Meet at
The Leadership Lodge
Your Company,
in Good Company
The Leadership Lodge is where teams and leaders solve the challenges that keep them up at night. Tailored to your goals and your team, our retreats feel less like work and more like progress. Daily distractions are replaced by our serene Northwoods environment, allowing your group to focus and dig deep on the big conversations that create lasting change.
Spaces That Spark Collaboration
Most meeting rooms drain the people in them. And they usually don’t come with a private beach or 400 acres of open space. Sugar Lake Lodge has both. Whether you use our spacious main conference room, our smaller training rooms (perfect for breakout sessions), or want to take your meetings outside, we’ve got you covered. Because changing mindsets starts with changing your space.
Retreats to Strengthen Teams & Leaders
Custom Corporate Retreats
Fewer Icebreakers. More Breakthroughs.
Every team that arrives at the Leadership Lodge comes with something: a strategy that needs to get off the ground. Misaligned priorities. A team that’s been running hard and needs to reconnect. We start by understanding your why, then build an experience customized to your objectives. You’ll leave with clarity, alignment, and renewed focus on what matters most.
Open Enrollment Programs
Who Knew Retreats Could Be So Impactful?
Whether you want to push yourself professionally or just personally recharge, our experiential retreats will meet you where you are. Level up your leadership skills. Redefine your team’s working dynamic. Or simply immerse yourself in a wilderness yoga weekend that will leave you refreshed and ready to take on the world.
Our Core Pillars
Ordinary retreats end when the team pulls out of the parking lot. The work at the Leadership Lodge doesn’t. Our six Core Pillars ensure that everything you do here lays the groundwork for lasting change back at the office.
Laying the Foundation
The first three pillars focus on strengthening the guiding forces behind healthy companies: strong leaders, teams, and culture.
Great leadership starts with presence and self-awareness. When intention and action align, big results follow.
Tools and practices may include:
- Leadership presence, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence
- 360-degree feedback, Insights Discovery®, and print assessments
- Connection & building trust
- Flow, purpose, and personal alignment
- Powerful declarations and commitment-based management
- Coaching for accountability and follow-through
Teamwork strengthens relationships and improves how people work together. Shared experiences and clear expectations build alignment, momentum, and confidence.
Tools and practices may include:
- Getting to know one another and building trust
- Choice, ownership, and accountability
- Feedback grounded in assessments and performance
- Experiential and adventure-based learning
- Systems thinking and big-picture awareness
- Fun that builds connection and momentum
Culture is shaped by daily choices. Clear expectations and lived values build trust, alignment, and a shared path forward.
Tools and practices may include:
- Respect and shared accountability
- Framing expectations and standards
- Storytelling that reinforces values
- Purpose, values, and vision alignment
- A clear value proposition
Improving Cohesiveness
These three pillars focus on getting a diverse group of talented individuals operating in unison. That takes a strong sense of connection, collaboration, and a shared focus on outcomes.
Teams focused equally on personal and organizational growth make the work meaningful.
Focus areas may include:
- Self and team alignment
- Purpose, vision, values, and mission
- Customers, end users, and lived experience
- Culture and shared identity
- Storytelling that creates meaning
- Community and mentor/mentee relationship building
Teams who know when to ask for help and how to give it are the teams who reach their goals.
Focus areas may include:
- High-performing teams and shared accountability
- Systems thinking and organizational alignment
- Navigating assessments with clarity
- Managing commitments with intention
- Managing mood and team energy
This is where organizations move from ‘business as usual’ to ‘breakthrough mindset.’
Focus areas may include:
- Being a learning organization that supports innovation
- Greater efficiency with less waste
- Clarifying beliefs and behavior
- Productive moods and shared esprit that sustain momentum
- Accountability and confidence in change management
- Combating burnout
A Look Inside The Leadership Lodge
Hear from Father-Daughter owners, Fred Bobich and Abby Oxborough, about how The Leadership Lodge started from their roots in hospitality.
What Organizations Say About Our Custom Retreats
“We have been bringing business groups to Sugar Lake Lodge for over 20 years. While they keep innovating and changing and continuously improving what they do and how they do it, their hospitality and feel has remained unchanged.
Every time we walk through that door, our groups feel welcome and part of the family. It’s a place where groups get closer and friendship happens.”
– Jenny Munyer & Allie Hancock, Minnesota Chamber Leadership Team
