Cultivating Purpose with guest faculty Jerry Colonna
Reboot: Leadership & the Art of Growing Up
Sep 29 - Oct 4, 2024 in Santa Fe, USA Led by: Jerry Colonna, Chip Conley, Darby Rose, Lee Johnson
The Secret to Becoming a Better Leader, Impact-Maker and Human Being
If you’re in your 40s or older and have achieved some measure of success in your life, you have an enormous amount of power.
Through your lived experience and your accumulated skills and insights, you have so much value to offer the world. And if you happen to be white, cisgender, or straight, and middle-class or wealthier, you have an incredible amount of social influence as well.
So, how are you going to use that power during this next stage of your life?
And who do you need to become to make the kind of impact you hope to have on the world?
Exploring the answers to these questions is the key to “growing up” and taking more conscious charge of your life so you can evolve into the kind of legacy-building leader you know you can be.
In this Cultivating Purpose workshop co-facilitated with REBOOT: The Art of Growing Up author Jerry Colonna and Chip Conley, you will embark on a journey of radical self-inquiry that will deepen your relationship with yourself and others – and empower you to make a bigger impact in the world.
What You’ll Gain
Through a combination of our MEA Cultivating Purpose curriculum and Jerry’s process of self-exploration involving a blend of Buddhism, Jungian therapy, and entrepreneurial straight talk, you will:
By the end of your five days with Jerry and Chip and the MEA faculty, you will have powerful clarity into the gifts you have to share and the steps you can take to accelerate your evolution into the legacy-builder you know you can be.
Meet Your Faculty
Jerry Colonna
Leadership Coach & Author
Founder of REBOOT Coaching | Former Venture Capitalist | “CEO Whisperer”
Jerry Colonna is an author and executive coach whose unique blend of Buddhism, Jungian therapy, and entrepreneurial know-how has made him a sought-after coach. He has worked with leaders of some of the biggest firms in the country, including Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson, Soundcloud CEO Alexander Ljung, and WME Ventures managing partner, Beth Ferreira.
Jerry is author of two books: REBOOT: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up and REUNION: Leadership and the Longing to Belong. In his work as a coach, he draws on his experience in venture capital as co-founder of Flatiron Partners, one of the most successful, early-stage investment programs.
Jerry is dedicated to helping people lead with humanity and equanimity and do the challenging work of growing up, so they can become the inspiring and impactful legacy-builders they have the potential to be.
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
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 been 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 supporting people in navigating midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.
What Jerry’s workshop participants have to say...
"At SoundCloud we refer to Jerry as Yoda he's not only helped me develop personally as a CEO, but we've been fortunate enough to have him coach, develop, and inspire large parts of the SoundCloud leadership team. His impact on our entire company is deep and remarkable."
Alexander Ljung
CEO of SoundCloud
"Jerry, when he was my co-founder at Flatiron, taught me the peoples side of the venture capital business. And now as CEO coach to a number of USV portfolio CEOs (and many others), he is teaching the people side of the startup business to some of the best entrepreneurs we work with. He is a people person through and through and management is all about people."
Fred Wilson
Union Square Ventures
"Jerry Colonna is the best CEO coach I’ve ever met or worked with."
Brad Fald
Foundry Group
This workshop is for you if...
You’re a leader who’s looking for guidance in growing both personally and professionally
You’ve hit a plateau and have found yourself wondering, “Is this all there is?”
You have come to the end of a significant chapter in your life and are looking for your next “big thing”
You’re seeking deeper clarity into who you are what the work you’re meant to be doing in the world
You’re ready for something new and eager to evolve into the next impactful iteration of yourself as leader and human being
You’re committed to taking conscious charge of your life and aligning your actions with your values and the impact you want to make in the world
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.
Meet Your MEA Facilitators
In addition to the powerful sessions conducted by Jerry and Chip, you will be guided through the core MEA Cultivating Purpose curriculum by our seasoned faculty members:
Darby Rose
Experience Facilitator
Darby Rose is a multidisciplinary artist, arts administrator, cook, actor and animal lover, currently living in Santa Fe, NM. Born into a family of travelers in Austin, TX, she’s lived more places than she can count — all over Texas, Boston, Jackson WY, Baltimore and Los Angeles, to name a few; and outside the US in Peru and Italy. After a long stint in Marfa, TX, the vast, mountainous horizons and monsoons of New Mexico captured her. This travelers life has built in Darby a deep curiosity and compassion for others, and a gratitude for the beautiful complexities of the human condition, with its myriad expressions of love, humor, struggle and strength.
Lee Johnson
Land, Livestock, and Mindfulness
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.
“Growing up” is a lifelong process of transformation
It doesn’t stop when you reach a certain age or attain a certain pinnacle of success.
The whole point of life is to continue learning and evolving, as you let go of what no longer serves you and embrace the growth-focused mindset and behaviors that will help you become your best self and have the kind of impact you want to make in this stage of life.
And what got you to where you are now isn’t what’s going to get you to where you want to be.
So if you’re ready to look at the world with a new pair of glasses and step into a new position of leadership and impact, be sure to join Jerry and Chip for this radically transformative experience.
