Step outside your own echo chamber.
Sustain focus on what matters most. Secure the energy that lets you lead at your best. Build trust at scale and turn momentum into agency.
Paradise Valley, Arizona · September 15–18, 2026
- Format
- Residential, 4 days
- Cohort size
- 6–9 senior leaders
- Coaching ratio
- 3-to-1, every session
- Edition
- Executive — 2026
Organizations don’t outperform their leaders. They reflect them.
Your focus defines what matters; your energy determines what happens. Sustaining both is the greatest challenge in leadership — it requires constant engagement and the discipline to stay on top of your game. This is an exclusive pilot designed for just six to nine peers across industries.
The methodology
No keynote speakers. No conference programming. No passive consumption. A structured environment that gives you something most leaders don’t have enough of: uninterrupted time to think, reflect, and engage in focused, high-quality exchange.
You take home one idea that materially changes how you lead or how your organization operates. Not ten takeaways — one that sticks and translates into action.
We use cutting-edge frameworks — Immunity to Change to surface where you and your organization unintentionally hold yourselves back, and HBDI to sharpen awareness of how you think, decide, and react under pressure. These are applied directly to your context, in real time, through discussion and reflection.
The format is deliberately tight. All sessions run 3-to-1 — three leaders with one coach — which ensures depth, direct relevance, and real conversations. This only works with the right people in the room, which is why we’re selective by design. The group is not a detail of the experience; it is the experience.
A place built for stepping back
Two perspectives, both battle-tested
Dirk H. Horn
Founder and CEO of mab Partners, a boutique firm that has guided industrial, automotive, and food-industry clients through strategy, growth, turnarounds, and leadership transformation for decades. Author of The Winning Balance: Building Customer Trust at Scale and host of the podcast The Pitch and The Catch.
Daryn Walters
Former President of Exmark Manufacturing and a senior leader at The Toro Company. With deep operational expertise and a recent transition into “the real work” beyond the corporate role, Daryn brings grounded, battle-tested perspective on sustaining performance while redefining success.
Secure your seat in September — or get on the list for November.
Because the group is selective, registration starts with a short conversation. Book a call and we’ll talk through fit, the September cohort, and the next Executive Retreat in November.