The mountains are calling…
Issues & Crisis Leadership Retreat
Pause, Connect, and Engage
ABOUT
With a special focus on proactive planning and issues management, this workshop tailors tested best practices to today’s realities. Join us in beautiful Breckenridge, Colorado with your colleagues, peers, and experts who understand the challenges you are up against. Leave with actionable strategies to stop the churn and focus your energy where it is most effective.
AGENDA
Step away from the day-to-day and breath the mountain air.
Explore best practice response strategies while engaging in scenario-driven, hands-on learning.
Realign your leadership priorities and energize your approach with new ideas and proactive, actionable strategies.
Realign your leadership priorities and energize your approach with new ideas and proactive, actionable strategies.
BRING THE TEAM!
Crises don’t happen in a silo, and neither should your preparation! That said, it can be difficult to find the time on campus, with multiple competing priorities, to truly set aside the time necessary for you and your colleagues to get on the same page and plan strategically.
While the retreat is designed to be highly valuable for any individual, there can be additional value in bringing along folks from other functional areas to learn, share, collaborate and align your approach to the issues and risks unique to your institution.
An escape to the mountains is just the enticement they (and you) need! And we’ve sweetened the deal with special rates for cohorts of three or more.
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!
Save a total of $550/person on groups of 3+
2026 Leadership Retreat
Breckenridge, Colorado
July 22 – July 24
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!
Register by May 15
SAVE $300/PERSON
(Combine with the discount of $250/person for groups of 3+ for a total savings of $550/person!)
Retreat price includes:
- 2-night stay at the all-suite Residence Inn Breckenridge
- dinner upon arrival
- daily breakfast
- lunch & snacks during sessions
- hosted happy hour
- a copy of Managing Partner Simon Barker’s book “Preventing Crises at Your Institution”
Past attendees have included:
- AVPS & VPs in:
- Advancement
- Academic Affairs
- Communications
- Legal
- Student Affairs
- Risk/Business Continuity
- Chief of Staff to President
- Police & Public Safety Leadership
- Key Leaders with a role in their institution’s response to significant issues, crises, or events
AGENDA
- Arrival and Check-in (5pm)
- Welcome Dinner
- Introduction to Crisis Management
- Team Exercise
- Breakfast
- Team Exercise Report Out
- Challenges to Effective Crisis Management
- Response Structure & Team Roles
- Snacks & Coffee Break
- Issue Reporting & Escalation
- Lightning Round Snapshots
- Escalation Characteristics Matrix
- Lunch
- Defined Management Process
- Team Exercise
- Snacks & Coffee Break
- Breakout Sessions – Media Training or Protest Management Policy and Planning
- Hosted Happy Hour
- Breakfast
- Contentious Meetings, Event Intervention and De-escalation
- Snacks and Coffee Break + Hotel Check-out
- Team Exercise – Crisis Communications
- Crisis Communications
- Working Lunch, Debriefing, Q&A (1pm Wrap)