This experience is built around the realities you’re navigating every day—not hypothetical case studies or generic leadership theory.

Over three days, you’ll bring real leadership challenges into the room and work through them alongside experienced faculty and a small cohort of accomplished peers. Through coaching, guided reflection, meaningful dialogue, and practical application, you’ll gain new perspectives, challenge long-held assumptions, and develop practical approaches you can immediately apply within your organization.

Throughout the experience, faculty with deep backgrounds in leadership, coaching, and facilitation will guide, challenge, and support you as you translate new insights into lasting changes in how you think, decide, and lead.

• Work on the Challenges That Matter Most. Bring the conversations, decisions, tensions, and opportunities you’re facing today. Together, you’ll uncover patterns and dynamics that are often difficult to recognize while operating at the pace of everyday business, giving you new ways to approach the situations that matter most.

• Experience Through Practice. Leadership isn’t developed by consuming more information. You’ll learn through coaching, guided reflection, experiential practice, and real-time feedback, helping you move beyond insight into meaningful action. This isn’t leadership theory discussed from a distance. It’s leadership practiced in real time.

• Learn Alongside Leaders Who Challenge Your Thinking. Leadership can be isolating. You’ll join a carefully curated cohort of founders, executives, business owners, and senior leaders who bring diverse experiences and perspectives to the room. Together, you’ll challenge one another’s assumptions, broaden your thinking, and build relationships that often extend well beyond the program itself.

• Return Ready to Lead More Effectively. Every element of the experience is designed to strengthen your leadership back at work. You’ll leave with practical tools you can apply immediately, greater clarity in the face of complexity, increased confidence navigating difficult conversations, and a deeper understanding of how your own patterns influence the people and organizations you lead.

Traditional executive education often emphasizes strategy, communication, and execution. These are essential skills. But leadership effectiveness is shaped by more than what you know. It’s shaped by how you think under pressure, how you make decisions when certainty isn’t available, how you build trust, and how you help others navigate change.

The approach we take at Presence-Based Leadership is intentionally:

• Faculty-led rather than speaker-led
• Experiential rather than lecture-based
• Rigorous without losing its humanity
• Evidence-based while honoring the complexity of real people
• Immediately practical while grounded in lasting development

Because beneath every strategy is a leader making decisions.
Beneath every difficult conversation is a relationship.
Beneath every organizational culture is the daily experience people have of your leadership.

The quality of your leadership is shaped not only by what you know, but by how you show up when uncertainty, conflict, and complexity arrive.

Presence-Based Leadership is taught by the experienced faculty behind Presence-Based Coaching, one of the most respected developmental coach training programs in the field.

For more than two decades, they’ve helped coaches, executives, entrepreneurs, and organizational leaders expand their capacity to lead through complexity with greater clarity, resilience, and effectiveness.

Rather than delivering content from a stage, they work alongside participants throughout the experience—teaching, coaching, challenging, and supporting your development in real time.

Presence-Based Leadership is designed for founders, executives, business owners, and senior leaders who:

• Carry significant responsibility for people, strategy, and culture.
• Are leading through growth, transition, or increasing complexity.
• Value their own development as much as the success of their organization.
• Want more than another conference or executive seminar.
• Believe becoming a more effective leader begins with continuing to develop themselves.

• What’s included: Course fees include tuition, materials, and meals and lodging.
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• Meals and Lodging: Meals and lodging are included as part of the package. Lodging and meals prices include single occupancy lodging, private bath, and gourmet meals prepared with locally sourced, organic foods. Meals are provided Friday breakfast through Sunday lunch. Lodging is provided Thursday night through Sunday at 2 PM ET.

If you must cancel your registration for any retreat or course, all fees paid minus a cancellation fee will be refunded, as long as the conditions outlined in the terms and conditions are met. If those conditions are not met, no refunds will be provided. See more details on cancellation policies on the Terms & Conditions page.