The Part Time CEO Retreat
For Three Days, Join Me For An Experience Founders Called the Best Thing They Did All Year.
Here’s the thing: These regrets quietly accumulate until you look back at a decade you can't get back. And somewhere along the way, you felt the business goals stopped being yours and realized you'd been climbing someone else's mountain the whole time.
Then you ask yourself - Is this even worth it?
The truth is that most founders answer that by building bigger goals and metrics.
However…
Hitting A Bigger Business Target
Won’t Solve This.
Most founders like you think that life is all about business. So you work harder and chase bigger metrics. But you’ve already done that. And where did it get you? Because the truth is…
Your business should be serving the LIFE YOU WANT.
So what you need is a plan for your life first. Thing is… you can't do that inside the business.
You have to step outside it for a few days.
Which is why I built the
Part-Time CEO Retreat.
Hi 👋🏻 I’m Dhiren
I spend most of my time helping founders shift from full-time founder to Part-Time CEO. Through Basecamp. Through the Council. And once a year, through the Part-Time CEO Retreat. It’s a coach-led retreat where founders plan their life with the same intention they’ve given their business. Not just the business. A plan for life I wish someone had shown me a decade ago.
Before the missed dinners.
Before the years blurred.
Before I realized I’d built something impressive I hadn’t actually chosen.
Every year, I do this work alongside founders.
Because I still need it too.
Most founders build a company first then let the business define everything after. Here, we reverse that process.
You’re guided from start to finish. I walk you through the entire process until the plan is written.
Look back at the year you had, look ahead at the life you want, and leave with a measurable plan for yourself.
No keynotes or motivational noise. Just serious founders, honest conversations, and rare space to think clearly again.
Each Year Has A New Landscape.
2024's theme was the Desert.
It was about stripping things away.
There's nothing out there. No signal. No noise. Nowhere to put your attention except the questions you've been avoiding.
2025 was the Ocean.
It was about rising with the tide.
Tides do what tides do. You can fight the pull or you can learn to move with it. That room realised how much energy they'd been spending resisting things they were never going to control.
This Year’s Theme Is:
The Mountain
It’s about commitment.
You pick a route, you commit, then you climb. Deliberately, knowing exactly where you're headed. You've been standing at the same elevation for years now. Working hard. Doing everything right. But wonder why the view keeps looking the same. It's not the effort that's missing. It's the plan.
The Retreat Flow
I’ll help you plan your life the way you look at your business: Honestly, structurally, and with a plan at the end of it. For three days, you step out of the business entirely and plan the one thing you never planned before.
Day 1
Reflection
Review the year you had, not just the year your business had.
What worked. What didn’t.
And why.
What gave you energy.
What quietly
drained you.
What are you ready to stop carrying forward?
You review your business every quarter.
This time,
review yourself.
Day 2
Vision
Stop planning one year ahead. Start imagining three.
Picture your life three years from now.
What do you actually want?ve you energy.
What would you change if current constraints didn’t matter?
Three years gives you enough distance to think differently.
Then bring that vision back.
Three years becomes twelve months.
Day 3
Goals
Make the year ahead specific, written, and yours.
Turn your three-year vision into one-year goals.
Goals for your business.
Goals for your health.
Goals for your marriage and friendships.
Goals for the person you want to become.
You know how to set goals. You’ve simply never set enough for yourself.
Your Main Tool for the Retreat:
The Journal
After Three Days, You’ll have:
Clarity of Purpose
A clear answer to what you’re building this for, before setting another business target or chasing another milestone.
Three-year vision
A three-year vision for your life, including where you’ll travel, who you’ll spend time with, and ordinary Tuesdays.
Goals that are yours
Goals that are actually yours, not your business’s, someone else’s, or expectations you never consciously chose.
A plan built to last past Q1
A plan that survives beyond March, giving your life goals the structure they’ve been missing every year.
Clear Roles
A defined plan for every role you play, including father, husband, son, friend, and founder.
A written reason to say ‘no’
You're never fully off. Evenings, weekends, holidays. There's always something pulling you back in.
Your Part Time CEO Retreat ticket includes:
2 Nights, 3 days Single-Room Accommodation, All-inclusive stay at the retreat venue
Full Board, All meals covered throughout the retreat
Adventure Activity Session, Built into the schedule, announced closer to the date
Annual Goal-Setting Facilitation, Your year, planned around who you need to be
Founder Journal & Workbook, Yours to keep for the year ahead
Custom 2027 Planning Calendar, Designed with love for life in the UAE
Welcome Goodie Bag, Waiting for you when you arrive
Founder Community For The Year, Founder WhatsApp group + retreat playlist to take home