The Highway One Series

Nurturing Leaders
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Intimate executive retreats experienced along California’s transformative coast

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The Leadership Crisis No One’s Naming

You’re steering the ship, but you can’t see the horizon anymore.
The old markers leaders once relied on have been erased by unprecedented disruption. Your team feels the storm outside, and they’re looking to you for direction. But how do you chart a course when the future itself keeps shifting?
The Highway One Series is where modern leaders come to confront this reality—and discover how to lead through it.

This Is Not Another Leadership Retreat

This is a recalibration of what leadership means when certainty no longer exists.
Along California’s most transformative stretch of coastline, small teams of senior executives gather to explore a fundamental shift: from extracting value to creating it, from performing leadership to embodying hospitality, from managing uncertainty to navigating through it with grace.

Who This Is For

You belong here if:

  • You’re a C-suite executive or senior leader responsible for navigating unprecedented complexity
  • You recognize that the pace of change has outrun traditional leadership models
  • You feel the weight of leading without clear sight of what’s ahead
  • You understand that your team’s engagement is becoming your scarcest resource
  • You’re ready to explore leadership as an ecology, not just a psychology

Every meal compliments and enhances the retreat content — nourishing both body and mind.

The Journey

Over four transformative days, your leadership team will:

Restore

Step away from the tyranny of urgency to rediscover why you lead

Reframe

Shift from value extraction to value creation as your primary lens

Reconnect

Deepen the relationships that make resilient leadership possible

The Experience

Set on a private 80-acre nature reserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains, every element is designed to nurture leaders who are reshaping what leadership means:

  • Curated Conversations with fellow executives facing similar challenges
  • Immersive Experiences that viscerally demonstrate the cycle of value creation
  • World-Class Hospitality by roomforty’s Michelin-trained culinary team
  • Intentional Reflection in redwood forests, coastal vistas, and wine country
  • The Host Mindset™ Framework applied to executive leadership

Why

Now?

The rules of engagement are changing beyond recognition. AI is rendering traditional human resources redundant. Generational shifts have redefined what “feeling valued” means. The extraction model of business is reaching its limits.
The only way forward is to understand the cycle of value: how it’s created, how it’s sustained, and how it flows through your organization.
Because here’s what we know: Organizations that only extract value become stumps. Those that create it become forests.

Your Investment

$25,000 for your senior leadership team of four, or $7,500 per individual, Includes all retreat content, meals, and curated experiences. Limited to 4 teams per session to maintain intimacy.

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