CHALLENGE

Lead with Confidence.
Even when nothing is certain.

Apply by May 24, 2026

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds

Learn by experience.
lead through uncertainty.

In 2026, the context your team operates in shifts faster than any framework can track. The decisions are harder, the stakes are higher and the old playbook doesn’t cover everything you’re facing now.

Leaders Challenge is built for exactly that: leadership tested in real conditions, with real consequences.

„This experience has given me perspective. Being among others like myself, the school made me realize, without false modesty, that I am a leader. You have to accept that about yourself. You are objectively born with certain qualities, you have to see them and use them.”

Bogdan Micu

Entrepreneur and investor “Imperiul Leilor”. Graduate of Leaders Challenge #1

WHY LEADERS CHALLENGE?

Most leadership programs teach you how to lead when everything goes according to plan. Leadership in 2026 needs to be built under pressure to lead through uncertain times, so Leaders Challenge puts you in situations where uncertainty is one of the best teachers.

From the training room to the Black Sea: real business simulations, a nautical challenge and structured debriefs that translate every experience into concrete behavior change.

Real-life 24-hours Leadership Challenge

Decision-Making · Crisis Management · Leadership Under Pressure

You manage a real business: real clients, real constraints, real consequences.

No handbook, no right answers. Just you, your team, and what you do next. The debrief hits as hard as the experience itself.

You’ll walk away knowing how you lead when certainty is off the table and with the confidence that comes from having already been through something this tough.

Business Management Crash Course

Business Strategy · Financial Literacy · AI Integration

The management skills that actually matter in 2026, compressed into one intensive day, tailored to the challenges you’re already facing.

You’ll read a P&L like a CEO, build a one-page strategy under uncertainty and start using AI as a practical tool.

Starting the very next day.

Nautical Challenge

Team Dynamics · Leadership in the Moment · Performing Under Uncertainty

On a sailing boat, everything becomes immediate. The wind doesn’t wait for alignment and real leadership shows up in how you hold the helm when things go wrong.

You’ll lead a real crew through situations that demand decisiveness and trust. The skipper is there for safety, but the helm is all yours.

People Management Crash Course

Motivation · Difficult Conversations · Managing in the Age of Turbulence

The hardest part of leadership has always been the people. In 2026, it just got more complex.

A deep dive into the real situations leaders face alone: how to motivate individuals and how to lead a team whose relationship with work and AI is shifting faster than any playbook can track.

DEVELOP THE SKILLS THAT ENABLE YOU TO
UPGRADE YOUR LEADERSHIP AND LEAD WITH CONFIDENCE

To find out more on the skills, agenda, speakers & pricing and benefits, download the Leaders Challenge Brochure!

IS CHALLENGE
FIT FOR ME?

You’ve proven yourself as a professional. Now you’re responsible for a team and you’re discovering that the skills that got you here aren’t always the ones you need now.

Your team is navigating uncertainty about AI, about their roles, about what performance even means in 2026. And you’re expected to have answers, even when you don’t.

If any of this sounds familiar, you’re in the right place.

In each edition, we create a mix of participants from different industries and fields to give you the chance to interact with and learn from as many different people as possible.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

AGENDA 2026

Before you arrive

Coaching I

1-hour online session | Scheduled between May 24 – June 8

Before the bootcamp begins, you take part in a 1-on-1 coaching session to reflect on you leadership style and identify key areas for growth.

Together with you coach, you analyze current challenges, set clear learning objectives, and build a personal action plan to guide your experience throughout the program.

The Bootcamp

Bootcamp

June 9–13 | Mangalia, in person

Five intensive days on the Black Sea. Real business simulations, a nautical challenge, leadership profiling, and debriefs that hit harder than any assessment. This is where the actual work happens.
 

I. SDI Leadership Profiling 

II. Nautical Challenge & Debrief

III. People Management

IV. Business Simulation & Debrief

V. Business Management

Back to reality

Coaching II

1-hour online session | Scheduled between June 15 – July 4

A follow-up session to translate what happened in the Bootcamp into concrete actions for your team, your decisions, and your next 90 days.

This session focuses on clarifying and applying key learnings, building a personal action plan for the next 1–3 months with clear priorities and resources and anchoring new behaviors within your business objectives.

3–6 months later

Reflection Session

3-hour online session | Date set by the group

Held 3–6 months after the bootcamp, this closing session brings the cohort back together for a meaningful peer-to-peer exchange.

You share what shifted, what didn’t and where you are now. Because growth worth having shows up after the program ends, not just during it.

A space to recognize growth and keep the momentum going.

MAKE MISTAKES ALONGSIDE THE BEST

YOUR INVESTMENT

2300 EUR for the days that will change how you lead for the next years.

Covered in three ways:

Invest in Yourself

You can also choose to pay the amount in installments. We’ll figure out together what works best for you.

Your Employer Invests in You

Take it to your HR or your manager. After Leaders Challenge, you’ll deliver better for both of you.

That’s a straightforward business case.

Scholarships

Our partners fund scholarships for exceptional managers and entrepreneurs.

To be announced

WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET

The entire educational experience (trainers, educational materials, curriculum, experiential modules)

2 online individual coaching sessions, before and after the bootcamp

Accomodation for all live sessions taking place outside Bucharest

Lunch & Coffee breaks during live sessions

Advisory Board sessions: participatory development sessions, peer problem-solving that taps into the intelligence of the group;

Access to the LEADERS Alumni Community

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