Leadership and Team Development Workshops

Give your leaders and teams dedicated time to address challenges, strengthen collaboration, and identify practical next steps.

Interactive workshops and retreats are tailored to your organization’s goals. Experiences may draw on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, CliftonStrengths®, Everything DiSC®, and The Five Behaviors®, selected to support your audience and priorities.

Workshops • Retreats • Professional Development Days • Orientations

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Signature Workshops for Leadership and Professional Growth

Interactive workshops customized for your organization’s goals. Each experience helps leaders and teams strengthen communication, collaboration, clarity, and connection.

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Leading with Clarity

Help leaders connect purpose, people, and priorities while building shared direction and momentum.

 

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LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® for Leadership and Innovation

Build and share LEGO® models to explore a challenge, hear different perspectives, and identify practical next steps. Tailored to leadership development, team collaboration, or organizational priorities.

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"Who You Are Matters!"

Use stories and reflection to help participants recognize their strengths, clarify what matters, and strengthen connection.

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Career Clarity and Direction

Help professionals identify their strengths, articulate their direction, and make purposeful career decisions.

Professionals meet in small groups at a workshop facilitated by Erica Mattison

Confident Conversations

Prepare for networking, relationship-building, and important conversations with greater confidence and ease.

Additional Workshop Topics

Communication and collaboration • LinkedIn presence • Networking • Interviewing • Leadership presence • Team development

All workshops are customized for universities, nonprofits, professional associations, and mission-driven companies.

Workshop & Retreat Formats

Workshops and retreats are tailored to your goals and designed to support reflection, connection, and practical application.

Focused Experience: 60 to 75 minutes
Ideal for a single topic, conference session, team meeting, or breakout session.

Deep Dive Experience: 90 minutes to 2 hours
Offers more space for interactive learning, reflection, discussion, and applied strategy.

Immersive Experience: Half-day to two-day retreats
Designed for deeper reflection, stronger connection, and meaningful learning that participants can carry into their work.

Each workshop or retreat includes a planning conversation to align on goals, audience, and logistics. Multi-part workshop series are also available.

See Erica in Action

In this short clip, Erica shares practical guidance on networking, relationship-building, and professional growth. It offers a quick look at her speaking style and the kind of thoughtful, actionable support she brings to workshops and presentations.

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Interested in bringing Erica to your organization? Let’s talk about a workshop, keynote, training, or facilitated conversation tailored to your audience.

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Why Organizations Choose These Workshops

✓ Designed around your goals: A planning conversation shapes the experience around your priorities, audience, and context.

✓ Active participation: Structured activities create opportunities for participants to contribute, reflect, and learn from one another.

✓ Practical application: Participants identify insights and next steps they can carry into their work.

About Erica

As a lawyer turned executive coach with experience across sustainability, higher education, and public service, I’ve worked with hundreds of professionals and organizations to strengthen leadership, communication, and alignment.

Learn more about my background ➔

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What Organizational Partners Are Saying

The session Erica facilitated on leading in complex times was a standout experience for our Executive MBA community—including current cohort members, prospective students, and alumni. I highly recommend partnering with Erica for organizations and teams seeking to foster innovation, strengthen leadership, and help individuals recognize the value of diverse perspectives and approaches.

Mark Almeida
Director, Executive MBA Program

People of all ages and backgrounds loved feeling heard, supported, and safely challenged through the activities' opportunities for reflection and structured conversation. Nobody wanted the event to end! We look forward to inviting Erica back for another event soon!

Marisa Lopez
Associate Director, Workforce & Economic Development

Erica is a fantastic and knowledgeable resource. My institution worked with Erica on a webinar. She was engaging and provided thoughtful tips and tricks. All participants came away with concrete action items. I would absolutely work with Erica again and recommend her services to both organizations and individuals.

Allison Lyman
Director of Lifelong Learning Engagement,
UMass Foundation

What Participants Are Saying

The "Who You Are Matters!" conversation experience Erica facilitated at the Harvard Ed Portal stands out as uniquely effective. We interacted with group members in a fun, engaging manner and honed our listening skills. I recommend working with Erica to elevate your professional journey.

Annie Chow
Growth Marketing & Strategic Sales Leader

Erica shared how to use the LEGO Serious Play methodology as a tool for reflection and career decision-making, such a fun and memorable approach!

Natascha F. Saunders, Ed.D., MBA
Career Professional

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What would you like your leaders or team to approach differently?

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