Ascend: The Leadership Intensive™

A Half-Day Retreat-Style Experience for Leadership Teams & Groups

Pause. Reflect. Reconnect. Reimagine. Rise.

Ascend: The Leadership Intensive™ is an immersive, retreat-style professional development experience designed to help leadership teams step away from the demands of the day-to-day, reconnect with their purpose, strengthen relationships, and intentionally focus on what comes next.

Facilitated by Raven Ascend Consulting, this experience blends leadership development, reflection, meaningful conversation, team connection, strategic thinking, and purposeful action to create a learning experience that goes beyond traditional professional development.

Using the ASCEND™ Coaching Framework, teams are guided through a meaningful process of examining where they are, clarifying what matters most, exploring new possibilities, and identifying the next steps that will move them forward together.

The ASCEND™ Experience

A — Acknowledge Your Truth
Create space for leaders to recognize the current reality of the team, organization, and leadership experience.

S — Survey the Situation
Examine the facts, circumstances, strengths, challenges, relationships, and opportunities influencing the team.

C — Clarify Your Focus
Identify shared priorities, values, purpose, and the leadership work that matters most.

E — Explore Possibilities
Challenge assumptions, spark new thinking, and explore opportunities for growth, innovation, and stronger team impact.

N — Narrow Next Steps
Determine the most important actions and commitments that will move the team forward.

D — Deploy & Do
Transform insight into intentional action with clear commitments, ownership, and a plan for moving forward.

What Teams Can Expect

The Leadership Intensive can include:

  • Leadership reflection and self-awareness

  • Team connection and relationship building

  • Purpose and vision alignment

  • Leadership strengths and growth opportunities

  • Meaningful facilitated conversations

  • Communication and collaboration activities

  • Problem-solving and strategic thinking

  • Interactive team-building experiences

  • Goal and priority alignment

  • Individual and collective action planning

  • 30-, 60-, and 90-day next-step commitments

Designed For

The Leadership Intensive can be customized for:

  • Executive and leadership teams

  • School and district leadership teams

  • Principals and campus leadership teams

  • Emerging and aspiring leaders

  • Nonprofit leadership teams

  • Corporate and organizational teams

  • Departments, cohorts, and professional groups

The Raven Ascend Difference

This isn't simply another professional development session.

It is a space to slow down, think differently, connect meaningfully, and rise together.

Participants leave with greater clarity about where they are, a renewed understanding of where they want to go, stronger connection to one another, and purposeful next steps for turning vision into action.

Investment: Customized based on group size, location, duration, and facilitation needs.

Let's create an experience that helps your leaders and your team ASCEND.

Begin Your Ascension