In-person
By application

Make BIG Happen
Summit

Three days in Miami with C-suite leaders who are building, scaling, and exiting real companies, and the coaches who have done it themselves. You leave with a plan for 2030 and the moves to start the Monday you get back.

Inside the 2026 Summit · 2 minutes
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“What does your business need to become by 2030, and what are you doing in the next 12 months to get there?”

You’ll leave with your answer, pressure-tested.

Built for CEOs and senior leaders of high-growth companies, their key executives, and the operators they trust.

The return on the room

Why CEOs clear three days for this.

01

Put yourself where luck finds you.

The right room changes your year. The seatmate who solved your exact problem, the operator who made the call you are facing now, the introduction that becomes your next partner. You cannot schedule that. You can put yourself where it happens.

02

AI you can actually use.

No hype and no theory. CEOs show what they deployed, what it cost, what it returned, and what they would do differently. You leave with moves your team can start on.

03

Work on your company while you are here.

The breakouts are working sessions. You apply the frameworks to your own business in the room and leave with the outputs, not a notebook of good intentions.

04

It does not end when you fly home.

The 45-day execution program keeps the plan moving after Miami, with implementation sessions and coach-led accountability built in.

Featured speakers

Operators with a story worth studying.

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What attendees say

In their words.

Sarah Dusek

“I attended the Summit stuck on my growth strategy. One conversation in a peer roundtable gave me the breakthrough insight I needed. Eighteen months later: $100M exit. These events are extraordinary. You’ll meet incredible people, gain mind-blowing insights, and hopefully have the aha moment that changes your life.”

Sarah Dusek

Investor & Co-Founder, Enygma Ventures · Co-Founder & CEO, Few and Far · Co-Founder, Under Canvas

Marty Metro

“After 30 years of attending conferences, this was the best content and best-run event I’ve ever seen. The level of actionable insight and the quality of connections made it immediately valuable.”

Marty Metro

Founder & CEO, UCB Environmental

Damian Lang

“You will not get this level of education anywhere else. The speakers are real, experienced, and bring actionable insights you can implement immediately.”

Damian Lang

CEO, Watertown Enterprises

CEOs connecting at an oceanfront Summit reception
Summit attendees in conversation on the terrace
CEOs sharing a conversation at the Summit reception

Summit highlights

Come for the inspiration. Leave with the plan.

Every session ends with something you take home and use. That is the standard the agenda was built to.

“What does my business need to become by 2030, and what am I doing in the next 12 months to get there?”

The Summit question

Three days, built so you leave with a plan, not a notebook of quotes.

Attendees arriving beneath the Make BIG Happen entrance
Days 1-3

The Room You Can't Hire

Small facilitated groups the first night, dinners hosted by your coach, and conversations that keep going between every session. Deals have started at these tables. So have partnerships, key hires, and friendships that outlast any agenda. You arrive a stranger to almost everyone and leave with a network that answers the phone.

You leave with

Peers who know your real story, and the crew that holds you to your number after Miami.

Two operators sharing the Summit mainstage
Mainstage

Inspiration With Receipts

Operators, authors, and champions on the mainstage sharing what they built, what it cost, and what they know now. Business wisdom from people who have done it, delivered with the energy of a room full of CEOs who came to get better.

You leave with

The push to think bigger, from people who earned the right to say it.

An operator presenting from the Summit mainstage
Day 2

The AI Decade

A full day of operators on stage with their own numbers. What they deployed, what it cost, what it returned, and what they would skip if they were starting over. Bring your CFO’s skepticism.

You leave with

AI moves your team can start on Monday, with proof behind them.

CEOs working together in a Summit breakout
Day 2

Breakout Rounds

You pick the rooms. Some are expert-led deep dives, some are working discussions, and all are built for take-home value on one topic at a time: pricing power, AI, the exit, the team. Small rooms, real conversation, no spectators.

You leave with

Tactics and frameworks you can hand your team.

A Summit mainstage session viewed from the audience
Day 3

The 2030 Playbook

The final morning turns three days of notes into one page: the targets, the moves, and the dates. You present it, the room pressure-tests it, and your coach signs you up to it.

You leave with

Your 2030 plan on paper, with witnesses.

The partners

The people who solve the problem you brought with you.

Our Diamond Strategic Partners are at the Summit all three days: specialists in capital, talent, technology, exits, and operations, already vetted by the firm and working with our clients. Whatever is slowing your business down, someone in this room has solved it before.

Summit attendees greeting each other at a reception
CEOs in conversation over an outdoor Summit meal
Summit attendees connecting over dinner

The breakouts

Pick your rooms. Do the work.

Big stages inspire. Small rooms change companies. Every breakout is capped for real conversation, led by an operator who has done it, and closes with one input for your 2030 plan. Example topics from this year’s program:

AI Deployment and ROI

Where AI actually pays. The deployments earning their keep right now, with the numbers and the operators who ran them.

Growing Sales in an Uncertain Market

Your growth bets, ranked. Lead generation, sales acceleration, and pricing power, weighed against each other so you know which lever gets your next dollar.

Building to Sell: The Exit Playbook

See your company through a buyer’s eyes. What they pay premiums for, what they discount, and what to change while there is still time to change it.

Becoming a More Impactful Leader

The conversation you have been avoiding. Presence, hard conversations, and the beliefs quietly capping the business.

The final breakout lineup is announced ahead of the Summit.

The agenda

Three days at a glance.

Wednesday, April 28

4:00 PM

Registration Opens

5:00-7:00 PM

Networking Cocktail Reception

Thursday, April 29

8:00 AM

Group Breakfast

9:00 AM

Opening Session

10:00 AM

Keynote Speaker

12:30 PM

Networking Lunch

2:00-5:00 PM

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

7:00-10:00 PM

Cocktail Reception and Dinner

Friday, April 30

8:00 AM

Group Breakfast

9:00 AM

Opening Session

10:00 AM

Morning Breakout Session

12:00 PM

Keynote Speaker

1:30 PM

Meeting Concludes

Tentative agenda, times subject to change.

CEOs engaged in a Summit working session
Summit attendees focused on a mainstage presentation
A featured operator in conversation on the Summit stage
An evening performance at the Summit

After Miami

You arrive with a question. You leave with a plan.

Three days in Miami turn the 2030 question into your written answer: a one-page plan with targets, moves, and dates, pressure-tested by a table of peers who heard you commit to it. Then the Summit follows you home. Over the next 45 days, structured execution touchpoints turn the plan into motion, so the event ends when the work is underway, not when the room empties.

Day 0

Leave with your plan

The work you did in the room, in hand before you fly home.

Week 1-2

Momentum check-ins

Early touchpoints to turn intent into first moves.

Week 3-5

Execution sessions

Working time on the priorities that matter most to your plan.

Day 45

Accountability touchpoint

A look at what moved, what stalled, and what comes next.

Program details are being finalized and will be shared ahead of the Summit.

Champagne prepared for a Summit reception
An outdoor Summit dinner setting
The outdoor firepit lounge prepared for Summit guests
A fresh food display prepared for Summit attendees

Agenda in development for the 2027 Summit. Sessions, speakers and timings are subject to change as the program is finalized.

By application

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The Summit is by application. Clients are confirmed first, and a limited number of invitations are extended beyond the client community.

April 28-30, 2027 · Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL

The room is deliberately small. Every request is reviewed, and a real person will come back to you personally.

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