Experience to Lead | Unique Leadership Programs

Experience to Lead immerses you in the narrative of life-changing situations faced by history’s greatest leaders. You’ll learn practical approaches to improving your leadership capabilities by understanding why they succeeded or failed.

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Unleash Your Leadership Potential

Client-Focused

Creating learning engagements that are designed to improve you, your team and your organization.

Unconventional

Experiential programs versus classroom-style to embed a higher level of retention to create meaningful change.

Transforming Leaders

Developing leadership capabilities that can have a dramatic impact on your results.

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"This approach is a fertile ground for management training. The battle of Waterloo and the events that preceded it proved to be incredibly rich in content and provided a marvelous set of occurrences around which multiple teachable moments could be constructed. These range across virtually all corporate issues: Leadership, Strategy Formation, Operational Excellence, Information and Intelligence, Communication, Decision Making, HR and Focus."
Mike Shepherd | VP, Competitor Intelligence HPC, Unilever
“The lessons learned from the Normandy Experience reconfirmed for me that effective strategy and execution are key, as are enabling and empowering teams, active leadership by example, and creating an environment to succeed.”
Katharina Auer | Head of Global Internal Communications, AstraZeneca
"Participating in the Gettysburg Experience was one of the best experiences in my career! The facilitators did a tremendous job in bridging the dichotomy of the business world and the battlefield, bringing relevance to the decisions I frequently face. I learned multiple things that I have been able to apply directly to my leadership practices."
Wayne Barndt | Regulatory Strategy & Policy Manager, PepCo Holdings, Inc.
"The Apollo Experience will take you to the moon and back. It challenges you to explore powerful leadership concepts while experiencing behind the scene venues at NASA; all leaving you with impactful memories and practical takeaways you can act on right away."
Thomas Jansen | Leadership Development Specialist, Scouting University, Boy Scouts of America

Private Programs

We will work with you to design a Private Program that’s tailored to help your leaders achieve their goals and overcome specific challenges. Check out our 3-step process to create a program customized to your needs.

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Public Programs

Our public programs are designed for individuals and small teams to cover a variety of leadership topics. You will get the opportunity to network and learn from other leaders while investing in your own leadership development.

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Leadership Experiences

APOLLO

Walk in the footsteps of the great leaders of NASA who led the manned mission to the Moon. Understand how innovation, culture and adaptive leadership can help you and your team lead in a rapidly changing world.

GOLD MEDAL

Increase high-performance in your team by understanding the levers used by elite athletes, coaches and teams to compete and win at the highest level. Learn from the experts at the U.S. Olympic Training Centers and the “team behind the team” to discover your potential.

BRACE FOR IMPACT

Prepare yourself and your team to overcome adversity. From natural disasters to mechanical malfunctions, understand how great leaders get ahead of their next challenge. Learning how to respond, recover and thrive in stress will give your organization a competitive advantage.

NORMANDY

Standing on the sweeping cliffs among the artifacts of “The Longest Day,” understand the enormous impact of empowering your people to reach their goals. Discover how managing across functional, cultural and organizational silos can refocus your decision-making while under pressure.

GETTYSBURG

Align yourself and your team around a unified strategy to enable decision-making based on shared vision and purpose. Gettysburg captures the intensity of time pressure with the ultimate consequences to provide a deeper understanding of how to lead in the moment.

WATERLOO

Learn how leadership style and decision-making can impact the fate of your team’s ability to align around, and execute, your vision. By understanding Napoleon’s Waterloo, you and your team can develop and communicate strategic plans with a higher degree of success.

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