You are constantly juggling between demands of the present, planning for the future while driving momentum through layers of economic uncertainty, adverse market conditions, resistance, and/or conflict. It takes acuity, influence, and momentum to navigate through these various dimensions.
This comes from embodying leadership skills, not simply knowing or possessing them. By integrating habits and practices with core principles, leaders respond fluidly to complex challenges, inspire trust, and make great decisions instinctively.
Wilderness retreats cultivate this multi-dimensional mastery. Literally getting outside of the box helps you think outside of the box, navigate uncertainty, see multiple perspectives, and lead with confidence, clarity, and purpose.
Wilderness and Forest retreats place participants in real, dynamic, and sometimes unpredictable environments where thinking alone isn’t enough, participants must move, sense, and respond with awareness, resilience, and presence. Tasks like navigating terrain, managing limited resources, or facing physical and emotional challenges naturally call for leadership principles to be lived through action, not just theorized, strengthening intuition, adaptability, and authentic decision-making.
When you embody effective leadership principles, your abilities move beyond surface-level tactics into instinctive, authentic expressions of leadership, and you gain depth across every dimension: strategic, emotional, intuitive, and physical. It is more effective than relying solely on frameworks, because internalized values guide authentic, consistent, and adaptable action across any situation.
Our wilderness adventures and immersions provide conditions where knowledge transforms into lived experience. Leaders move beyond theory to practice, refine, and embed new techniques and habits until they become automatic ways of being and leading. Through structured challenges, reflective solitude, and collaborative sprints, you’ll practice decision-making, creative problem solving, and resilience in a real and memorable way. Nature removes distractions, expands perspective, and focuses action around purpose, helping you lead more intentionally and leave a measurable impact no matter how complex the challenge.
Quiet, open, expansive spaces allow big-picture thinking.
Pristine landscapes are proven to expand cognitive flexibility and creativity.
Structured activities unlock creative flow, streamline decision-making power, and harness the inspiration of nature into concrete business, design, or invention strategies.
Time spent in nature reduces cortisol and rewires the nervous system.
Physical challenges (hikes, navigation, survival exercises) mirror leadership challenges: resilience, decision-making under uncertainty, and adaptability.
Guided practices enable you to release stress, restore energy, strengthen presence.
Leading in a world of AI, constant disruption, competing values, goals, and endless data demands relentless focus, radical prioritization, and courageous action.
High-energy natural sites amplify introspection, and create space for visionary thinking, genuine collaboration, and strategic focus on what matters in the long run.
These questionnaires were written to help you assess current results and outcomes.
Complete them individually, or gather a team and use the questionnaire as an instrument to guide conversation, build team alignment and consensus, and target (prioritize) areas for improvement and optimization.
Identify External Influences that affect your Cognitive Vitality, Creativity and Mental Wellbeing.
Reveal Hidden Patterns driving (or draining) your Cognitive Vitality, Creativity and Mental Wellbeing.
Assess the impact of your Global Leadership Development initiatives across three levels of your organization.
Benchmark and calculate the Return on Investment in Global Leadership Development against 30 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs),
The MindWell™ online series creates the space for leaders to step back, reconnect with their inner direction, and return to their roles with clarity, presence, and capacity. It is designed for those who are relied upon to think clearly, respond wisely, and model steadiness through volatility and chaos. This is not about mindset tricks or reframing. It’s about reclaiming access to your full self so that your decisions, relationships, and energy reflect what actually matters.
The MindWell 365™ and MindWell RESTORED™ protocols build your inner foundation so you can lead with clarity, purpose, and strength even in high-pressure environments.
You practice and integrate scientifically-backed exercises to boost strategic & creative thinking for yourself and other high performers.
The MindWell Practitioner™ creates the space and structure for others to step back, reconnect with their inner direction, and return to their roles with clarity, presence, and capacity, using the MindWell 365™ and the MindWell RESTORED™ frameworks. We facilitate recalibration experiences where high performers align decision-making with achievable outcomes, gain access to stronger internal resources, and transmute stress into creative power.
We don’t teach “resilience.” We restore it.
As such, we often carry the weight of emotionally charged conflict, competing priorities, and challenging behaviors, which demands consistent nervous system resilience. Without intentional recovery, stress accumulates, which dims focus and clarity, emotional attunement, and leadership effectiveness.
Row Together, Lead Beyond
Power Paddle™ is a 3-day team rowing and wilderness retreat along the scenic Dexter Lake, located in the Middle Fork of the Willamette River, and home to the University of Oregon’s rowing team due to it’s calm water environment. Executives practice alignment, trust, and communication, learning to move as one unit, where every action affects the whole.
Through rhythm, focus, and shared effort, we build trust, alignment, and synergy, (culture and behaviors needed back in the boardroom), which in turn accelerates strategy and impact. Rowing and reflecting together helps us embody the principles and values that deliver greater rewards.
Play the Course, Navigate the Currents.
Dunes & Depths™ is a 3-day immersive retreat along the Pacific Coast. Participants golf the renown Bandon Dunes where every shot becomes an exercise in deliberate decision-making, emotional regulation, and reading complex and ever-changing terrain (skills that translate directly to high-stakes business challenges).
Deep sea fishing in rogue Pacific waters immerses executives in real-time challenge, where adaptability, patience, and rapid decision-making are essential. Every wave and changing current mirrors unpredictable business conditions, teaching leaders to stay composed and focused under pressure.
From Foothills to Futures: See, Create, Transform.
Continental Divide™ is a 3-day immersive retreat that begins in the foothills of Boulder, and ends in the heart of Glenwood Springs, CO. Participants arrive at the historic St Julien to explore bio-diverse and regenerative ecosystems and flow.
We visit the historic Mining Company, cross the Great Continental Divide, and settle in for a Mineral Soak at the renown Iron Mountain Spa. We work in cross-disciplinary and cross-functional teams to envision and design a Future City, and showcase their concepts and MVP Prototypes at the renown Aspen Institute.
Lead so brilliantly that even the night disappears.
The MidNight Sun™ is a 4 1/2-day Norwegian retreat along the Arctic Circle where the sun shines 24 hours a day. Participants rewire habits, regulate stress responses, and enhance cognitive vitality without relying on willpower alone.
We apply structured micro-practices and reflective tools that are part of the MindWell R.E.S.T.O.R.E.D.™ framework, a precision behavior-change system designed for high-performing executives, grounded in neuroscience and performance psychology. You leave with greater clarity, feeling lighter, more focused, and ready for your next adventure.
The MindWell Studio™ is an online, live facilitated gathering where leaders connect to practice and share results with like-minded professionals.
Crotonville Makers® is an online community of designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs who solve life’s most complex challenges.
From discovery to measurable results, we curate a unique and enjoyable leadership journey with precision. Each phase is grounded in scientific research, immediate application, and tangible outcomes.