Focus Your Leadership
- La Cassera Leadership Process

An exclusive 5-day leadership process for creative professionals in the hills of Piemonte, Italy – May 2026.

Step out of your daily routine and into a transformative space designed to elevate both your professional practice and your personal leadership.

This intensive course is limited to just 10 participants, ensuring a highly personalized and powerful experience. Over five inspiring days, you will:
• Gain clarity on your unique leadership style - and when your way of operating is necessary for you and your work.
• Build a purposeful action plan for the next stage of your career - and for the professional field you are part of.
• Explore how you can drive innovation and transformation in your sector.
• Strengthen your ability to create real impact – in your work and beyond.

Guided through a carefully crafted process, you will leave with both fresh insight and concrete strategies, ready to take action with confidence.

All of this takes place in the serene and inspiring surroundings of Piemonte’s rolling hills – the perfect setting to pause, reflect, and design the next chapter.

You will experience:

• A new conceptual frame to understand yourself and your work - and how you create value.
• Ideas to how you can develop yourself and your professional platform to grow your capacity for manifesting change.
• A group of like-minded to reflect your insights.
• Individual sessions to help you focus on yourself.
• Time and space to slow down and see what comes up.
• Italian food and wine enjoyed with sweeping views over a lush green valley.

You will come home with:

• A new perspective on your leadership that will enhance your feeling of agency.
• Personal insights about yourself in your professional role.
• A sketch to an action plan that will take you and your professional projects to the next chapter.

La Cassera, Piemonte, Italy

The course unfolds in a nurturing environment designed to help you slow down, focus, and set goals — before gathering the inspiration to turn vision into action.

Our venue, La Cassera, is a tranquil nature resort nestled in a quiet valley among the rolling green hills of Castelletto d’Erro, Piemonte. 

With 12 double rooms, each with a private bathroom, as well as a swimming pool and tennis court, La Cassera offers the perfect venue for leadership development. The outdoor areas will be for walks, group explorations and time for your inner process and reflexion. 

The situation in the creative industries

Across every corner of the creative industries, including architecture, film, media, design, fashion, art, museums, research, business development etc. profound changes are unfolding. The professionals I work with are often navigating the tension between finding a professional stance that serves the form of quality they aspire, their wish to serve the organisational context they work in, and the drive towards innovation. Innovation on both a structural level and relation to content.

Effective leadership is never one-size-fits-all — it is always shaped by the specific context in which we work. And one of the greatest resources for people in the creative fields is learning from each other’s experiences - because this helps us understand the value of our own position and gives us new ideas to how we can grow.

The Program

This course is designed as a complete process that unfolds in three phases. It gets it's impact by combining personal reflection, group learning, and new theoretical and methodological insights.

Before – Prepare & Align

Online session with Thea Mikkelsen where we focus your goals for the process.

Online kick-off session.

3 hours of self-study with curated course material to prepare for the La Cassera meeting.

The La Cassera Leadership Process (5 days in Italy)

Presentations on leadership to help you find your own language for the professional projects you lead.

Intensive training and guided reflection on own leadership project.

A balance of individual exploration, group dialogue, and structured leadership development.

After – Integrate & Apply

Online session to reflect, integrate, and continue your momentum.

Final online session with Thea Mikkelsen to refine your leadership action plan and next steps.

Your course facilitators:

Head of program: Thea Mikkelsen

For more than 15 years, I have been an organizational psychologist and leadership coach dedicated to the creative industries. I help professionals strengthen their personal and professional self-awareness while developing a clearer understanding of their opportunities, influence, and impact — supporting them in making meaningful changes within their careers and the creative fields they shape.

Co-facilitator: Elise Langager

Elise is educated as both a psychologist, MSc, and as a film editor. She has been working for Thea since 2021, and has supported Thea in developing the leadership courses, coaching courses and the leadership training method "Leading Scenarios". 

Servings

Piemonte is renowned for its exceptional cuisine and wines, and during the course, you’ll enjoy a specially crafted local, seasonal menu prepared by our chef.

Meals Include:

• Breakfast: Continental style with tea, coffee, yogurt, cereals, bread, and eggs

• Lunch: Vegetarian Italian dishes featuring beans, lentils, and fresh seasonal greens

• Dinner: Primo with classic pastas and risottos, Secondo with vegetables and meat, followed by Dolce

Beverages: Natural and sparkling water will be provided with all meals. Selected wines, beverages, and snacks are also available for purchase in La Cassera’s boutique.