Three Days at Paradise Meadows

A private retreat for leaders who need more than another conference room.

A short while ago a CEO and a colleague showed up at our door for three nights. No inflexible agenda decided ahead of time, no workshop binder. Just a list of things keeping them up at night — business structure, a leadership transition, what it looks like for spouses to actually work together — and two full days to work through it with Lyn and me at Paradise Meadows.

They left with strategic clarity, a rewritten purpose statement, completed leadership assessments, and a transformation report they're still chewing on weeks later.

The whole model hinges on hospitality. We open a small number of these each year.

Who This Is For

Designed For High-Impact Leaders

You run something — a company, a family office, a foundation, a movement. You've read the books and sat through the retreats that hand you someone else's framework and call it done.

Unfiltered Truth & Strategy

What you actually need is uninterrupted days with a couple who have sat across the table from 400+ organizations in 30 countries, who will tell you the truth instead of the version that keeps the invoice friendly.

If that's you, keep reading. If you want a curriculum and a certificate, this isn't it. (We have classes you can order online.)

How It Works

Before you arrive, you'll pick your top three topics. That's the springboard. We'll build the two days around it.

Three nights, two days. You arrive the first evening and settle in. The next two days are yours — full days of conversation, working through your three topics with Lyn and me. We will meander through the woods and through topics not yet uncovered.

What to Expect:

Hosted at Paradise Meadows, Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Home-cooked meals, wood-fired hot tub optional
You leave with concrete outcomes: a fresh purpose, loaded flipcharts, online assessments, or plan ready for Monday

Pick Your Top Three Focus Areas

The format of our time together allows us to delve into whatever topics are on your mind. It's helpful to know the top three you think you might like to explore while you are with us. Some of the areas often key to leaders include:

Purpose Statement

Rewrite the sentence your organization actually runs on.

Personal Leadership Assessment

Where your leadership is strong, and where it's quietly costing you (LEMON Leadership)

The 10-P Model

See how the 10 drivers of business impact work in your organization and life.

Foundational Principles

Dig into the bedrock beliefs that underpin how you run your organization and life.

Capital Deployment Strategy

Strategy for family offices & foundations sitting on capacity without clarity. Hint: all capital is at risk - one risk is that it doesn't produce a return on earth, and the other that it doesn't produce a return for eternity.

Leadership Transitions

Handing off, stepping up, or stepping back on purpose instead of by accident.

Optimum Business Structure

The entity, ownership, and governance shape that actually fits what you're building.

Spouses Working Together

What it takes for a marriage to thrive while being a business partnership too.

Board Governance

Structure that serves the mission instead of the meeting.

Transforming Society

Extending your impact to your city, company or sector.

Bizcipleship

Building disciple-making into the core business processes, not as a tag-on program or something outsourced to a church.

Repurposing Capital

Aligning wealth with the universal foundational principles of capital, the ones you inherently care about.

Investing With Africa

Smart emerging-market capital deployment that applies beyond Africa.

Your Narrative & Convergence

The story you tell about work-life integration, sharpened and made true.

or... The thing you haven't said out loud yet

The Investment

$15,000, all in — lodging, meals, and three nights and two full days of Brett and Lyn's undivided attention, for you and one guest: a spouse, a co-founder, a successor, whoever needs to be in the room.

Bringing more than two? We can discuss adding people up to a maximum of five people total (or four couples) staying on site.

Leading an NGO or not-for-profit? Scholarships may be available. Call to discuss.

Start with a Conversation

This isn't a shopping-cart purchase. We host a handful of these a year, so we start with a short call — fifteen minutes, no pitch — to make sure it's the right fit, the right time.

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