Highly Effective Leadership Immersion (HELI) combines experiences like world-class helicopter skiing with high-quality experiential leadership training for loyalty programs and high-value clients. It replaces traditional, classroom-based corporate education with immersive learning in real, high-consequence environments where trust, decision-making, and team performance are visible and testable.
HELI can be delivered through helicopter skiing or other outdoor environments chosen by the client.

No two teams—and no two challenges—are the same. HELI programs are fully customizable, allowing us to tailor content, structure, and delivery to the specific interpersonal, operational, and leadership realities of your organization.
Our experienced coaching team works closely with participants to surface real-world tensions, workflow breakdowns, and communication challenges, and to address them in a way that is practical, respectful, and immediately applicable. We thrive in complex environments where trust is strained, stakes are high, and teams need clarity, alignment, and forward momentum.
Whether refining existing workflows, navigating interpersonal conflict, or strengthening team performance under pressure, we partner with teams to co-design solutions that are credible, durable, and grounded in how high-functioning teams actually operate.
The Universal Language of Collaborative Problem Solving teaches participants how to build and sustain high-functioning teams that communicate clearly, align quickly, and execute effectively under pressure. Drawing on lessons from surgery, team-based care, and mountain leadership, this curriculum provides practical tools for solving complex problems together with confidence and precision.
This module teaches clinicians how to apply the four domains of trust to high-stakes clinical environments, enhancing team performance during critical moments. Participants learn communication and collaboration strategies that preserve psychological safety, repair trust when it fractures, and strengthen interdisciplinary alignment across their network. Through guided reflection and practical micro-leadership tools, the module equips professionals to reinforce credibility, reduce error, and improve patient outcomes.
The Integrative Approach to Conflict Resolution module equips clinicians with practical tools to recognize, de-escalate, and resolve conflict in high-pressure clinical environments. Participants learn structured frameworks for shifting from positional standoffs to collaborative problem solving, even when facing entrenched perspectives or emotionally charged situations. By applying these strategies across teams and disciplines, clinicians enhance communication, preserve psychological safety, and improve decision-making and patient care.
The Effective Meetings Framework module teaches leaders how to structure discussions that maximize psychological safety, focus, and decision quality. Participants learn to recognize and prevent “ambush meetings” while applying a clear, repeatable architecture that drives efficient, accountable outcomes. Drawing on principles from surgical team performance and ski guiding, this module equips teams with practical tools to run meetings that are purposeful, collaborative, and consistently productive.
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Dr. Julian Sernik is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon, physician-leader, TEDx speaker, and certified ski guide whose work focuses on how teams perform under pressure—and how trust, communication, and workflow determine outcomes in high-consequence environments.
Clinically, Dr. Sernik specializes in lower-extremity trauma and reconstruction, joint replacement, and complex foot and ankle conditions. He completed a Trauma and Lower Extremity Reconstruction Fellowship at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (University of Toronto) and is recognized for minimally invasive surgical techniques, early mobilization strategies, and interdisciplinary approaches to complex care. He currently practices in British Columbia and serves as a Clinical Instructor in the UBC Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Sernik has pursued extensive formal training in leadership and systems improvement, including the UBC Sauder Physician Leadership Program, the Navig8 Emerging Physician Leadership Program, and the Interior Health Physician Quality Improvement Program. He serves as Expert Clinical Faculty for the Consultant Specialist Team Care Collaborative (Doctors of BC), where he mentors specialists and leadership teams in trust-building, conflict resolution, and the practical implementation of team-based care. He has also held provincial and national leadership roles with the Canadian Orthopaedic Association and has led multiple funded quality-improvement initiatives focused on workflow, access, and patient safety.
Beyond healthcare, Dr. Sernik brings decades of experience operating in austere, high-risk environments. He is a certified ski guide with the Canadian Ski Guide Association, former professional ski patroller, mountain medical director, and avalanche operations trainee, with extensive experience in remote mountain terrain. In the summer months, he explores backcountry environments on horseback, integrating navigation, horsemanship, and risk management in remote settings. These experiences strongly inform HELI’s emphasis on situational awareness, disciplined decision-making, and performance under uncertainty.
Through HELI (Highly Effective Leadership Immersion), Dr. Sernik works with medical, corporate, and executive teams to translate the universal principles of high-functioning teams—clarity of purpose, psychological safety, aligned decision-making, and continuous improvement—into practical, real-world performance.
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