Theme: Courageous Leadership
Gathering the best minds to share our playbooks and design cultures that enable companies to succeed, employees to thrive, and communities to flourish.
Programming Pillars:
Leadership, AI, Cognitive Hospitality, Navigating Geopolitical Headwinds
Changing the world through the workplace, together.
Programming Pillars
Leadership Pillar: Leading with Courage, Clarity & Speed
Courageous leadership is less about bold declarations and more about intentional risk, moral clarity, and the discipline to act on values when fear and volatility make retreat the easier option. Trust is the cultural currency that empowers this kind of leadership, creating conditions where people listen, challenge, and move forward together with speed and purpose. Courageous leaders know that trust begins with vulnerability—the willingness to speak truthfully, admit uncertainty, and invite dissent.
Cognitive Hospitality Pillar: Building Cultures of Agency & Trust
Cognitive Hospitality is the way leaders create spaces where people can be creative, innovative, and collaborative. Trust and agency sit at the center. Grounded in neuroscience, it explores how the signals leaders send foster connection and collective intelligence. Environments rooted in purpose and hope enable teams to engage across differences and move beyond polarization toward shared purpose. Hope means leaning into the vision we are working to realize together.
AI Pillar: Managing, Adopting & Leading from Analog Companies to Frontier Organizations
As AI becomes ubiquitous, advantage shifts from tools to judgement: where to deploy, what to automate, what to protect as human, and how fast to move without breaking trust. Boards & executives are making consequential bets under conditions of uncertainty, asymmetry and moral consequence. How leaders bring clarity, discipline and pace to one of the most critical transformations of our lifetimes, while addressing societal challenges, is our greatest challenge.
Geopolitical Headwinds Pillar: Managing & Monitoring the Inflection Points Through Forecasting and Scenario Planning
Leaders are navigating a polycrisis where overlapping shocks, including economic swings, wars, climate disruption, and political unrest, collide at once. The result is a world defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). In this environment, hesitation is costly. Forecasting and scenario planning help leaders anticipate inflection points, stress-test strategy, and act with clarity and discipline before disruption hardens into crisis. Purpose, trust, and the speed of decision-making are what enable organizations to remain resilient as conditions continually shift beneath them.
The event begins with a welcome reception and keynote on Sunday, March 29 followed by our signature, small group dinners around Austin. A full day of programming follows on Monday, March 30 with departures on Tuesday, March 31.
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Dress Code | Business casual
Accommodations | Two nights' accommodations are included onsite at Campus on Lake Austin. All attendees are encouraged to stay. Official check-in is at 3 PM on Sunday, March 29. Latest check-out is by 11 AM on Tuesday, March 31st. There is a 24 hr gym onsite.
*Please note that this is a private facility. Outside guests are not permitted. All attendees will be checked by security at the gate.
Transportation | VIP sprinters will pickup from the AUS airport on Sunday, March 29 (window TBD) and return to AUS on Tuesday, March 31 between 4-11 AM. There is extremely limited ingress/egress. Attendees must confirm their arrival & departure options via the emailed logistics questionnaire as there is a restricted drive-in list.
F&B | We provide the following... Dinner on Sunday, March 29 at 7 PM. Breakfast from 6-8 AM, lunch, and dinner at 7 PM on Monday, March 31. Breakfast from 6-8 AM on Tuesday, March 31.
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