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20 th Annual Leaders Retreat JAN 06, 2026 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM THE HYATT REGENCY

125 E. MAIN STREET, ROCHESTER NY

Blame, Responsibility & Risk

Promoting Honest Conversations & Cross-Generational Trust in Workplaces and Families How do you invite more transparent dialogue without forcing it?

TICKETS: (Include breakfast, lunch & materials)

Which of your direct reports do you listen to the least?

With whom in your family do you want more meaty conversations?

Single Admission: $395 pp

How do you deliver an important but uncomfortable message?

Group Admission: $345 pp

John and Nick Engels, a father-son team, will open an unfiltered conversation about the assumptions and blind spots that erode trust between generations—and the attitudes and commitments that build it. Through personal candor and hard-earned insight, we’ll explore how generational divides impact culture, succession, communication dynamics and authority.

Non-Profits: $275 pp

Join 200+ leaders and their teams for a full-day immersion featuring powerful stories, relationship insights, and direct-response coaching.

(3+ from the same organization)

QUESTIONS? Rachel@LeadershipCoachingInc.com

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About the Speakers John Engels launched Leadership Coaching, Inc. (LCI) in 1996 with a clear mission: to help leaders strengthen families, fortify family enterprises, and shape healthy leadership teams across every sector of society.

Three decades later, LCI remains a trusted global resource for leadership rooted in self-awareness, self-responsibility, advanced relationship management skills, and actionable coaching strategies.

John’s path to this work is as distinctive as his approach. Trained as a journalist and steeped for decades in Bowen Family Systems Theory through the Georgetown Family Center (now the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family), he has worked as a consultant, teacher, and confidant to family business owners and senior leaders throughout North America, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. His direct yet deeply perceptive style travels seamlessly across cultures.

Today he mentors coaches, advises complex multigenerational enterprises, and contributes to the field’s thought leadership.

JOHN ENGELS

Founding Partner

John is a Fellow of Cornell University’s Smith Family Business Initiative, where he co-authored the eCornell Family Business Leadership Certificate Program. He also serves as an Advisor to the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family and to ERG, a racial-awareness initiative in his hometown of Rochester, NY.

Nicholas V. Engels is a founder, master facilitator, and leadership strategist who helps organizations achieve impact at scale through people at depth: principled candor, clear roles, and earned connection.

For almost two decades, Nick has been a trusted guide to leaders in family enterprises, global nonprofits, professional firms, boards, and C-suites seeking to upgrade their relational operating system - where complex people challenges grow into routine opportunities for bottom line success.

Each year, Nick leads Leadership Coaching, Inc.’s Advanced Leadership Course, an intensive, 10-month program on interpersonal mastery, maturity, and high-trust leadership, now in its 26th year. Having merged the firm he founded in 2016 into his family’s company, Leadership Coaching, Inc., Nick brings firsthand experience when advising clients on succession, ownership structure, accountability, and family legacy.

Nick graduated from the National Outdoor Leadership School in Western Australia, holds degrees from Quinnipiac University and the University at Buffalo, and completed postgraduate training at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, DC. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and son.

NICHOLAS ENGELS Partner