Relational Leadership for Entrepreneurial Teams
Navigating Pressure, Building Trust, Sustaining Growth and Innovation
Per person rates (Register before July 1/26 and receive a 15% discount. Enter EARLY15 at checkout):
Corporates:
· Individual participant: $600 + HST
· Teams of 3–5: $550 + HST per person
· Teams of 6–10: $500 + HST per person
Venture and NGOs: eligible impact-driven, early-stage, or resource-constrained founders and teams.
· Individual participant: $400 + HST
· Teams of 3–5: $300 + HST per person
· Teams of 6–10: $250 + HST per person
Why Relational Leadership Matters
In entrepreneurial environments, relationships are not a “soft” concern. They directly shape decision-making, speed, creativity, retention, investor confidence, founder wellbeing, and long-term growth.
When trust is strong, teams can move faster, disagree more productively, recover from stress more effectively, and sustain the energy required to build.
When trust erodes, even high-potential ventures can become slowed by avoidance, reactivity, misalignment, conflict, and burnout.
This workshop helps participants move from reactive leadership patterns toward more intentional responses. It creates space to examine the relational habits that influence team health and organizational direction — and to build practices that support healthier communication, clearer decision-making, and more resilient growth.
Who This Workshop Is For
This experience is designed for founders, co-founders, CEOs, senior operators, and entrepreneurial teams who are navigating the pressures of venture-building and want to work together with greater trust, alignment, and resilience.
It is especially relevant for teams that are:
· Scaling quickly and experiencing new interpersonal or operating pressures
· Navigating misalignment, unspoken tensions, or difficult conversations
· Facing founder-team, co-founder, board, investor, or leadership dynamics that require greater clarity
· Working through uncertainty, change, or strategic inflection points
· Seeking healthier communication patterns and more sustainable collaboration
· Committed to reflecting on their own leadership patterns and opening new possibilities for the team
This workshop is not a lecture or passive training session. It is for leaders and teams who are willing to participate, reflect, listen, and engage honestly with the dynamics shaping their work.
What You Will Experience
During this one-day workshop, participants will engage in a structured, reflective, and highly practical experience focused on the relational dynamics of entrepreneurial leadership.
You can expect:
Guided dialogue on how trust, pressure, and conflict show up in entrepreneurial teams
Experiential practices that help participants notice their own leadership patterns
Tools for staying present in difficult or emotionally charged conversations
Practices for listening with intention and responding thoughtfully under pressure
Opportunities to explore how tension, difference, and uncertainty can be navigated more constructively, for a clearer view of the relational dynamics affecting their team’s performance
Team-level reflection on how communication, shared language, decision-making, and collaboration can improve
Practical takeaways that can be applied immediately in day-to-day team interactions for a more sustainable approach to leadership, growth, and team wellbeing
Participants leave with greater relational awareness and concrete tools to support more constructive conversations, stronger collaboration, and healthier working relationships.
A full-day immersive experience for founders and entrepreneurial teams
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Osler Conference Centre. 100 King Street West - 63rd Floor. Toronto, Ontario
Format: In-person, experiential
Meet Your Facilitators
Mairead Filgate (Toronto/Montréal) is an award-winning performer, creator, and facilitator with over two decades of experience designing and leading collaborative, process-driven projects across artistic and community contexts. As the co-founder of PlaySpace, she co-designs experiences that apply creative practice to leadership development, community wellbeing, and inclusive culture-building, supporting teams and organizations to develop relational leadership practices that strengthen trust, adaptability, and collective capacity. She is currently a Scholar-in-Residence at Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
Shannon Litzenberger is an award-winning artist, facilitator, and leadership developer working at the intersection of creative practice and organizational development. For over a decade, she has designed and led experiential programs across corporate, academic, and social impact sectors, helping leaders and organizational teams strengthen collaboration and navigate complexity. As co-founder of PlaySpace, she brings an approach grounded in embodiment, collective intelligence, and real-time team dynamics to support clearer communication, better decision-making, and more intentional leadership.
Dr. Veronica Escalente is an anthropologist, facilitator, and educator working at the intersection of relational leadership and social transformation. She is the founder and director of the SHARE Foundation, where she has developed dialogue-based approaches to rebuild trust across divided communities. With over a decade of experience, she designs and leads experiential processes that help leaders and teams navigate tension, strengthen communication, and build more resilient ways of working together. She teaches in the PhD in Global Leadership at Pepperdine University, integrating her field experience into her academic work.
Pravin Rodrigues has led cross-functional teams in companies large and small over the span of a twenty-year consulting career. He has judged numerous startup competitions, and has helped founding teams set direction and gain momentum as an executive coach and advisor. As Managing Partner of Espera Capital, he invests in impact-driven ventures across North America and Latin America, and has helped many raise funds. He is passionate about seeing teams succeed together to create social, environmental and financial impact.
August 6, 2026 Session Registration
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