LDE for Executives
How do you build the leadership skills needed to navigate your team through uncertainty and difficult situations? Put yourself in a controlled, high-stakes situation with Johns Hopkins leadership experts by your side. Whether as part of an open-enrollment LDEPro program in Belize or as part of a custom program carefully crafted for the developmental needs of your organization, CIL’s outdoor leadership experiences will help you develop the skills to succeed as a leader.
Custom Expeditions
Custom LDE courses for organizations are available in Belize, Norway, Ecuador, or Mexico, and are a powerful way to grow your organization’s leadership pipeline and team effectiveness outside of the typical nine-to-five environment.
During the highly immersive week-long excursion, you’ll learn to establish goal-setting techniques through exercises in feedback and reflection while empowering the team around you and advancing your professional goals.
Contact Us to discuss creating a custom LDE for your team or organization.
Custom LDE courses for organizations are available in Belize, Norway, Ecuador, or Mexico, and are a powerful way to grow your organization’s leadership pipeline and team effectiveness outside of the typical nine-to-five environment.
During the highly immersive week-long excursion, you’ll learn to establish goal-setting techniques through exercises in feedback and reflection while empowering the team around you and advancing your professional goals.
Contact Us to discuss creating a custom LDE for your team or organization.
LDE-Professional (LDEPro)
Nature Inspired, Human Powered Learning
This uniquely designed adventure leadership retreat invites a small group of individuals to participate in a week-long series of outdoor activities, leadership discussions, and curated moments of quiet reflection. Group activities such as kayaking, SUPing, snorkeling, fishing, and birding will allow participants to challenge themselves, support others, and experience the rewards that nature has to offer. Active participation in the retreat will allow individuals to reflect on and evaluate personal leadership capacity, strengths, and growth areas as a leader.
Disconnect to Reconnect
Participants will experience the unique opportunity to deeply immerse themselves in the quiet, wildness, and therapeutic beauty of nature for a week with a complete disconnect from work, technology, and the stress of daily routine back home. Although this disconnect can be disorienting and uncomfortable at first, participants will quickly grow to appreciate the opportunity to slow down, be more present, and reset their intentions for self-improvement in areas of mind, body, and spirit.
Present Moment Leadership
The course’s foundation is built on CIL’s Present Moment Leadership framework that emphasizes that leaders must deploy the right amount of empathy, competence, and agility to influence positive change and innovate solutions. Participants will navigate the technical and environmental challenges of adventure-based learning in a remote setting by getting out of their comfort zones, adapting to a steadily evolving set of scenarios, committing to group over self, and learning by collaborating with others.
What to Expect
- Individual executive coaching sessions with goal setting before, during, and after the program
- Daily routine of morning reflection, leadership discussion, and adventure activities, evening meeting.
- Connect leadership lessons learned on the expedition to work and life at home
- Share personal leadership stories with like-minded peers; successes, challenges, and opportunities at work, home, and in your community
- Belizean guides will provide activity instruction, meal preparation, and local/cultural knowledge
- Opportunities to lead group for a day
- Share your talents and gifts as a leader
- Experiment with new and different leadership approaches as appropriate
- Receive direct and specific feedback from peers and instructors
- Evening team debrief and discussion
- Assess individual and team performance and make necessary adjustments for the next day
- Connect leadership lessons learned on expedition to work and life at home
- Share personal leadership story and hear other’s stories
Arrival – Day 1: Arrive at the Belize International Airport and connect for a scenic 20-minute flight to the coastal town of Dangriga. Spend the first night at the Pelican Beach Resort with a group dinner and relaxing night on the mainland before heading out to the island the next morning.
Day 2 – 4: After breakfast, travel 38 miles by boat charter offshore to Glover’s Reef Atoll. Check into the furnished tent cabanas and enjoy lunch al fresco. Guides provide professional instruction, teaching sea kayaking, SUP, snorkeling, and safety in tropical seas. For the next 3 days, enjoy a mix of morning discussion, daily adventures, solo time for reflection, and delicious meals prepared by local staff. A backdrop of turquoise clear waters, coral reefs, and fresh sea air provides the perfect environment for connection and rejuvenation.
Day 5 – 6: After breakfast, return to the mainland and drive to Bocawina Rainforest Resort in the foothills of the Maya Mountains. The next two days of eco-resort life could include zip lining, waterfall hikes, birding, and rappelling. Enjoy the final group discussion and reflection, and dine in the rainforest at the acclaimed Wild Fig restaurant.
Day 7: In the morning, return to the town of Dangriga, where the trip finishes in time to make domestic or international flight connections.
Arrival – Day 1: Arrive at the Belize International Airport and connect for a scenic 20-minute flight to the coastal town of Dangriga. Spend the first night at the Pelican Beach Resort with a group dinner and relaxing night on the mainland before heading out to the island the next morning.
Day 2 – 4: After breakfast, travel 38 miles by boat charter offshore to Glover’s Reef Atoll. Check into the furnished tent cabanas and enjoy lunch al fresco. Guides provide professional instruction, teaching sea kayaking, SUP, snorkeling, and safety in tropical seas. For the next 3 days, enjoy a mix of morning discussion, daily adventures, solo time for reflection, and delicious meals prepared by local staff. A backdrop of turquoise clear waters, coral reefs, and fresh sea air provides the perfect environment for connection and rejuvenation.
Day 5 – 6: After breakfast, return to the mainland and drive to Bocawina Rainforest Resort in the foothills of the Maya Mountains. The next two days of eco-resort life could include zip lining, waterfall hikes, birding, and rappelling. Enjoy the final group discussion and reflection, and dine in the rainforest at the acclaimed Wild Fig restaurant.
Day 7: In the morning, return to the town of Dangriga, where the trip finishes in time to make domestic or international flight connections.
Key Program Details
Program Dates: February 14-20, 2026
Program Fee: $3650
- Includes double occupancy lodging, local transportation, all meals & group activities
Notes on Accommodations
- Lodging includes a combination of hotels, platform tents with beds, and cabins
- Wifi and cell service is limited while on the island
- Adventure activities are beginner-friendly but may be strenuous; participants should be in good physical shape
- Dietary restrictions can be accommodated
For questions and inquiries, contact Mike Doyle [email protected]