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Executive Retreats

InterEd's Executive Retreats are invitation-only two or three-day experiences held in our private facility in the beautiful and pristine Idaho mountains. Participants are presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders of adult-centered and professional programs. All retreats provide the vision, executive blueprints, and materials needed for innovative change and the related growth. These special events began in 2003 as a one-time response to a specific challenge and grew into one of our favorite services. We find the Executive Retreats to be a simple and fun way to deliver short-term value and build lasting friendships.

Meeting Room at InterEd North

Meeting Room at InterEd North

The agenda will be guided but the emphasis and personal attention is always on addressing your specific opportunities and challenges for innovation. The entire experience — from early morning walks around the lake to post-dinner discussions — will be one of informative interaction that most leaders find richer than one-on-one sessions and vastly more useful than the large meeting format of a conference or workshop.

Between Vision and Execution

Innovation leading to for-profit caliber growth begins with vision and ends with skillful execution borne of deep experience. InterEd's Executive Retreats provide the time, space, structured guidance, stimulating environment, and bit of fun required to nurture your vision and inform your plans for innovation. You'll get specific strategies, action items, and collateral materials.

Small, Engaging, and (occasionally) Irreverent

These Retreats are small, engaging meetings of six to a maximum of eight selected leaders in adult-centered and professional higher education. In the words of our participants, the first day's sessions are out of the box, back in the box, intense, stimulating, (at times) irreverent, and deeply horizon-widening. By late morning of day two, you will begin forging a link between the elements of vision, strategy, tactics, and the "devil is in the details" business of management, operations, and logistics. You will leave the retreat with a concrete plan to re-engineer in your chosen direction.

This Is Not a Conference or Workshop

"Easily smarter and more useful to me than any ten conferences I have attended."

. . . are the words of one state system Vice President and Provost reflecting on the depth, clarity, and practicality of the ideas presented and the possibilities that the experience created for his system.

The Environment

InterEd's Executive Retreats are held in our new facility tucked away in the beautiful mountains and lakes near the resort community of McCall, Idaho (west of the Frank Church National Wilderness Area). The air is clear and crisp; the views are stunning; the surroundings are new and comfortable; the food, drink, and conversation promise to be memorable; your needs are attended to in a way that creates an environment conducive to achievement.

Leadership

Unless otherwise noted, your Retreat will be led by Robert W. Tucker, Ph.D., founder and president of InterEd, former Executive Vice President of UNext (Cardean Graduate School & Ellis College), and former senior Vice President of the University of Phoenix. Co-facilitators will include senior colleagues of Dr. Tucker's selected to add value to the retreat experience.

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