blueprint.
Transformational work deserves transformational leadership development.
We aim to make blueprint. immersions accessible to more game-changing leaders, so they can innovate how they lead. Join us as an underwriting partner.
Global immersions for high-impact leaders.
WHAT
Each year, blueprint. brings a cohort of no more than 15 senior leaders to a single country in the Global South. Our team carefully designs each immersion as a 10-day, all-inclusive, experiential leadership program that combines field-based learning sessions, facilitated leadership development labs, and knowledge exchange with local leaders across a diverse set of disciplines. Unlike traditional classroom-based programs, blueprint. uses transformative experience to accelerate leadership capacity building.
The future of leadership demands a different type of leader.
WHY NOW
We’re leading through a moment marked by significant societal change— from the exponential growth and permeation of AI, rapidly disintegrating trust in institutions, and the disruption of how traditional systems operate across all sectors . The leaders who are building organizations, investment vehicles, and platforms today will need to lead us into a future that looks nothing like the past.
blueprint. helps leaders reimagine how they lead.
The leaders reshaping how opportunity, resources, knowledge, power and money flow often build outside the margins
WHY
These leaders create the funding vehicles, platforms and models that expand our perception of what is possible in solving our most pressing structural and social challenges. Transformational work deserves transformational leadership development. Yet too often, the very capacity-building experiences most likely to accelerate impact sit beyond reach.
For more than a decade, our team has designed leadership immersions in the Global South supporting more than 120 next-gen leaders. We believe some of the most important insights about community, resilience and shared prosperity exist in places traditional programs rarely examine. These new ways of being and doing, not just new programs and policies, remain largely inaccessible to the game-changing leaders best positioned to bring them home.
Extend the reach of innovative and global ideas into the communities that need them most.
OPPORTUNITY
Underwriting cohort seats is a direct investment in the pipeline of learning your work depends on. It places the leaders in your ecosystem who are already building for innovation in social impact, investment and societal well-being in proximity to practices they can adapt, and it equips them to carry those lessons into the systems they are actively redesigning.
Underwriting participation does more than make a seat accessible. It extends the reach of global ideas and innovations into the organizations and communities that need them most.
Experiential leadership training rooted in travel.
PROGRAM DESIGN
Prepare. Onboarding, a baseline self-assessment, a pre-immersion questionnaire and a cohort orientation define each leader's personal learning agenda and the future-facing questions they bring to the field.
Immerse. Ten days of field-based masterclasses with local leaders, facilitated Leadership Labs and structured reflection. Leaders stress-test their models, assumptions and strategies against entirely different ways of being and doing.
Integrate. A 1:1 integration session turns insight into concrete commitments for leading their organizations into what comes next. Quarterly cohort gatherings and a one-year look back sustain the work.
Classroom programs teach through cases about decisions already made. blueprint. teaches through proximity to leaders navigating disruption in real time, in places where institutions, markets, and communities have unique lessons and insights about reinvention to offer.
Six dimensions of future-ready leadership.
OUTCOMES
blueprint. equips leaders to take their organizations, models, investment vehicles and platforms into a future shaped by rapid societal change. Each dimension informs the design of our learning agenda, and we measure each leader’s progress against these objectives.
PEOPLE
Build trust and partnership across lines of difference, and guide teams through change as traditional structures of authority give way.
PURPOSE
Clarify who they are beyond title and résumé, with a leadership identity steady enough to hold as roles, industries and institutions shift.
IMPACT
Rethink how to measure success, shifting the focus from short-term outputs to what endures for the people who come after us.
PLATFORM
Move beyond programs to build scalable platforms that adapt over time and advance change across entire ecosystems and systems.
INNOVATION
Strengthen innovation as a core competency that shapes strategy, product design and culture, and lead with AI and other disruptive technologies rather than react to them.
INVESTMENT
Reconsider what, who, when, where and how to invest across financial, human, social and natural capital, with an eye toward the future rather than past models.
LEARNING & IMPACT
Beyond the immersion
Transformation doesn't end when the immersion concludes. We measure what our leaders bring home against the six outcome domains. Every underwriting partner receives:
A shared learning agenda. Before we depart, we align on the questions that matter most to your work.
A post-immersion recap. Within 60 days, the insights, commitments and stories our cohort brings back to their organization.
A one-year look back. Survey results that compare each leader’s baseline self-assessment with what they put into practice, alongside their stories in their own words.
Leaders who steward a significant platform.
WHO
The ideal cohort member is a senior leader already stewarding something significant (a company, a portfolio, a body of work, a family office or foundation) whose next evolution in leadership won't come from another mastermind, conference or traditional executive education program, and who knows the future will demand a different kind of leade
UP NEXT
Namibia 2027
THEME
Stewardship
The Namibia immersion centers stewardship as a primary theme: how leaders hold, share and pass on power, land, resources and responsibility for the communities they serve, including knowledge exchange with the San and Nama (Topnaar clan) indigenous nations among other experiential learning moments.
Dates: February 22 to March 4, 2027
Learning hubs: Windhoek, Sossusvlei, Swakopmund, Etosha
Cohort size: Maximum 15 senior leaders
Timeline: October 2026 (partnership commitment), November 2026 (cohort selection), December 2026 (cohort orientation and learning agenda)
Learning agenda: Every experience asks the same question in a different form: what do you owe the people and the place you lead? Our 2027 cohort will explore:
Investment: How does separating stewardship from ownership change who decides where capital goes, and who benefits?
Platform: Which shared-governance structures can transfer to the coalitions and platforms leaders steer at home?
Impact: How do leaders define success when the time horizon is generational rather than annual?
People: How does trust form and hold when leaders share authority?
Innovation: Where does innovation emerge amid scarce resources and fragile institutions, and what makes it repeatable?
Purpose: How does a leader’s sense of their role change when they see themselves as a steward rather than an owner?
Facilitators
TEAM
Leigh-Ann Buchanan, Esq. is a founder, investor, and strategic advisor whose nearly two decades as an attorney and social impact executive have focused on launching and leading ventures at the intersection of technology, innovation, and social investment, helping unlock more than $100 million in philanthropic capital. She is President & CEO of the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority, founder of Nyah Project, and author of Innovation Currency. For more than a decade, she has designed and facilitated leadership immersions in the Global South for more than 120 next-generation leaders, a practice blueprint. now extends to senior and executive leaders.
Reima Shakeir, Ed.D., is a strategist, published scholar, and organizational repatterner who combines systems science with systemic constellations to make visible the hidden dynamics that shape how leaders decide and act. She started her first company at 17 and built and sold it by 21. She later served as Chief Operating Officer of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations and is now on the faculty at The Wharton School and NYU Stern. She coaches executives on adaptive leadership, narrative intelligence, professional courage, and navigating uncertainty.
Become an underwriting partner
HOW PARTNERSHIP WORKS
Our partners underwrite the immersion program fee of $35,000 for one or more seats. Each seat covers the full ten days: accommodations, in-country transportation and meals, expertly curated field experiences, facilitated Leadership Labs, and a post-immersion 1:1 integration session. International flights to and from the host country are not part of the fee. Pricing may vary by cohort year and host country.
01. CONFIRM
Confirm the number of leaders whose participation your organization will underwrite.
02. CONNECT
Nominate a leader from your network, or invite us to match your organization to an aligned leader who has requested program fee sponsorship.
03. COORDINATE
If desired, our team facilitates pre- and post-immersion conversations with the leader your organization underwrites, focused on the learning agenda and on amplifying and sharing insights.
Ready to partner? Let’s talk.