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Denise Mitten, PhD, internationally recognized for her innovative scholarship in outdoor and environmental pedagogy, ethics, and gender has advocated and written about caring and compassionate leadership since 1985. A widely experienced adventure guide, from SCUBA to mountaineering, Professor Mitten authored Natural landscapes and human health, and co-edited Experiential education theory and practice and The Palgrave MacMillan international handbook of women and outdoor learning. She has developed programs to strengthen bonding between parents and children, a leadership program for women felons, and an award-winning leadership training and apprenticing program for women, opening the door to outdoor leadership to many women.