Words with the environmental explorer [Management intereview]

As an explorer he´s walked from pole to pole. As an environmental engineer he´s worked on sustainability projects the world over. As a motivational speaker he sets new goals for management and gives the odd talk about cannibalism. E&F hears Tim Jarvis´s story. Jarvis was for some time best-known for his Antarctic expedition a decade ago. This propelled him into the record books with the fastest journey to the Geographic South Pole and the longest unsupported Antarctica journey in history. He is the author of The Unforgiving Minute´, a book that recounts his expeditions to the North and South Poles as well as the crossing of several Australian deserts. More recently, he recreated the Antarctic journey of Douglas Mawson, the subject of a TV documentary and a best-selling book entitled ´Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica´. He is currently serving under Yale´s World Fellows Program for 2009, which aims to broaden and strengthen the management skills of emerging leaders as they work on progressing thinking on global issues and challenges. Jarvis has co-written a course for the Open University on environmental management. The course will be linked in with the BBC´s ´Frozen Planet´ series due to be broadcast in 2011. If that weren´t enough, his immediate plans include the recreation of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton´s ´Boy´s Own´ voyage of heroism from Elephant Island to South Georgia in a replica of the original open whaler, the James Caird.