Trailblazer Leadership Academy - Leadership Essentials: One-Day Intensive

Leadership Essentials: One-Day Intensive is a high-impact leadership development experience designed to introduce the core principles that drive personal growth, influence, and real-world leadership performance. This immersive one-day program provides a practical overview of foundational leadership frameworks, mindset development strategies, and performance tools that help individuals lead with confidence, clarity, and purpose. Whether you are an emerging leader, experienced professional, or business owner, this course provides the knowledge and direction needed to continue growing personally and professionally.

This intensive program introduces participants to key leadership and personal development concepts including the Sphere of Knowledge, leadership through influence, the 5 Levels of Leadership, Life as a Layer Cake, understanding temperaments, conflict resolution strategies, the Power of Belief, Core Values alignment, the 5 Levels of Decline, Adversity Quotient, and the Plan–Do–Adjust performance model. Each topic is presented in a practical, real-world format designed to help participants immediately apply what they learn while preparing them for deeper, topic-specific leadership training in future courses.

What You’ll Experience During This One-Day Intensive:
Leadership Essentials: One-Day Intensive is designed to give participants a powerful introduction to the core leadership and personal performance frameworks that drive long-term success. This program combines mindset development, leadership strategy, communication skills, and real-world application to help you strengthen both personal and professional leadership effectiveness.
Throughout the day, participants will be introduced to the following core leadership topics:
Leadership & Personal Development Topics Covered:
• Sphere of Knowledge — Understanding what you know, what you don’t know, and how awareness drives growth and decision-making.
• Leadership Is Influence — How true leadership is built through trust, credibility, and positive influence — not position or title.
• 5 Levels of Leadership — Understanding how leadership develops from position-based authority to people development and legacy leadership.
• Life as a Layer Cake — How personal foundation, habits, and priorities directly impact leadership performance and life outcomes.
• Understanding the Temperaments — Learning how personality styles impact communication, teamwork, conflict, and leadership effectiveness.
• Conflict Resolution — Practical strategies for handling conflict professionally and productively.
Featuring Guest Speaker Lt. Kyle Bruns, Wentzville Police Department
• Power of Belief — How mindset, self-belief, and internal narratives directly influence performance, leadership presence, and results.
• Core Values Alignment — Building leadership and decision-making around clearly defined personal and organizational values.
• 5 Levels of Decline — Recognizing early warning signs of organizational or personal decline and how to prevent them.
• Adversity Quotient — Developing resilience and the ability to perform under pressure, uncertainty, and challenge.
• Plan – Do – Adjust Performance Model — A simple but powerful framework for execution, learning, and continuous improvement.

Event Schedule & Experience:
Breakfast Included
• Breakfast served starting at 8:00 AM
Program Start Time:
• Class begins promptly at 8:30 AM
Program Conclusion:
• Training concludes at approximately 5:00 PM
Lunch Included
• Full lunch buffet provided for all attendees

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ameristar Casino Resort Spa St. Charles, 1 Ameristar Boulevard, Saint Charles, United States

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