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Leadership and Team Development

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Align Your Team. Name the Hard Stuff. Lead What’s Next.

Alnoba is a place of transformation. Leaders, teams, and youth alike come to our vibrant 600 acres to align, clarify their vision, and grow together. Our leadership and team development programs are proven and highly customizable — so you can make a lasting, positive impact on your team.

What Sets Us Apart for Leadership Development

  • 30+ years of experience with leaders from 80+ countries
  • A proven model from Pinnacle Leadership and Team Development that gets results
  • World-class meeting, activity, and lodging spaces
  • Resources & tools that drive sustainable change
Leadership Retreats

Leadership Retreats

Great leadership starts with purposeful and courageous action. These “offsite” one-to-two day and overnight retreats offer leaders and teams the space to step back from daily demands and engage in focused, facilitated experiences that foster clarity, alignment, and breakthrough thinking, all while surrounded by nature.

Many programs are offered at reduced or no-cost to nonprofit, youth, and community organizations to ensure that our resources serve the public good.

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Youth Development

Empower the next generation of leaders. Our immersive, adventure-driven retreats are a great resource for educators and youth-serving organizations looking to foster leadership, resilience, and social-emotional skills in young people.

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Youth Development

Our Proven Method

Over the past 30 years, we’ve developed and refined Pinnacle Leadership and Team Development — New England’s top resource for nurturing strong leaders — right here at Alnoba. Through Pinnacle, we tailor retreats to your needs, then guide your team in an intentional, 1-2 day timeframe, aligning on clear goals, creating strong action plans, and overcoming your team’s biggest barriers. While every team takes away something different, many groups leave with greater clarity, stronger communication, and a renewed sense of purpose.

Our Approach

Our approach is simple, direct, and low-tech. We believe in small groups circling up, heading outdoors away from the office, using flip charts over Power Point presentations, and tackling the tough stuff first. We use nature as our classroom, integrating experiential learning to build trust and improve collaboration. We also teach simple but effective tools that can be used beyond the retreat, including the GRPI framework (Goals, Roles, Processes, and Interpersonal Relationships) — a tool used to diagnose and resolve team issues while improving clarity, alignment, and healthier team culture.

 

Team-Building Experiences

We believe shared experience, open dialogue, and thoughtful challenge help teams grow. Our retreats create space for people to step back, reconnect, and learn together in meaningful ways. Through guided exercises and facilitated conversations, teams have the opportunity to strengthen relationships, deepen understanding, and build momentum toward their goals.

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We’re able to just spend time together. Be real, be human. Get to know each other outside the work environment. And then also the creative juices come together when you’re away from the phone and the day-to-day activities. It helps to have trained people to walk you through the processes to get there.

Russ Greenlaw, CEOAssociated Grocers of New England

The SEL program Alnoba/Pinnacle was beautiful and one the Next community will always remember. We received positive feedback from our staff and students about the days. All of the activities were enjoyable and well put together, the ropes courses were exhilarating and provided opportunities for everyone to communicate in a vulnerable and authentic way. We were able to step outside our comfort zones while also having fun. We are so excited to return!!!

Amy M., School CounselorNext Charter School

It was helpful to spend time with our team outside of our day-to-day obligations. It pushed us to think differently. Scott pushed the group to stay focused on the big swings instead of being bogged down by the details and planning. He was patient, firm and supportive.

Yi-Chin ChenFriends of the Children, Boston

Providing the opportunity to have students be outside of their comfort zones continues to be the most impactful part of this trip. Whether it's doing a group activity, climbing, or just being outdoors, everyone responds positively to being just a bit uncomfortable. The kids would not stop talking about how next year, they will try to go higher on an element or retry one with a different approach.

Bianca CamachoSquashBusters Providence

When we first thought about visiting Alnoba we had a zoom meeting with Sydni, and she was the most incredible liaison for this process, she was patient, and unbelievably flexible and friendly. She helped plan our recent visit, and helped us to dream bigger with another visit in the spring to help book-end our school year setting goals in the fall, and ropes course in the spring to show off how much we have grown, and how much confidence we have garnered. I can't thank you enough for the opportunity to bring our kids here, it was amazing!

Kelly T.Lincoln Akerman School

Special Options

High Ropes Course

Challenge your group with our professional ropes course, built in the trees to promote trust, communication, and collaboration.

Hiking & Nature Exploration

Enjoy miles of walking trails throughout the property for self-guided hiking or running. Nature guides are available upon request.

Mindful Additions

Help your team relax and reflect by dedicating some time for yoga, meditation, sound bathing, and other activities in our on-site studio or outside on the lawn.

Land & Water Initiatives

Choose from a variety of engaging team-building challenges on both land and water, each designed to strengthen collaboration, communication, and problem-solving.

Lodging

Staying for an overnight? Enjoy homey cabins and houses featuring intimate, group-style living, all nestled in the woods within a short walking distance of the Alnoba meeting house and Pinnacle Studio.

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Meeting Spaces

From our award-winning Alnoba meeting house to our 1848 barn, Pinnacle studio, and other spaces, you’ll find many inspiring places to gather and grow together as a team.

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Our Team

Scott Sanders

Executive Vice President, Pinnacle

Drawing on his background as an Army veteran and executive law enforcement leader, Scott brings a unique blend of global leadership expertise, a passion for organizational development, and a commitment to service to his role.

Sydni Collier

Sydni Collier

Director of Leadership Programs, Alnoba

With deep experience in nonprofit program leadership and a strong academic foundation in social research and bias studies, Sydni designs and delivers transformative experiential learning programs for youth and leadership teams.

Colin Clark

Colin Clark

Organizational Advisor, Pinnacle

With an MBA in organizational development and a background ranging from real estate to small business, Colin leverages decades of experience to train, coach, and facilitate leadership and team development for clients including Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and institutions like the World Bank and Harvard.

Transform your team at Alnoba

For more than 30 years, we’ve worked with scores of leaders and teams to help transcend their potential. Now we’d love to work with you. Get in touch to explore your leadership development options.

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