Corporate Leadership Retreats

How you think about, plan and conduct a retreat can create a major turning point for your organization

The way in which executive leaders and their teams communicate and operate profoundly impacts the culture of the organization and what’s possible in it. Investing in the right shared leadership development experiences and practices, customized to address specific challenges and goals, can accelerate establishment of a new level of energy, focus, effectiveness and results for your organization.

A strategically customized leadership retreat can be a turning point for your organization. It can be a transformative tool for setting a new tone and direction. It can impact how people think about their roles, communicate, and work, infusing new enthusiasm and commitment into how they operate and what you can achieve.

Inquiry Model

Our Transformational Leadership Retreat utilizes a proprietary 6-question inquiry model planning process that can also affect how the team thinks about and plans future meetings. Processes and program elements are customized to achieve your particular goals, with an emphasis on engaging members in taking responsibility for producing the desired outcome. The program includes:

  • Planning

    • Goal and outcome clarification with program leaders

    • One-on-one interviews with team members to identify what’s in place as well as issues that may thwart achievement of the goal, and to support buy-in and achievement of the outcome

    • External benchmarking or fact-gathering, as needed, to support achievement of the goal

    • Development of dynamic, customized interactive program focused on engagement of team in taking responsibility for achieving the desired outcome after the retreat

    • Agenda approval

    • Guidance/coaching for leader in communicating prior, during and after the retreat, to support acceleration of desired outcomes

    • Guidance for prework for attendees in preparation for retreat session, as needed

    • Program design

  • Professional facilitation of session and exercises day of retreat to support achievement of outcome

    • Exercises and distinctions to build or expand effective leadership communication, as desired

    • Real-time work to address challenges and issues

    • Action planning to create practices, plan, structures of support for implementation after retreat

  • Follow up conversation with leader to support achievement of outcome and any fine-tuning

This program is recommended for leaders:

  • In new roles

  • Of newly formed teams or departments

  • Who wish to set a new direction

  • Who need people to operate act at a higher order of magnitude, with more creativity, collaboration, efficiency, or customer/stakeholder focus

  • Who need to transform a situation, a culture

  • Of merged organizations

“Jackie did a fabulous job facilitating a one-day leadership / communication session for our global group of twenty five in-house attorneys. Jackie graciously met with us a number of times ahead of our meeting in order to ensure the content was customized to the specific challenges faced by our group. If you are looking for a seasoned presenter / facilitator who will deliver meaningful content – look no further!”

Dan Cronin, Associate General Counsel, Amcor Rigid Packaging 

“Engaging Sloane Communications to assist in the process to transform the way we think about our work together in the Office of Advancement was a key step in our continuous improvement journey. During our staff retreat, they helped us to identify organizational and cultural barriers to success. They helped also to build a new vocabulary that supports shared accountability for improvement.”

Regina D. Biddings-Muro, Ed. D., Vice Chancellor, Institutional Advancement

“Jackie was a God-send for the staff retreat at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. I made a frantic call to her as the retreat was just weeks away! Jackie swooped in, collected pertinent information, and gave a fascinating presentation. She was engaging, professional, intuitive, and creative. Many of our staff left the retreat wanting her to return offer additional workshops. It was a pleasure working with Jackie. I highly recommend her.”

Ceciley R. Akins, Director of Stewardship and Development Operations

We also offer optional learning content for retreats or post-retreat program elements. For example, our Generative Leadership Communication Program.