Group Leadership Seminar
Offered In-person, Online and Mixed Formats
Offered In-person, Online and Mixed Formats
The Group Leadership Seminar helps any group (e.g., board of directors, management team, groups of employees or delegates of all sizes) develop shared leadership by participating in a dynamic, positive and forward-looking strategy/team-building experience.
Inspired by the Appreciative Inquiry methodology of organizational change, the Group Leadership Seminar proposes two primary methodologies in order to develop shared leadership:
1. The Appreciative Assessment helps any group become more conscious, confident and cohesive by appreciating the best which brings people together and drives them to achieve. This first step generates:
- Collective learning.
- Positive effects on belonging and cohesion.
- Shared priorities and values.
2. The Wall of Intentions is an original methodology that helps any group identify common intentions and actions in a participatory and engaging manner.
Designed as a strategic and team-building meeting, the Group Leadership Seminar is aimed at natural teams or large work groups looking to define shared priorities and actions in an efficient and engaging way.
Three formats are available:
Article on Group Leadership
—François Héon Consulting is recognized as one of the “Top” leadership development training/coaching companies in Canada by Manage HR magazine in 2025! The magazine published the article Empowering Collective Leadership!
Testimonials
The following testimonials come from my Ph.D. research (2014 to 2018) with my clients who have experienced the leadership seminar.
Former school director
—While the school had historically been labeled a “problem school”, 7 years after The Group Leadership Seminar intervention the school has now become a model school and referenced as an example for other schools with climate issues. I now refer my friends’ children to the school whereas I would have never done so before. Pride is back!
—The seminar has helped my own credibility and legitimacy as a leader to lead such a constructive process through a difficult period.
Director of a professional order
—We’re more coherent now. We know what talk we want to walk.
—I found The Wall of Intentions to be a powerful methodology. We often forget to re-focus on collective intentions; a common purpose. And then be able to come back to it. It’s a simple way to address questions of values and vision. And the individual way people participate is powerfully engaging.
—A memorable moment for all employees. It’s a very powerful and inclusive methodology to create a sense of belonging and cohesion.
Director of a pharmacy
—The Seminar allowed us to vent and focus constructively towards the future. The Wall of Intentions really helped our group project itself in the future while allowing everyone to express themselves in a constructive way and all this very quickly.
CEO of a regional public health authority
—The Seminar achieved the objective: A shared meaning to give our collective project and constitute a team from talented individuals. The Seminar created COLLECTIVE engagement.
Branch executive director
—I used to address our successes and failures at about the same level. But since the Seminar I now put a deliberate emphasis throughout the organization on the positive.
—The experience of this process is a source of accomplishment as a leader.
—The seminar is an accessible and inclusive methodology for everyone.
HR sponsor
—The Seminar allowed us to have more authentic conversations between us. It brought the Senior Vice-President closer to the managers than ever before. There was a true feeling of all being in it together as we had never spent 3 hours to really reflect together. Especially 250 of us!
Executive director of a medical faculty
—Our team has matured through these three annual Group Leadership Seminars. We depend less on the Dean to solve every problem and we talk to each other much more.
Dean of a medical faculty
—It’s a method that makes the participants the authors and leaders rather than having someone telling them what to do.