A 3-day Business Workshop with Chip Conley
Wisdom at Work:
How to Become an Impactful Modern Elder
Mar 20 - Mar 23, 2025 in Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Chip Conley, Sarah Byrden
Hone your ability to adapt, thrive, and make a meaningful impact in a rapidly changing business landscape
For the first time ever, we have five generations together in the workplace: the silent generation, baby boomers, Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z.
Knowing how to communicate and collaborate effectively with diverse generations is crucial for making a meaningful impact and providing real value to your organization.
That’s why, if you want to hone your leadership skills and make a more valuable contribution to your team, it’s important to understand how to take on the role of a “Modern Elder” at work and combine your wisdom and experience with a growth-focused beginner’s mindset that allows you to adapt, evolve, and thrive in our constantly changing world.
By cultivating curiosity, learning how to ask better questions, and honing your emotional intelligence and mentorship skills, you can inspire a higher level of collaboration, innovation, and growth and make yourself invaluable to your organization.
In this three-day workshop with MEA co-founder Chip Conley, author of Wisdom of Work: The Making of a Modern Elder, you will learn how to step into your role as a Modern Elder and leverage curiosity, continuous learning, and synthesized wisdom to make a meaningful impact and elevate your organization’s performance and results.
What you’ll gain
Through Chip’s experiential activities and evidence-based training, you will discover how to:
You will leave the workshop equipped with a clear vision and next steps to step into your role as a Modern Elder, make a more meaningful impact, and help boost performance across your team or organization.
Boost your transformation by bundling this workshop with Chip’s 3-day PEAK: Boost Your Company’s Mojo with Maslow workshop on March 17-20 and save $2,200! Info below.
Meet your faculty
Chip Conley
MEA Co-Founder and Author of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
Bestselling Author | Entrepreneur | Innovator | Disruptor | Speaker
Chip Conley is a three-time TED speaker on the big stage and one of the world's leading experts at the intersection of business innovation, psychology, and spirituality.
As one of the creators of the boutique hotel movement and the "modern elder" to the young Airbnb founders, Chip is a disruptor and expert on entrepreneurship and business leadership. He’s a globally-recognized thought leader on the future of work and the competitive advantages of a multi-generational workplace, and serves on the board of Encore.org and the advisory board for the Stanford Center for Longevity.
Chip was inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a “modern elder” at Airbnb – where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary success – to found his latest company, MEA (Modern Elder Academy). He is now on a mission to disrupt the aging industry by giving people the tools they need to thrive in midlife and beyond and create long, healthy, purposeful lives for themselves.
He and his team are dedicated to providing transformative growth experiences in breathtaking natural environments that inspire people to become their best selves.
Reviews for Chip’s book:
Wisdom At Work: The Making of a Modern Elder
Being smart comes from studying or understanding complex things, yet wisdom is something deeper. We don’t become wise simply because we get old, wisdom is something we must actively cultivate in order to accumulate. Every one of us should learn what it takes to gain wisdom, and Chip Conley is the wise guide for our journey.
Simon Sinek
Optimist and Best Selling Author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last
This is ultimately a book about how we can develop deeper connections, disrupt how we think about teaching and learning, and make more meaningful contributions in our lives and our careers. With stories, questions, and strategies, Chip shares his heart and wisdom on every page. This is exactly what we need right now!
Brené Brown, Ph.D.
LMSW, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Braving the Wilderness
An engaging, timely exploration of how to bring more wisdom into our work lives. Chip Conley has lived it, and here he teaches you what it takes to find more of it.
Adam Grant
New York Times bestselling author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg
Chip Conley embodies the generosity, insight and spirit of an elder. He understands that it's not an age, it's a state of mind, and he shares his wisdom here with all of us. Precisely the sort of long-game thinking we need today.
Seth Godin
Co-author, Business Rules of Thumb
I love the idea that society needs more Modern Elders who offer generosity without an agenda. Chip Conley's articulation of the growing need of wisdom and emotional intelligence in a world obsessed with speed and digital intelligence is spot-on! Every young company could use some 'wisdom insurance'.
Marshall Goldsmith
Thinkers 50 World’s #1 Executive Coach, #6 Most Influential Business Thinker 2017
Wisdom at Work beautifully illustrates the opportunity that each of us has to embark on an encore career. Bravo to Chip Conley for writing this timely and inspiring book. Having begun my third chapter at the age of 60, I can attest that this is the most productive and rewarding time of my life. Applying one’s knowledge and passion in the service of missions larger than ourselves is the greatest gift of being a Perennial.
Sherry Lansing
Founder & CEO, the Sherry Lansing Foundation, Former Chairman & CEO, Paramount Pictures
In an era in which a brilliant idea or even gut instinct seems to be celebrated as success, Chip Conley’s book is a great reminder that wisdom, including analysis, hard work, patience and the like, is still essential.
Arne Sorenson
President and CEO, Marriott International
This transformational leadership workshop is for you if…
You are in (or approaching) midlife and seeking to harness your wisdom and experience to make a more meaningful impact at work
You’re ready to embrace the role of a Modern Elder and be recognized as a valuable resource in your organization
You want to communicate more effectively with colleagues across generations and foster a more collaborative work environment
You’re eager to share your experience while also learning from younger team members and honing your ability to adapt to change
You are eager to develop mentorship skills that empower others and enhance team dynamics
You desire to create a workplace culture that values wisdom and encourages continuous growth
Santa Fe, USA
Rising Circle Ranch
An upscale regenerative ranch featuring traditional Pueblo architecture and spanning nearly 2,600 acres of wildlife, hiking trails in the arroyo, with ancient petroglyphs, and awe-inspiring beauty. Close to historic Santa Fe, an artisan’s mecca.
The World Needs Your Wisdom – And Your Ability to Learn, Adapt, and Evolve
By synthesizing your wisdom with an open-minded curiosity-driven mindset, you unlock the potential for more effective collaboration, innovation, and growth. You will become a better mentor and leader and help to foster an inclusive work environment that promotes engagement and delivers better results for your organization.
Are you ready to step into your role as Modern Elder and make a more valuable contribution by sharing your wisdom and insight with others?
OR YOU CAN TAKE IT EVEN FURTHER...
and turn your 3-day skills upgrade into a powerful 6-day transformation
When you come to Santa Fe for this valuable experience, do yourself the favor of showing up a few days early for Chip’s PEAK: Boost Your Company’s Mojo with Maslow workshop that’s happening immediately before on March 17-20 – and discover how to better meet and surpass your key stakeholders’ needs and desires.
Join Chip for PEAK and discover how to:
Speak to your stakeholders’ deepest desires to inspire high levels of connection and commitment
Give your employees, customers, and investors what they need to survive, succeed, and transform
Foster authentic community and connection within your organization to boost motivation and elevate performance and profitability
Learn how to meet your customers’ unrecognized needs and inspire them to become outspoken evangelists for your company
Instill trust, confidence, and pride of ownership in your investors to ensure their continued belief in your mission
You will leave the workshop equipped with a clear vision and next steps to boost performance across your team or organization – along with the renewed energy and motivation to make your vision a reality.
Each of these 3-day workshops start at $3,600… but you can attend both for just $5,000 when you register today.
