What we do Leadership Development Intensive

You don't need to change yourself. You need to come home to yourself.

LDI is not leadership training: it is leadership development. Created by Dr John J. Scherer, this intensive helps you discover the person inside the position and move from automatic reactions to authentic leadership.

Development, not training

Discover, unwrap, find: your inner source of purpose, power, and peace.

From the Old French desveloper: to discover, to unwrap, to find. LDI helps you see how your default reactions to difficult situations ('tigers') have been driving and limiting you.

This is not a sit-down-and-take-notes experience. You will work with powerful models (The Waterline, Three Worlds, Persona/Shadow, Mindfulness) and experiential practices including stretching, aikido, and mindfulness training. The workplace becomes a dojo for personal development.

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Reacting on autopilot when challenged
Conscious, authentic response under pressure
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Avoiding the difficult situations ('tigers')
Facing what confronts you and growing through it
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Performing a leadership role
Coming home to who you actually are as a leader
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Training that fades back at the desk
Transformational change that is lasting
The inner work

Take on the Five Questions that change everything.

The framework at the heart of LDI: five questions that guide the inner work of leadership development.

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What confronts me?

Facing your 'tigers'

What challenging and difficult situations do you need to face? The problems you've been avoiding are often where the most growth lives.

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What am I bringing?

Your history with the moment

What is your history with similar situations: your expectations, hopes, fears, and predictions? What baggage are you carrying into the room?

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What runs me?

Your automatic patterns

What is your default way of handling things like this? How are you on automatic without realising it, and how does that limit your options?

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What calls me?

Strengths waiting to be expressed

What inner strengths and capabilities call out to be expressed more fully? What situations in your life and work are asking for your attention?

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What will unleash me?

Making this time different

What will empower you to step into your full potential? You've had insights before. What will make this experience different?

The LDI process

Preparation. Retreat. Implementation.

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Preparation

Before the retreat

A 30-minute online EQ self-assessment to set your development goals, followed by a 60-minute pre-call with a facilitator to introduce the programme, its content, and logistics.

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Group workshops

3.5-day off-site retreat

An intensive facilitated retreat with experiential activities. Days begin at 7:30 with gentle stretching, aikido, and mindfulness, followed by morning and afternoon learning sessions. Held at a boutique hotel or retreat centre; staying on-site is recommended.

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Implementation

21 days and beyond

The 21 Days email programme with daily audio/video support, two 90-minute group calls to apply learnings back at work, and a peer support group. Optional 1:1 coaching available.

What you can expect

Transformational and lasting, not another course certificate.

LDI builds on your strengths and helps you discover capabilities you may not have known you possessed, or have been reluctant to use. The effects reach far beyond the retreat.

Programme details

3.5-day retreat + preparation & implementation · Groups of 6–10 · English or Polish · Kraków, Poland

Investment: 10,900 PLN net per person (plus applicable VAT)

Eight outcomes participants report
  • →Unhooking from counter-productive reactions and patterns
  • →Producing extraordinary results in the face of obstacles
  • →Resolving conflicts that seemed un-resolvable
  • →Becoming a communicator who hears and is heard deeply
  • →Knowing the difference between problems to solve and polarities to manage
  • →Turning work into a vehicle for lifelong personal development
  • →Tuning into the deepest personal source of power and strength
  • →Working with a greater sense of purpose, power, and peace
Start here

Ready for a leadership experience that is not another training?

LDI is for mature leaders who have fallen into the routine of everyday life and tunnel thinking, and who are ready to rediscover themselves as leaders, team players, and human beings.

Register your interest Response within one business day
Who this is for
  • →Senior leaders with real professional challenges who want to solve them, and rediscover themselves in the process
  • →Leadership teams wanting to get stronger, more effective, and more insightful together
  • →Leaders who sense they're on automatic, and know there's a more authentic way to lead
  • →Anyone with the curiosity and courage to step into a deep, game-changing experience