Bluerock Academy

Complexity Leadership is relational and restorative.

Get grounded and fluid in relational and adaptive leadership practices for vision, collaboration, systemic consciousness, trust, and complexity capability in these uncertain times.

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Keynotes

Relational, evidence based Keynotes

Bluerock Social Impact Partners offers skilled, seasoned, approachable, and pertinent keynote speakers for your events and retreats. Our presentations are concise and captivating, grounded in our domains of knowledge.

Keynote speeches span 30 minutes to an hour and are supplemented with professionally crafted slide decks, which attendees will receive to further solidify the learning. Popular topics for our keynote speeches encompass; From Conflict to Collaboration, High-Performance Hybrid Teams, Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, From Burnout to Flourishing, and Leading through Uncertainty.

  1. Dignity Driven Leadership: What the world needs now.

  2. The Men & Project: Engaging men for mental health and relational wellbeing.

  3. Complexity Isn’t Complicated: Accelerating Impact in Divided Times

Workshops

Cultivating Leadership + Team Performance 

Our engaging, interactive sessions focus on key relational and dignity-driven principles, aiming to boost your team's understanding, solidify team unity, and heighten both self and team insight. These sessions also aim to refine both personal and group behaviours. Leveraging our wide-ranging expertise, we provide customized workshops to foster your team's growth. Our all-inclusive Workshop package includes initial groundwork, a well-structured agenda, an impactful workshop experience, and an extensive written report detailing your team's outcomes and future objectives post-workshop.

Some recent workshop exemplars.

  1. Complexity Isn’t Complicated: Leadership Lessons from Complex Systems

  2. Introduction to the Enneagram for Leaders

  3. Unlocking Your Next Level: Developmental Psychology for Leaders

  4. Instinctual bias and Social Chemistry: Increasing Awareness and Influence

  5. Complexity Innovation: Moving from Theory to Impact

A Certificate in Regenerative Innovation in Complex Systems

In these challenging times, what role do innovation and a complexity-embracing mindset play? Why are they more necessary yet harder to achieve than ever before? And how does this relate to you?

This certificate program dives into key entrepreneurship concepts, explores the differences between the current and other crises, highlights the types of innovations that have emerged, and offers tools to foster change within organizations and communities.

We are offering this certificate in partnership with New York University’s Institute for Impact and Intrapreneurship and its founder, Dr. Nir Tsuk. Registration is open now!

  • “Jeff is a thought leader in the area of social change and innovation. I admire Jeff’s ability to process quickly and make sense out of complex situations to find ways to deal with some of our most perplexing social problems.”

    — JANAY FERGUSON, OWNER, LITEHOUSE CONSULTING INC.

  • “Jeff has been invaluable to our teams as a very skilled and thoughtful facilitator. He was able to engage and lead our team members through a re-design process that resulted in new, creative, and innovative approaches to the issue."

    — GILLIAN WEAVER-DUNLOP, DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES, CWES

  • “Jeff’s approach strikes a good balance between slowing down the organization so that it can become truly reflective and gathering up the threads in a way that gives it direction for going forward.”

    — JOHN BURTON, LL.B., M.B.A., M.DIV., PH.D., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BUSINESS ETHICS, UBC

  • “With a passion for thinking big, asking tough questions and engaging complexity – Jeff is a gifted leader with a wonderful ability to help others find order amidst chaos. His ability to create space for exploration and dialogue for groups and individuals allow for rich experiences of discovery and sense-making.”

    — MIKE GROGAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTEGRAL ORG

  • “Jeff is my ‘go to’ guy for strategy, insight and feedback on what it takes to nurture health and vitality into organization(s) looking to be renewed. Jeff is a refreshingly focussed listener, able then to connect his client(s) needs with a wealth of relevant knowledge, insight and experience – all of which can be attested to first hand.”

    — CHRIS LOCK, FORMER PRESIDENT, THE MENTOR GROUP

  • “Jeff’s approach encourages a deeper level of thoughtfulness. He is insightful in his thought process and feedback, supporting both myself and our agency to engage with greater intentionality and creativity.”

    — ANDREA SILVERSTONE, CEO, SAGESSE