DEEPER WORK, STRONGER BOARDS
Strategic Retreats for
Boards That Govern
Together
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Reconnect. Advance your agenda. Govern as one.
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Customized. Dynamic facilitation. Immersive sessions.
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Experienced. Fully hosted. Expert-led.
HOW WE WORK
High-performing Boards start with connected Directors.
We focus on how your Board relates, listens, and makes decisions as a group. Every engagement is built around your Board's strategic work, your agenda, your opportunities.
Full Board, Together
We shift governance education from developing isolated achievers towards creating cohesive, high-performing board teams. Success is driven by the power of the collective board, not individual accolades.
Your Real Agenda
No hypotheticals or case studies. Every session centres on your Board's actual agenda items: real decisions, live opportunities, pressing challenges. You advance your work while practising new and better ways of working together.
Experiential
We treat Directors as the accomplished leaders they are, building on existing expertise. The goal is not to make Directors alike, but to help them consider new information and relate to their own experiences in different ways.
Relational Governance
We strengthen the strategic work and interpersonal dynamics that drive Board effectiveness by embedding a relational governance focus within the retreat structure. Directors become attuned to one another, and group dynamics enhance the Board's work.
WHAT WE OFFER
Customized Retreats & Workshops for Boards
Strategic Board Retreats
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Bespoke, full-day or multi-day retreats designed around your Board's actual strategic priorities. We facilitate deeper dialogue, strengthen relational dynamics, and help your Board align on the decisions that matter most.
Experiential Board Workshops
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Focused, applied sessions that address specific governance challenges: from navigating a specific complex decision to building trust across the boardroom table. Every workshop goes beyond governance fundamentals to help create lasting shifts in how your Directors operate as a Board, together.
CO-FOUNDERS
Governance Practitioners and Facilitators
We believe Boards perform at their best when Directors are connected, attuned, and working as a true collective.
Suzanne Joy Clark,
M.A., LL.M
Suzanne is an educator, facilitator, and experience designer who transforms how Boards operate and how Directors relate to one another through inquiry and relational governance. She currently serves on the Boards and Governance Committees of Brain Injury Canada and Ashes University Foundation Canada.
Drawing on her legal training, background as a linguist, and over 15 years of experience in organisational leadership, executive recruitment, and Board consulting, Suzanne specialises in inquiry-based facilitation that enhances board effectiveness and decision-making. She teaches within the Master of Management program at Trent University, serves as Executive Director of the Pemsel Case Foundation, and is co-host of the Life Habits Podcast.
Jonathan Bennett,
C.Dir., FNI.Dir.
Jonathan Bennett is an independent director and strategic advisor with more than 25 years of board experience across consulting, health, financial services, social-purpose enterprises, and the public sector. He currently serves on the boards of Accerta, OwlCrate (Advisory Board Chair), the Vanier Institute of the Family, and 11A Collaborative, and is founding Co-Chair of the Peterborough Community Health Centre, where he co-developed an innovative Indigenous/non-Indigenous shared governance model.
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Jonathan's career began in the C-suite of a large regional hospital, leading corporate communications, public affairs, government relations, and strategic planning. He went on to found Laridae, a B Corp consulting firm, before a successful exit in 2021. He is recognized for principled judgment, constructive challenge, and well-honed skill as a board and committee chair.