Leadership Team Workshops & Retreats
Leadership teams are often full of capable, committed people who never quite get time to think together.
Meetings happen. Decisions get made. But the harder questions, about direction, about culture, about how the team actually works with each other, get pushed to later. Again.
A workshop or retreat creates the protected time and space to do that thinking. Done well, it produces something more lasting than a document, it shifts how the team leads.
What We Work On
Every session is designed around what your team actually needs. That said, the themes I work with most often are:
Direction and vision
- Building a shared team vision that people actually use, something that shapes decisions week to week, not just at the next planning retreat
- Reconnecting with strategic direction after a period of change, uncertainty, or drift
- Making decisions together that are bolder, smarter, and genuinely owned by the whole team
How the team leads
- Turning emotional intelligence from something the team talks about into how the team actually shows up
- Building the psychological safety that lets people say what they’re actually thinking, including when it’s inconvenient
- Holding genuine accountability: high standards, shared ownership, no scapegoating
- Communicating in ways that open conversations instead of shutting them down
Culture and the work environment
- Honestly naming the team’s culture and deciding together what it should be
- Working through periods of reorganization, restructuring, or leadership transition with trust intact
- Building the conditions where good work actually gets done and people want to stay
How It Works
I design each session from scratch around your team, your context, and what you’re working through. There’s no standard slide deck, no generic agenda. The process we use is the one that fits you.
Before we meet, I spend time understanding your team: your history, your dynamics, your goals for the time together. That preparation is what makes the session feel like it belongs to you.
Sessions run from a half-day to multiple days, depending on what your team needs. I work in-person with organizations across Canada. Groups typically run from six to twenty participants, though larger groups can be accommodated.
What Clients Say
“We knew that Babs was who we wanted to guide our retreat when she asked us how we wanted to feel at our retreat and what difference it would make to us afterwards. The time together felt uniquely ours and re-energized our clarity and purpose in our teamwork. We love Babs!”
— P., CEO, and D., Executive Team Member, Public Sector
“Our weekend retreat with Babs was magical. We had been through a tough time and were struggling with trust and safety. Babs held space and guided us through the conversations and healing in a way that was more than we could have imagined and exactly what we needed.”
— G., Executive Director, and D., Board Chair, Non-profit Organization
Is Your Team Ready?
I work with leadership teams that want to make a difference with why and how they do their work. If your team is ready to go big and beautiful (and really, isn’t this why we get up in the morning?), then let’s talk.
A workshop or retreat is the right move when your team is at a meaningful moment: a strategic turning point, a period of rebuilding trust, a transition in leadership, or simply a recognition that the team is capable of more than it’s currently doing.
It’s not the right move when the real issue is something that needs to be addressed directly between individuals or through structural change. I’ll tell you honestly if I think that’s the case.
The best place to start is a conversation. We’ll talk about where your team is, what you’re hoping for, and what a well-designed session might look like for your specific situation.
I offer a complimentary 30-minute consultation for organizations exploring a workshop or retreat.