The Sundance Communicator Session is the premier development program for high-performing, high-potential communication professionals, situated in an idyllic setting that inspires learning, creativity, and reflection. Participants will engage in topics such as changing employee behavior, driving strategic clarity, and enhancing senior leadership credibility, and gain insights on how to partner with other functions, lead others, and manage up. The program is designed to promote individual learning, meaningful connection, and rich peer dialogue.
The Sundance Communicator Session is the premier development program for high-performing, high-potential communication professionals, situated in an idyllic setting that inspires learning, creativity, and reflection. Participants will engage in topics such as changing employee behavior, driving strategic clarity, and enhancing senior leadership credibility, and gain insights on how to partner with other functions, lead others, and manage up. The program is designed to promote individual learning, meaningful connection, and rich peer dialogue.
The Sundance experience was transformative. The combination of rich content, unique setting, and diverse cohort helped me not only hone my own leadership and communication skills, but also to take the learning back and elevate the impact of my entire team. We’re more capable and credible advisors because of it.
— Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, Multinational Fortune 500 Fast Food Chain
Date & Location
September 14-19, 2025
Sundance, Utah
Who Should Attend
The Sundance Communicator Session is ideal for top-talent communication professionals and practitioners with leadership potential. While the curriculum emphasizes communication within the walls of the organization, external communication professionals are welcome and will get value from the program.
Faculty
Carolynne Thomas is a Partner in CRA | Admired Leadership’s Strategic Communication Practice, and the co-founder of the Strategic Communication Academy at Sundance.
Kristin Fenty is a Managing Director in CRA | Admired Leadership’s Strategic Communication Practice.
Accommodations
Sundance Resort, situated high in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, is only 60 minutes from Salt Lake City International Airport. This idyllic setting offers a unique blend of environmental conservation and artistic expression, reflecting Robert Redford’s vision since he acquired the property in 1969. Known for its winter skiing and year-round artistic workshops, professional meetings, and leisure, Sundance is the perfect location for our Academy—far enough away to prompt serious reflection, small enough to foster real relationships, rustic enough to be authentically Western, and sophisticated enough to be truly enjoyable. We love it there, and expect you will, too.
Sundance Mountain Resort
8841 N. Alpine Loop Road
Sundance, Utah 84604
The Core Sessions
The core sessions consist of more than 20 hours of content interwoven with group activities designed to encourage reflection and dialogue. A sampling of content topics include:
- Viewing organizations as conversations
- Five axioms of interpersonal and organizational communication
- Crafting compelling messages and narratives of strategic intent
- Establishing advisory relationships
- Communicating up and advocating for ideas
- Parasocial interaction and the principles of executive visibility
- Project management for communication professionals
- Projecting executive presence
Recreational Activities
While the material is challenging and the classroom time intense, the Academy also offers participants a unique opportunity to think, reflect, and get perspective through scheduled and elective experiences with their peers. These include shared meals; an opportunity for pottery or silversmithing classes, hiking, mountain biking, fishing, or horseback riding; and unstructured time.
Next Steps
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