Your employees attended the training. They loved the presentation. So why hasn't anything changed?

Organizations invest countless hours and dollars in leadership development, yet too often, the lessons disappear the moment employees return to their desks. The problem isn't necessarily what people are learning. It's whether they're actually changing how they lead.

What if meaningful leadership development started with less instruction and more human connection?

Join Abby Oxborough of Sugar Lake Lodge's Leadership Lodge for a fresh, practical look at why traditional leadership training doesn't always stick and how the LAKE framework — Listen, Appreciate, Keep Learning, Empower — can help turn good intentions into everyday leadership behaviors.

What You'll Walk Away With

• Break the training-and-forgetting cycle: Identify why leadership lessons fade and how to make new behaviors stick.
• Listen differently: Apply a simple technique that encourages honest conversations instead of surface-level exchanges.
• Make appreciation meaningful: Recognize employees in ways that feel authentic rather than awkward or forced.
• Get comfortable being uncomfortable: Use unfamiliar challenges to build collaboration, adaptability, and trust.
• Turn learning into action: Apply the LAKE framework to make small, intentional changes in everyday leadership.

Less theory. Fewer buzzwords. More leadership behaviors that actually make a difference.

Abigayle (Abby) Oxborough, M.S., is a hospitality executive, leadership development expert, and second-generation resort owner whose career blends generational legacy, academic expertise, and an uncommon commitment to elevating teams and organizations through experiential learning. As Owner of Sugar Lake Lodge and Founder of The Leadership Lodge, she has transformed a historic, family-built northern Minnesota resort into one of the region’s most distinctive destinations for professional growth, strategic planning, and team development.