Focus Areas
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Leadership alignment
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Trust and communication
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Strategic reflection
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Decision-making
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Presence and awareness
Format
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Half-day to multi-day
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Indoor, outdoor, or hybrid
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Facilitated experiential learning + reflection
Ideal For
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Executive teams
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Boards and senior leadership
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High-stakes transitions
Benefits of Experiential Leadership Development
Research Driven Outcomes
Created using evidence based research and best practices.
Your Self
Develop self-awareness, reflective thinking, and deeper relationships. Brain changes in problems, behaviors, and feeling. Accomplish projects more successfully.
Your Team
Leaders who are trusted are more effective at motivating their teams leading to better team cohesiveness and interpersonal communication, higher levels of trust, and better problem-solving abilities.
Your Culture
Improved cultural awareness of our differences and attitudes towards others, and promotes more local community involvement. Â
Your Business
Developing problem solving abilities and leadership relationships has been found to significantly related to business success metrics in lower employee turnover, lower absenteeism, high productivity, better job performance.
Cornerstone Leadership Retreat
From Colleagues to Cohesive Teams
Who is this program for?
Ideal for new or established leadership teams looking to build trust, align around a shared vision, and enhance collaboration and performance.
Program duration
2 days, with customization available based on team goals and organizational needs.
Program description and curriculum
This foundational retreat blends experiential learning with facilitated dialogue to foster trust, clarify purpose, and accelerate team effectiveness. Through guided activities and strategic conversations, teams co-create vision, set collective goals, and build a culture of accountability and connection.
Core outcomes include:
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A unified team vision and shared purpose
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Strengthened trust and psychological safety
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Clear performance goals and aligned expectations
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Improved communication and team resilience
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​Grounded in the principles of trust, alignment, and communication, this retreat creates lasting impact and sets the stage for long-term success.
Leadership Blueprint Series
A Complete Journey to Transformational Leadership
Who is this program for?
Designed for organizations and leadership teams seeking long-term development and transformational growth across all levels of leadership.
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Program duration
Flexible: Complete as a single multi-week experience or in 3–4 phases over time. Each phase ranges from 2 to 5 days, with customizable cadences (quarterly, annually, or tailored to your team’s schedule).
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Program description and curriculum
The Leadership Blueprint Series combines four powerful, immersive programs into a cohesive leadership journey. Each phase builds progressively—from foundational team dynamics to strategic leadership and legacy thinking:
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Phase 1: Leadership Lessons from the River (2–3 days)
Focus: Trust, communication, and collaboration under pressure
Format: Raft-based expedition on the Colorado River -
Phase 2: Leadership Lessons from Nature (2 days)
Focus: Self-awareness, resilience, and emotional intelligence
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Phase 3: Leadership Lessons from the Gold Rush (3–5 days)
Focus: Strategic decision-making, values-based leadership, and long-term impact
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Cornerstone Leadership Retreat (2–3 days, optional integration phase)
Focus: Reflection, application, and actionable planning
A virtual or onsite debrief is available to reinforce learning and track post-program outcomes.
Research / Evidenced Based Practices:
As a thought leader in the field of Experiential Leadership Development, we use evidenced based practices and methods in the field leadership development; consequentially we are conducting our own research. Our research focuses on the measurable's or outputs of the leadership events, training and education we offer.
When we confirm a program, we will discuss our measurables for each program and are happy to share the status of results current research we are conducting. We will also ask about participants being included in a pre and posttest questionnaire and/or assessments to further help with identifying the benefits or specific leadership development training and future program modification. The ultimate goal is to produce search and a publication on our research.
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- US BUSINESS