Leadership Studio: Vision Driven, Outcome Focused

Our Leadership Studio is a dynamic experience designed to elevate educational leadership teams beyond traditional team-building. This immersive program offers tools for continual improvement, aligning your team with a determined purpose and clear focus on both mission and strategic goals.

1. How can we ensure team members are aligned in their understanding of objectives from institutional, team, and individual perspectives?

2. How do we sustainably manage short-term challenges and long-term strategy for the betterment of institutional strategic goals and, most importantly, student experience and learning?

1. Beyond Team Building: We recognize that leadership teams, no matter how amicable, professional, and earnest, need more than simple team-building exercises. Our studio provides concrete tools for operational alignment and purposeful action.

2. Practical Frameworks and Tools: We don't just inspire – we equip. Participants will learn and apply practical and forward-looking leadership frameworks, approaches, and tools specifically designed to help your team deliver on your desired outcomes.

4. Collaborative Problem-Solving: Leaders work together to tackle real-school challenges, leveraging diverse perspectives to craft innovative approaches.

5. Iterative Learning: Through cycles of application, feedback, and refinement, participants internalize new approaches and adapt them to their unique school contexts.

6. Tangible Outputs: The studio culminates in the creation of concrete action plans and leadership artifacts that can be immediately implemented in your school setting.

7. Peer and Expert Critique: Benefit from constructive feedback from both fellow leaders and our experienced facilitators, honing your ideas and strategies.

8. Vision-Driven, Outcome-Focused: While we emphasize creativity and innovation, everything ties back to achieving your desired organizational outcomes and enhancing student experience and learning.

By the end of this intensive studio experience, you and your leadership team will have:

• Developed a shared understanding of objectives at institutional, team, and individual levels

• Mastered practical frameworks for educational leadership and organizational change

• Created strategies to balance short-term challenges with long-term strategic goals

• Built a toolkit of approaches to enhance student experience and learning

• Designed an action plan for implementing new approaches in your institution

• Established a network of peer leaders for ongoing support and collaboration

• Gained renewed inspiration and a clear vision for your leadership journey

Join us to reimagine educational leadership, turning insights into action and challenges into opportunities for growth. This experience will set your team on course for greater success, ensuring that you can do better – for your institution, your team, and most importantly, your students.

• 3-day in-person experience: Wednesday, June 11 (1-5p + dinner), Thursday, June 12 (9a-5p – dinner on your own), Friday, June 13 (9a-3p)

• Ideally, schools will send 2-4 people. The cost for two people is $5000, while each additional person is an additional $2000.

• Discounted room rates are available at the Westin Richmond: https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/ricwi-the-westin-richmond/overview/
  Mention Collegiate School for the Collegiate discount.

Faculty:
Moira Kelly, President, EXPLO
Ross Peters, Founding Partner, EXPLO Elevate
Tung Trinh, Dean of Faculty, The Collegiate School

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Collegiate School, 103 North Mooreland Road, Richmond, United States