Executive offsite design, delivered in 48 hours
Executive offsite design is the work of turning a leadership meeting into a session that reaches a decision: the sequence, the timings, the questions, and the plan for the moments most likely to derail it. We design the offsite and you lead it, which keeps the authorship and the relationship with you rather than an outside facilitator. Fixed prices start at $995 and the completed design arrives within 48 hours of a twenty-minute intake call.
From $995. Delivered 48 hours after the intake call. One revision included.
The real problem
Senior rooms fail in predictable ways
An executive offsite has a particular failure mode. Everyone in the room is senior, articulate, and used to being right. The loudest commercial voice sets the frame in the first ten minutes, and everything afterwards is a negotiation with that frame rather than an examination of the question.
The second failure is arithmetic. Fourteen items and a ninety-minute slot is not a decision process, it is a queue. The decision gets made at 4:45pm by whoever has the most energy left, and it comes apart by email the following week.
The third is the one nobody writes down: the person running the day often has a stake in the outcome. Their project, their budget, their team. Unmanaged, that stake quietly invalidates the result for everyone who noticed it.
What we design against
The design decisions that actually change the outcome
Where the decision sits in the day. A contested choice placed after lunch on a full day will not hold, and no amount of good facilitation rescues it. We place the hard work where the room still has capacity for it.
How divergence is structured. In a room with a wide seniority range, open discussion is not participation, it is a microphone for the three most confident people. Written-first and small-group formats are not a stylistic preference, they are how the quiet objection surfaces before it becomes passive resistance.
What happens when the leader has a stake. If you own something on the table, the design includes the disclosure moment, who takes the room during your items, and how you recuse yourself from scoring. It is handled openly, in the plan, rather than hoped away.
What the day produces on paper. A decision that exists only in the conversation did not happen. Every offsite we design ends with a tangible artifact and named ownership.
Why not an external facilitator
You keep the room
Hiring a facilitator for your own leadership offsite communicates something to your team before the session starts. It says the person who called the meeting could not run it.
The expertise you are buying is in the design, not the delivery. Knowing that the groan zone needs protecting, that consensus theatre is worse than a clear decision rule, and that the quietest person is the risk. All of that happens before anyone walks into the room.
You lead the session. Your team watches you run a day that works, and the credit stays where it belongs.
Pricing
Published, fixed, and the same for everyone
You should be able to decide without a sales call.
Single Objective
One session, one decision.
$995
Fixed. One revision included.
For the meeting that has to produce one clear outcome. A single objective, a room that has to agree, and no time to recover if the first activity does not land.
- Diagnostic call and written brief of what the session must achieve
- Minute-by-minute agenda with timings and transitions
- Facilitator scripts, worded for your room
- Contingency branches for the moments most likely to go wrong
- One-page control sheet to hold while you run it
- Outcomes review after the session
Designed for a session of up to two hours.
Workshop Day
A full working day, designed end to end.
$1,495
Fixed. One revision included.
For the offsite or away day where several things have to happen in sequence, and where losing the room after lunch costs you the afternoon.
- Everything in Single Objective
- Full-day arc with energy management across the whole session
- Break and transition design, including the post-lunch recovery
- Group formation guidance for every activity
- Materials and room setup checklist
- Contingency branches for each block, named to your people
Designed for a half day or full day, including breaks and energy management.
High-Stakes
When the session carries real consequence.
From $2,995
Quoted after a fit-check call.
For the decision that will be relitigated if it goes badly. Restructures, portfolio cuts, merger integration, and any room where the person leading it has a stake in the outcome.
- Everything in Workshop Day
- Stakeholder mapping across official, individual, and unspoken objectives
- Neutrality design when the person leading has a stake in the outcome
- Escalation branches for conflict, dominance, and withdrawal
- Multi-day arc design where the work spans sessions
- Rehearsal call included
Multi-day programs, board-level sessions, and rooms with known conflict.
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