When you think strategy, do any of these thoughts occur to you?
The very idea makes you want to lie down and take a nap.
A few people at the top making decisions behind closed doors and then telling everyone else what to do.
Long, methodical meetings where people show up, say the right things, and go back to business as usual.
Three inch binders that sit on the shelf because there's no link to you and your team's daily routines.
Conflict and resistance as management tries to get buy-in.
Exclusion, lack of clarity, jargon, and inflexibility generating distrust and disengagement.
The most important things aren't addressed or don't change, like culture, silos, and bureaucracy.
You know what's needed for your organization to develop and implement strategy successfully...
Culture that inspires high performance, wellbeing, and innovation.
Connection and collaboration across the organizational ecosystem.
Empowered employees who feel heard, are engaged, and capable of responding in real time to customer and market changes.
Clarity of vision and purpose and flexible plans that can evolve in real time.
Adaptability and agility, using processes to manage VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
Alignment and capability across the entire system.
Work that is meaningful, inspires ownership, and generates positive outcomes for all stakeholders.
Create the Culture You Believe In
Get Started with the Strategic Conversations Bootcamp
The fastest way to transform your efforts, create alignment, and generate strategic success—while increasing energy, ownership, and performance. Become a culture magnet for top talent and retention. Develop a mindset that will transform your strategic conversations!
During this intensive, experiential bootcamp, you will:
- Explore a living systems business model that will shift your strategic mindset.
- Learn and use the flexible SOAR Framework to design strategic conversations that inspire creativity, ownership, and commitment to action.
- Identify a desired future state for your team or organization, and craft a set of generative questions to foster strategic conversations worth having.
- Explore and participate in several whole system engagement processes that will allow you to scale conversations worth having at the systems level.
- Understand how to future-proof your strategy, making it adaptive and resilient, without losing focus.
This isn’t another training to add to your overflowing plate.
It’s a new mindset and framework for facilitating strategic conversations. It will strengthen your ability to lead others and to adapt and change in the face of environmental shifts.
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A Smarter Investment in Real Change
You can continue to spend precious time and money creating top-down plans, perhaps with the support of a strategy consultant.
Then spend more time unrolling the plan across the system, hoping to get buy-in and momentum
Or...
You can become a change agent. Learn how to integrate strategic conversations into the fabric of your organization and how to engage the whole system in planning so people have ownership and clarity from the start. People commit to what they help create!
The Strategic Conversations Bootcamp isn’t another quick fix idea.
It’s a practical, proven framework that empowers individuals, teams, and leaders at every level—without needing endless outside support.
Change your strategic conversations, change your strategic outcomes!
Join the Strategic Conversations BootcampReal People. Real Change
Earned me a Promotion!
"This bootcamp earned me a promotion! I shared aspects of the program with my CEO and she invited me to design and facilitate a strategic conversation for our Board of Directors. Using the SOAR Framework and Appreciative Inquiry, our Board gained greater awareness about our overall program and is now more engaged. My CEO has been thrilled with the results!"
— Deborah Porter
Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology
Essential Skills for Navigating Complexity
“I highly recommend this course. It has helped me develop essential skills for cultivating stronger relationships during times of great change—and for navigating the increasing complexity of the organizations I work with.”
— CWH Participant
Feel More Optimistic About Change
“If you're looking to feel more optimistic and hopeful about change and transformation for your organization, this is the training for you. You will leave feeling uplifted and excited to try out the framework in every aspect of your life."
— CWH Participant
What’s the Real Risk? Staying the Same.
Imagine what’s at risk if you don’t learn how to lead Strategic Conversations Worth Having.
Traditional business models aren't designed for today's world. What's needed are business practices that develop everyone's ability to flex and adapt in the face of change. Key to these practices and capabilities are strategic conversations worth having. When conversations break down, risk grows—in silence, confusion, distrust, disengagement, and misalignment. Without clear, well-framed dialogue, strategy drifts, momentum fades, and people disconnect. Even solo plans stall without a solid internal dialogue or strategic input.
In a world that keeps shifting, rigid strategies quickly become outdated. One-time efforts aren’t enough.
What you need is shared leadership and on-going strategic conversations—a way to keep your plans alive, adaptive, and aligned.
That’s exactly what the Strategic Conversations Bootcamp delivers.
Bottom line?
The #1 way to limit risk and prepare to thrive in a rapidly changing environment is to transform your mindset and empower yourself, your team, and the system through strategic conversations worth having!
Strategic Conversations Bootcamp
$199
On-Demand
Enroll in our On-Demand Strategic Conversations Bootcamp and learn at your own pace.
Strategic Conversations Bootcamp
$749
Sept. 16 & 18, 2025
Enroll in our LIVE Strategic Conversations Bootcamp for an interactive experience.
Bootcamp
Bundle
$1398
Sept. 9& 11 and Sept 16 & 18, 2025
Add Conversation Bootcamp for even more benefits in your business situations.
Conversation Bootcamp
Enroll Today and Get These Bonuses
🎁Bootcamp Workbook
Your hands-on guide for applying what you learn—during and after the Bootcamp.
🎁 Pre-Bootcamp Reading Guide
Get a head start with curated readings for the SOAR Framework and a living systems mindset.
🎁 Real-World Case Studies
See how strategic conversations worth having are accelerating positive organizational change.
🎁 Templates and Strategic Conversation Starters
Ready-to-use tools to jumpstart better strategic conversations with your team and in strategy sessions.
“As a direct result of this Conversation Bootcamp, I have increased the value and results of the conversations that I have with my family, community leaders, and my organization. I am more confident in framing questions and conversations for sustainable action.”
Dr. Suzette Brown,
Education and Consulting
FAQs
Who is the Strategic Conversations Bootcamp for?
What if I don’t have a formal leadership title?
How much time will this take?
Is this another top-down strategy session?
What if I can’t implement everything right away?
Is this really applicable to my work or industry?
This Is Your Moment of Choice
You can keep doing what you’ve always done—pushing uphill, watching strategy stall, and wondering why alignment and engagement feel just out of reach.
Or you can change the conversation.
You can lead with clarity, spark real engagement, and build a culture—or practice—that moves your strategy forward every single day.
The Strategic Conversations Bootcamp gives you the framework, tools, and confidence to make that shift.
It’s not more work—it’s better conversations that make the work easier, more connected, and more effective.
The choice is yours.
Keep spinning—or start leading the way forward.
Create the Culture You Believe In