You are INVITED…
to Journey beyond the familiar.
Experience history. Discover timeless principles.
Challenge your thinking. Create your future.
What culture are you creating
today…
that others will be experiencing
tomorrow?
Culture Matters.
Our Choices ripple into the Future.
Experience the Colonial Institute.
A Journey like No Other.
Imagine what becomes possible when people discover shared beliefs, embrace new behaviors, and begin creating the culture they envision?
The Colonial Institute Experience brings people together to challenge familiar thinking, discover timeless principles, and explore the beliefs and values that shape behaviors.
Through the Four Journeys, new perspectives become meaningful conversations—and conversations open possibilities for the culture people create together.
History becomes the classroom.
Conversation becomes the catalyst.
New thinking becomes possible.
We experience history…to create the future.
Through Four Journeys, history becomes your classroom. Conversation opens new possibilities. Reflection turns discovery into application.
Every person brings unique experiences and perspectives to the Voyage. Together, those perspectives enrich the Experience for everyone.
One Voyage.
Four Journeys.
One Extraordinary Experience.
JOURNEY 1 — DISCOVER NEW HORIZONS
Expand Thinking. Create Possibilities.
Challenge familiar assumptions, discover new perspectives, and see possibilities beyond the current view.
JOURNEY 2 — HISTORY IS OUR TEACHER
Experience History. Apply Wisdom.
Discover lessons in character, courage, service, relationships, and collaboration through history.
JOURNEY 3 — OUTCOMES BY DESIGN
Align Beliefs. Elevate Culture.
Explore shared beliefs and values, the behaviors they inspire, and the outcomes and culture those behaviors create.
JOURNEY 4 — ONWARD
Behaviors Shape Tomorrow.
Carry discoveries forward through choices, commitments, and behaviors that positively impact others.
Meet Steve…
Four Decades of Experience. One Enduring Lesson.
Steven D. Shatrich
Founder & Executive Guide
Steve Shatrich created Colonial Institute from his extensive experience with people, organizations, culture, performance and change—and from the lessons that only a long Journey can teach. He spent 42 years in commercial banking and finance, with 32 years focused on executive leadership and sales strategy and performance serving individuals, teams and clients while creating cultures that matter.
Those experiences reinforced one lesson: regardless of title, responsibility or role, we influence the experience of others every day. That belief became part of the foundation of Colonial Institute and remains central to every Voyage.
Today, Steve brings executive experience together with timeless principles and historical perspective—creating the environment, asking the questions and giving people space to discover what the principles mean for them and their organization.
His purpose is to inspire and promote the leader within, and to positively impact the lives of those he serves.
We are ALL in the People Business.
The Experience can come to you
The Principles Travel.
The Colonial Institute Experience can be curated for organizations beyond Williamsburg—from focused executive sessions and team experiences to keynote presentations.
The priority is to bring together the people who will help create your future.
Discover what the Colonial Institute Experience could create for your organization.
A Voyage begins whenever people gather to learn, reflect, and create a better future together.
