2023 Directors & Owners Retreat

2023 Owners & Directors Retreat

Oct. 25 – 27, 2023
Wrightsville Beach/Wilmington, NC

Hotel stay included in pricing: NCLCA has a room block at the Blockade Runner in Wrightsville Beach. Room cost (with tax) is approximately $150/night.

Oct. 25 (Wednesday) 

• 4pm: Check-in @ the Blockade Runner
• 4:45pm: Buses to Poplar Grove Plantation (http://poplargrove.org) for food, drinks and live music in the Barn at Poplar Grove. Dinner will be a catered Pig Pickin’ (https://www.poorpiggys.com) + beer/wine.
• 9pm: Buses return to Blockade Runner hotel

Oct. 26 (Thursday)

• 8am-4pm: Breakfast & lunch (hotel), plus speakers & sessions covering leadership, wellness, business vision, marketing, nurturing staff, etc.
• 5pm: Buses depart to downtown Wilmington for "Escape Room"
• 6:30pm: Drinks and light snacks at Front Street Brewery
• 7:30pm: Dinner on your own downtown
• 9pm: Buses return to Blockade Runner Hotel

Oct. 27 (Friday)

8am-1pm: Breakfast and speakers/sessions continue.

1pm: Retreat concludes/depart

Speakers/Sessions:

John Grinnell - Grinnell Leadership
Influence & Motivation: Causing Followership with limited resources; understanding how human motivation operates; increasing workplace satisfaction for improiving outcomes

Gigi Schweikert - author, keynote presenter and CEO for Lightbridge Academy
The Power of One Positive Person - Have you ever thought about the incredible power you have to make a positive difference in the lives of those around you? The positive choices you make each day, the ways in which you help others, and even your smile can change the course of a day, and in some situations, the course of a life.

Tanya Dennis, M.Ed. - Early Childhood Education Specialist and Wellness Coach
Workplace Wellness: Explore the impact and cost of mental health within a business, its impact on the “First 2000 days of life,” and understand the tools for developing an individualized action plan to establish a “Conscious Culture for Workforce Wellness.”