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Leadership Development That Moves People—and Organizations—Forward

Leadership development is most effective when learning leads to action. Rhodes partners with organizations to create engaging learning experiences that strengthen leadership skills, deepen self-awareness, and equip teams with practical tools they can apply immediately. Every program is designed to help people lead with greater confidence while creating stronger relationships and healthier workplace cultures.

Whether you’re investing in emerging leaders, experienced executives, or your entire workforce, Rhodes tailors each learning experience to meet your organization’s goals. Through workshops, retreats, executive learning, and the Belonging Learning Series™, participants leave prepared to create meaningful change that benefits both people and organizational performance.

Leadership Development That Turns Learning Into Lasting Change

The most meaningful leadership development doesn’t end when the workshop is over—it transforms how people communicate, collaborate, lead, and create cultures where everyone can thrive.

Organizations don’t become stronger simply by sharing information. They grow when leaders and teams develop practical skills, build stronger relationships, and gain the confidence to put new ideas into action. Rhodes Perry designs engaging leadership development experiences that move beyond inspiration to create meaningful, measurable growth.

Whether through the Belonging Learning Series™, Imagine Belonging Retreats, or customized workshops and executive learning experiences, every program is tailored to your organization’s unique goals. Participants leave with practical tools they can immediately apply to strengthen leadership, deepen collaboration, and build workplace cultures where belonging becomes part of everyday practice.

Leadership Development

Three Ways to Build Belonging Skills

Whether you want a structured skills program, a custom retreat, or a catalog of workshops to draw from, each offering translates the ideas in Belonging at Work™ into practical skills your people can use right away.

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Skills-Building Program

The Belonging Basics™

A six-module program that turns inclusion from a concept into everyday practice.

The Belonging Basics is a structured, six-module learning series that builds the practical skills of everyday inclusion — the small, repeatable actions that create psychological safety, trust, and belonging on a team. Sourced directly from Rhodes Perry’s Belonging at Work™ book series, it pairs each module with group coaching and a bank of 1:1 coaching hours, so the learning actually turns into behavior.

Participants move from understanding what belonging is, through managing conflict and power, to repairing harm and activating their own belonging vision — leaving with a personal commitment they can be held accountable to across the year.

The Six Modules
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Belonging Basics
  • Define psychological safety, trust, and belonging at work
  • Build the skills for everyday inclusion
  • Turn moments of exclusion into moments of belonging
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Trust at Work: The Ultimate Business Currency
  • Reframe conflict as a trust-building opportunity
  • Gain inclusion skills for productive dialogue
  • Move through conflict via open, honest dialogue
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Embody Inclusive Leadership Practices
  • See why inclusive leadership transforms culture
  • Learn six inclusive leadership behaviors
  • Systematize and reward those behaviors
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Bridging at Work: Making Better Connections
  • Understand social and positional power
  • Spot how power operates in your culture
  • Use social power to foster safety
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Fumbling Towards Repair
  • Separate good intention from harmful impact
  • Gain a framework for repairing harm
  • Practice it when responding to exclusion
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Imagine Belonging: Activate Your Belonging Vision
  • Craft your leadership narrative
  • Name the transformation you want to make
  • Write a year-long commitment statement
This skills-building series has inspired me to become a champion for belonging in our organization. I’ve learned how to recognize and address microaggressions, have more open and honest conversations with my team, and create a more inclusive environment for those I lead.
S. Patel — Department Director, Orlando, FL
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Retreat Facilitation

Imagine Belonging Retreats

Custom-designed retreats that reconnect a team to its purpose, values, and agreements.

Imagine Belonging Retreats are custom-built experiences that blend individual reflection, small- and large-group connection, and genuinely rejuvenating activities. Rather than a generic offsite, each retreat is designed around where your team actually is and where it’s trying to go — creating a safe, supportive space to connect more deeply and re-examine what the organization stands for.

Teams leave more connected and clearer on their shared values, with a practical roadmap for living those values day to day — not just naming them on a wall.

What Your Retreat Includes
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Individual Reflection
  • Optional pre-work to surface your personal values
  • Quiet space to consider where they align with the organization
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Small- & Large-Group Connection
  • Structured conversations that build trust and rapport
  • Room to connect on a deeper level as a team
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Values Exploration Through Story
  • Surface shared values through personal stories, not slogans
  • Name what your organization truly stands for
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Value Alignment
  • Align team values with mission, vision, and DEI commitments
  • Get clear on the values you genuinely share
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Operationalizing Your Values
  • Brainstorm the behaviors that bring each value to life
  • Turn stated values into daily practice
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Rejuvenating Activities
  • Restorative moments built into the day
  • Leave reconnected and re-energized, not drained
The organizational retreat was a transformative experience for me and my colleagues. It provided a safe and supportive space to connect on a deeper level and re-evaluate our organization’s core values.
K. Lee — Senior Manager, Seattle, WA
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Workshop Catalog

Building an Educated Workforce

Practical, immediately-applicable workshops you can pick from or sequence into a learning path.

Building an Educated Workforce is a library of standalone workshops you can mix and match to meet your team where it is. Grounded in MIT Sloan research showing that skills training in psychological safety, trust, equitable decision-making, and conflict resolution measurably improves business outcomes, each session trades theory for skills people can use the very next day.

Choose a single workshop or sequence several into a learning path — from budgeting for belonging and building inclusive team cultures to allyship, gender inclusion, equitable decisions, and repairing harm.

The Workshop Catalog
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Budget for Belonging
  • Three reasons PD budgets support belonging
  • Strategies to advocate for them
  • Why employees underuse them
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The Belonging Tipping Point
  • Segment your audience to find champions
  • Message your way to a tipping point
  • Map reactions across diverse audiences
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Design Your Belonging Avatar
  • Tie targeted interventions to DEI goals
  • Build a ‘belonging avatar’ to surface barriers
  • Apply an intersectional lens to culture
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Build a Belonging Team Culture
  • Reframe how you shape inherited culture
  • Localize team decision-making
  • Share power and resources for success
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Equitable Decision Making
  • Name your autopilot decisions
  • Test them against your values
  • Adopt equitable, co-created frameworks
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Building a Gender-Inclusive Workplace
  • Recognize shared ground and unique barriers for TGX colleagues
  • Learn three gender-inclusion skills
  • Practice through case studies
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Need an Ally? Be an Ally!
  • See how performative allyship erodes trust
  • Renew your allyship in the moment
  • Choose action over the comfort of silence
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Know Better? Do Better! Fumbling Towards Repair
  • Spot three common workplace microaggressions
  • Gain three intervention frameworks
  • Practice supporting those who were harmed
Rhodes Perry Consulting’s workshops are unlike any I’ve attended. They’re not just about theory; they provide practical skills that I can immediately apply to my daily work.
D. Ramirez — Director of Operations, Brooklyn, NY

Frequently Asked Questions

hat is the Belonging Learning Series™?
The Belonging Learning Series™ is Rhodes Perry’s signature leadership development program designed to help organizations build cultures where belonging becomes part of everyday leadership. Through a structured learning journey, participants gain practical tools, shared language, and actionable strategies they can immediately apply to strengthen communication, trust, and collaboration across their teams.
What happens during an Imagine Belonging Retreat?
Imagine Belonging Retreats provide leaders and teams with dedicated time to step away from the demands of daily work, reflect on organizational challenges, strengthen relationships, and develop practical strategies for moving forward. Each retreat is customized to your organization’s goals and combines facilitated discussions, collaborative learning, and meaningful experiences that encourage lasting growth.
Are your workshops customized for each organization?
Yes. Every workshop is designed around your organization’s unique goals, challenges, and audience. Whether you’re developing senior leaders, people managers, employee resource groups, or an entire workforce, Rhodes tailors each learning experience to ensure it’s practical, relevant, and immediately applicable.
Who should participate in your leadership development programs?
Leadership development isn’t just for executives. Rhodes works with executive teams, people managers, emerging leaders, employee resource groups, and cross-functional teams. Programs are designed to meet participants where they are while helping them build stronger leadership skills and contribute to a culture of belonging throughout the organization.
Can leadership development programs be delivered virtually?
Absolutely. Rhodes offers both virtual and in-person leadership development experiences. Whether your team is located in one office or across multiple locations, programs are designed to be engaging, interactive, and impactful regardless of format.
How long are your leadership development programs?
Program length depends on your organization’s goals. Some engagements are single workshops or retreat experiences, while others—such as the Belonging Learning Series™—provide an extended learning journey over several months. Together, you’ll determine the format and timeline that best supports your desired outcomes.
What outcomes can organizations expect?
Organizations often see stronger communication, greater leadership confidence, healthier collaboration, increased trust, and a more consistent approach to building belonging across teams. Participants leave with practical tools and shared strategies they can immediately apply to improve both individual leadership and organizational culture.
How do we choose the right leadership development program?
The best program depends on your organization’s goals, current challenges, and desired outcomes. During an initial discovery conversation, Rhodes will learn more about your team and recommend whether a customized workshop, an Imagine Belonging Retreat, the Belonging Learning Series™, or a combination of learning experiences is the best fit.

Build Leaders. Strengthen Teams. Transform Your Workplace.

Leadership development isn’t about delivering another training session—it’s about creating meaningful learning experiences that change how people lead, collaborate, and contribute every day. Rhodes partners with organizations to design engaging programs that equip leaders and teams with practical skills they can immediately apply to strengthen communication, deepen trust, and foster a lasting culture of belonging.

Whether you’re developing emerging leaders, investing in experienced managers, or looking to create organization-wide cultural change, every engagement is tailored to your goals and desired outcomes. If you’re ready to empower your people and build a stronger organization through intentional leadership development, let’s start the conversation.

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