The
Integrated
Leader
A Leadership Experience
for Black Male Executives
with Didier Sylvain and Sean Goode
October 8-12th, 2026
Pacific Northwest
+ Virtual Sessions
At the summit, what remains?
You’ve climbed. You’ve delivered.
You’ve proven yourself in spaces that weren’t always built for you.
And yet, at the top, the pressures only multiply.
Relentless performance demands that never let up.
Isolation in boardrooms and networks where few look like you.
Family trade-offs: time missed, presence sacrificed.
Fragmentation between who you are, how you lead, and what you long for.
Burnout creeping in: the silent cost of carrying so much for so long.
For many Black males in leadership, the pressures aren’t just personal; they’re systemic. The weight of representation, the vigilance required to navigate racial bias and microaggressions, and the unspoken cost of belonging in exclusionary spaces take their toll. The Integrated Leader is a space to set that burden down, to remember who you are beneath the armor, and to reconnect with power that doesn’t depend on performance.
The Integrated Leader
was created for this reality.
What Is the Integrated Leader?
The Integrated Leader is about uniting who you are across every domain of your life — work, family, and spirit — so your leadership feels whole, effective, and grounded.
Over the course of this 3-month journey, you will:
Understand your behaviors under stress, the competing values that drive them, and how to stay grounded amid systemic pressures and bias.
Define and embody your leadership identity — your vision, purpose, voice, and unique gifts.
Translate insight into a ground practice pathway for the leadership, relational, and personal questions you are carrying.
Strengthen communication and feedback practices that deepen trust and relationships that matter most.
Clarify the relationships, responsibilities, and communities that shape your leadership, and discern where your presence, voice, and energy are most needed now.
Establish daily, weekly, and monthly practices and rituals that keep you grounded, energized, and aligned.
This is not another conference.
It is not a quick motivational weekend.
The Integrated Leader is a 3-month leadership journey that begins with a four-day retreat and continues with virtual integration sessions, peer reflection, and 1:1 coaching support.
The retreat opens the space.
The integration sessions help participants practice what was revealed.
The coaching support helps translate insight into daily leadership, family, and community life.
What You’ll Experience
and Carry Forward
This program exists so you can:
Set down the weight of isolation and performance to reconnect with authenticity and presence.
Reclaim wholeness through cutting edge leadership methods and healing practices that integrate every part of self.
Strengthen authentic brotherhood with peers who understand the unique pressures of leadership.
Renew your vision and integrity for the next chapter of your leadership journey.
Anchor daily and embodied practices that sustain clarity, courage, and grounded action.
Lead across every domain of life—boardroom, home, and community—as one integrated self.
Program Structure
The Retreat (Kickoff)
October 8-12, 2026
Pacific Northwest
4 days / 3 nights in a nature-immersed retreat home
Immersive experience blending coaching, embodiment, ritual, and peer support
Sky-gazing, walk-and-talks, meditation, and nourishing meals prepared with care
A safe, confidential space for 12 Black male executives
Virtual Convenings
Connection, orientation, and integration before and after the retreat
Begin building connection, trust, and shared context before gathering in person
Deepen practices introduced at the retreat through continued reflection, coaching, and peer dialogue
Share progress, challenges, and commitments as you integrate the work into daily leadership and life
Community & Accountability
Ongoing peer support and shared reflection between sessions
Private online group for connection, resource-sharing, and mutual encouragement
Structured prompts and reflection practices between sessions
Optional peer pods for accountability and check-ins
Who This Is For
Black males who lead in executive roles, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, culture, or community life, and are ready to enter their next chapter with support and intention.
Black males who carry teams, expectations, family, legacy, and responsibility, and are looking for a space where they do not have to perform or armor up.
Black males who sense they are approaching a threshold and want clarity, grounded courage, and space to breathe again.
Black males who want renewal in their leadership, deeper connection to themselves and their families, and a circle of brothers who can witness and support their becoming.
Why Now?
The demands are not slowing down.
In 2026, the stakes for Black leadership in the private, public, and community sector are higher than ever.
Leading with power requires spaces to restore, not extract. Spaces free of performance. Spaces that return you to yourself.
This is that space.
Investment
Program Tuition:
$1,495–$5,000
We believe transformative spaces should be sustained with integrity and made accessible with care. For that reason, we offer three tuition levels so participants and sponsors can choose the level that best reflects their access to resources.
Community Access — $1,500: For participants paying personally or with limited professional development support.
Standard Tuition — $2,995: The true cost of the full 3-month program, including all facilitation, 1:1 coaching, virtual integration sessions, and community support.
Sponsor / Pay-It-Forward Tuition — $5,000: For organizations, philanthropists, or participants with access to institutional funding who want to support broader access to the experience.
Retreat Lodging & Meals: Booked separately through our partner venue. Estimated at $900–$1,200 for four days, including lodging, meals, and amenities.
Payment plans available. Seats limited to 12.
Reserve Your Place
Seats limited to 12. Secure your place in one of three ways:
Book a Private Call
Schedule via Dubsado.
Reach Out Directly
Email us at hello@didiersylvain.com.
Your Guides
DIDIER SYLVAIN
Didier Sylvain is the founder of The Presence Project, a leadership and transformation practice helping leaders, teams, and communities move with greater attunement, integrity, and aliveness. An executive coach, facilitator, somatic practitioner, writer, and musician, Didier works at the intersection of strategy, embodied practice, creative ritual, and personal transformation. A former Deloitte consultant and Coro Fellow, he has designed and facilitated retreats, offsites, and leadership experiences for organizations including The New York Times, NBA Foundation, WME Group, and Esalen Institute. His work is rooted in a simple belief: leadership, healing, and creativity are not separate paths, but expressions of the same movement toward wholeness.
Sean Goode
Sean Goode is the founder of Movement Makers, a presence-into-practice ecosystem creating reflective, relational, and curriculum-based spaces for leaders, teams, and communities to return to presence, restore rhythm, and carry awareness into aligned action. A TED speaker and former nonprofit executive, Sean works at the intersection of grace, leadership, justice, presence, and community well-being. Through Movement Makers, The Practice of Return, and the emerging Movement Makers Foundation, he is building spaces rooted in a simple belief: people are possibilities, not problems.
The Integrated Leader
is a reset for Black men executives who want to lead not only with power, but with presence, integrity, courage, and wholeness.
It is not enough to climb the mountain. The question is:
Who are you becoming at the summit, and what practices will help you stay connected to your wholeness beyond it?