Battlefield Leadership facilitators draw timeless leadership lessons from key events of the Yorktown Leadership Experience that challenge the way business leaders look at strategy, alignment, and organizational agility. During the program, lessons of the past are reframed as facilitators work with participants to apply them to their unique business situation. This program will transform leaders so that they can tackle tomorrow’s challenges head on and drive vastly organizational results.
After six costly years of war, the struggle for American independence reached its climax at Yorktown, Virginia, in September 1781. Exhausted from a relentless southern campaign punctuated by miscalculations, British General Cornwallis led his army down the Virginia peninsula to the port at Yorktown to await reinforcements with the hopes of crushing the Patriot rebellion. It was a fateful mistake. Sensing opportunity, a combined force of American and French troops led by General George Washington marched to Virginia, and together with the French navy, trapped Cornwallis and forced his surrender.
