The Future Sessions
Build a communications strategy and advance your leadership skills.
What is The Future Sessions?
An exclusive conference for communications, marketing, and strategic leaders at higher education and nonprofit institutions looking to refresh and rejuvenate their work.
Who Should Attend
Senior communications leaders guiding institutional strategies and overseeing major initiatives.
Directors of communications managing teams and driving day-to-day execution of communications plans.
Communications managers focused on project coordination, messaging, and operational success.
Rising stars ready to take on greater responsibilities and make a bigger impact.
Benefits of Attending
Empower your vision: Align your professional and personal passions into a cohesive strategy.
Build your network: Form lasting connections with professionals facing similar challenges.
Engage and reflect: Participate in immersive outdoor experiences that inspire creativity.
Leave transformed: Exit with a tailored strategy built for activation.
What is The Future Sessions?
An exclusive conference for communications, marketing, and strategic leaders at higher education and nonprofit institutions looking to refresh and rejuvenate their work.
Who Should Attend
Senior communications leaders guiding institutional strategies and overseeing major initiatives.
Directors of communications managing teams and driving day-to-day execution of communications plans.
Communications managers focused on project coordination, messaging, and operational success.
Rising stars ready to take on greater responsibilities and make a bigger impact.
Benefits of Attending
Empower your vision: Align your professional and personal passions into a cohesive strategy.
Build your network: Form lasting connections with professionals facing similar challenges.
Engage and reflect: Participate in immersive outdoor experiences that inspire creativity.
Leave transformed: Exit with a tailored strategy built for activation.
What is The Future Sessions?
An exclusive conference for communications, marketing, and strategic leaders at higher education and nonprofit institutions looking to refresh and rejuvenate their work.
Who Should Attend
Senior communications leaders guiding institutional strategies and overseeing major initiatives.
Directors of communications managing teams and driving day-to-day execution of communications plans.
Communications managers focused on project coordination, messaging, and operational success.
Rising stars ready to take on greater responsibilities and make a bigger impact.
Benefits of Attending
Empower your vision: Align your professional and personal passions into a cohesive strategy.
Build your network: Form lasting connections with professionals facing similar challenges.
Engage and reflect: Participate in immersive outdoor experiences that inspire creativity.
Leave transformed: Exit with a tailored strategy built for activation.
What is The Future Sessions?
An exclusive conference for communications, marketing, and strategic leaders at higher education and nonprofit institutions looking to refresh and rejuvenate their work.
Who Should Attend
Senior communications leaders guiding institutional strategies and overseeing major initiatives.
Directors of communications managing teams and driving day-to-day execution of communications plans.
Communications managers focused on project coordination, messaging, and operational success.
Rising stars ready to take on greater responsibilities and make a bigger impact.
Benefits of Attending
Empower your vision: Align your professional and personal passions into a cohesive strategy.
Build your network: Form lasting connections with professionals facing similar challenges.
Engage and reflect: Participate in immersive outdoor experiences that inspire creativity.
Leave transformed: Exit with a tailored strategy built for activation.
“The Future Sessions was the single best professional development experience I’ve had in my career. It was a joy to embrace the journey with inspirational colleagues from other institutions, whose own professional goals and challenges were immediately familiar. The program not only helps you master the tools, it restores your faith in your own potential and renews your enthusiasm for the work.”
— Ben Jones, Assistant Vice President of Admissions Communications, Oberlin College
“The Future Sessions was the single best professional development experience I’ve had in my career. It was a joy to embrace the journey with inspirational colleagues from other institutions, whose own professional goals and challenges were immediately familiar. The program not only helps you master the tools, it restores your faith in your own potential and renews your enthusiasm for the work.”
— Ben Jones, Assistant Vice President of Admissions Communications, Oberlin College
“The Future Sessions was the single best professional development experience I’ve had in my career. It was a joy to embrace the journey with inspirational colleagues from other institutions, whose own professional goals and challenges were immediately familiar. The program not only helps you master the tools, it restores your faith in your own potential and renews your enthusiasm for the work.”
— Ben Jones, Assistant Vice President of Admissions Communications, Oberlin College
“The Future Sessions was the single best professional development experience I’ve had in my career. It was a joy to embrace the journey with inspirational colleagues from other institutions, whose own professional goals and challenges were immediately familiar. The program not only helps you master the tools, it restores your faith in your own potential and renews your enthusiasm for the work.”
— Ben Jones, Assistant Vice President of Admissions Communications, Oberlin College
Program Topics
Through a guided process developed across years of honing, you will draft a communications strategy or strategic plan customized to your goals—whether for an institution, department, or upcoming challenge.
Program Topics
Through a guided process developed across years of honing, you will draft a communications strategy or strategic plan customized to your goals—whether for an institution, department, or upcoming challenge. Through the program, you will explore how to:
Through the program, you will explore how to:
Connect your professional priorities and personal passions
Engage the many talented people who are critical to your team’s success
Ask the fundamental questions to keep your work on track
Apply listening approaches to help win over doubters
Keep your motivation and inspiration through the obstacles that arise in sticking to strategic goals
Connect your professional priorities and personal passions
Engage the many talented people who are critical to your team’s success
Ask the fundamental questions to keep your work on track
Apply listening approaches to help win over doubters
Keep your motivation and inspiration through the obstacles that arise in sticking to strategic goals
You will engage in dynamic group discussions, receive personalized coaching, and explore a range of critical issues that shape strategic success.
You will engage in dynamic group discussions, receive personalized coaching, and explore a range of critical issues that shape strategic success.
You will engage in dynamic group discussions, receive personalized coaching, and explore a range of critical issues that shape strategic success.
You will engage in dynamic group discussions, receive personalized coaching, and explore a range of critical issues that shape strategic success.
Held at a serene retreat center, The Future Sessions gives you ample time to think, plan, and get inspired. The program also includes select outdoor experiences connected to the program goals.
Due to the personalized nature of the program, enrollment is limited to 10 people on a first-come, first-served basis. Accommodations and meals are included with your registration.
Held at a serene retreat center, The Future Sessions gives you ample time to think, plan, and get inspired. The program also includes select outdoor experiences connected to the program goals.
Due to the personalized nature of the program, enrollment is limited to 10 people on a first-come, first-served basis. Accommodations and meals are included with your registration.
Held at a serene retreat center, The Future Sessions gives you ample time to think, plan, and get inspired. The program also includes select outdoor experiences connected to the program goals.
Due to the personalized nature of the program, enrollment is limited to 10 people on a first-come, first-served basis. Accommodations and meals are included with your registration.
Held at a serene retreat center, The Future Sessions gives you ample time to think, plan, and get inspired. The program also includes select outdoor experiences connected to the program goals.
Due to the personalized nature of the program, enrollment is limited to 10 people on a first-come, first-served basis. Accommodations and meals are included with your registration.
Who You'll Learn From
Pete Mackey, Ph.D., founder and president of Mackey Strategies, has developed his expertise in strategic thinking, team-building, planning, marketing, and communications across 30 years in leadership roles at private and public institutions in the U.S. and Europe. As the top communications executive at Amherst College, Bucknell University, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Science Foundation Ireland, and the University of South Carolina, he built transformative communications operations and re-shaped how these institutions connect with their audiences. As a consultant, he has worked with more than 50 colleges, universities, and nonprofits on communications and marketing challenges of every kind.
Who You'll Learn From
Pete Mackey, Ph.D., founder and president of Mackey Strategies, has developed his expertise in strategic thinking, team-building, planning, marketing, and communications across 30 years in leadership roles at private and public institutions in the U.S. and Europe. As the top communications executive at Amherst College, Bucknell University, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Science Foundation Ireland, and the University of South Carolina, he built transformative communications operations and re-shaped how these institutions connect with their audiences. As a consultant, he has worked with more than 50 colleges, universities, and nonprofits on communications and marketing challenges of every kind.
Who You'll Learn From
Pete Mackey, Ph.D., founder and president of Mackey Strategies, has developed his expertise in strategic thinking, team-building, planning, marketing, and communications across 30 years in leadership roles at private and public institutions in the U.S. and Europe. As the top communications executive at Amherst College, Bucknell University, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Science Foundation Ireland, and the University of South Carolina, he built transformative communications operations and re-shaped how these institutions connect with their audiences. As a consultant, he has worked with more than 50 colleges, universities, and nonprofits on communications and marketing challenges of every kind.
Who You'll Learn From
Pete Mackey, Ph.D., founder and president of Mackey Strategies, has developed his expertise in strategic thinking, team-building, planning, marketing, and communications across 30 years in leadership roles at private and public institutions in the U.S. and Europe. As the top communications executive at Amherst College, Bucknell University, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Science Foundation Ireland, and the University of South Carolina, he built transformative communications operations and re-shaped how these institutions connect with their audiences. As a consultant, he has worked with more than 50 colleges, universities, and nonprofits on communications and marketing challenges of every kind.
“The Future Sessions offers a unique blend of coaching, leadership development, strategy building, and networking, with the intention of bringing out the very best in you. It reaffirmed my areas of strength, illuminated my opportunities for growth, and introduced a horizon of new possibilities.”
— Mike Baker, Director of Communications & Presidential Speechwriter, Gettysburg College
“The Future Sessions offers a unique blend of coaching, leadership development, strategy building, and networking, with the intention of bringing out the very best in you. It reaffirmed my areas of strength, illuminated my opportunities for growth, and introduced a horizon of new possibilities.”
— Mike Baker, Director of Communications & Presidential Speechwriter, Gettysburg College
“The Future Sessions offers a unique blend of coaching, leadership development, strategy building, and networking, with the intention of bringing out the very best in you. It reaffirmed my areas of strength, illuminated my opportunities for growth, and introduced a horizon of new possibilities.”
— Mike Baker, Director of Communications & Presidential Speechwriter, Gettysburg College
“The Future Sessions offers a unique blend of coaching, leadership development, strategy building, and networking, with the intention of bringing out the very best in you. It reaffirmed my areas of strength, illuminated my opportunities for growth, and introduced a horizon of new possibilities.”
— Mike Baker, Director of Communications & Presidential Speechwriter, Gettysburg College
Program Details
Through a guided process, you will draft a communications strategy or strategic plan customized to your goals—whether for an institution, department, or upcoming challenge—and explore a range of critical issues that shape strategic success.
Day 1: Strategic Thinking
Arrive by 6 p.m.
Team Dinner
What & Why Introductions Exercise
Connecting Strategy & Purpose
Forward from Here
Day 2: Idea to Action
Morning Outdoor Activity
Identifying Possible Horizons
Deep Dive into Direction
Initiating the Strategy
Team Dinner & Bonfire
Day 3: Action to Implementation
Morning Outdoor Activity
Overcoming Resistance
Managing Difficult Conversations
Building Out the Strategy
Team Dinner & Game Night
Day 4: Testing through Teamwork
Morning Outdoor Activity
Presenting Draft Strategies
Discussing Team Feedback
Setting Your Goal
Lunch, and to the Future…
Depart at 1:30 p.m.
The future of your leadership starts here.
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape your vision and elevate your impact.
The future of your leadership starts here.
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape your vision and elevate your impact.
The future of your leadership starts here.
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape your vision and elevate your impact.
The future of your leadership starts here.
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape your vision and elevate your impact.
