10/12/2026
🌟 32 Leaders. Two Days. One Incredible Experience! 🌟
Last Thursday and Friday, Heather and I had the privilege of facilitating the Leadership Grand Strand (LGS) Retreat at the beautiful Wampee Conference Center!
Over two days, we brought together 32 emerging and established community leaders for an experience intentionally designed to build relationships, strengthen leadership skills, challenge perspectives, and, most importantly, HAVE FUN!
Through interactive activities, meaningful conversations, plenty of laughter, and a little karaoke, these leaders began building the connections that will carry them throughout their LGS journey.
A few highlights from our time together:
🔹 LGS Lifelines! Building trust, developing relationships, and discovering the unique strengths each person brings to the group.
🔹 How Full Is Your Bucket? Heather led an engaging session focused on positivity, encouragement, and the impact we have on others, including a special activity centered on filling our LGS buckets with positivity, service and leadership tools!
🔹 The Leader in YOU! I had the opportunity to challenge participants to explore their personal leadership approaches, recognize their influence, and consider how they can lead more intentionally.
🔹 Ocean Crossing! We wrapped up the retreat with one of our signature Hop2it Consulting experiences! This high-energy team challenge put communication, collaboration, problem-solving, trust, and leadership to the test. And judging by the pictures, there was certainly no shortage of laughter along the way!
One of our favorite reminders from these two days? Leadership isn’t just about the position you hold. It’s about the relationships you build, the example you set, and the positive impact you have on those around you.
We are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to once again partner with Leadership Grand Strand and to Shannon Haswell Furtick and the LGS Board to support another year of developing leaders who will make a difference throughout our community.
To this year’s LGS class: Your leadership journey is just beginning, and we can’t wait to see where it takes you!
And yes, we had just as much fun as you did! 💙