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This 2-day bootcamp builds essential management skills and self-awareness for effective leadership. Participants will explore their personal strengths and personality style, be exposed to a variety of leadership frameworks, strengthen core communication skills, and learn practical strategies to motivate teams and drive positive outcomes.

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Dr. Rachel Kohman

Rachel Kohman, Ed.D., is the Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Education at Missouri S&T, where she leads initiatives that strengthen organizational growth through collaborative environments, high impact training, and strategic program development.  With more than a decade of experience, she has built a diverse portfolio spanning adaptive leadership training, student program design, course creation, public speaking, and organizational operations.  A resourceful and results driven leader, Rachel is known for aligning people, processes, and strategy while maintaining strong operational integrity.  As an adaptive leadership speaker and facilitator, she empowers individuals to lead effectively without relying on formal authority. Her approach blends practical methods with real world scenarios, helping audiences develop the confidence, resilience, and initiative needed to navigate complexity. Rachel’s engaging, dynamic style fosters authentic leadership growth, grounded in the belief that everyone has the capacity to lead—and her work centers on unlocking that potential in every room she enters.
  • Registration: Open until July 7, 2026
  • Course Dates: July 14 & 15, 2026
  • PDH: 16
  • Price: $1,499
  • Location: 2127 Innerbelt Business Center Drive, St. Louis, MO 63114
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    • Also delivered live online via Zoom

The Your Leadership Impact Bootcamp, the first in our Leadership Bundle, builds essential management skills and self-awareness for effective leadership. Participants will explore their personal strengths and personality style, be exposed to a variety of leadership frameworks, strengthen core communication skills, and learn practical strategies to motivate teams and drive positive outcomes.

About this program:

Leadership vs. Authority

  • Distinguishing authority’s role in providing protection, direction, and order from leadership’s role in mobilizing others through action and adaptive work
  • Recognizing when structure and clarity (authority) are needed versus when engagement and change (leadership) are required
  • Identifying your strengths in exercising authority and leading adaptively
  • Pinpointing opportunities to grow in balancing both approaches in different situations

Leadership Frameworks & Personality styles

  • Evaluate a variety of leadership frameworks to consider which elements work best in different contexts
  • Develop an awareness of a variety of personality styles as defined by various personality inventories
  • Lean into defining your own personality styles
  • Understanding how you interact with different personalities

Knowing Your Strengths and Triggers

  • Developing an understanding of your strengths and ways to identify strengths of your team members
  • Understanding what triggers are and how to manage them for more productive teams
  • Creating a plan for your own growth and development with a feedback plan

Considering Communications

  • Discovering elements of a culture that embraces critical conversations
  • Developing trustworthy practices for two-way communication to improve team outcomes
  • Evaluating and practicing various forms of verbal, non-verbal, and written communication
  • Practice active learning techniques
  • Understanding how different personality types interpret communications and practice tailoring your messages for the best outcomes
  • Practice using different approaches for engagement including: storytelling, negotiations, stakeholder loyalties, and speaking to loss

Engagement & Motivation

  • Understand what drives individual and team motivation across different contexts
  • Apply strategies to increase engagement, ownership, and accountability
  • Practice recognizing and responding to shifts in team energy and morale
  • Learn techniques to align individual purpose with team and organizational goals
  • Build skills to foster trust, inclusion, and psychological safety
  • Explore ways to sustain motivation during change and uncertainty

 Practice & Feedback

  • Individual practice sessions with constructive peer feedback
  • Self-evaluation to identify improvement opportunities
  • Applying feedback immediately in subsequent practice rounds
  • Creating a personal action plan for ongoing skill development
  • Resources and tools for continued learning beyond the course

By the end of this bootcamp, participants will be able to:

  • Demonstrate self-awareness of personality traits, strengths and triggers as well as methods to continue developing their awareness
  • Apply tactics for fostering a trustworthy process to various workplace scenarios to improve team development and outcomes
  • Develop a personal tool kit of leadership skills to use in a variety of settings
  • Implement engagement approaches tailored to individual team member needs and personalities
  • Deliver clear, engaging communications appropriate to different audiences and contexts