Peaks Diva Extraordinaire

Like preparing for the launch of the space shuttle, every Peak Potentials Training course requires an enormous amount of preparation and hard work by many people to make sure that lift-off runs smoothly, everyone is safe on board, and that the shuttle lands safely on its return.

To oversee even one event requires a person with remarkable multi-tasking skills and the ability to remain calm under the stress of constantly shifting conditions, which are the daily hazards of event planning.

Imagine managing over 200 events a year! We’d like to tell you about the person who was manning control central for Peaks for the past six years: Shelley Wenaus, former Director of Field Operations.

With a degree in Fine Arts and Music Shelley was managing dinner theatres and live events when she went to a course called Life Directions led by T. Harv Eker.

Who ya gonna call?

In 2001, Gail Basilie, current Director to the Office of the President, was running just about everything with a staff of only seven people, when an exuberant Shelley applied for a position following her first exposure to Harv’s teaching. Gail hired her as the new Office Manager on the spot.

To this day, being able to live the Peak principles on a day-to-day basis is what attracts many people to work for the company. Shelley soon became known as someone who was able to embody Harv’s teachings, always calm in the eye of the storm when a crisis happened and able to retain her humor and perspective at all times. “There was the sense that we were doing something for a greater good,” says Shelley. “It was amazing to be able to see people make shifts on a cellular level.”

Last summer at Ultimate Leadership Camp in California, the entire Core Team got the ultimate opportunity to step into even greater leadership roles on a remarkable scale. A brush fire meant that the camp's hotel needed to be evacuated just hours before the camp was to start.

Leaping into Ultimate Leadership mode, Shelley assigned a former policeman the task of directing traffic. She then quickly organized a temporary Core Team headquarters at a local school and sent a small cordon to stand at the off-ramp of the highway and re-direct arriving ULC participants to a nearby shopping center a safe distance away. Answering her cellphone in the heat of the moment, she had to assure the caller, “No! This is not a teaching process…this is for real!”

By 6:00 pm the fire had come within ten feet of touching the camp’s hotel. Many of the participants who arrived later had no idea that the principles of Ultimate Leadership had been embodied all day by Shelley and the Core Team.

Shelley is well-known for throwing herself fully into whatever she does. As a participant at Train the Trainer, she took the assignment of preparing a song in over-the-top Shelley fashion, appearing onstage in nothing more than a flaming red feather boa to the tune of “I’m Coming Out!”

In her own words: “I adore Peaks and the people here. I thank Harv for what we’ve created. I’ve learned to look for the magic in every situation and I know how to handle myself gracefully in any environment—including an energized or stressed one. I look forward to space, magic, time and relationships.”

We will all miss Shelley’s warm smile and her opera-trained voice ringing through the halls.

Thank you Shelley for the years of dedication, service and love you’ve given Peak Potentials Training. We wish you every happiness in your adventures ahead!

The entire team at Peak Potentials