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Sometimes your organization, team, or leadership group needs more than a keynote. A face-to-face or virtual workshop — or a Masterclass series — is the ideal way to dig deeper, challenge assumptions, and change behaviours that stick. Available for groups of 10–200, in half-day, full-day, or multi-session formats, every workshop is tailored to your context and goals.
WORKSHOPS: ONLINE OR FACE-TO-FACE
In large or small groups, face-to-face or virtual, each workshop creates a focused environment to challenge thinking and drive real behaviour change. Every workshop can be tailored to your team’s context, size, and objectives.
To discuss your needs, email speak@danpontefract.com.
Explore the workshops below — each one is ready to be customised for you.
Ready to Learn
This face-to-face workshop helps leaders move from passive to proactive in how they foster learning for themselves and their teams. Through provocative discussion, practical tools, and reflective exercises, participants begin operating like “Captains”—leaders who build teams committed to learning and growth.
The session introduces powerful frameworks:
- Mindset vs. Attitude
- Will vs. Ability
- The Learning Leader Matrix
- Personas (Tourist, Passenger, Captain)
- CRAFT: A Learning Leadership Model (Connect, Reflect, Accelerate, Follow-Up, Teach)
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The Calendar Way
Your calendar is your leadership in plain sight.
The Calendar Way is a practical workshop that helps leaders reclaim time for what actually moves the business: strategy, coaching, and execution—while shrinking firefighting and busywork.
Using a simple five-part lens, participants audit a real month of their calendars, compare it to an ideal, and map the behaviour shifts needed to lead through others with clarity and discipline.
The result: more strategic thinking, better people development, fewer “hovering” meetings, and a cadence that aligns work with outcomes. Available face-to-face or virtual.
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Work-Life Bloom: It’s More than Employee Engagement and Work-Life Balance
As leaders continue to grapple with the challenges of our interconnected world, the traditional concept of ‘work-life balance’ has become outdated and unproductive. Bringing your “best self” to work and ”employee engagement” scoring are other myths we need to reconsider. However, the core of any team (or organization) is how it operates.
Rather than espouse these myths, leaders ought to be instituting several work-life factors that will help the team and its people to flourish, individually and collectively.
This face-to-face or virtual engagement helps leaders implement the work-life factors that ensure their team members will bloom in both work and life.
Based on his primary researched book, “Work-Life Bloom How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes,” this series tackles any number of the 12 work-life factors that your team (or organization) needs to focus on such that as many team members as possible can ”bloom.”
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How to Become a Leader Who Matters – Masterclass
There are only two kinds of leadership in this world: leading self and leading others. It’s that simple, only two. Your ultimate goal is to master and deliver on them both. Now, more than ever, how you lead yourself and others might become the defining moment of your leadership career. It’s time to care about your leadership style. It’s time to make improvements in how you treat others.
This face-to-face or virtual engagement is based on best-selling author Dan Pontefract’s book, “Lead. Care. Win. How to Become a Leader Who Matters,” where there are nine key leadership lessons that make up a leader who matters. Considerate and engaging leaders—ones who fully understand the critical importance of crafting meaningful, respectful relationships among all stakeholders—are leaders who know how to handle not only crises, but they work more effectively with others to achieve the goals of the organization.
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Mastering How to Be an Open Thinker
Leaders are busy. Super busy. It’s not as though that’s going to change. In reality, people have become experts at doing—constantly being on—and we have forgotten the importance of creative and critical thinking. We need to sort out a much better investment in our time to make it happen.
“Mastering How to Be an Open Thinker” reminds you not only of the significance of creative and critical thinking—and how to become a better thinker—but how you can build time back into your calendar (and that of your team’s) to ensure there is space in which to dream up new ideas, make better decisions, lead the team, while getting things done.
You will leave with practical, tactical, and actionable techniques in which to improve your thinking & doing, assessing where you currently sit, while learning how to feel and be less busy.
Dream. Decide. Do. Repeat. It’s your new mantra of ‘open thinking.’ The session is offered in face-to-face full-day and half-day sessions + virtual engagement (5-session option)
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The Power of Purpose
When we understand the importance of purpose for ourselves and the organizations where we work, it’s a step in the right direction.
By enacting a sense of purpose, an engaged organization will be more successful, productive, and endearing to its customers – indeed all stakeholders.
Purpose of self is key, but so too is enacting the purpose of an organization. This is where the magic happens. This is where team members and leaders alike can shine. Having a sense of purpose has become table stakes for employees at work. Equally important, organizations need to exhibit purpose in their operating practices.
If there is a positive interconnection between the key points of purpose, the benefits will be felt by all walks of life, be it employees, customers, the community, or the environment. This is how your organization wins; by leaders embracing its purpose & defining/aligning their own sense of purpose.
There are three kinds of purpose: personal, role and organizational/team. In this session, attendees will learn about the importance of each type, assessing where they are personally as well as professionally.
Attendees leave with a definition of their personal purpose, team purpose, as well as developing an action plan that helps them shift their way of thinking and acting towards the purpose mindset. The keyshop is offered in face-to-face full-day and half-day sessions + virtual masterclass (3-session option)
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Senior Leader Masterclass Series
An engaging experience specifically tailored to bolster the skills of leaders, particularly those at the director level and above.
The series is designed not just to widen their influence but also to arm them with the strategic foresight needed to steer through today’s challenges and confidently face tomorrow’s challenges.
Choose between four and nine modules. A range of virtual and face-to-face components are part of the Series. Download the Masterclass Series Overview.
Ready to Bring a Workshop to Your Team?
Let’s talk about your goals, your team, and how to make it happen. Every workshop is customised to your context — get in touch and we’ll take it from there.
