This isn’t just a program.
Self-Awareness. Connection. Agency. Leading from Within.
Captains & Poets provides a universal framework for Emotional Intelligence to empower leaders, educators, coaches and teams to heighten self-awareness, navigate challenges, and reach their full potential — at school, in sport, at work and in life.
"The content, delivery, and impact were overwhelmingly positive and on point. Captains and Poets created an amazing opening night session that was dynamic and captured the essence of the conference's ideals on student leadership."
CAIS - Middle School Leadership Conference 2024
“The brilliance of Captains & Poets was their ability to tailor the workshops to our school leadership and character development programming as well as students’ individual leadership journeys. The workshops met the pent-up need and demand for meaningful leadership training and will inform our own framework going forward."
Director of Character and Leadership Development - Holy Trinity School
“Working with Captains & Poets was awesome! They were adaptable to our needs and priorities as a school and offered a deeply engaging leadership program for our students. We knew after the first session that this was something special and that we would want to do more work with them in the future. Captains & Poets gave our young adolescents the space to explore who they are and how they want to show up in the world!”
Coordinator, Student Wellbeing Programs - Upper Canada College
“The Captains & Poets program is a great way to address the social/emotional learning of young people. It is easy to implement, flexible, and students will really enjoy the activities.”
Teacher - Durham District School Board (Grade 11)
“I loved seeing the light in my student’s eyes when he recognized that his Captain could help his Poet and pointed to his heart.”
Teacher - Toronto District School Board (Grade 7)
"Whether experienced leaders or novices, students found it valuable and were able to seamlessly make connections to their own experiences. Students were empowered to reimagine and expand their leadership potential by balancing the Captain and the Poet in an authentic way."
Director of Character and Leadership Development - Holy Trinity School
“Captains & Poets helped students and adults to think differently about the concept of identity. It was inspiring to see the light bulbs come on as each participant began to better understand their true nature, their innate drivers, and what enables them to thrive."
Project Director, University of Hawaii
"Captains & Poets offered real and practical ways for parents, schools and students to know themselves, bring soft skills to life and to face the world as emergent leaders."
Principal - Durham District School Board
The Captains and Poets session displayed the quickest landing, hook, and buy-in from our 108 students I have ever witnessed during a presentation. They got our student's attention and more importantly, they had them deeply invested in the process from start to finish."
CAIS - Middle School Leadership Conference 2024
Across classrooms to sports to organizations and communities, the language of Captain and Poet enables people to Lead from Within to create the kind of world we all want to see.
Discover the Leader Within
Discover the Champion Within
Ignite the Leader Within
Whether you’re looking to strengthen connection, build capacity, develop confident leaders or create a more positive culture, we’ll work with you to create an experience that meets your students, team, or community discover and activate the Leader Within.