Interactive Workshops
Workshop delivery models
Engaging. Practical. Transformational.
Alan’s workshops are immersive learning experiences designed to equip individuals and teams with the tools they need to thrive in complex, high-pressure environments. Rooted in psychology, leadership, and real-world adventure, his training sessions strike the perfect balance between energy and depth.
Each workshop is tailored to the specific needs of the organization or audience—whether the focus is on strengthening communication, building resilient teams, enhancing leadership, or managing stress and change. Alan blends interactive exercises with powerful storytelling to create sessions that are both thought-provoking and immediately applicable.
Participants are not just listening—they’re engaging, reflecting, and practicing. These workshops are designed to foster personal insight and team alignment, sparking the kind of meaningful growth that sticks well beyond the event.
Whether delivered in-person or virtually, Alan’s workshops offer a highly customizable format that ensures every session is relevant, practical, and deeply impactful. Perfect for organizations looking to develop their people, align their teams, and elevate their performance.
All of Alan’s topics can also be delivered as an interactive workshop instead of a traditional presentation. This is a very popular option for groups that would like the audience to get involved in discussing and sharing their own thoughts and ideas. It makes for a fun and productive learning environment where participants can also learn from each other’s challenges and solutions as Alan facilitates the group activities and discussions.
First Model
In this model, Alan separates the presentation and workshop portions. This is the most popular model and is very effective.
In the first half, Alan delivers a presentation that sets the groundwork for the material that will be discussed.
This gets everyone excited and inspired to learn and discuss the material in more detail. A popular option is to have the presentation portion in the morning, then a break for lunch, followed by the workshop portion in the afternoon.
The workshop portion is filled with discussion questions and short activities that continuously refer back to the material that Alan shares during the presentation portion.
Second Model
In this model, the workshop discussion questions and short activities are spread throughout the allotted time slot.
Alan presents the material for a specific focus or subject and facilitates a short discussion before moving on to the next subject in the workshop.
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Flexible Formats to Fit Your Event
Alan offers a range of workshop formats designed to meet the unique goals, timing, and dynamics of your event. Whether you’re hosting a high-energy conference, a focused team session, or a multi-week development initiative, there’s a format to fit. Each one is customizable and built around creating lasting impact through story-driven engagement and hands-on learning.
Keynote + Workshop Combo
Start with an energizing keynote to inspire and engage your audience, then follow up with a workshop that allows participants to dive deeper into the concepts through guided discussion, group activities, and applied learning. This format bridges motivation and action, ensuring ideas don’t just inspire—they stick.
Half-Day Workshop
A focused, interactive session (typically 2–4 hours) ideal for team development, offsite events, or leadership summits. These workshops are designed to deliver meaningful insights, foster engagement, and provide tangible takeaways—all within a compact, high-impact format.
Full-Day Workshop
A deep-dive training experience that allows for comprehensive exploration of topics, extensive group work, and immersive learning. With ample time for interactive exercises, storytelling, and strategic reflection, full-day workshops are ideal for teams looking to reset, align, or develop new capabilities in a meaningful way.
Multi-Session Series
Spread out over multiple days or weeks, this format supports long-term growth and accountability. Each session builds on the last, creating space for reflection, reinforcement, and real-time application between meetings. Perfect for leadership development cohorts or organizations rolling out culture or mindset shifts.
Virtual Workshop
Interactive virtual workshops delivered via Zoom or your preferred platform, with the same energy, engagement, and storytelling that Alan brings to in-person events. Ideal for remote teams or geographically dispersed organizations, these sessions are optimized for digital attention spans and breakout collaboration.
Custom Retreats & Corporate Workshops
Tailored to fit into leadership retreats, offsites, or internal conferences, these custom programs blend Alan’s core workshop elements with your organization’s themes, goals, and event flow. Whether indoors or out in nature, these experiences are designed to elevate mindset, strengthen teams, and create lasting memories.
Building Trust
Alan’s dynamic programs on building trust highlight the tools and essential steps that are involved in developing a level of trust in professional relationships. This is the foundation of effective teamwork and collaborative, transparent work environments.
Learning Objectives:
- The importance and advantages of building trust
- Fostering an environment that encourages trust development
- Strategies, tools, and techniques for building trust
- Gaining team member alignment and commitment
- Open and transparent communication without placing blame
Coaching & Motivation
Motivating and developing others is an art that requires a unique skill set and the adaptation of various techniques. For leaders and managers, coaching skills are essential in order to effectively identify strengths, transfer knowledge, and empower others.
Learning Objectives:
- The importance and impact of coaching for teams and individuals
- Tools and techniques for motivating and engaging people
- Effective coaching communication strategies
- Distinguishing characteristics of outstanding coaches
- Common coaching mistakes and how to avoid them
Leadership
Effective leadership in today’s society requires a shift in mentality to embrace more agile and collaborative approaches that empower people, leverage technology, instill confidence, and boost performance.
Learning Objectives:
- Empowering your team and earning individual commitments
- Agile practices and current global trends in effective leadership
- Result-based vs. task-based leadership frameworks
- Leading with integrity and making a positive, lasting impact
- Innovation in leadership practices to drive purposeful change
Team Building
Developing healthy professional relationships between team members is essential for clarifying roles, breaking down barriers, gaining alignment on team goals, and collaborating to find innovative solutions.
Learning Objectives:
- Building strong interpersonal relationships
- Responding quickly and efficiently to issues that arise
- Healthy competition and effective collaboration
- Improving group morale and identifying individual strengths
- Overcoming adversity and resolving interpersonal conflicts
Strategic Planning
Alan’s strategic planning programs focus on setting strategic goals, developing a clear vision of future outcomes, gaining alignment from individual contributors, and establishing the steps involved in achieving desired outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- Developing a comprehensive strategic plan
- Setting priorities and focusing energy and resources
- Adapting the strategic plan to environmental resources
- Communicating the plan and gaining alignment from stakeholders
- Creating a sustainable culture of commitment and implementation
Sales & Marketing
To win in today’s competitive marketplace, organizations have to embrace diverse marketing strategies, understand societal trends, and constantly create remarkable customer experiences centered around value, integrity, and relationships.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding customer expectations and changing mentalities
- Creating a true customer experience with value and transparency
- Selling with integrity and focusing on providing quality solutions
- Expanding and innovating customer touchpoint opportunities
- Overcoming objections and reframing opportunities
Business
Focusing on customer engagement, people-first management, boosting performance, and overcoming business challenges, Alan’s business programs have received tremendous feedback from corporate audiences in a wide range of industries.
Learning Objectives:
- Current business trends and insights
- Adapting to changes in workforce mentality and expectations
- Putting people first, the foundation of performance and expectations
- Essential steps in successful business planning and operation
- Determining, understanding, and taking calculated risks
Innovation & Critical Thinking
Innovation is what drives the world forward. Alan’s background is in innovation through custom machine design, and his programs on innovation are a unique combination of technical know-how, critical thought processes, and creative problem solving.
Learning Objectives:
- Generating ideas and evaluating alternatives
- Proactive strategies for advancement and initiating change
- The innovation process from conceptualization to implementation
- Strategies for developing unique solutions that create value
- Agile innovation focuses on outcomes and customer needs
Communication
These popular programs are centered around effective communication strategies, overcoming communication barriers, clarity of information transfer, and the importance of creating an open and transparent communication culture.
Learning Objectives:
- Transparency and integrity in the way we communicate
- Identifying communication barriers and challenges early
- Communication technology: the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Two-way communication models and non-verbal communication
- Managing formal and informal stakeholder communication
Organizational Development
Exploring the strategies and processes involved in shaping organizations for long-term success by creating work environments and policies that enrich employees’ lives, which in turn boosts productivity and organizational growth.
Learning Objectives:
- Initiating organizational change and strategic development
- Organic and mechanistic organizational structures
- Adapting to complex, rapidly changing operating environments
- Social responsibility and advancing social justice
- Talent recruitment, training, and organizational cultures
Time Management
In our busy lives, it often seems as though there is not enough time in the day. Learning and practicing time management strategies is key to reducing stress, boosting productivity, focusing energy, and making the most of the time we have.
Learning Objectives:
- Limiting and controlling common distractions
- Prioritization techniques and proven strategies
- Technology for time management: advantages and challenges
- Planning and facilitating effective and efficient meetings
- Assessing activities to eliminate or delegate low-priority tasks
Students & Young Professionals
Education moves society forward, and our student leaders are at the forefront of shaping the future. Alan is committed to investing in the development of young people and empowering students of all levels to reach their full potential.
Learning Objectives:
- Student leadership qualities and opportunities
- Developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Finding your passion and making your voice count
- Courage to stand out from the crowd and shape your own destiny
- Setting ambitious goals in life and making them a reality
Health & Wellness
If we do not have our health, we do not have quality of life. It is often difficult to maintain good health in our busy lives, which is why it is so important to study, understand, and implement the strategies and lifestyles that promote health and wellbeing.
Learning Objectives:
- Finding the right balance in life
- Incorporating physical activity into our routine
- Proper nutrition and healthy fueling habits
- Understanding the impact of stress on our emotional health
- Our immune system and the effects of sleep hydration
Safety & Risk Management
Alan’s safety programs are not about avoiding risk altogether; they are about studying and thoroughly understanding the safety challenges so that risks can be identified, minimized, and controlled for safe and successful results.
Learning Objectives:
- Safety planning, preparation, and establishing procedures
- Agile practices in risk identification and management
- Incorporating lessons learned and historical information
- Contingency planning and developing response strategies
- Root-cause analysis and preventative action
Athletics & Performance
Alan’s programs for athletics and competitive teams are fascinating sessions that explore the mental fortitude, physical endurance, personal commitment, and unwavering perseverance that winning athletes and championship teams exhibit.
Learning Objectives:
- Self-motivation, visualization, and positive self-talk
- Determination and resilience in overcoming obstacles
- Controlling our focus and managing stress
- Setting ambitious goals that stretch us beyond our combat zones
- Conquering our own Everest, whatever that may be
Why Choose Alan?
Alan’s approach is unique, blending his thrilling mountaineering experiences and live electric violin performances with practical strategies to create engaging and unforgettable sessions. His commitment to delivering impactful and relevant content ensures that participants are equipped with the tools and mindsets necessary to achieve breakthrough performance.
Mental health
Mental health is one of the biggest challenges that we face in today’s society. Alan has had his own journey with mental health, and his programs combine personal experiences with research and insights to help others through their journeys.
Learning Objectives:
- Identifying internal struggles and challenges
- Mental health stigma and discrimination
- Understanding stress, anxiety, and phobias
- The influence of technology on mental health
- Establishing a healthy, supportive environment