HIGHLAND
A 4-day device-free expedition for intact leadership teams. Physical challenge, shared adversity, and facilitated strategic dialogue, because the mountains don't care about your org chart, and that's exactly the point.
41.4739° N 74.5401° W ELV 840 FT POLARIS ALT 41°
41.4739° N 74.5401° W
ELV 840 FT POLARIS ALT 41°
THE PROMISE
Highland doesn’t fix teams. It reveals them. Through shared physical challenge and facilitated dialogue, the unspoken tensions surface, the real dynamics emerge, and the team discovers what they’re actually capable of when the conference room walls fall away.
Before you arrive, every team member provides confidential 1:1 inputs. Your facilitator synthesizes these into a 'highland perspective,' surfacing what's unspoken so the team can finally address it. This pre-work process is what makes Highland different from every team offsite you've endured.
THE EXPERIENCE
Day 1: Arrival & Baseline. Devices surrendered. The highland perspective is shared. For the first time, the team hears what everyone has been thinking but no one has said.
Day 2: The Challenge. A guided wilderness expedition that demands real teamwork. Not a ropes course. Not a trust fall. Actual terrain, actual weather, actual consequences for poor communication.
Day 3: Strategic Dialogue. Facilitated conversations that connect the physical experience to your real leadership challenges. What broke on the trail is usually what's breaking in the boardroom.
Day 4: Integration & Commitments. The team builds shared agreements for how they'll lead differently. Not abstract values. Specific behaviors, accountabilities, and a follow-up cadence that outlasts the adrenaline.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Highland is for C-suite groups and senior leadership teams of 6-20 people. You're the team that runs the company, but you've never been in a room, or on a mountain, where the real conversations happen. Your offsites produce slide decks. Highland produces truth.
This is not team building. It's team revealing. If your team is ready for that, for the kind of honesty that only shared adversity can unlock, Highland is where it begins.
LOGISTICS
Duration: 4 days (arrive Monday, depart Thursday). Location: Root Astro, upstate New York, 90 minutes from Manhattan. Team size: 6-20 people, private and closed-door. Investment: Custom pricing based on team size and requirements. Includes all lodging, meals, facilitation, wilderness guides, and pre-work process.
Pre-work required: Each team member completes a confidential 1:1 intake 2-4 weeks before arrival. Physical requirements: Moderate-to-high fitness. The expedition is real. Participants should be comfortable with full-day hiking in variable conditions.
Highland begins with a confidential conversation about your team. No sales pitch. Just an honest assessment of whether this is the right experience for where your team is now.
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