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EO Forum Retreat Facilitation
Most forums stay stuck at the surface. Members share updates, offer advice, and go home — but never reach the level of connection that makes the forum truly transformational.
Todd Palmer has led 75+ EO Forum retreats across North America — rated 9.7–10/10 by participants — helping members clear the baggage of artificial harmony, build real psychological safety, and reach the coveted 1% share level where the deepest work happens.
Todd's depth of experience combined with the scientific approach is extremely effective. His coaching, retreat facilitation, meeting facilitation and understanding of the business owner or manager mindset is the best I know. I highly recommend him to help your organization get unstuck or to optimize and keep good things going in the right direction.
Karl Bickmore
CEO of Snap Tech IT
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A Retreat That Gets Your Forum to the 1% Share Level
Surface-level sharing isn’t what people joined a forum for. Todd’s retreat experience uses Psychological Safety, Reflective Inquiry, and live coaching to help members move from polished updates to real connection — the kind that changes how they lead, decide, and live.
Used by 100+ founders across North America. Rated 9.7–10/10 by retreat participants. Facilitated in EO chapters from coast to coast.
- Diagnostic Test
- Each member of the forum/workshop will take a short diagnostic test that will peel back the mystery of who they are, allowing for a deeper understanding of the motives behind the decisions & actions each member takes, resulting in improved self-awareness and greater acceptance by others.
- Psychological Safety Live-Demo
- Todd will live-demo the Psychological Safety coaching model, demonstrating how you can get below the symptom level of issues to the deepest root cause. This is a great takeaway tool for all aspects of life, including family and business relationships.
- In-depth Survey To Illuminate How You Show Up in Your Life
- How do you show up to others? Do people in our lives feel seen, heard, known, and accepted by us? How do we talk to ourselves – what is our internal dialogue?
- Problem-Solving Framework
- Solve nearly any problem in business, family, or within us by changing how we show up, how we process experiences, and how we deal with feedback. This is based on the work of neuroscientist Dr. Danny Friedland.
- History of Your Lives
- Help each forum member peel back the history of their lives to share with their forum cohort in a safe environment of who they are beneath the surface.
- Reflective Inquiry
- Gain imperative tools, based on the work by Dr. Marcia Reynolds, allowing you to communicate with anyone from 8-80 years old, creating new, authentic relationships and healing relationships with those who matter most.
Have Todd Lead Your Next Forum Retreat
Improve your forum by cultivating deeper connections through psychological safety.
1-Day Retreat
- One Full Day
- 5+ forum attendees
- Three features
- Two free hours to attend dinner the night before
- Travel cost
$3,000USD
Contact Todd TodayFrequently Asked Questions
- You're in Detroit. How can you guarantee that regardless of where our retreat is held you will be there on time?
To guarantee attendance, Todd will leave Detroit the day before he is scheduled to work with a forum to minimize the impact of travel delays. As a bonus Todd would be able meet your group for dinner the day before your facilitation, at no additional charge.
- Travel costs are not included in your pricing. What do you usually charge on average?
We pass along the costs for airfare, airport parking, Uber or Car rental, and lodging. The biggest variable is the airfare pricing.
- What makes you different from other facilitators? What can I expect from hiring you?
You can expect zero BS and coddling. Todd is there to generate a deeper connection within your leadership and forum and you can't do that with someone who skirts uncomfortable and tough conversations.
He'll create a psychologically safe environment by removing historical baggage, artificial harmony, and perception through curiosity, mirroring, and validating, allowing you all to show up as your most authentic, vulnerable, transparent selves. This will unearth root issues and allow you to leave deeply connected and with new skills to continue honing these skills and relationships at home and work.
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“This isn’t about giving advice. This isn’t about solving the problem. This is about truly active listening and being there for the other person.”
Kerry Guard
CEO of MKG Marketing
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