About this Event
The pace of change is not slowing down.
Leaders are navigating complexity, pressure, shifting priorities, emotional labor, and relentless demands on their time, energy, and attention. Teams are stretched. Expectations are high. Resources are often limited. And the people around you may be looking for clarity, steadiness, and direction while you are carrying just as much uncertainty yourself.
The question is no longer, “How do we stop the storm?”
The better question is:
How do we lead well inside of it?
Calm in the Face of the Storm is a full-day leadership retreat designed for leaders who want to strengthen their clarity, capacity, and steadiness under pressure.
This retreat is not about escaping the storm or pretending the pressure is not real. It is about building the internal and practical leadership capacity to meet complexity with greater intention, resilience, and effectiveness.
Over the course of the day, we will explore what it takes to stay grounded, clear, and effective when the pressure rises. You will have space to examine the patterns that can pull you into overfunctioning, reactivity, avoidance, people-pleasing, urgency, or shutdown, and begin building more intentional responses that support your leadership, your team, and your long-term sustainability.
Together, we will work with practical leadership questions like:
How do I stay steady when the environment around me is unpredictable?
How do I make clear decisions when everything feels important?
How do I lead others through uncertainty without absorbing everyone’s stress?
How do I recognize when I am reacting from pressure instead of responding from clarity?
How do I build the capacity to keep leading without burning out or becoming brittle?
How do I create more trust, focus, and stability for the people I lead?
This full-day experience will include guided reflection, meaningful dialogue, embodied leadership practices, and practical tools you can apply immediately in your work and life.
You will leave with greater awareness of your own leadership patterns under pressure, practical ways to regulate and reset in real time, and a clearer understanding of how to lead with more steadiness, presence, and intention over the next six months.
This retreat is for executives, entrepreneurs, team leaders, founders, managers, and values-driven professionals who are holding a lot and are ready to lead with more clarity, capacity, and confidence.
The storm may not slow down.
But your leadership can become steadier, stronger, and more grounded within it.
Lead Like It Matters: Consciously Emerging Stronger
Calm in the Face of the Storm is part of Lead Like It Matters: Consciously Emerging Stronger, a series of full-day retreats designed to help leaders strengthen the inner and outer capacities required to lead well in a changing world.
Each retreat explores a timely leadership and organizational health topic through guided reflection, practical tools, meaningful dialogue, and embodied learning. These experiences are designed to help you deepen your resilience, sharpen your self-awareness, expand your leadership capacity, and translate insight into grounded action.
Join us for one retreat or commit to the full journey, and invest in the leadership that matters most: your own.
Date:
June 18, 2026
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Location:
The Encounter
4410 Carver Woods Drive
Blue Ash, OH 45242
What’s the Cost?
We offer tiered pricing to make the retreat accessible:
Sponsor: $500
Support a Rising Star while deepening your own experience.
Supporter: $450
An investment in your leadership growth.
Rising Star: $400
Need a little boost? Sponsors make this option possible.
Step into a space designed for wisdom, connection, restoration, and practical growth. Together, we will explore what it means to lead with steadiness in the storm, strengthen your capacity under pressure, and move forward with clarity, courage, and intention.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Encounter, 4410 Carver Woods Drive, Blue Ash, United States
USD 428.67 to USD 535.38
