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Leadership Retreats
Strategic Vision • Team Coaching • High-Stakes Conversations
Outcome-Driven Facilitation
Experiential Learning & Collaboration
Expertise in Complexity & Change
We partner with you to design and deliver retreats that are more than a day offsite. These are high-impact experiences that align your team, surface what matters, and build skills for working better together.
What We Bring
End-to-End Design
Integrated Skills + Team Coaching
Ease + Expertise
Recommendations you can use
How it Works
Offered Virtually & In-Person
Design & Preparation
Facilitation & Experience
Follow-through
We consult with you (and often your team) to define clear goals, understand group dynamics, and co-create a custom plan. You’ll feel confident going in, knowing the retreat is thoughtfully structured around what matters most.
We lead the retreat itself. You get to show up as part of the team, not the one running the day. We manage the structure, guide the conversations, and adapt as needed so you can focus on participating.
We meet again after the retreat to debrief. We’ll offer observations, flag opportunities, and share recommendations to keep the work moving—whether that means adjusting structures, deepening skills, or naming next steps.
Case Studies
Cornell Public Service Center
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As the Public Service Center approached its 30th anniversary, the organization was navigating staff turnover and a changing university landscape. Leaders wanted to rebuild connection, clarify the PSC’s identity within Cornell’s broader engagement initiatives, and create a shared vision for collaboration.
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We designed a multi-phase program beginning with a two-day staff retreat at the Treman Center focused on team alliance and vision building. Interactive improv-based activities and structured dialogues helped surface values, clarify roles, and create a living set of team agreements. Follow-on team coaching sessions and a virtual Story Circle sustained that momentum through the pandemic year.
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Staff described the retreat as the first time in years they felt heard across roles.
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The Team Alliance document became an anchor for decision-making and conflict resolution.
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Six months later, staff reflections showed stronger trust, openness, and collaboration sustained through the shift to remote work.
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The Story Circle session helped the team translate those agreements into remote practice and reconnect after months of disruption.
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Outcomes
"I'm most proud of the fact that I feel that people really seek to understand where other staff are coming from. I see everyone more as people, not just their role at the PSC, and consider their strengths and motivations more often."
Market Street
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As Market Street approached the end of its three-year strategic plan, leadership wanted a retreat session that would spark creativity and psychological safety before strategic planning began. They needed people to feel safe speaking up, think boldly about innovation, and embrace their role as brand ambassadors for the company’s next chapter.
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A two-day interactive retreat using applied improv principles to strengthen communication and team alignment. Each activity connected directly to the organization’s four strategic imperatives and the new year's planning themes shared by the CEO.
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Immediate shift in energy and cross-department connection.
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Staff feedback highlighted the sense of “magical permission to speak up.”
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Leaders reported that improv principles helped surface bolder ideas and deeper collaboration in the days that followed, and strengthened psychological safety across teams.
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Leadership has since drawn on the session’s language in follow-up initiatives, linking creativity and trust to the year's Strategic Pyramid imperatives of Best-in-Class Employee Experience and Exceptional Client Experience.​
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Outcomes
"Full smiles across the board."
Kendal at Ithaca
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Kendal at Ithaca is a not-for-profit senior living community with a strong commitment to resident-centered care. They invited us to lead a staff retreat focused on strengthening communication, trust, and team relationships.
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Teams across the organization were feeling the strain of high workloads, emotional labor, and cross-department tension. The leaders wanted a retreat that would bring people together, give staff space to speak openly, and build shared tools for creating a more positive and supportive workplace culture.
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We planned a full-day, on-site retreat for management and staff grounded in experiential learning, reflective dialogue, and practical communication tools. The session included exercises for listening beneath frustration to understand shared values, team practices for support, appreciation, and healthy communication, stress-response tools for navigating challenging moments, workplace scenarios to practice new behaviors, and closing commitments to guide day-to-day interactions.
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Outcomes
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Based on staff evaluations and leadership feedback:
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Greater sense of connection across departments
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Increased understanding of coworkers’ experiences
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Stronger awareness of how stress affects communication
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Renewed commitment to respect, support, and constructive dialogue
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“Today helped me understand how others are feeling.”
Our Clients Say
“Full smiles across the board”​