combined with podcast guest appearances (25-50), and regular social media and email updates to our community.
During the campaign, we were really pleased that so many influencers shared the project with their audiences. Lots of people did live FB posts and videos talking about their own transformational experiences, including: Matt Bailey, Natalie Sisson, Halley Bass, Courtney Loechl, Antesa Jensen, Beth Weinstein, and Andy Austin to name a few.
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