A Unique Approach to Leadership

The executive leadership workshop, Transformational Leadership: Vertical Development & Beyond, delves into why we lead the way we do. The program offers a stimulating and challenging curriculum that invites you to learn how to exercise leadership with more courage, skill, and effectiveness – especially in challenging times.

Transformational Leadership: Vertical Development & Beyond is different than other executive leadership programs that focus primarily on building a distinct set of skills and tactics. The program challenges you to look beyond formulating quick technical solutions that try to solve deeper organizational issues and assess your own role in making lasting change.

The two-day program requires participants to be actively engaged on several levels—in the classroom, in small groups, and in individual reflection. You’ll leave with a renewed sense of passion for your work, a personal assessment of your next steps, and the tools to transform your leadership.

Work with our team and:

• Enhance your personal capacity to navigate complexity and change

• Expand your self-awareness, build interpersonal effectiveness, and move towards your aspirational self

• Learn and apply global leadership models, premises and approaches

• Determine how to work with more efficiency - while not losing depth or meaning

• Gain skill in giving and receiving feedback that builds relationships and generates positive change

• Participate in transformational learning with colleagues who desire to grow into their next level of leadership effectiveness

• Receive a personal leadership assessment and action plan

FAQs about CtK.Leadership Academy

We’ve gotten lots of interest in and questions about the upcoming CtK.Leadership Academy program Transformational Leadership: Vertical Development & Beyond and wanted to offer up the answers to a couple of FAQs:

Q: Didn’t I already do this at Campfire?
A: No! You got a brief look at Vertical Development at Campfire, but this drills down into your personal leadership style using vertical development as a tool.

Q: Do I have to have gone to Campfire to enroll in this program?
A: No! This program is ideal for anyone who is in a leadership role. Whatever training you’ve had before is great, and the skills that our executive leaders bring into our programs are always helpful. But there are no prerequisites.

Q: Will I be able to put the skills to use immediately?
A: YES! This program is designed to offer insights into your leadership style that you can operationalize immediately.

There are still a few spaces available in Transformational Leadership: Vertical Development & Beyond - and a discount for Fellows and Alums. Register today!

Campfire Testimonials

“As I looked around the room on the last day I thought to myself, ‘I truly believe that some of the people in this room are going to be standing on a stage or sitting around a table together in positions or tremendous power and influence in a pivotal time in our history. And because of the seeds planted in this weekend, they will figure out a way forward.’”

— Campfire Fellow, Cohort V

Campfire Testimonials

“The exchange shared at CtK Campfire provided an opportunity for personal introspection and growth as well as partnership for the future. In a time of American tribalism and partisanship people of diverse backgrounds with unique perspectives came together and learned that while their American experiences were different, their goals were the same: A More Perfect Union. ”

— Campfire Fellow, Cohort V

Campfire Testimonials

“One of the most incredible and truly unique things about CTK Campfire was that it wasn’t just another “common ground” or squishy middle gathering. We have enough of those in my opinion and I question their efficacy. This, in contrast, was a place for robust disagreement. To stand where you stand, on principle, to be heard, to listen and then to figure out how, in that tension, to still be friends. And that’s exactly what happened. ”

— Campfire Fellow, Cohort V

How does social isolation fit into the national equation?

Campfire Fellows demonstrated an acute awareness of the prevalence and impact of social isolation and loneliness in our country today. This growing phenomenon factors into their thinking about how to elevate dialogue and deepen civic engagement. They recognize that reducing isolation and loneliness might be a key component of maintaining a strong democracy - even if it isn’t the first thing to come to mind when we assess the national equation and our increasingly polarized discourse.

This is a timely topic.

New research - Generation Z is stressed, depressed and exam-obsessed - shows that Gen Z is extremely affected by the loneliness we discussed. Courtesy of The Economist, here is a chart:

The Economist has written about this before: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic nowadays: But they are also lonelier and more isolated.

Additional research - out of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health - looks at the issue as a public health crisis: Rates of Social Isolation Vary by Rurality and Demographics. “Social isolation needs to be examined across a range of subjective and objective traits and experiences. No one measure can capture the full extent of social participation or isolation,” writes Assistant Professor and deputy director of the School of Public Health’s Rural Health Research Center Carrie Henning-Smith.

How do we address the growing tide of loneliness and isolation plaguing our nation? Especially since we’re now at risk of passing it from generation to generation? How can CtK’s mission continue to bring people together and build ties that bind?

We want to know what you think.

Have A Great Weekend!

CtK.Leadership Academy is coming up on May 9-10 in DC!

This workshop is fine tuned to take advantage of the unique insights that vertical development provides. It is also specifically designed to enhance your leadership capabilities in the volatile, uncertain, (sometimes) chaotic, and (often) ambiguous situations that today’s leaders encounter regularly. Deepen your self-awareness, sustain your learning, and turn insights into action.

Find out how we can help enhance your leadership skills and build the capacity of your team. Register today!

Register today! Visit www.cultivatethekarass.org/register.

CtK.Campfire Testimonials keep rolling in from our Campfire Fellows!

“In the hectic and noisy world of politics and policymaking, the CtK.Campfire experience provides a refreshingly quiet space to hear the perspective of others. The disarming space that is created allows for partisan armor to be taken off and for emerging leaders to have frank and open discussions about shared values and principles.”

— Campfire Fellow, Cohort V

We’ll be back next week with our weekly alumni updates! In the meantime, congrats to Jose Antonio Vargas who became a Broadway Producer this week! Have a great weekend.

Campfire Testimonials

“It’s a powerful experience. Difficult to put into words. Hard to live out in the real world. But CTK provides the spark that makes the fire of pluralistic, robust, peaceful democracy possible. I’m deeply grateful I got to be a part, and am now a part for life.”

— Campfire Fellow, Cohort V

Campfire Testimonials

“As much as I have friends who are on radically opposing wavelengths of the political spectrum from my conservative stances, it was really helpful to have a platform where it was understood that we were all there to civilly engage on policy issues. One of my favorite moments of the weekend was having a one-on-one session with a CtK participant so progressive he didn’t think Bernie Sanders went far enough in 2016, and realizing that we agreed on overall principles of what we wanted to see happen for our country about 90% of the time.”

— Campfire Fellow, Cohort V

Campfire Testimonials

“I can’t stop thinking about my CtK experience, our group’s conversations and all the fascinating, impressive people I met. Those three days will forever change me personally and professionally.”

— Campfire Fellow, Cohort V