Mark Kenny’s session was the highlight of our annual staff retreat, aligning seamlessly with our company’s values, aspirations and the entire theme of the retreat.
The Collaboration Transformation Experience
A proven, practical approach to help your team reset behaviors, strengthen connection, and work better together.
Every retreat follows the Collaboration Transformation Experience — a focused, interactive approach that helps teams see each other differently, reset unhelpful behaviors, and build the rhythms that make collaboration easier. Through meaningful conversations and practical tools, your people leave aligned, connected, and better equipped to work together every day.
DURATION
2-4 hours (full day options available)
DELIVERY
In-person or virtual
FOCUS
Reset behaviors, strengthen connection, and build collaboration habits that last.
Retreat Programs
Mark’s retreats blend story, insight, interaction, and practical tools to help teams reset how they work together. These retreat programs highlight the different ways he helps teams build connection, clarity, and everyday collaboration habits.
PROGRAM #1
Next Level Collaboration
A practical, energizing retreat that helps teams strengthen collaboration by addressing the everyday behaviors that quietly shape how they work together.
This retreat gives your people the space and structure to examine how they communicate, follow through, support each other, and navigate friction — the real behaviors that determine whether collaboration works or falls apart.
Through interactive activities, candid discussion, and simple habits your team can apply immediately, participants learn how to show up differently, work across roles more naturally, and create a stronger sense of “one team.” They leave with behavioral commitments, shared expectations, and renewed energy for working together.
Great for:
People teams, cross-functional groups, state agencies, departments that need consistent collaboration beyond their lanes.
PROGRAM #2
Uncommon Collaboration
A powerful and highly interactive retreat built around the four “uncommon passes” — Presence, Truth, Grace, and Belief — that unlock collaboration at every level.
This retreat expands on Mark’s signature keynote and gives teams space to practice the behaviors that rebuild trust and connection. Through relatable storytelling, small-group discussions, and hands-on activities, participants learn how to move past withholding and make the passes that matter most. The experience helps teams navigate tough conversations, show up for each other more fully, replace frustration with clarity, and bring out the best in one another. Every participant leaves with one pass they will commit to practicing — and a shared language that reshapes team culture long after the retreat ends.
Great for:
Organizations wanting a cultural reset, meeting planners wanting a keynote-plus experience, intact teams seeking better trust and communication.
PROGRAM #3
Leadership Alignment & Collaboration Offsite
A deeper, strategic experience designed to help leadership teams reconnect, recalibrate, and lead as one.
This offsite gives senior leaders the focused time and space they rarely get in the day-to-day. Through guided discussion, real-work problem-solving, and connection-focused exercises, your team will explore its dynamics, strengthen trust, and clarify how to make decisions and communicate more cohesively. You’ll surface what’s been getting in the way, align around what matters most, and build healthier leadership behaviors that cascade through the rest of the organization. The result is a more unified, grounded, and aligned leadership team.
Great for:
Executive teams, director groups, senior leadership cohorts, boards.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
Uncommon Collaboration
A practical, energizing retreat that helps teams strengthen collaboration by addressing the everyday behaviors that quietly shape how they work together.
Most organizations have strong missions, capable leaders, and dedicated people — so why don’t we work together like we know we could and should? It’s because people start protecting instead of practicing collaboration. Uncommon Collaboration begins when we stop protecting and start “passing” what others truly need.
This energizing, interactive keynote shows how small but intentional “passes” between people can transform collaboration, elevate alignment, and amplify momentum across your organization.
Watch Mark in Action
Mark’s keynotes blend story, insight, and interaction to help leaders rethink how they work together.These clips highlight the energy, clarity, and connection he brings to every audience.
Story Clip
When collaboration quietly breaks down.
A humorous, relatable moment from Mark’s rec-league days becomes a powerful picture of how collaboration quietly breaks down. Through laughter and insight, he shows how teams drift into withholding—and how quickly they can shift back toward connection.
Leadership Clip
When truth reshapes a leader.
In this candid leadership moment, Mark shares how one uncomfortable conversation with a mentor changed the way he led. It’s a practical reminder that when truth moves, teams move.
Engagement Clip
When truth starts moving.
The room comes alive as Mark gets leaders laughing, moving, and reconnecting through a simple but powerful visual exercise. This clip shows the energy, interaction, and engagement he brings to every audience.
The feedback on your keynote was outstanding! It was a wonderfully different approach that really helped foster connection… and set the stage for engagement throughout the rest of the conference!”
The Mark Kenny Experience
A seamless experience from start to finish.
Discovery
Mark clarifies your audience, goals, and the challenges your leaders are facing — so the keynote feels relevant and aligned.
Delivery
Mark delivers a high-energy, interactive keynote filled with stories, insight, interaction, and practical tools your audience can use immediately.
Reinforce
After the event, Mark provides optional resources to help your organization apply the message and sustain momentum, including reflection questions, a summary PDF, team conversation prompts, and an optional breakout session.
Let’s Make Your Next Event Transformational
If you want your leaders to collaborate more deeply, align faster, and work together in ways they’ve never worked together before, let’s talk.