FOR INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS / LEADERSHIP RETREATS / 2b BOLD
Step Away. Think Bigger.
Return Bolder.
Some Questions Deserve More Space.
What deserves more of your attention? What are you ready to change? What would your next chapter look like if you approached it more deliberately?
These questions can be difficult to explore between meetings, decisions and everyday responsibilities. 2b Bold creates the conditions to give them your full attention. A different setting, fresh perspectives and thoughtful challenge help you examine familiar patterns and consider new possibilities.
Come with an ambition, a decision or simply a sense that something needs to shift. Use the experience to discover what that means and what you want to do about it.
Be Bold About What Comes Next.
A significant shift can begin with a question you have avoided, a conversation you have needed or the recognition that a familiar way of working no longer serves you. 2b Bold gives you room to explore those moments. You will consider what is working, what is getting in your way and where you want to direct your energy.
You will hear different perspectives, examine your assumptions and develop choices that reflect what matters to you. Boldness is personal. It might mean pursuing a bigger ambition, changing how you lead, making a difficult decision or creating more room for the life you want.
RETREATS IN ACTION
We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.
Brené Brown
What This Experience Delivers
Every 2b Bold experience has its own purpose, setting and rhythm. What connects them is the opportunity to step outside familiar routines, explore important questions from different perspectives and return with greater clarity about what happens next.
The Purpose
Space to Think
Step away from everyday demands to focus on your leadership, priorities and next chapter. Create room to notice what needs your attention.
The Approach
Move. Think. Connect.
Reflection, conversation, movement and shared experiences unlock fresh thinking. Enough structure creates depth; enough space lets you explore what matters.
The People
Fresh Perspectives
Connect with experienced facilitators and people who challenge your thinking. Learn from their perspectives while making greater sense of your own.
The Format
Join or Create
Join an open leadership retreat or residency, or work with us to design a custom experience around your team’s objectives, context and next chapter.
Find the Experience That Fits Your Next Chapter.
2b Bold includes open leadership retreats and residencies, alongside custom experiences designed for teams and organisations.
Leadership retreats bring people together around a shared purpose. Facilitated conversations, leadership activities and collective experiences create space for reflection, connection and challenge, whether the focus is personal leadership, a team’s next chapter or an important strategic priority.
Leadership residencies offer a different rhythm, combining purposeful group sessions with greater space for independent reflection. Participants learn from one another while having time to explore their own leadership, performance and priorities more deliberately.
Custom experiences are shaped around what your team genuinely needs to achieve. We work with you to agree the purpose, location, duration and balance of facilitated work, shared experiences and reflection. Your retreat can stand alone or become a defining moment within a wider 2b Enterprise partnership.
What Could Your Team Retreat Focus On?
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Strategy and Alignment
Step back together to examine priorities, clarify direction and agree what the next chapter requires from the leadership team.
02
Trust and Team Performance
Explore how you work together, address important conversations and strengthen shared expectations for collaboration, decision-making and accountability.
03
Culture and Leadership
Consider how your values show up in practice and agree the behaviours leaders need to model consistently.
04
Sustainable Performance
Examine how your team approaches pressure, focus, energy and recovery. Develop practical commitments that support performance over time.
05
Transition and Next Chapter Leadership
Create space for a newly formed team, changing responsibilities, organisational growth or a significant milestone.
The theme provides direction, but the experience is designed around the realities of your organisation and the outcomes your team needs to achieve.
When Space Matters Most
2b Bold is for people and teams who want to give their development focused attention.
It is particularly relevant for leaders navigating a demanding or changing chapter, founders considering what comes next, executives seeking fresh perspectives and high performers wanting to approach work and life more deliberately.
For organisations, it creates valuable space when a leadership team needs stronger alignment, deeper connection or concentrated attention on a strategic, cultural or performance challenge.
You do not need to arrive with everything figured out. Curiosity, openness and a willingness to participate are useful starting points.
What Will You Take Forward?
Your priorities will shape what you gain from the experience.
You might leave with greater clarity about what matters now, a stronger understanding of your strengths or a different perspective on a familiar challenge. You may identify new habits, make a more deliberate leadership choice or commit to a move you have been postponing.
For teams, the experience can create shared direction, stronger relationships and clear commitments to carry back into everyday work.
Before leaving, you will consider how to turn your insight into action through the routines, relationships and responsibilities you return to.
People Who Help You Think Further.
Our hosts and facilitators create the conditions for thoughtful challenge, honest conversation and meaningful reflection. Their role is not to provide every answer, but to help you explore your own questions while drawing on the perspectives around you.
The faculty is selected around the purpose of each experience. Hosts and facilitators are confirmed alongside the relevant programme details.
Facilitators include
Victoria Tipper
Senior Executive Coach
David Labouchere, OBE
Senior Executive Coach
Peter Charles Turner
Partner, Executive Vice Chairman and Global Head of Learning
Ian Ward
Senior Executive Coach and UK Partner
Make the Retreat Part of a Bigger Journey.
A custom 2b Bold retreat can stand alone or become an important moment within a longer leadership and organisational-development programme. The experience can provide the space to establish direction, strengthen relationships or explore an important transition before the work continues through coaching, leadership workshops and regular reviews.
Through a 2b Enterprise partnership, the retreat becomes more than a memorable few days. It connects directly to the leadership behaviours, strategic priorities and organisational outcomes you want to sustain over time.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
2b Bold brings together our leadership retreats and residencies, alongside custom experiences designed for teams and organisations. Every experience creates purposeful space for reflection, connection, challenge and development.
A retreat typically brings a group together around a shared programme and purpose.
A residency creates a different rhythm, combining shared activities and conversations with more independent time for reflection. The structure of each experience is explained in its programme details.
Yes. Open 2b Bold experiences welcome individual participants. The intended audience, format, location and availability are explained on the relevant experience page.
Yes. We work with you to design an experience around your team’s objectives. The location, duration, activities, balance of facilitated and independent time, and faculty are agreed during the planning process.
A retreat can focus on strategy and alignment, trust and team performance, culture, sustainable performance, organisational change or next-chapter leadership. We begin by understanding the context and outcomes before recommending the most useful focus and format.
Yes. A retreat can provide focused time within a 2b Enterprise partnership or another leadership-development journey. We connect the experience, commitments and follow-through to the objectives of the wider programme.
Activities vary according to the programme, setting and purpose. We explain any planned activities and participation requirements before booking. Contact our team to discuss accessibility or participation needs so we can help you assess the fit.
Independent reflection is an important part of the 2b Bold approach, particularly within a residency. The balance between shared sessions and personal time varies by programme.
Coaching arrangements also vary. Any included coaching or additional options are specified in the programme details or custom proposal.
Inclusions vary by experience. Each open programme or custom retreat proposal clearly explains what is included and what participants need to arrange separately.
Explore the upcoming experiences section or contact our team. If no suitable dates are currently available, you can register your interest in future experiences.
Each programme page sets out the location, duration, intended audience, inclusions and investment. Custom retreats are designed and priced through an agreed proposal.
Make Space for Your Next Bold Move.
Give yourself, or your team, time to think beyond the immediate demands. Explore what matters, connect with different perspectives and return with clearer intentions for what comes next.
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