About this Event
Navigating Leadership in the Jungle
Understand Yourself. Navigate Others. Lead Differently.
Leadership can feel like a jungle. Are you equipped to navigate it?
We've all experienced it.
The coworker who seems impossible to communicate with. The team member who doesn't respond the way we expect. The supervisor whose leadership style leaves us frustrated. The difficult conversations we keep putting off because we're not sure how they'll end.
Sometimes, navigating people can be more challenging than the work itself.
But here's a question worth considering:
What if the challenge isn't always the people around you? What if becoming a better leader starts with understanding yourself?
Join Jesse Ross and Nikki Tabor for Navigating Leadership in the Jungle, an interactive leadership development experience designed to help you better understand yourself, strengthen your communication, and navigate workplace relationships and challenges with greater confidence.
Through a personalized DISC assessment, engaging conversations, and real-world leadership exercises, you'll explore how your natural tendencies influence the way you lead, communicate, and interact with others.
Whether you're leading a team, managing a business, navigating difficult workplace relationships, or preparing for your next leadership opportunity, this workshop will challenge you to think differently about how you show up.
What You'll Learn
1. Discover Your Leadership Style
Gain a deeper understanding of your natural communication and behavioral tendencies through a personalized DISC assessment. Identify your strengths, preferences, and potential blind spots.
2. Navigate Different Personalities
Understand why people approach communication, decision-making, conflict, and collaboration differently. Learn how to adapt your approach without compromising who you are.
3. Strengthen Communication and Relationships
Explore practical ways to reduce misunderstandings, build trust, navigate difficult conversations, and improve how you connect with others.
4. Apply Your Learning to Real-Life Challenges
Participate in interactive exercises and workplace scenarios that challenge you to think differently, collaborate with others, and apply your new understanding to everyday leadership situations.
5. Lead With Greater Confidence and Intention
Walk away with actionable strategies you can begin using immediately in your workplace, business, and personal leadership journey.
This Isn't Just Another Leadership Presentation.
You won't spend the entire workshop sitting and listening to someone talk about leadership.
You'll participate. You'll reflect. You'll engage with others. And you'll have opportunities to challenge how you think about leadership.
Our goal is simple: to help you leave with more than information.
We want you to leave with a better understanding of yourself, greater awareness of how others experience you, and practical tools for navigating the people and situations you encounter every day.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for:
- Business owners and entrepreneurs
- Managers, supervisors, and team leaders
- Emerging and aspiring leaders
- Human resources and people development professionals
- Nonprofit and community leaders
- Professionals navigating workplace challenges
- Anyone interested in becoming a more intentional and effective leader
You don't need a leadership title to benefit from this experience. If you work with people, this workshop is for you.
What's Included With Registration?
- A personalized DISC assessment
- An interactive, facilitator-led leadership workshop
- Practical exercises based on real-world workplace challenges
- Opportunities for reflection, discussion, and networking
- Actionable leadership strategies you can use immediately
- Light refreshments
Meet Your Facilitators
Jesse Ross
Jesse Ross is an entrepreneur, professional speaker, and leadership development consultant whose work focuses on helping individuals and organizations strengthen communication, navigate conflict, build healthy workplace cultures, and develop people.
As the CEO of Proximity Ventures and founder of Mr. Jesse Ross LLC, Jesse brings practical experience from entrepreneurship, organizational leadership, and community development into his work.
His approach challenges people to examine how they show up, take ownership of their influence, and become more intentional leaders.
Nikki Tabor
Nikki Tabor is the founder of Abundant HR Solutions and is a leadership development and human resources professional who helps individuals and organizations navigate the people side of business.
Her work focuses on leadership coaching, professional development, workplace relationships, and helping leaders approach complex people challenges with greater clarity and confidence.
Together, Jesse and Nikki combine practical leadership experience, coaching, and people development expertise to create an engaging, relevant, and actionable learning experience.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Proximity Collective | Minneapolis, Minnesota
Early Bird Registration: $100
General Admission: $150
Registration includes your personalized DISC assessment and the full interactive workshop experience.
Space is limited to maintain an engaging and interactive learning environment.
You Can't Control Every Personality in the Workplace. But You Can Learn How to Navigate Them.
Leadership isn't about having all the answers. It's about developing the awareness, communication skills, and confidence to navigate challenges more effectively.
Understand Yourself. Navigate Others. Lead Differently.
Join us for Navigating Leadership in the Jungle and discover what becomes possible when you understand yourself before trying to lead others.
Reserve your seat today!
Event venue & nearby stays
Proximity Collective, 2520 North 2nd Street, Minneapolis, United States
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