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A day-long learning retreat for offsite organizers and leaders who want to go beyond the ordinary to inspire their teams


Tired of the same old offsite routine that costs a lot of money and doesn't produce meaningful results? 

Especially in this era when teams are remote, hybrid and distributed, you can't afford to waste the precious opportunity to gather together in-person.

Let’s ditch the cheesy team-building clichés, never ending presentations, and generic motivational speakers.

Instead, step out of your day-to-day to reimagine the offsite paradigm with us, and recharge with a community of passionate experience designers who want to evolve their craft.

Upskill your internal team with innovative approaches to offsite design that unleash creativity and make the mundane magical.

In this highly experiential retreat, we're diving deep into the art and science of crafting offsites that go beyond the ordinary. It’s a meta experience where we will be pulling back the curtain to reveal what we’re doing while we’re doing it, so you can do it too. 😃

At this Offsite, you will:

  • Participate in immersive experiences by offsite pioneers who are changing the game. 

  • Learn by doing, and gain tools to immediately refresh and upgrade your offsite design. 

  • Hear success stories from internal leaders who are redefining offsites.

  • Exchange best practices and explore challenges with fellow participants. 

You will walk away with:

  • Actionable insights, frameworks and tools to make every moment count

  • Inspiration and fresh ideas to wow your team and keep them engaged 

  • An opportunity to vet potential vendors you may want to work with in the future

  • A community of fellow offsite designers and leaders who want to shake up the status quo.

May 8, 2024

9:30 am - 5:00 pm PT

Ciel Creative Space, Berkeley, California

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Ready to connect and fill your cup with innovative ideas?

Secure your spot now, because this isn’t just another offsite—it’s the game-changer your teams deserve.

 

Offsite Sessions Include:

  • Discover the secret to making every minute count and achieving real transformation with our Primary Shift framework. Your Primary Shift is like the thesis statement of your event, and helps you decide what content to include, and what to eliminate, so you make the most of the time you have.

  • In a hybrid world, employees are missing “community” at work. But how, exactly, do we facilitate that happening? Join master facilitator Adam Rosendahl from the Late Nite Art Method®, a creative learning and development lab based in San Francisco, for this highly interactive session around how to accelerate connection and collaboration in a hybrid workforce.

    Attendees will take away:

    🌟 Creative tools and techniques to quickly build trust, collaboration, and connection

    🌟 Meaningful new connections with other leaders

    🌟 An unforgettable experience that demonstrates the power of creativity to bridge divides

  • Reflect on your unique approach to leadership, creativity, and collaboration through a living medium: flowers. Through a blend of hands-on practice and meaningful discussion you’ll learn how the principles of floral arranging can inspire new perspectives on problem solving, team dynamics and your creative process.

  • Uncover the powerful link between play and professional growth through interactive demos, engaging exercises and thought-provoking games. You'll experience first hand how embracing uncertainty can become a cornerstone of courageous leadership. Whether you're looking to enhance your leadership skills, build resilience in the face of uncertainty, or simply bring a fresh perspective to your team's dynamics, this session will equip you with the tools and insights to lead with confidence and creativity.

  • Hear success stories and lessons learned from internal leaders at innovative companies who are redefining offsites. Apply principles, approaches and mindsets to your own design, and get a chance to ask your burning questions.

    Featuring:

    ⭐️ Liz Kleinman, Director, Ground Control Strategy and Program Operations at Airbnb at Airbnb

    ⭐️ Mirit Cohen, Senior Manager, Global Workplace Experience Programs at Adobe.

This Offsite is for

 
 
 
 

Internal Leaders

who organize, create and lead offsites for their teams (L+D, HR, DEIB, Team Managers, EAs)

 

External Leaders

who organize, create and lead offsites for their clients (Coaches, Consultants, Trainers, Facilitators)

 
 

Investment

$450 Early-Bird (until 4/15)

$600 Regular (until 5/6)

Includes full day attendance, resources from each sesssion, coffee/tea, and a gourmet lunch

20% group discount available for groups of 5+, email info@thecultureconference.com to register a group

Registration for the Offsite for Offsites is non-refundable.

If you can no longer attend the event, you may transfer your registration one time to a colleague or friend. Email us at info@thecultureconference.com to initiate a transfer.

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Our Presenters

Jenny Sauer-Klein

Founder, The Culture Conference and Scaling Intimacy School of Experience Design

Jenny Sauer-Klein specializes in developing dynamic learning experiences that help companies engage their employees and bring their culture to life. She has designed and facilitated offsites for companies like Airbnb, Google, and Genentech, based on the frameworks she teaches through the Scaling Intimacy School of Experience Design. She is also the founder and director of The Culture Conference, an invite-only event for business leaders who are committed to building a positive culture in their own organizations. She has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and Inc., as well as Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.

Adam Rosendahl

Founder, Late Nite Art

Adam Rosendahl is the Founder and CEO of the Late Nite Art Method®, a practice that addresses disconnection in the workplace through unconventional yet highly effective learning and development programs. From executives at Adobe and Pixar to Federal Probation Officers in Louisville, Kentucky—a diverse range of companies, universities, and public institutions depend on Adam to create transformational events and gatherings that help leaders and teams deepen connection, lean into creative problem-solving, and engage in the conversations they want to have, but just aren’t having. Adam has been a guest lecturer at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and is considered a global leader in facilitating group experiences that humanize people beyond the roles they play at work.

Joanna Miller

Executive coach, facilitator and experience designer

Joanna crafts practical people development strategies and experiences that deepen curiosity, meaningful connection and clarity of purpose. Previously Head of Learning & Development at Asana, Joanna has partnered with Slack, Levi Strauss & Co, Kapor Center, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and other global clients to design human-centered, experiential learning programs, values & organizational culture plans, manager development strategies, individual & group coaching programs, retreats and more. She is an engaging facilitator who has led events in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Joanna’s voice has been featured in Harvard Business Review, WSJ, Great Places to Work, Liz & Mollie, and The Moth. Joanna is certified in Conscious Leadership and holds a B.A. from Harvard University.

Vivek Venugopal 

VP of Sales and Lead Evangelist of Freestyle+

Vivek is an improviser, musician and performer in San Francisco CA. As VP of Sales and Lead Evangelist for freestyle+ he facilitates and hosts workshops and performances around the world. In addition to his work with freestyle+ he has also performed around the world with Speechless Live and American Immigrants.  He lives in San Francisco with his wife, two kids and their dog, Mango, where he improvises being a good parent and partner daily.  

Anthony Veneziale

Co-founder of Freestyle+

Anthony is a presentation and storytelling expert, a Tony Award winner, a Grammy nominated Broadway/film star and designer of a UCSF brain research on the positive effects of improv-thinking along with Dr. Charles Limb. Anthony is also the first Ted presenter to present a totally improvised Ted Talk. Anthony, also known as Two Touch, is the conceiver and co-creator of the acclaimed Freestyle Love Supreme. Anthony has been performing and teaching applied improvisation for more than 25 years and is a leader in the field of musical improvisation. He has used these techniques with many networks/companies (HBO, TBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, PBS, Radical Media, Google, Adobe, Salesforce to name a few) and has trained over 500,000 people to date. 

Mirit Cohen

Senior Manager, Global Workforce Experience Programs at Adobe

As the global head of designing Adobe’s in-person, virtual, and hybrid workplace experience programs, Mirit Cohen is passionate about creating experiences that help people live and work better. A champion for connection and community at work as an antidote to the epidemic of loneliness sweeping the nation, she and her interdisciplinary team are constantly experimenting with new, human-centered approaches to the future of work. Previously, Cohen was steeped in the world of food as a chef and entrepreneur. Building on what she learned about the link between food and culture growing up in the Jewish community and as a graduate student in Stanford’s psychology department studying the origins of empathy in human and non-human primates, she came to recognize the unparalleled power of food as a tool for shaping culture on purpose — at companies and in communities. 

Liz Kleinman

Director, Ground Control Strategy and Program Operations at Airbnb

Liz has worked at Airbnb for the last decade on the Employee Experience team focused on culture and in-person experiences. Currently she oversees the company's approach to gatherings and offsites, as well as core values interviewing, new hire onboarding, and social impact. She's passionate about building communities and trust through shared experiences, interests and identities. 

 
 

OUR VENUE

Ciel Creative Space

We are excited to host our Offsite at Ciel, a space designed to inspire creativity and brought to life with the intention to inspire you to produce your best work and connect on a human level. The 50,000 sq foot creative studio features expansive rooms filled with luscious greenery and abundant natural light.

Bonus! Take a tour the full space after the Offsite ends. See what makes Ciel special, and how you might utilize their various spaces for your events and offsites. Tour begins at 4:45 and lasts 30 minutes.


🎁 PLUS - FREE MASSAGE SESSIONS

Our friends at Strategic Bodywork will be offering short massage sessions at the beginning of the day and during lunch at the Offsite.
Sign-ups available on-site, first-come, first served.

LEARN MORE AT: www.strategicbodywork.com


Bonus Session: The Secrets of Successful Executive Offsites 

The first 15 people to register get access to a bonus virtual session on May 15 “The Secrets of Successful Executive Offsites” with executive coach Cyndi Yee, who has two decades of experience leading in-depth transformative retreats for executive teams and has seen it all!

Cyndi Yee

As an executive coach, Cyndi Yee is all about helping leaders show up as the best version of themselves — more consistently, amid pressure, and on demand. And because the most meaningful change happens at the organizational level, she specializes in designing bespoke creative, interactive IRL experiences that shift leadership teams into actionable possibility. For the last 15 years she’s honed her approach facilitating transformative offsites, retreats, and workshops for organizations ranging from Google and Netflix to UCLA and the LA Philharmonic.  And credits her 18 years before that as a strategist in advertising for first revealing to her the power of insight in understanding human motivations and behavior.

THIS SESSION IS SOLD OUT!

  • When you are leading an executive offsite, expectations are high for you to deliver a seamless and immediately valuable experience for an audience that is often skeptical, and crunched for time. Whew, that’s a lot of pressure! How you prepare for the event and connect with the team ahead of time is vital to your success. 

    Lessons learned will be applicable to designing any kind of high stakes engagement for intact teams.

    You will have the opportunity to connect with fellow attendees, share challenges and best practices, and ask your burning questions and get laser coaching from Cyndi and Jenny.

    This 90 minute virtual session will include how you can:

    -Make believers out of even the cynics

    -Help teams have the conversations they’re not having

    -Resolve conflict without the pain and awkwardness

    -Build trust and rapport with the group before you get into the room, so you can hit the ground running


 
 

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