Flourishing Leadership in Challenging Times
Overview
Senior leaders today face rapid change, volatility, and constant pressure to deliver. In this complex environment filled with relentless demands, many struggle to inspire others while preserving their own well-being and purpose.
Flourishing Leadership in Challenging Times is a three-day retreat designed to help senior executives navigate uncertainty with resilience, purpose, humanity, and joy. Through reflection, dialogue, energizing exercises, and research-based practice, participants get to step back from daily demands and return with renewed energy, deeper self-awareness, and concrete strategies to help themselves and their teams flourish through any new challenge.
Details
Format |
In person |
Fee |
$3,495 CAD plus tax |
In-person location |
1450 Guy St., Montreal |
Language |
English |
Accreditation |
e-certificate |
Next start date |
February 18, 2026 See more dates |
Who should attend
This course is designed for directors and senior executives who:
Aspire to lead well under pressure while sustaining energy and enjoyment
Want to elevate their ability to inspire teams, build trust, and create psychological safety
Want to align personal values and team priorities to organizational objectives for greater career fulfillment
Aim to spark team creativity, intrinsic motivation, and cross-functional collaboration
Wish to better represent their organizations in high-stakes external contexts such as conferences, negotiations, or industry forums through powerful storytelling
Are eager to connect with peers to form deeper professional relationships
Key takeaways
Connect your personal values with organizational realities to guide your leadership
Build emotional and cognitive resilience to better manage pressure, prevent burnout, and reframe challenges into opportunities
Cultivate creativity to build more innovative teams
Increase self-awareness to lead in ways that resonate with teams
Form deeper professional connections with peers from various industries
Course structure
This course is divided into five modules.
Set the stage for optimal team performance by creating a trusting and connected environment where people and ideas can flourish.
Help your team better respond to new challenges by fostering innovation, collaboration, and flexibility through design thinking, improvisation, and executive problem-solving.
Inspire genuine purpose and share commitment through executive storytelling techniques that draw on core values, experience, vision, and authentic presence.
Cultivate intrinsic motivation by supporting autonomy, skill development, and individual purpose to maintain sustained engagement.
Create a vibrant culture and coach your teams to reach their full potential by leveraging the science of happiness.
Dates & fees
This course is delivered over three in-person sessions.
Dates
Cohort 1
Session 1: February 18, 2026 — 1–5 p.m. (followed by a networking event)
Session 2: February 19, 2026 — 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (lunch included)
Session 3: February 19, 2026 — 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (lunch included)
Cohort 2
Session 1: May 6, 2026 — 1–5 p.m. (followed by a networking event)
Session 2: May 7, 2026 — 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (lunch included)
Session 3: May 8, 2026 — 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (lunch included)
Fee
$3,495 CAD + tax
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