Leadership & Executive Retreats That Change How Leaders Lead
Atlanta Challenge creates facilitated leadership retreats for executives, leadership teams, emerging leaders, and other groups of leaders who want to grow together.
Each retreat combines professional leadership develop-
ment, purposeful challenge, candid conversation, per-
sonal reflection, and practical application to help leaders
expand their range and translate insight into action.
Go Beyond Leadership Training & Development
Leaders bring their own ways of thinking, communicating, making decisions, handling uncertainty, and responding to pressure. These patterns can be valuable strengths, but relying on them too heavily can limit our range and affect the people around us.
A leadership retreat creates space to step outside immediate demands, recognize familiar patterns, explore different perspectives, and practice more effective responses.
Participants do more than discuss leadership. They experience leadership dynamics as they unfold and connect their discoveries to the relationships, decisions, and challenges that matter at work.
The Changes Leaders Can Create
The Leadership Growth Journey
When and Why Is a Leadership Retreat Valuable?
A retreat can help leaders:
Atlanta Area Retreats for Leadership Teams
Its members must continue growing as individual leaders. The group must also work effectively as a team.
A leadership-focused retreat may explore how participants lead the organization, navigate change, develop others, shape culture, make consequential decisions, and connect people to a larger purpose.
When the leadership team also needs stronger communication, trust, role clarity, decision-making, or collective accountability, we can incorporate appropriate team-development elements.
You do not have to determine the perfect category before calling us. We will help you identify the right balance of leadership development and team development for your group.
Make Leadership Growth Visible
A challenging decision, an unfamiliar situation, a difference of opinion, or a change in plans can reveal how people assess the landscape, influence others, respond to uncertainty, and draw upon their strengths.
Each retreat blends four developmental environments:
Choose the Right Depth for Your Local Retreat
Designed Around Your Leaders
We will consider the leadership demands they are facing, the strengths and patterns affecting their impact, and what balance of learning, experience, conversation, and reflection will serve them best.
Leadership assessments, thinking-style profiles, participant interviews, and other development tools can be incorporated when useful, but they are never required.
Retreats can be held indoors, outdoors, or through a combination of environments. Experiences are selected because they support the leadership objective, not because they test athletic ability. Activities can be adapted around accessibility, weather, physical comfort, and participant needs.
Atlanta Challenge can facilitate your retreat at an Atlanta-area resort, hotel, conference center, corporate location, or another destination selected by your organization.
Meet Shawn Clark, owner and founder of Atlanta Challenge, and Certified Executive Coach
Shawn Clark is the President of Atlanta Challenge + Corporate Team Building, an Atlanta-based training and coaching company. He develops and facilitates course design workshops and effective coaching for teams and leaders. Shawn has been involved in team building and executive coaching for 25 years and is a Master Trainer Challenge by peers.
Being his extensive career, Shawn has brought his unique combination of insight and interpersonal skills to thousands of companies such as Accenture, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and Cox Media. He has also worked with many non-profit government organizations including the US Army, CDC, American Cancer Society, and thousands of other groups. He also serves as a keynote speaker and facilitator.
Shawn is deeply committed to his profession and to generating real results for his clients. In addition to his education in business and psychology, Shawn has received the following certifications:
Certified Leadership Coach
Certified Teamwork Coach
Marshall Goldsmith—Stakeholder Centered Coaching
Certified Executive Coach
Certified Team Building Coach
Center For Executive Coaching
Certified Thinking Styles Practitioner
Herrmann International
Certified Positive Intelligence Coach
Certified Brain health Trainer
Dr. Daniel Amen / Amen Health
Certified Life Coach
Anthony Robbins Companies
Local Experience You Can Trust in Atlanta
His approach draws from leadership coaching, experiential learning, whole-brain thinking, neuroscience, mental fitness, and decades of observing how people respond to meaningful challenges.
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Plan Your Leadership Retreat
Tell us who will participate, what leadership challenges or opportunities they are facing, and what you want to change. We will recommend a retreat format and develop a customized agenda for your group.
