Corporate Off Sites & Retreats
Build leadership. develop teams. cultivate well being
We custom design workshops and half, full, and multi-day corporate retreat experiences for teams in and outside of Boulder, CO. Our designs draw on staff expertise in executive development, culture/strategy development, team building, experiential leadership development (including leadership development work with horses), and holistic retreat activities.
Program Details
We are based in Boulder, CO and regularly facilitate at conference, retreat, and ranch locations close to client locations in the U.S and abroad. We manage end-to-end production for individual team engagements and work with contracted production companies for large (50+) organization-wide events. Our programs incorporate the following:
Team Development
We offer pre, during, and post comprehensive offsite experiences that support wide ranging team leadership and strategy development objectives.
Sample Team Development Experiences:
· Executive team mission, vision, and/or purpose development
· Discovery and codifying of organizational values
· Foundational leadership experiential trainings (e.g. Communication Core Competencies, Coaching as a Manager, Delivering Feedback)
· Team coaching and debriefs utilizing assessments
· Culture surveys and facilitated development conversation
Executive team engagements often include formal assessment processes (Hogan Assessment, Leadership Circle, Insights Discovery & MBTI) and 360 Reviews.
Team Building
We select from a variety of team building activities when planning corporate off sites and retreats.
Sample team building experiences:
Team Lifeline Story Exercise
Design Thinking Challenge
Strategic & Collaboration Challenges
Team building activities require team collaboration around unique strategic initiative and offer unconventional challenges, play, and opportunities for bonding and connection.
Options range from indoor exercises to immersive outdoor experiences catered to group development objectives.
Equine Facilitated Leadership Development
Equine facilitated leadership sessions and debriefs take place all year round on the ground inside the arena (heated in winter) with our equine partners and in accompanying workshop spaces. Through individual and team groundwork exercises, they explore:
· Deepening relationships and building trust and cooperation as the foundation of leadership
· Surfacing difficult team dynamics and developing the versatility to skillfully navigate ambiguous and charged situations
· Emotional intelligence, decision-making, and collaborative leadership methods
· Immediate feedback that facilitates real-time adjustments in leadership style and behavior
· Cultivating collective commitment and alignment around shared purpose
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Retreat Experiences
Retreat experiences take place on the ranch-retreat facilities we facilitate out of and include a variety of experiences designed to support employees in cultivating well being, bonding with other members of their team, and having fun.
Some common experiences include:
Guided Creative Expression
Guided hiking
Mindfulness Experiences
Yoga
Our retreat and ranch partner venues in Boulder, CO have extensive walking trails, quiet sitting areas, and a variety of other spaces that we utilize for wellness programs. We select unique, beautiful sites for off site and team building programs that offer a memorable context to connect and unwind.
Testimonials
“My team and I gained powerful tools to apply personally and as a group around effective leadership. The equine exercises were a great mix of fun and deep individual and group learning, with practical takeaways and applications for how to navigate interpersonal dynamics and strategic objectives effectively. This was the best part of our 2 day offsite! For teams looking for bonding, introspection, and team metaphors, I recommend Bridgit wholeheartedly.”
AMANDA WEST
Senior People Operations Manager
GOOGLE
“The half day with fellow IGL colleagues generated rich conversations about how our awareness of ourselves in relationship with our team members, made visible in our conditioned tendencies. Bridgit negotiated the space to allow this to show up so elegantly. A key practice for our team was that nervousness, anxiety, fear, or uncertainty are normal and ok, and that there are skillful ways to embrace being settled amidst the unsettledness that shows up. We look forward to coming back!”
ANDREA BORDENCA
CEO
IGL - US & DESCO INTERNATIONAL
“Our leadership team recently attended a retreat and to say it was an incredible experience is an understatement. Bridgit led us through of activities that focused on being present, leading with intention, and understanding how our energy has an impact on the horses’ receptiveness to what we were asking them to do. She worked with each of us to help us find our individual leadership style and gain a deeper understanding about how our energy and presence can impact the horses and how that translate to the people that we lead.”
CAROLINE VERNON
Senior Practice Leader
INTOO USA
“My group and I had a great learning experience with Bridgit. We are a group that is developing learning practices for people in performance fields such as leadership, education, family dynamics, community mobilization, social justice, and healthy organizations. The experience at Wildsong was an extraordinary learning lab to see how to include the body in learning, face challenges, and progress in confidence in a new, challenging situations.”
BOB DUNHAM
Founder
IGL - GLOBAL
Our Team
BRIDGIT WALD - FOUNDER & FACILITATOR
Bridgit Wald is the founder of Emergence Leadership Consulting and serves as the lead experience designer and facilitator for off sites and retreats in Boulder, CO and beyond.
She works with an exceptional team of partner facilitations and event producers to design, produce, and facilitate off site and retreat engagements. Collectively, we are passionate about creating one of a kind experiences that foster a sense of connection, belonging, and strategic coherence amongst the clients we serve. Learn more about Bridgit here.
HEIDI PIPER - FACILITATOR
Over her 30+ year career at Fortune 50 company Procter & Gamble, Heidi led global innovation for brands which accounted cumulatively for over $100 Billion in sales. As a senior executive, she led thousands of people across Europe, North and South America and Asia. Favoring a servant leader, inclusive, relationship-supporting, balanced, transparent and action-oriented, pragmatic approach, Heidi has enabled excellent workplace culture, and highly engaged, productive global and remote teams. She currently serves as an executive coach and passionate facilitator of human systems assessment and transformation.
SOPHIA ERNST - FACILITATOR
Sophia is a facilitator and learning designer with an extensive background in innovation and business process improvement. She brings teams to consensus, agility, and operational efficiency. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Systems, Environmental, and Social Justice from Presidio Graduate School. In addition to her independent consulting and facilitation work, she serves as the Senior Performance Program Manager for Kaiser Permanente. She enables purpose-driven organizations to focus directly on their mission by saving time, energy, and resources, while increasing engagement.
Spotlight: Boulder, CO Off Sites & Retreats
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