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Come Back to Crotonville 2026  ·  November 3–4

Stay to Learn & Grow.

Small-group workshops on November 3 and 4 will allow you to go deeper on the topics and challenges most relevant to your organization. Workshops will vary in format, ranging from leadership development to executive team operating systems to facilitated book discussions. Stay for a morning, a whole day, or two days — and take something real back with you.

From $600 per day
Accommodations, all meals & campus fees included
November 3–4, 2026
Transformational Leadership New Leadership Perspectives Inside the Team Executive Team OS From Strength to Strength Change Leadership
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Transformational Leadership

The People Side
Tuesday, Nov 3 & Wednesday, Nov 4  ·  2-Day Program  ·  8:00am – 5:00pm 2-Day Program
About This Workshop

This two-day executive development experience, created by former Crotonville faculty members, offers you the opportunity to gain meaningful insights that will challenge you to adopt new approaches for leading organizations into the future. This innovative session was designed to develop leaders who are being invited to transform themselves, their teams, and their organizations all at the same time. This workshop blends vertical development, systemic thinking, and immersive learning to create an experience that is personal, practical, and thought-provoking. You won't just learn about transformational leadership — you will experience it firsthand, gaining clarity, energy, and new perspective on how to lead within complex and ambiguous environments. This is a chance to experience some of our most powerful content and facilitation in action — and to walk away changed by it.

Key Learnings
  • Gain deeper self-awareness of the practices and tensions experienced within us, between us, and around us, when working in complex environments
  • Explore the essential energies that transformational leaders use to navigate scale, ambiguity, and systemic challenges
  • Connect with peers across organizations to build your network and broaden your perspectives of transformational leadership in action
Facilitators
Rich Rischling
Rich Rischling
Client Partner, The People Side
Rich is a passionate learning and development practitioner with over 25 years of experience helping leaders and teams grow and perform. He spent 25 years at GE — including a defining chapter at GE Crotonville — designing and delivering learning experiences for mid-level, executive, and senior leaders. In his final four years at GE, he led culture and learning for GE Renewable Energy's 40,000+ employees across 80+ countries.
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Kate Bouyain
Kate Bouyain
Managing Partner, The People Side
Kate is a global HR leader with a 23-year career spanning GE, Boeing, and GE Crotonville, where she led learning transformation and leadership development. At Crotonville specifically, her work focused on operational excellence and learning delivery — making her one of the most qualified voices in the room when it comes to what great leadership development actually looks like in practice.
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New Leadership Perspectives

The People Side
Tuesday, Nov 3 & Wednesday, Nov 4  ·  2-Day Program  ·  Day 1: 8:30am – 8:30pm  ·  Day 2: 8:30am – 4:00pm 2-Day Session
About This Workshop

In today's rapidly changing world, the ability to examine and intentionally shift your leadership mindset has become essential. New Leadership Perspectives is a 2-day immersive leadership experience designed to help high-achieving leaders elevate their impact by examining the mindsets that shape how they lead. Through candid reflection, meaningful dialogue, and practical application, participants will manage self-limiting beliefs, become more intentional about the ripple effect they have on others, and unlock their next level of leadership — not just in what they do, but in how they think and lead. New minds make new moves.

Key Learnings
  • Gain deeper awareness of the mindsets, behaviors, and patterns shaping your leadership impact
  • Identify what is helping — and what may be limiting — your effectiveness as a leader
  • Learn strategies to navigate self-limiting beliefs and internal barriers
  • Develop practical tools to shift perspective, expand influence, and lead with greater intentionality
  • Create a clearer path toward sustainable growth, transformation, and next-level leadership impact
Facilitators
Stephanie Broaders
Stephanie Broaders
Leadership Development · Spark Well Consulting
Stephanie develops leaders by combining decades of experience in global talent and leadership development with a passion for unlocking a leader's purpose. She spent most of her career as an HR leader within a Fortune 100 organization, including leadership development roles at GE responsible for developing leaders across 15,000 global employees. She has also served as Program Director at UNC Executive Development and continues to serve the UNC community as an executive coach.
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Kathleen K. Vieira
Kathleen K. Vieira
Leadership Development · The People Side
Kathleen is a transformative learning facilitator with over a decade of experience designing and delivering programs that spark real mindset shifts. She spent ten years at GE in HR and Organizational Development, ultimately serving as the Americas Regional Learning Leader and Inclusion Learning Leader at GE Aerospace — where she built and delivered programs focused on leadership, psychological safety, and organizational effectiveness. Known for her warm, coach-like facilitation style, she creates the kind of environment where people feel safe to challenge assumptions and leave with lasting behavior change.
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Inside the Team

The People Side
Tuesday, Nov 3  ·  Morning & Afternoon  ·  Runs Twice Runs Twice
Building Teams That Perform Better Together

Organizations are asking more of teams than ever before: continuous alignment, accurate decision-making, 24/7 communication, and rapid transformation. Many teams are working remotely, globally, and continuously.

Today's teams are struggling because most executives were never taught how to build and lead high performing teams in an environment like this. This immersive experience explores the mindset shifts, relational dynamics, and leadership practices that enable today's teams to move beyond functional silos and lead with greater collective effectiveness.

Through facilitated dialogue, experiential exercises, and peer reflection, leaders will gain practical insights they can immediately apply within their own teams and organizations.

This session runs twice — morning and afternoon — so you can attend either or both depending on your schedule.

Together We Will Explore
  • The team tensions that are emerging in today's workplace
  • The role of team dynamics in organizational performance
  • Practices that create the conditions for better team performance
  • An assessment of your leadership team's current alignment and connection
Facilitator
Candyce Penteado
Candyce Penteado
Managing Partner, The People Side
Candyce is the founder of The People Side and a thought leader in experiential learning. She has developed thousands of leaders across Fortune 500 organizations including GE, Boeing, and Target, and served as adjunct faculty at GE Crotonville for over a decade.
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Refresh Your Executive Team Operating System

The Croton Group
Tuesday, Nov 3  ·  Morning  ·  9:00am – 12:00pm Half-Day Session
About This Workshop

You've built things, led things, and proven things. But organizations shift, strategies pivot, and somehow the rhythms and structures that once drove clarity and performance quietly drift. This hands-on half-day session gives you the space — and the honest foil — to take a hard look at how your executive team actually operates today. Using an Executive Team Operating System framework, you'll audit your current state, name what's working and what isn't, and begin mapping a path toward the operating system your team needs right now.

Key Learnings
  • Conduct an honest audit of your current executive team operating system — cadence, strategic alignment, and accountability structures
  • Identify the gaps between where you are and what "good" looks like for a high-performing senior team
  • Gain outside perspective from a peer partner
  • Leave with a current-state snapshot and prioritized actions to bring back to your team
Facilitators
Christian Barry
Christian Barry
Managing Principal, The Croton Group
Christian is Managing Principal at The Croton Group. A former executive leader at GE Crotonville for nearly a decade, he served as GE's global leader of customer education and later as GE Healthcare's Chief Learning Officer — overseeing L&D for an $18 billion business with 50,000+ employees. His career spans GE, McKinsey & Company, and the U.S. Navy Submarine Force.
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Leiza Brock
Leiza Brock
Principal, The Croton Group
Leiza Brock is a Principal at The Croton Group with over three decades of experience at General Electric. As a senior leader at GE Crotonville, she helped shape the learning strategy behind GE's transformation. She was a key architect of the Corporate Leadership Staff program and brings deep expertise in leadership development, organizational transformation, and building cultures of continuous improvement.
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From Strength to Strength

Facilitated Book Discussion
Tuesday, Nov 3  ·  Afternoon  ·  1:00pm – 4:00pm Half-Day Session
About This Workshop

The strengths that built your career were real. But Arthur Brooks argues that the formula behind that success becomes a trap in the second half of life. This facilitated afternoon conversation, exploring Brooks' From Strength to Strength as a shared text, explores the pivotal shift from fluid to crystallized intelligence — and what it means to lead from wisdom, relationship, and meaning rather than speed, status, and self. In a world where AI increasingly commoditizes the horsepower that once set you apart, your crystallized and emergent strengths have never been more valuable — or more worth claiming.

Prerequisite: Participants are expected to have read Arthur Brooks' From Strength to Strength prior to the session.
Key Learnings
  • Explore Brooks' fluid-to-crystallized intelligence arc and your location on the curve
  • How are your strengths changing? What does that mean for you?
  • Explore how AI is accelerating this shift — commoditizing fluid intelligence while making human wisdom, depth, and relationship irreplaceable
  • Consider what leading from your "2nd half strengths" actually looks like from here
Facilitators
Christian Barry
Christian Barry
Managing Principal, The Croton Group
Christian is Managing Principal at The Croton Group. A former executive leader at GE Crotonville for nearly a decade, he served as GE's global leader of customer education and later as GE Healthcare's Chief Learning Officer — overseeing L&D for an $18 billion business with 50,000+ employees. His career spans GE, McKinsey & Company, and the U.S. Navy Submarine Force.
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Leiza Brock
Leiza Brock
Principal, The Croton Group
Leiza Brock is a Principal at The Croton Group with over three decades of experience at General Electric. As a senior leader at GE Crotonville, she helped shape the learning strategy behind GE's transformation. She was a key architect of the Corporate Leadership Staff program and brings deep expertise in leadership development, organizational transformation, and building cultures of continuous improvement.
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Change Leadership

Croton Partners
Tuesday, Nov 3  ·  Day & Time TBC Details Coming Soon
About This Workshop

Change leadership in the age of AI is no longer simply about managing a transition from one process to another. It is about helping organizations adapt to a continuously evolving relationship between humans, technology, decision-making, and value creation.

This highly interactive half-day session gives leaders the opportunity to assess how effectively their AI strategy is being understood, adopted, and activated across the organization. Participants will leave with practical tools, sharper insight, and a clearer roadmap for mobilizing commitment and helping their organizations move faster, adapt more effectively, and thrive in the age of AI.

This session runs twice — morning and afternoon — so you can attend either or both depending on your schedule.
Key Learnings
  • Create urgency without creating fear
  • Align stakeholders around a compelling future
  • Accelerate adoption and workforce engagement
  • Address resistance and organizational friction
  • Lead change in ways that are both human-centered and business-focused
Facilitator
Ginny Ertl
Ginny Ertl
Founder, ConsultingWorks · Croton Partners
A global leadership consultant with over 40 years of experience, Ginny spent 24 years at GE in executive roles spanning change management, executive leadership education, and organizational development at GE Crotonville, GE Corporate, and GE Capital. She was a member of the "Re-imagining Crotonville" team and served as Director of Executive Leadership Development, where she created GE Leadership Explorations — Crotonville's first leadership education platform for GE Officers. She is a Smithsonian Laureate for innovation in training technology and instructional design.
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