Navigating Transitions with guest faculty Chip Conley

Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneurship at any Age

Sep 24 - Sep 29, 2024 in Santa Fe, USA

Led by: Chip Conley, Mackey McNeill, Lee Johnson, Robert King

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Clarify Your End Game So You Can Achieve Your Epic Life and Business Goals – Now and in the Future

Most entrepreneurs, when they reach midlife, find themselves doing a lot of thinking about what’s next with their business.

How do you want to grow, maintain, or evolve it in the decades to come, so that it gives you what you need?

What’s your end game – and why?

These are critical questions for you to be considering – especially as you enter midlife.

Because if you’re like most business owners, the majority of your wealth is tied up in your business. You’ve poured your blood, sweat, and tears into building it – and you want to be able to reap the rewards of all your hard work.

But creating your growth strategy and exit plan for your business can be challenging – especially when you’re spending 50-60 hours a week or more and almost all of your energy running it.

That’s why it’s so important to take the time to step away from your business for a few days and do some inspired strategic planning to ensure you achieve your epic goals and enjoy the future you dream of.

In this Navigating Transitions workshop co-facilitated with Chip Conley Inc. 5000 company CEO Mackey McNeill, you will spend a game-changing week exploring your options, identifying possible paths forward, and defining your end game so you can achieve your most important life and business goals.

What You’ll Gain

Through a combination of our MEA Navigating Transitions curriculum and Mackey’s practical results-based framework of activities, you will discover how to:

Grow your financial acumen and better understand how to make strategic decisions that optimize your business performance and results
Plot your epic growth strategy and evolve your business with greater intention by bringing your business into alignment with your long-term goals
Develop a plan and build a dashboard to track essential metrics and keep informed on your results as you chart your journey forward
Cultivate your inner guidance system so you can forecast likely outcomes and make decisions that are more in alignment with your long-term goals
Define the metrics you want to measure to ensure your progress to your goals and make sure they’re fully integrated with your current numbers and systems
Create a business framework that can be shared across your company to accelerate alignment and success

By the end of your five days with Chip and Mackey and the Inc. Magazine team, you will have a clear plan of action for evolving your business to where you want it to go in the years to come – and will be feeling empowered and energized to put it into action.

Meet Your Faculty

Mackey McNeill
Author of The Prosperity Playbook

Mackey Advisors Founder & CEO | Professional Speaker | CPA, PFS

Mackey McNeill has been helping business owners achieve the three freedoms of prosperity – money, time, and mind freedom – for more than 40 years.

As an innovative and forward-thinking entrepreneur, Mackey has experienced most challenges of business ownership first-hand. She grew her CPA firm into one of the largest women-owned businesses in Cincinnati and then continued to evolve it into a triple-bottom-line B Corp business to bring it more into alignment with her deepest values while meeting her primary objective of helping business owners achieve freedom through prosperity.

Mackey is a professional speaker and award-winning, internationally published author. Her books include The Prosperity Playbook: Planning for a Successful Family Business Succession and The Intersection of Joy and Money. She is quoted as a financial expert by major media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Inc., Money, and USA Today.

Chip Conley

MEA Founder and CEO and Former Head of Hospitality & Strategy at AirBNB

Bestselling Author | Entrepreneur | Innovator | Disruptor | Speaker

A three-time TED speaker on the big stage, Chip Conley is 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's 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.

Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a “modern elder” at Airbnb – where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary success – Chip founded MEA and has since dedicated his midlife years to reframing the concept of aging and helping people navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.

This workshop is for you if...

You’re a business owner in midlife who’s beginning to think about your next chapter and exit strategy

You spend so much time and energy running your business that you haven’t created a long-term plan to achieve your ultimate goals

You’re looking for clarity and expert insight into how to prepare a business for sale and get the outcome you desire

You need support in developing a dashboard to track your progress and success

You yearn for greater work-life balance that allows you to take pride in the business you’ve created AND enjoy a rich personal life

You’re ready to develop a more intentional strategy and do what it takes to grow further, better, and faster

Do this powerful work on our beautiful regenerative ranch in Santa Fe

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.

Big-sky desert country
Breathtaking nature
Interaction with horses and donkeys
Evenings around the campfire
Star-gazing

Meet Your MEA Facilitators

In addition to the powerful sessions conducted by Chip and Mackey, you will be guided through the core MEA Navigating Transitions curriculum by our seasoned faculty members:

Lee likes to say that he’s as ordinary as dirt but as complex as soil. He’s resident “cowboy sage” at our campus in Santa Fe, where his love for the simple yet complex hum of nature has led him to work in holistic land management. As steward of our four-square mile regenerative ranch, Lee translates nature’s teachings into simple insights that encourage us to tune into the inner and outer landscape of the world around us.

You will appreciate the opportunity to be in his presence and slow down, listen to nature, and gather around the campfire of shared understanding.

Robert King is a family medicine physician and award-winning ceramic artist with work in private and public collections all over the world. He is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklohoma and lives in Galisteo, New Mexico with his fearless and furry companion, Wilbur.

As an artist, Robert continuously seeks new ways to express himself, utilizing the natural resources found in the surrounding landscape. He describes his body of work as “a love letter to the high desert”. You will appreciate his creative perspective and deep appreciation for the natural environment in which you’ll be doing this soul-empowering work.

It’s time to clarify your path toward wealth and freedom and optimize your business so you can achieve your epic goals.

If you’re working 50 to 60 hours a week and you don’t see an end in sight, now is the time to take five days for yourself and gain the clarity and inspiration you need to define your long-term business plan and the steps you need to take to achieve your big goals for your life. Always remember that your business is meant to support YOUR needs and help YOU flourish – not the other way around!

So if you’re ready to seize the reins of leadership and take control of your future, be sure to join us! This could be the most important investment you make in your business this year.

Are you ready to become your best self as a business owner, leader, and human being?

People come for the workshops,
but they stay for the community

This is truly MEA’s “secret sauce” and something you can only experience in person: the powerful connections you will make, not only with your fellow participants and the incredible MEA faculty, but also the deeper sense of connection you will feel to your own inner self and the natural world around you.

Research into aging shows that your relationships play a HUGE role in your health and wellbeing later in life. At MEA, you will make deep and lasting connections and become part of a larger community that will make your life richer and more meaningful.

Many of our alumni cohorts have stayed in close touch for years after their workshop and we have a growing number of local alumni chapters all over the world. It’s a joy for us to see them continuing to offer each other community, friendship, and support as they create thriving midlives for themselves. So if you have been feeling at all disconnected or isolated on your journey, we would love to have you join us!

Have we mentioned the food?

The MEA experience was designed by Chip Conley, a world-renowned boutique hotelier, and from the first bite you will taste the difference.

All of the ingredients are locally sourced and organic, and the food is made from scratch in our kitchens by incredible chefs.

The delicious breakfasts, lunches and dinners will leave you feeling nourished inside and out – not to mention blended drinks made with fresh fruit and other top-shelf ingredients.

Each retreat center has multiple kitchens that always have snacks and beverages available. At MEA, we believe that thriving is delicious!

Your workshop includes

5 days and nights of lodging at our boutique luxury retreat center in Baja or Santa Fe with all of your meals, snacks, drinks and other amenities included
Daily sessions and experiential activities to help you connect with your inner self, envision your desired experience, and release what no longer serves you
Meditation covering a range of practices to soothe your nervous system and help you cultivate greater mindfulness and presence in the moment.
Movement to get the energy flowing and build your strength and agility as you chart your course forward to the life you want to live.
Incredible bonding experiences with the most amazing humans you’ll ever meet.
Three delicious, chef-prepared meals plus snacks throughout the day prepared from scratch with the freshest local ingredients.
Festive gatherings to cultivate connection and celebrate the joy and beauty of life.
Prices start at $4,500

Ready to start your journey?