Process.
We know every forum is as unique as each individual. There is not a one size fits all of forum whether hosting a retreat, a forum launch, fundamental/leadership trainings or up-leveling the basics to create an even more incredible experience. Emma's process is designed with each unique forum in mind.
01
Explore
Initial introduction into working with Emma is an exploration call with the moderator or retreat planner to understand more about the forum, members, history, desired outcomes, current challenges, etc. This is an opportunity for any clarifying questions or thoughts on the overall process.
02
Connect
Because every forum is different, and each member may have differing experience, Emma spends 30 minutes with each member to build connection, trust and understand their experience within the forum. These pre-retreat interviews extract alignment opportunities and inform custom agenda creation.
03
Customize
Whether a half day refresh or 3 day retreat, informed from the insights of the pre-session interviews, as well as forum health survey, Emma custom creates an agenda for your time together. In this agenda includes pre-thought work for the forum to maximize our time together.
04
Facilitate
Learnings, usage and analytics will tell us how to best optimize to continuously reach your customers and maximize your growth potential.
05
Support
We know no event is "one and done" and believe you should be supported as such. Emma is available to the forums she supports post retreat for questions, clarifications, celebrations, challenges, etc.
We would like to commend Emma for the sessions during our retreat. She was exceptionally well-prepared, ensuring that the session ran smoothly and efficiently. Her focus was evident throughout, as she navigated the discussion with clarity and precision. Most importantly, her professionalism and demeanor instilled a strong sense of trust among all participants. We felt confident and supported. We were given several tools and tips to help us navigate through our forum meetings which is helpful given how new our group is to both YPO and forum. Thank you for facilitating such a productive and engaging session.
Meet Emma.
Emma Garrison is a human behavior expert and YPO Certified Forum Facilitator who partners with CEOs and executive teams around the world to unlock strategic growth through the psychology of leadership. With a rare blend of deep psychological insight and sharp business strategy, Emma helps leaders connect the dots between mindset, team dynamics, and bottom-line results.
Her work goes beyond coaching. Emma is known for her ability to create safety, engagement, and energy in groups, whether facilitating executive forums or guiding leadership cohorts. This is not just knowledge, but craft. She brings the discipline of systems and accountability together with a future-focused vision; helping organizations scale, evolve, and thrive in an era of disruption and AI-driven change.
In her consulting and coaching practice, Emma supports leaders in mastering both the tangible tools of business and the internal belief systems and patterns that often stand in the way of growth. Her methodology guides clients to heightened awareness of their behaviors and surroundings, enabling lasting transformation and alignment across mind, body, and leadership.
Emma has been immersed in the YPO community for decades and is an active member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. She is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a Certified Master Coach, and a trauma-informed practitioner. She has served as faculty at the Elementum Coaching Institute and trained with many of the industry’s leading voices. Formally educated in Human Development and Family Studies and Psychology, and further grounded through executive education in Operations and Finance at The Wharton School, Emma brings both rigor and heart to her work.
Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, she is also a lifelong learner, experience designer, and lover of the outdoors. When not working with leaders, she can be found on a mountain trail or walking with her two pups, Charlie and Gibbon.
.For more information about consulting services with Garrison Growth, visit www.garrisongrowth.com.
Emma's thoughtful approach is grounded in data and experience. She met all of us where we were and created a very positive collective experience that also met individual needs.
TOOLS & KNOWLEDGE
- DISC Assessment & Trainings
- Five Dysfunctions Assessment & Trainings
- Working Genius Assessment & Trainings
- Non Violent Communication
- Attachment Theory
- Somatic Experiencing & Poly Vagal Theory
- NeuroLinguistic Programming
- Enneagram Self Discovery
- Positive Intelligence informed
- Internal family systems informed
- Trauma informed
- Forum launches/seeding
- Game Changing Organizations Survey (team evaluation)
- Style flexing based on real time feedback/in session learnings
QUALIFICATIONS
- Seasoned leader and consultant with 8+ years of experience with executive teams and facilitation, focused on leadership development and driving buy in organization wide
- Fully customized retreats, trainings and experiences for 1:1 coaching clients, forums, teams and executive groups to maximize ROI on time and value
- Trained as Master Coach and Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Blends leadership best practices with forum best practice to create a multi-faceted value add experience with tangible take home tools to apply today
- Traditional education in Human Development and Family Studies, as well as Psychology
- Personal experience in EO member forum, as well as YNG forums
Retreat Topics:
TEAM
- - Game Changing Organizations Model: What Research Shows About Highly Effective Organizations and how to apply it today!
- - Psychology of Leadership: How to discover the unsuspecting best practices and leadership mindset to drive buy in and enhance company culture
- - Navigating Healthy Conflict in a Team Environment: How to effectively reinforce engaging in conflict to drive even greater results
- - Giving and Receiving Feedback: What it is, what it isn’t and how it can drive trust to impact overall organizational results
- - Leadership Assessment: Patrick Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions assessment and what to do with it!
- - Understanding Retention and Motivators: Taking a deeper look at what keeps our best leaders around, including a survey real time feedback
- - Cascading Communications: How to take your purpose, strategy, values to the next level (literally and figuratively)!
- - Transitioning Forum Benefits to the Workplace
- Note: Because of Emma’s leadership consulting background, every forum experience is filled with leadership tools and best practices, if desired, as so much of forum health and business health overlap
PERSONAL
- - Life Visioning: Defining and gaining clarity on your unique vision pillars and uncovering subconscious roadblocks to creating the life you value most
- - Exploring Life Transitions: How to know what the next might be, and if it’s the “right”choice
- - Killing the Snake: How to stop playing whack a mole with life’s challenges, and uncover the deeper root cause and solution for an unleveled life
- - Navigating Healthy Conflict for Better Relationships: Personal, professional and everything in between! Gaining self awareness of ineffective patterns, as well as tactical tools and best practices to navigating conflict in a more effective way
- - Creating a Healthier Relationship to Self: How to support being an even better partner/parent/leader
- - Reparenting the Inner Child: gaining self compassion and grace, and deeper understanding of self
FORUM
- - Exploring Creative Forum Best Practices to deepen meeting to meeting
- - Tools for Accountability: Taking our forum experience to the next level by integrating best practices on supporting one another with personal/professional/familial goals
- - Updates to Reflections: Redefining updates for a deeper self exploration, and enhanced level of vulnerability, commitment and value from every forum experience
- - Refining Forum Best Practices: including next level updates, creative presentations, etc.
- - Psychological Safety: a deeper discussion of how to go deeper as a forum
- - Diving Deeper: various connection exercises to bring an already healthy forum to the next level
Emma was intuitive and professional. She adapted to the needs of our group and delivered exceptional value.