Part Time CEO Retreat
Lead your business in fewer hours. Build a team and systems that run it without you.
What Do You Want From Your Life?
Three years. Three rooms.
One method.
We’ve run this retreat twice before. The locations change, desert, ocean, mountain. The question doesn’t: what do you actually want, and is the company you’re building the answer to it?
2024 · Desert
Joshua Tree, CA
The first 12. A rented adobe in the Mojave to test one premise: that founders mostly need a clear room and a hard question, not another framework deck. The room got quiet on day two. We knew.
2025 · Ocean
Big Sur, CA
Twenty-four founders, the Pacific outside the window for three days. The format settled: look back, look out, commit. Six months later, most of the room is still on the plan they wrote on the patio.
2026 · Mountain - You are here!
Catskills, NY
Year three. Twenty-five seats in a lodge above the treeline, two hours north of New York City. Altitude is the point — you can’t plan a life from inside the inbox. Three days to climb out and look at the whole thing.
Highlights From The Previous Year
The three days are a sequence, not a menu. Each day answers a different question and you can’t honestly answer the next one until you’ve finished the last.
The Retreat Flow
The three days are a sequence, not a menu. Each day answers a different question and you can’t honestly answer the next one until you’ve finished the last.
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What's Included In Your Ticket
Early Bird
AED 1,800
Standard admission
All daytime sessions & workshops
Networking hour
Awards ceremony evening
Lunch & refreshments
Session recordings (post-event)
Session recordings (post-event)
General
AED 3,500
Limited to 20 seats
Everything in General
Reserved front-row seating
Curated networking table
Private roundtable with Dhiren
Backstage speaker access
Priority registration for Year 3
Yes, the ticket will be free of cost if you’re a council member.
For founders who are ready to
ask the bigger question.
- Alum, Big Sur Cohort ’25 · founder, Brooklyn-based studio
Running A Real Company
Founder-owner with a working business, but questioning the life built around it.
Missing The Bigger Question
The calendar has been deciding your life for longer than you realized.
Planning Beyond Revenue
You want 2026 measured by life, not only growth and headcount.
Ready For Honest Work
A room to think clearly, write honestly, and leave with real measures.
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