Slalom: 6 River Classes About How To Confront Obstacles, Advance Amid Uncertainty, & Bring Focus To What Matters Most

by Joe Jacobi

Our movements wellness, work, and relationships modeled through a journey down the river reveal our downstream path in life. As this happens, critical questions come to our
How can we align with strong forces of uncertainty?How can we move on our river with more agility and optionality?As large rocks appear, how can we intentionally confront our obstacles?
In a rapidly-developing and noisy world, the value of flow and simplicity cannot be underestimated. These powerful performance states foster agility, alignment, and awareness that not only help the best paddlers in the world to improve responsiveness and choices on the river but can help all of us improve our responsiveness and choices in navigating the river of life.

Slalom creates a clear model that opens a path through the chaos.

Through his "6 River Classes," Joe Jacobi shares his reflections, strategies, and experiences from more than 40 years on the river - including his Olympic Gold Medal-winning performance - to create a clear model that opens your path through the chaos.

Slalom not only helps improve our disposition and skills to navigate uncertainty but to better interpret the voice of uncertainty - so we can better work with its character, signals, and messages.

Here, we do more than just pass through the boulder-strewn rapids of our river journey...

Here, we find the flow and simplicity to slalom through life.

Praise for Slalom
"If you’re ready to think beyond mere survival to gracefully navigating your challenges and transitions, Joe gives a master class on using flow and simplicity to build the life you crave."
-Rochelle Moulton, Author of The Authority How to Position, Monetize and Sell Your Expertise

"In his must read, Slalom , Joe Jacobi deftly lays out a beautiful blueprint on how to overcome obstacles, keep forward momentum when confronted by uncertainty all in order to focus on the things that matter the most to you. Joe draws and dispenses his knowledge from his gold medal days as an Olympian and from his vast experience in the business world. This is a field guide that you will refer back to often."
-Scott MacGregor, Founder & CEO of SomethingNew LLC, Founder of the Talent Champions Council, 5x Author of the Standing O! series

I love Joe's use of the river as a metaphor for life.
You can either curl up into a ball and get thrown against the rocks at random, or you keep your head up and navigate the obstacles in front of you like a champ.
If you’re sick of getting dragged along the bottom, check out Slalom by Joe Jacobi.- Jonathan Stark, author of Hourly Billing Is Nuts

Joe is a master at translating lessons on the water into guiding leadership principles. I’ve experienced his leadership in high-pressure adventure situations, and I’ve benefited from his writing as I’ve navigated high-pressure business decisions in a high-growth organization.
-Davis Smith, Founder and CEO of Cotopaxi

107 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 21, 2022

About the author

Joe Jacobi is an Olympic Gold Medalist and Performance Coach who collaborates with leaders & teams by getting them outside the day-to-day rush of life and bringing focus to what truly matters most.

His strategies and concepts help clients, including sales, technology and banking executives, doctors, and military leaders, to perform their best without compromising their lives.

Joe’s philosophy and values are shaped by more than four decades of paddling experiences - some highlights include:

- A 19-year career as an elite athlete with USA Canoe/Kayak that included 10 National Championship titles, two Olympic Games appearances and an Olympic Gold Medal
- Five years as the Chief Executive Officer for the national governing body for competitive paddlesports under the umbrella of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee
- Joining NBC Olympics as its Canoe/Kayak Color Commentator at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China
- An adventurous sea kayak expedition starting from Havana, Cuba and finishing 34 hours later in Key West, Florida
- Paddling in rivers in more than 20 different countries

After writing a popular weekly blog for seven years, "Slalom: 6 River Classes About How To Confront Obstacles, Advance Amid Uncertainty, & Bring Focus To What Matters Most" is Joe's first book.