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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Workshops & Keynotes

Relational, evidence-Based Learning 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. 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: Leadership Lessons for Innovating in Complex Systems

  4. Cultivating Adaptive Leadership & Building Deliberately Developmental Teams

Leading Innovation in Complex Times

A Certificate program in partnership with NYU and The institute for impact and Intrapreneurship

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!

  • Step away from your day-to-day responsibilities and consider your practice with a critical lens.

  • Learn actionable key concepts and practices in entrepreneurship and innovation and collect best practices from other leaders

  • Get related practical development and management tools

  • Learn to harness the complexity you work within.

  • Build skill in designing relational approaches to innovating in public and social service

  • Develop a network of peers that help you navigate new ideas and challenges.

  • “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