October 19–21, 2026 in Valencia, Spain
{there comes a point where growth stops responding to effort}
As an established business owner, you already know that more effort isn`t the answer to your next level of business growth and presonal fulfillment. you also realize that you do not struggle with discipline or knowing what to do.
These were early stage problems.
At your stage of business, growth is more often shaped by the quality of your decisions, the clarity you have while making them, and whether your business still fits the life you actually want to live.
Because at this stage, misaligned decisions compound.
You feel it in…
Calendars that are too full to think clearly, creating daily overwhelm and anxiety.
Opportunities that look good on paper, but drain your energy and resources.
Projects that create revenue but are also pulling you away from yourself.
Business models that technically work, but no longer feel good to sustain.
And that distinction matters.
Because the path forward is no longer about doing more.
It’s about creating enough space to hear yourself again before making the next big decisions.
Because the quality of your decisions is shaped by the environment you’re making them in.
{what we do over these 2.5 days}
We do not rush this process; in fact, we slow it down intentionally to ensure that what moves forward is actually right.
Because the goal is not to leave Valencia with a long list of tasks.
The goal is to leave with the right decisions made, the right priorities clarified, and the right gaps named clearly enough that you can actually address them in 2027.
Over these 2.5 days, we move through a clear progression:
Diagnosis
You identify what is actually working and what is not, without distortion or avoidance. This includes looking honestly at the weakest points inside the business-not from a place of shame, but from a place of leadership.
Because once you can clearly see what is no longer working, you can finally decide what it needs next.
Discernment
You separate what is essential and what needs strengthening from what is noise and needs to be released.
You realize what deserves your energy, and what has been quietly taking too much of it.
Decision
You define grounded priorities for the remainder of 2026, so you are not ending the year reactive, overextended, or scattered across too many directions.
You are using the final stretch of the year intentionally.
Direction
You create space for your 2027 vision to come through, and determine how you will lead it differently. This is not a vague vision or an aspirational Pinterest-board version of the future.
You leave with a strategically grounded and values-aligned understanding of:
- what you are building next
- what must evolve to support it, and
- who you need to become to lead it well
This is where alignment becomes operational.
Alignment is no longer conceptual, something you talk about, or something you hope to eventually feel. It becomes visible in how you make decisions, spend your time, structure your business, and lead your life.
When alignment is present, decision-making accelerates and things become clearer.
And when things are clearer, you stop leaking energy into decisions that should have already been made.
{what you leave with is not more information}
By the end of this experience, you will feel the specific shifts.
You are no longer holding unresolved decisions quietly running in the background of your mind and business.
You know what is working.
You know what is not.
You know what needs to change.
And you have already begun to move in that direction.
Your priorities for the remainder of the year feel grounded, not reactive.
Your direction for 2027 is no longer abstract, and it reflects decisions you are prepared to fully lead. And perhaps most importantly, the way you relate to your business has changed.
There is less hesitation.
Less second-guessing.
Less tolerance for what does not align.
And more clarity in how you lead, decide, and move forward.
We call this a JoyFueled™ Business.
{what makes this moment difficult to navigate}
What makes this stage difficult is that everything still works.
Revenue still comes in, clients still say yes, and from the outside, the business looks successful.
Which is exactly why this moment is so easy to ignore.
Because internally, there are signs that keep surfacing in quieter moments.
Decisions take longer than they should.
Priorities feel heavier than they need to be.
Progress is happening, but not in a way that feels clean, clear, or fully aligned.
You can feel that something wants to shift, but the pace of the day-to-day keeps pulling you back into reactive mode before you can fully name what that shift actually is.
And underneath all of it is a question most people never give themselves enough space to answer honestly:
Is this still the business I want to be running?
Followed by…
And does it support the life I actually want to be living?
Now.
You may notice yourself maintaining things that no longer feel aligned, continuing to lead in ways that feel familiar but no longer fit who you are now, or postponing decisions that would require you to operate differently.
And because your days are already full, those decisions remain unresolved longer than they should.
What you are experiencing is not a lack of strategy.
It is a lack of the kind of space that allows you to think clearly enough to make meaningful changes.
{why this doesn’t resolve itself inside your current environment}
Most business owners try to think their way through this from within the business itself.
Inside the same pace.
The same responsibilities.
The same patterns of decision-making.
Which means even when clarity starts to surface, it gets interrupted by emails, meetings, client needs, team questions, and the constant pull of what feels most urgent.
You return to what is already in motion.
You default to what feels manageable.
You continue operating from structures that were never fully re-evaluated.
The result is partial shifts, partial decisions, and awareness without real change.
Because the conditions required for clear, decisive leadership are simply not present in your day-to-day life.
{what this stage actually requires}
At this level, what creates movement is not more input.
It is recalibration.
Not only of the business itself, but of how you lead, what you prioritize, and the way you want your business to support your life moving forward.
It’s time to shift how you are seeing your business, and how you are showing up inside it.
This requires a willingness to look honestly at:
- what is still working versus what is simply continuing
- what aligns with your current standards versus what you’ve outgrown
- what you are still carrying that no longer belongs to you
- and what you already know needs to change, but have not yet fully decided
This kind of clarity does not come from urgency.
It comes from space, honesty, and enough distance from the day-to-day to finally see things clearly again.
{CEO Planning Days are designed for that shift}
This is not a retreat for inspiration.
And it is not a planning session that leaves you with more ideas to sort through when you return home.
It is a structured environment designed to help established business owners recalibrate both their business and the way they want to lead, live, and make decisions in the next chapter of growth.
{what happens when you have the right conditions}
When you step out of the environment that reinforces your current patterns and way of being, shift happens.
You begin to see your business more clearly.
- Patterns that felt normal start to stand out.
- Decisions you’ve been circling become easier to make.
- What once felt complex begins to feel simpler.
You begin recognizing how much unnecessary friction, urgency, and over-functioning had quietly become part of your normal day-to-day operating mode.
Not because the business itself has changed.
But because you are finally seeing it with enough clarity and distance to recognize what no longer fits.
This is where the real work begins.
{this is not only strategic. it is personal.}
The way your business is structured is a reflection of how you are leading.
- How you make decisions.
- What you prioritize.
- What you tolerate.
- What you avoid.
To change the business without recalibrating the leader creates short-term relief, but rarely lasting change.
But when the leader evolves, the business begins evolving differently as well.
This is where many of the most important decisions surface. Not as new ideas, but as truths you have already known for a long time.
The difference?
You are finally clear enough—and honest enough—to act on them.
{what a JoyFueled™ business actually means}
A JoyFueled™ Business is not a business without complexity. It is not a business where everything feels simple all the time.
It is a business where the way you lead, decide, create, sell, relate, rest, and grow reflects the life you actually want to live.
At a certain stage, growth alone stops being satisfying.
Because what you begin wanting is not simply more revenue, more visibility, or more opportunity.
You want the business to fit who you have become.
You want more spaciousness.
More clarity.
More discernment.
More trust in what you actually want.
More honesty in how you lead.
This is the heart of a JoyFueled™ Business.
You are not stepping away from ambition.
But you are refusing to keep building success in a way that requires you to abandon yourself in order to sustain it.
A JoyFueled™ Business It is about creating a business and life that support each other more honestly.
A business where:
- your calendar has enough spaciousness for clear thinking
- your success no longer depends on constant self-override
- your work gives you energy instead of quietly depleting it
- your business reflects your current values, standards, and capacity, and
- the way you lead feels aligned with the person you have become—not only the person who built the business originally
Because eventually, the question changes from…
“How do I grow this?”
And instead becomes…
“Does the way I am building and leading this still feel true?”
This is the deeper work of CEO Planning Days.
You are not only deciding what comes next for the business. But you are deciding what kind of business, leadership, and life you actually want to build from here.
{your seat is reserved for our Connection Table}
For seven years, I’ve hosted global Connection Table events as a way to facilitate a different kind of conversation.
These tables are not networking or surface-level exchanges, but rather intentional dialogue around what actually matters to you right now.
The Connection Table is one of my signature experiences because I believe some of the most meaningful business shifts happen when thoughtful people gather around a table, slow down, and speak more honestly than most environments allow.
There is something about a curated table that changes the way people think, reflect, and relate to one another.
Especially for humans who are also leading, deciding, questioning, evolving, and trying to build meaningful work without losing themselves in the process.
The conversations are guided around themes that matter deeply at this stage of leadership: bravery, discernment, community, capacity, and identity.
Connection Tables create a space where people think more clearly, challenge each other more honestly, and access perspectives that are difficult to reach alone.
And often, the bravest decision of the entire experience surfaces here, not because it was planned, but because the conditions finally allowed you to see it clearly.
{why Valencia matters}
The environment you are in shapes the quality of your thinking.
Right now, your decisions are being made inside a context that prioritizes speed, output, and responsiveness.
Valencia creates different conditions, with a slower rhythm, more room to think clearly, and less cognitive load.
Here, there is a different relationship to time, decision-making, and attention.
This isn’t an escape, but rather a strategic interruption.
One that allows you to access a level of clarity that is difficult to reach inside the pace and pressure of everyday business life.
Imagine morning walks through quiet European streets before the city fully wakes up. Long conversations over wine and beautifully prepared meals.
Hours uninterrupted by notifications, meetings, and constant urgency.
Space to think again. To hear yourself again.
To reconnect with the part of you that existed before your business consumed all available mental bandwidth.
{imagine waking up after CEO Planning Days…}
You are no longer mentally carrying unresolved decisions everywhere you go, and the next chapter of your business feels crystal clear to you.
You finally know what needs to evolve—and what no longer deserves your energy.
Your 2027 direction is grounded, strategic, and aligned with the life you actually want to live. This isn’t because someone handed you a rigid blueprint; but because you finally had enough space to think clearly again.
You will return home with a refined set of priorities for the remainder of 2026 and a clear business direction for 2027.
You know:
- what you are building next
- what needs to change
- what no longer fits
- and where your energy should actually go moving forward
You will no longer circle the same questions for months.
And, instead of ending the year reactive, overextended, or fragmented across too many directions…you leave knowing:
- what matters most right now
- what can wait
- what needs strengthening
- and what needs to be released entirely
Decisions feel more aligned and easier and the things you’ve been overthinking begin to untangle.
Because once you step outside the constant noise of day-to-day business operations, you start seeing:
- where you’ve outgrown old ways of leading
- where your business model no longer reflects your current values or capacity
- where unnecessary complexity has quietly become normal
- and where you already know the answer—you simply haven’t had the space to act on it yet
Your business will feel more aligned with the life you actually want.
Not someday. Now.
You begin making decisions from:
- clarity instead of urgency
- discernment instead of pressure
- alignment instead of obligation
And the business starts feeling different because you are relating to it differently.
{this experience was designed for the business owner who…}
has already built something successful, but knows success alone is no longer enough
feels the weight of too many decisions living in the background at once
is craving more spaciousness, clarity, and intentionality in how they lead
senses they are entering a new season of business and life—but have not fully defined what that means yet
is no longer interested in growth that requires constant self-abandonment
wants to build the next chapter of their business more consciously than the first
values thoughtful conversation, strategic depth, emotional honesty, and meaningful leadership
knows they need distance from the noise in order to think clearly again
{the rhythm of the experience}
The experience is intentionally designed to balance:
- strategic depth
- spaciousness
- meaningful conversation
- reflection
- and integration
There will be structured working sessions, guided conversations, intentional pauses, and spacious time to think, walk, journal, reflect, or continue discussions organically.
This is not an over-scheduled event. The spaciousness is part of the work.
{investment}
$1,297 USD
Your CEO Planning Days Experience includes:
- 2.5 days of facilitated CEO Planning sessions
- Strategic recalibration and business planning exercises
- Guided leadership and decision-making conversations
- One curated Connection Table dinner experience
- One cultural immersion experience in Valencia
- Spacious time for reflection, integration, and intentional conversation
- Recommended hotel options located near the event experience
Airfare and accommodations are not included.
Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel to Valencia.
{the next level needs more honesty, not more effort}
You are at a stage where the business is functioning, but something about the way you are operating inside it no longer feels fully aligned.
You know the next era of your business requires a different level of leadership, clarity, and discernment.
You know there are decisions that need to be made.
And you are ready to stop postponing the conversations, recalibrations, and decisions that will shape how your business and life move forward from here.
CEO Planning Days
October 19–21, 2026 | Valencia, Spain
A strategic recalibration for established business owners who are ready to build a more JoyFueled™ business and life.
Because the next era of your business should not require abandoning yourself to sustain it.
(We are keeping this intimate with space for only 8 guests.)