How many people can attend a workshop?

Groups run from 10 to 200. The sweet spot for hands-on work is 20 to 60, and larger groups are handled with table-based activities and breakouts.

Are workshops face-to-face or virtual?

Both. Face-to-face is ideal for the hands-on exercises, and every workshop has a virtual version built for it.

How long is a typical session?

Off-the-shelf sessions are half-day, running 3.5 hours or 2 x 90-minute blocks. We can cut the content down to 2 hours for virtual if need be. For the Tailored and Timely option, sessions can run across four to nine modules, in various lengths and formats.

Can a workshop be customized to our organization?

Yes. Every off-the-shelf workshop is shaped to your team, context, and goals, and the Tailored and Timely program is built from scratch around your challenge.

Where does Dan Pontefract deliver workshops?

Dan is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and delivers workshops across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, plus virtually worldwide.

What does a workshop cost?

Fees are flat and agreed after a short conversation about your goals, group size, and format. Travel and incidentals are included.

How far in advance should we book?

Ideally eight weeks or more, since the calendar fills up and it leaves time to tailor the material. Shorter timelines can sometimes be accommodated.

Leadership Workshops with Dan Pontefract

Leadership workshops with Dan Pontefract

Dan Pontefract delivers hands-on leadership development workshops, face-to-face and virtual, for teams and organizations worldwide. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he has delivered more than 1,000 sessions and workshops across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, drawing on six award-winning books. Choose a ready-to-run workshop, or the Tailored and Timely program built from scratch around your challenge.

Off-the-shelf leadership workshops

The Keys to an Age-Ready Team: Find the age debt hiding in your team practices and convert it into an experience dividend. Based on The Future of Work Is Grey.
The 4Ds of a High-Performing Team: Direct, Deliver, Develop, and Dignify: the four leadership disciplines that separate a busy team from a high-performing one.
Better Thinking in the Age of AI: Rebuild the creative, critical, and applied thinking that automation cannot replace, using AI as a complement to judgment.
Collaboration Principles and Practices: The Collaborative Action Model, collaborating up, down and around, and the team norms that make collaboration the default.
Ready to Learn: Move leaders from passive to proactive in how they foster learning for themselves and their teams.
The Calendar Way: Audit a real month of your calendar and reclaim time for strategy, coaching, and execution.
Work-Life Bloom: Put in place the twelve work-life factors that help team members flourish, individually and collectively.
How to Become a Leader Who Matters: Nine leadership lessons from Lead. Care. Win. on leading self and leading others.
Mastering How to Be an Open Thinker: Dream, decide, do: creative and critical thinking, and building time back into your calendar.
The Power of Purpose: Personal, role, and organizational purpose, and an action plan to shift towards a purpose mindset.

Tailored and Timely: fully customized programs

Four to nine modules, virtual, face-to-face, or blended, built from scratch for organizations including SAIT, BDO, Rexall, UBC, Alberta Blue Cross, and Virgin Media O2. Discover, Design, Deliver, Embed. Book a workshop with Dan Pontefract.

Workshop FAQs

How many people can attend a workshop?: Groups run from 10 to 200. The sweet spot for hands-on work is 20 to 60, and larger groups are handled with table-based activities and breakouts.
Are workshops face-to-face or virtual?: Both. Face-to-face is ideal for the hands-on exercises, and every workshop has a virtual version built for it.
How long is a typical session?: Off-the-shelf sessions are half-day, running 3.5 hours or 2 x 90-minute blocks. We can cut the content down to 2 hours for virtual if need be. For the Tailored and Timely option, sessions can run across four to nine modules, in various lengths and formats.
Can a workshop be customized to our organization?: Yes. Every off-the-shelf workshop is shaped to your team, context, and goals, and the Tailored and Timely program is built from scratch around your challenge.
Where does Dan Pontefract deliver workshops?: Dan is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and delivers workshops across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, plus virtually worldwide.
What does a workshop cost?: Fees are flat and agreed after a short conversation about your goals, group size, and format. Travel and incidentals are included.
How far in advance should we book?: Ideally eight weeks or more, since the calendar fills up and it leaves time to tailor the material. Shorter timelines can sometimes be accommodated.

Testimonials

Dan was incredibly collaborative, ensuring our session was tailored to meet our needs. He was both engaging and knowledgeable, using illustrative examples that showcased his expertise and providing tools for leaders to leverage immediately. Additionally, he injected a sense of fun that made the topic not only interesting but also entertaining.

Frank Monteleone, CHRO & CPO, Rexall Pharmacy Group Ltd.
Dan Pontefract delivered a powerful, thought‑provoking keynote session that resonated deeply with every attendee. His ability to blend compelling storytelling with actionable insights was nothing short of extraordinary.

Sidh NC, Director, QnA International, UAE
We are so proud to have had you at our event. Your talk was a big hit. It moved us. We can’t thank you enough.

Malin Björnell, Salesforce
Dan was engaging, authentic, and full of energy. His keynote connected with our audience and left them inspired. A true professional and a pleasure to work with.

Erin Whetstone, Ontario Retirement Communities Association (ORCA)
Dan Pontefract’s keynote on the importance of workplace culture in employee engagement was excellent. Dan used his vast leadership experience to provide our conference attendees with practical strategies to build teams that are engaged and committed. His relatable, real-life examples were thought provoking, memorable and very personal, creating a connection to the audience. I would highly recommend Dan as an entertaining keynote speaker who delivers content that is relevant and actionable.

Michelle Hillyard, Director SCU
Dan challenged us to have clarity of purpose, both as individuals and as an organization. He related inspiring stories drawing on his experience in business, technology and academia. As he said, ‘There is no ownership without belonging.’

Christian Pantel, D2L
Fantastic engaging talk for our global partner summit. Thank you so much, Dan!

Barb Kinnard, CEO Response Biomedical Corp
Dan not only brought his presentation to life with his charisma, but also content, style and presentation finesse. Our members were especially interested in his thought provoking and top of mind topic on the future of work and how we’re going to be leading the next generation of leaders.

Cheryl Goodwin, CPA
Dan is a conference organizer’s ideal speaker. Not only did he inspire and energize our group, but he also masterfully adapted his content so it resonated with the audience and our conference theme. As a bonus, Dan is able to nimbly navigate to adjust to a reduced time slot when other speakers went over time without sacrificing the impact of his session.

Director and General Counsel
Dan accomplished what we set out to do, which was not only to be inspirational, but also to leave everyone with tools and food for thought / self-reflection to improve their personal and professional lives.

Hermann Handa, FCT

Workshops

Leadership workshops with Dan Pontefract

Off-the-shelf leadership workshops

Tailored and Timely: fully customized programs

Workshop FAQs

Testimonials

Media Appearances