The Art of Leadership

The Inner and Outer Arts of Effective Leadership
with Robert Gass EdD

An internationally renowned 5-day training for leaders committed to making a difference in their communities, businesses, education, politics, the arts, or social change.

Learn to engage and empower others in effective action to broaden the impact of your work.

Engage mind, heart, and spirit in an intensive process of self-discovery and state-of-the-art training in:

• Personal Mastery: vision, personal power, mental clarity, resilience, and personal ecology (self-care)
• Partnership: expanding our ability to better collaborate through authenticity, deep listening, skillful communication, courageous conversations, and feedback skills
• Organizational skills: improving our capacity to create results through effective team leadership, planning, and organizational alignment

Participants will receive an extensive manual of processes and tools to support your ongoing work as a leader, and well as participating in an extensive 360-degree feedback survey of those with whom you work.

This training is a unique integration of profound personal transformation with practical application to your everyday leadership challenges and priorities. Thousands of leaders throughout North America have found the Art of Leadership to be one of the most important development experiences of their careers. For some, it is life changing.

Robert Gass, EdD, is a Harvard-trained psychologist, organizational consultant, and workshop leader with over 30 years experience consulting to diverse groups ranging from Greenpeace and MoveOn.org, to Chase Bank and The Gap. The creator of Rockwood’s Art of Leadership trainings, Robert has for many years served as executive coach to well-known business, political, spiritual, and non-profit leaders. His work is about a path of service that enables leaders to achieve more real results, with less effort, while enjoying life more in the process.

What others have said about The Art of Leadership:

“This training will rock your world. It certainly changed mine. Robert and this program gave me the skills, guidance and tools to lead with both more elegance and more effectiveness.”
- Mike Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club

“The most life-transforming-and practical-training I could imagine.”
- COO of a leading Global Electronics Corporation

“My way of being in the world has been transformed through my work with Robert and the journey that he has helped to catalyze. It not only transformed who I am and how I live, but as a leader, I have learned to accomplish three times the results with half the energy.”
- Simon Greer, President, Nathan Cummings Foundation

“Robert’s trainings have been one of the most transformative experiences of my life. They gave me the grounding and the self-knowledge to birth and
lead effective programs, with less effort, strain, and stress than I would have ever thought possible.”
- Van Jones, Founder Green For All, and Rebuild the Dream