The Future Sessions
Build a communications strategy and advance your leadership skills.
July 29 – August 1, 2025 | Chester, CT
Build a communications strategy & advance your leadership skills.
July 29 – August 1, 2025
Chester, CT
Overview
The Future Sessions is 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
Vice presidents and senior leaders guiding institutional strategies and overseeing major initiatives.
Directors managing teams and driving day-to-day execution of communications plans.
Managers focused on project coordination, messaging, and operational success.
Rising stars ready to take on greater responsibilities and make a bigger impact.
What You'll Gain
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.
Overview
The Future Sessions is 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
Vice presidents and senior leaders guiding institutional strategies and overseeing major initiatives.
Directors managing teams and driving day-to-day execution of communications plans.
Managers focused on project coordination, messaging, and operational success.
Rising stars ready to take on greater responsibilities and make a bigger impact.
What You'll Gain
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.
Overview
An exclusive conference for communications and strategic leaders at higher education and nonprofit institutions looking to refresh and rejuvenate their work.
Who Should Attend
Vice presidents and senior leaders guiding institutional strategies and overseeing major initiatives.
Directors managing teams and driving day-to-day execution of communications plans.
Managers focused on project coordination, messaging, and operational success.
Rising stars ready to take on greater responsibilities and make a bigger impact.
What You'll Gain
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.
Overview
The Future Sessions is 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
Vice presidents and senior leaders guiding institutional strategies and overseeing major initiatives.
Directors managing teams and driving day-to-day execution of communications plans.
Managers focused on project coordination, messaging, and operational success.
Rising stars ready to take on greater responsibilities and make a bigger impact.
What You'll Gain
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.
Program Topics
Over three immersive days, The Future Sessions blends strategic thinking, practical skill-building, and peer collaboration to help you move from idea to action. Through structured sessions, outdoor reflection, and honest conversation, you'll develop a strategy you believe in and the tools to bring others along.
Program Topics
Over three immersive days, The Future Sessions blends strategic thinking, practical skill-building, and peer collaboration to help you move from idea to action. Through structured sessions, outdoor reflection, and honest conversation, you'll develop a strategy you believe in—and the tools to bring others along.
Through the program, you will:
Surface multiple strategic possibilities and prioritize the one with the greatest potential.
Draft a communications strategy grounded in both institutional priorities and personal purpose.
Practice techniques for active listening and leading difficult conversations, building skills to address resistance points, build-buy in, and gain alignment around your strategy.
Present your draft strategy, gather feedback from peers, and chart a 30-day implementation plan.
Engage in candid conversations with peers who are navigating similar leadership challenges.
Step away from the day-to-day and reflect in a peaceful setting designed to spark clarity and purpose.
Engage in candid conversations with peers who are navigating similar leadership challenges.
Step away from the day-to-day and reflect in a peaceful setting designed to spark clarity and purpose.
Engage in candid conversations with peers who are navigating similar leadership challenges.
Step away from the day-to-day and reflect in a peaceful setting designed to spark clarity and purpose.
Engage in candid conversations with peers who are navigating similar leadership challenges.
Step away from the day-to-day and reflect in a peaceful setting designed to spark clarity and purpose.
Experience nature as part of the program, with intentional outdoor moments that support strategic thinking.
Work closely in a small cohort of 10 participants, allowing for deep connection and individualized support.
Experience nature as part of the program, with intentional outdoor moments that support strategic thinking.
Work closely in a small cohort of 10 participants, allowing for deep connection and individualized support.
Experience nature as part of the program, with intentional outdoor moments that support strategic thinking.
Work closely in a small cohort of 10 participants, allowing for deep connection and individualized support.
Experience nature as part of the program, with intentional outdoor moments that support strategic thinking.
Work closely in a small cohort of 10 participants, allowing for deep connection and individualized support.
Program Leader
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.
Program Leader
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.
Program Leader
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.
Program Leader
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.
What prior participants say...
What prior participants say...
“The Future Sessions was the single best professional development experience I’ve had in my career. The program helps you master the tools, 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. The program helps you master the tools, 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. The program helps you master the tools, 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. The program helps you master the tools, 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 gave me the structure, feedback, and time to craft and finish my strategic plan. More importantly, it gave me ways of thinking about how to integrate strategy into my daily work and get the buy-in I need from colleagues across campus. I highly recommend it to anyone leading strategic change in their organization.”
“The Future Sessions gave me the structure, feedback, and time to craft and finish my strategic plan. More importantly, it gave me ways of thinking about how to integrate strategy into my daily work and get the buy-in I need from colleagues across campus. I highly recommend it to anyone leading strategic change in their organization.”
“The Future Sessions gave me the structure, feedback, and time to craft and finish my strategic plan. More importantly, it gave me ways of thinking about how to integrate strategy into my daily work and get the buy-in I need from colleagues across campus. I highly recommend it to anyone leading strategic change in their organization.”
— Melissa Connolly, VP for Communications & Marketing, University at Albany, SUNY
“The Future Sessions gave me the structure, feedback, and time to craft and finish my strategic plan. More importantly, it gave me ways of thinking about how to integrate strategy into my daily work and get the buy-in I need from colleagues across campus. I highly recommend it to anyone leading strategic change in their organization.”
— Melissa Connolly, VP for Communications & Marketing, University at Albany, SUNY
“It 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
“It 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 gave me the structure, feedback, and time to craft and finish my strategic plan. More importantly, it gave me ways of thinking about how to integrate strategy into my daily work and get the buy-in I need from colleagues across campus. I highly recommend it to anyone leading strategic change in their organization.”
— Melissa Connolly, VP for Communications & Marketing, University at Albany, SUNY
“The Future Sessions gave me the structure, feedback, and time to craft and finish my strategic plan. More importantly, it gave me ways of thinking about how to integrate strategy into my daily work and get the buy-in I need from colleagues across campus. I highly recommend it to anyone leading strategic change in their organization.”
— Melissa Connolly, VP for Communications & Marketing, University at Albany, SUNY
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.
