The Art of Leadership

With Suzanne Hawkes and Michael Bell

August 22 - 27, 2025

Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 23, 2025.

Date and Time Details:
Program begins: August 22, 2025
Program ends: August 27, 2025
Click here to view a sample program schedule.

Location: Hollyhock Cortes Island

Address: Cortes Island, Strathcona, BC, Canada

Package Pricing: Click Register Now to view availability of accommodations and all-inclusive pricing. For more information on accommodation types, click here.

Tiered Tuition:
Generous: $1,500 CAD
Standard: $1,200 CAD
Reduced: $900 CAD

Pricing Note: Tuition for this program is offered at a tiered rate and we invite you to select the tier that is most appropriate for your financial situation. The “Generous” tier will support Hollyhock in continuing to offer meaningful programs and also support your fellow community members who are experiencing financial hardship.

Scholarships : Hollyhock programs are enriched by welcoming a multitude of voices and experiences that reflect global plurality. The Hollyhock scholarship program is one of the key strategies we employ to expand program access to underrepresented and marginalized communities. Click here to learn more and apply.

Terms & Conditions: For information on cancellation policies, health and safety, and to read Hollyhock’s Community Policy on Respectful Conduct, click here.

  • Private Cabin Oceanfront – CAD $4,815.00
  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $3,815.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $3,615.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $3,190.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $6,215.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $5,820.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $5,425.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $3,110.00
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $2,910.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,710.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,505.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $2,260.00
  • Male Dorm – CAD $2,260.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $2,260.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $2,235.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $4,220.00
  • Commuter – CAD $2,060.00
  • All Packages Include CAD $1,935.00 Tuition and meals

Participation is by application. Click here to apply!


Are you committed to making a difference in the world? In social change, socially responsible business, education, politics or community service?

Learn to inspire, engage and collaborate with others in effective action to broaden the impact of your work together. Come participate in an intensive process of discovering how who you are, and how you show up, impacts the results you create and co-create with others.

This internationally acclaimed 5-day program includes training in:

  • Visionary leadership
  • Personal and social power
  • Self-management (managing your own state of being)
  • Feedback and courageous conversations
  • Building effective partnerships and high-performing teams
  • Personal ecology (self-care)

Thousands of leaders from around the world have benefitted from this unique integration of profound and practical leadership training, which blends deep inner transformation with immediate, useful application to every day work priorities.

This program is based on the signature training of Robert Gass, co-founder of the Rockwood Leadership Institute and 6 year leadership consultant to the Obama White House. Robert offered the Art of Leadership at Hollyhock for 20 years. In 2022, he ‘passed the torch’ to the veteran multi-racial leadership team of Michael Bell and Suzanne Hawkes.

Michael and Suzanne both serve on the faculty of the Rockwood Leadership Institute, and have collaborated with Robert Gass for nearly two decades. Both believe that building awareness and understanding of power and equity, particularly racial equity, is essential for effective leadership, and this theme will be woven throughout the training.

Program Testimonials

“More than the tools and resources, the Art of Leadership got me to look more inwards and reflect on my motivations and aspirations as a leader. Embracing my strengths, and increasing my awareness on my learning edges have been transformative.” – Claris Canta

“It is an incredible privilege to work with an elder in BIPOC community and vital to my positive experience in the program. Michael was able to make the content relevant and understandable for me as a BIPOC participant in ways that are impossible for white folks that are lacking similar lived experience and expertise…Suzanne is a generous and thoughtful facilitator that brings an appropriate degree of humility to her work as a white accomplice supporting the leadership of BIPOC.” – Ak Saini, Past participant

Application Process / Timeline

One major asset of the program is a confidential 360 degree leadership assessment. Many leaders do not have the opportunity to receive confidential, targeted feedback from a circle of peers, subordinates, ‘bosses’ and others, all aimed at strengthening their leadership.

We will be encouraging you to seek at least 10 responses from others in order receive a sufficiently comprehensive range of perspectives, and to help ensure respondents’ confidentiality. This is a key part of the program, so apply early (and we’ll get your 360 process started!)

Click here to apply!

Material Fee

Additional supply costs ($150 CAD) for this program are included in the package pricing.

Daily Schedule

The Art of Leadership program follows a robust daily schedule. Details will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program.

 

About the Presenters

Suzanne Hawkes

Suzanne Hawkes is an equity-centered management consultant, leadership trainer, and facilitator. She has supported business, non-profit, political, Indigenous and public sector clients across the US and Canada for over 20 years. Her vision: a diverse, cross-sectoral network of powerful, collaborative, service-oriented leaders working across difference to achieve transformational change.   Suzanne is a principal with […]

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Michael Bell

Michael Bell is the president, chief executive officer and co-founder of InPartnership Consulting Inc., an organizational development and strategic change firm specializing in global cultural competence and leadership development.  He designs state-of-the-art training, leadership development programs and organizational change initiatives for foundations and progressive non-profits. He is an international consultant and executive coach with special […]

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