Leadership development starts with you.
Our creative leadership retreats will help you elevate the leadership potential of your entire team.
Many academic leaders feel overwhelmed when they are expected to nurture other leaders without a clear creative strategy.
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They are not sure where to start… so, they never do…
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Their mission goes unfulfilled.
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The full potential of their team is never realized.
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And their work suffers.
Our cohort-based creative leadership retreats transform leaders into highly creative leaders who then nurture their teams, and confidently guide them toward meaningful innovation.
We help leaders like you:
Adopt powerful creative leadership strategies
Customize your leadership development strategy
Elevate the leadership potential of your entire team
Our Retreats:
Individual Learning | 2 Days
Lead with Greater Imagination
Begin your transformation toward becoming a highly creative leader.
Adopt a personal vision and approach for leading with your imagination.
Customize a leadership development plan for yourself and those you lead.
Team Learning | 1/2 Day
Apply Creative Thinking Strategies at Work
Create a visual map of your team’s design process.
Explore, adopt, and implement primary creative leadership strategies .
Identify ways to apply these strategies immediately into your team’s creative process.
Team Learning | 2 days
Elevate Leadership in your Team or Institution
As a leadership group, explore a framework that will help you implement meaningful leadership development at every level.
Develop strategies to embrace the leadership potential of every member of your team.
Create a plan to nurture your teams, and confidently guide them toward innovation.
We get it. You were never trained for this. When you started as a leader, it is likely that you received little to no leadership training.
We also know how critical good leadership is for accomplishing your mission. And how hard it is to find customized, creative, and affordable leadership development resources for you and your team.
We’ve got you.
With extensive leadership experience in higher ed, and critical training in the creative process, our retreat facilitators know exactly how to help you create a powerful leadership development strategy.
how to get started:
step 1: Explore your Options
Read about each of our amazing retreat experiences.
Step 2: Choose a Retreat
Identify the best retreat format (and date) for you or your team.
Step 3: Hold your Spot
Payment is not required to register now and hold your spot.
Many academic leaders are tasked with providing leadership development to their team or organization and feel lost without a clear strategy.
Our cohort-based creative leadership retreats help them design and facilitate learning experiences that will elevate the leadership potential of their entire team.
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build relationships with a community of like-minded leaders
enjoy time and space to reflect, recharge, and make a plan
avoid paying large sums of money to leadership trainers who don’t know your people or program.
discover ways to manage complexity and lead your team with greater confidence
find tools to customize your own leadership development strategy
learn to facilitate leadership training for your organization
Free Resources
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Learn about Creative Leadership
Read the first two chapters of Leading with Your Imagination: A Framework for Creative Leadership. Author Scott Wakefield describes his vision of a creative leader, and introduces the framework for creative leadership.
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Vision Setting Workbook
If your vision statement is NOT longer than a paragraph, trash it. Most programs and institutions have lousy vision statements because they are too concise. This workbook will help you lead your team through a vision setting process to create a statement that you can actually use.
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5 Simple Ways to Build Confidence in your Imagination
Building confidence in your imagination is fundamental to reaching your full creative potential and leading your team with fearlessness. But how do we do that? This article describes 5 simple things that you can do today to lead with greater imagination.
Not sure where to start?
We are always here to help!