Get ready to stretch the limits of your comfort zone! The richest experience we have to offer for professionals looking to develop their leadership skills is finally back and this time, we're getting co-creative!
This latest edition of our retreat will bring you on a deep dive of the first key skill of a co-creative leader: Being a voice among many in the conversation.
The Surdek Team invites you to take part in our transformative two-and-a-half day leadership program. We will introduce you to your leadership game and will help you become a more effective leader when communicating with your team.
As with our previous retreats, the registration cost includes a room for two nights at Auberge West Brome as well as all breakfast, lunch and dinner meals during the event.
May 25, 2025
— May 27, 2025
5:30 PM — 4:30 PM
Spaces are limited — we only accept up to 12 people for this event!
Auberge West Brome, West Brome (Québec)
Français
In the madness of your daily work, when do you take the time to take a step back and reflect on how you can better yourself as a leader? If you are like most leaders that I know, I'm willing to bet the answer is: Not too often. When you feel buried under work, you get caught up in the things that you need to deliver and forget the importance of taking this time as a leader.
Our retreat is a powerful and safe space to learn more about yourself, notice your existing behaviors and discover how to approach situations more productively. Taking these kinds of moments is the key to help you grow and develop yourself as a leader.
Tell me, what are some of your biggest challenges as a leader in your team meetings?
Let me guess...
As a leader, do you feel like you reached the limits of your current leadership style and need a new approach?
Are you willing to grow and learn a new way to lead?
Co-Creative Leadership is the answer!
Now what if in three days, you could learn skills to turn things around and begin to create an environment in meetings where:
Sometimes, they are uncomfortable with silence so they feel as though they always need to bring their ideas first to get the ball rolling in conversations. What consistently ends up happening is their team never challenges these ideas and goes with them by default.
To resolve this, often leaders try to hold back and speak last instead. They listen to what their team has to say and if their idea did not come up, then they will bring their idea. This creates the impression with the team that the leader is not really listening to their ideas and should speak up earlier instead.
The end result is that these leaders no longer know when to speak up and say what they have to say. They become frustrated when they feel the team is going in the wrong direction in the conversation and when they finally speak up, team members feel as if they failed some sort of test they did not even know they were taking.
If this sounds like you, the harsh reality is that this dynamic with your team will never change until you master the first skill of a co-creative leader: Being a voice among many in the conversation. You need to learn how to have conversations with your team in a way that allows them a real space to speak up and take ownership while not holding back your own ideas. You need to learn how to see the best in the ideas of the different people around the table and help your team converge towards a solution that best meets the needs of the business.
Only then will you be able to begin to have meetings with your team where everyone contributes and takes ownership of moving things forward together.
So what are you waiting for?
The content of this retreat is based entirely on Steffan Surdek's book "The Way of the Co-Creative Leader" which you will receive as a gift for joining us at the event.
This retreat is not just another leadership workshop filled with theory you will not have any idea how to put into practice. It is an immersive experience designed to take you out of your comfort zone. You will discover how it feels to be a co-creative leader: engage in interactive sessions, receive personalized coaching, and practice new skills in a supportive environment.
During the retreat, you will witness firsthand how co-creative leadership fosters collaboration, innovation, and better communication in teams. Past participants have praised our retreats for their profound impact on their professional and personal lives. Join us to unlock your potential as a co-creative leader and elevate the performance of your team!
In our retreat, you will experience transformative growth as you unlock your leadership potential through co-creative leadership. You will learn and practice actionable strategies that foster team collaboration and help you generate productive conversations with your team with confidence.
Don't miss this opportunity to take your leadership to the next level—we only accept 12 people for this event!
As a participant in our empowering retreat, you will:
Your leadership game is your default operating system as a leader. As you work through the retreat, you will begin to see more and more of your leadership game in action.
This will help you change some of the behaviors that are currently holding you back from reaching your leadership potential.
At the retreat, you will be able to bring up any current real-life situations you would potentially like us to discuss during the event.
As appropriate, we will address some of these topics either in a group discussion or in a coaching session in front of the group.
During the retreat there will be live practice and coaching time either in small breakout groups or with the entire group.
This time allows you to get advice and coaching on how you can approach important discussions differently.
During the retreat, you will learn new tools and approaches to help you change how you interact in conversations with your team.
Changing your approach to conversations will directly change how your team interacts with you.
The approaches we teach in this retreat are the same ones we use ourselves when working with our existing clients. That’s how we know it actually works!
Leveraging our real-life experience and knowledge will help accelerate your growth.
As you meet other participants in the retreat, you will build new connections and potentially get some support and advice from them based on their experiences.
Sharing and hearing the stories of other participants will help you see how common some of the challenges you are facing actually are.
We want to thank our partners that are
helping us make this retreat possible!
The individuals below attended our previous retreats and experienced profound transformations in their leadership journey. Read their full testimonials.
This French language retreat begins on May 25th, 2025 at 5:30pm.
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Included in the price:
* Participation in the two-and-a-half day retreat
* Food and lodging at Auberge West Brome
* Softcover copy of the book "The Way of the Co-Creative Leader"
Included in the price:
* Participation in the two-and-a-half day retreat
* Food and lodging at Auberge West Brome
* Softcover copy of the book "The Way of the Co-Creative Leader"
Steffan Surdek is an in-demand consulting principal, leadership development coach and corporate trainer. He has always been driven to expand the notion of leadership to include each member of the team. As a widely recognized consulting principal, Steffan’s work has a strong business impact, helping reshape business cultures and guiding them in becoming more collaborative and efficient. He is the founder of Surdek Solutions, a consulting and training company based in Montreal, Canada.
Steffan has over 1000 hours of experience delivering various training courses and workshops around Agile and Lean practices. He is a trained integral coach that helps people grow and develop themselves through experiential learning as well as through his leadership retreats.
Steffan is a recognized leadership expert that writes about leadership on various websites such as forbes.com, cutter.com and wellness.com among others.