2025 SREC Spring Retreat
Wednesday Evening, April 30
6:00 – 6:45pm | Cocktails
6:45pm | Welcome Dinner at Bishop’s Lodge
Thursday, May 1
Bishop’s Lodge
8:00 – 9:00am | Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45am | Building an Enduring (RE) Business | Discussants Ken Woolley (MBA ’71, PhD ’72) and Andy Richard (’91)
9:45 – 10:30am | A Partnership Born of the SREC | Discussants Dave Butler (’96) and John Griggs (’95)
10:30 – 11:30am | Leading in the Here and Now (with an Eye to the Future) – SREC Roundtable Discussion | Moderators Julia Boyd Corso (MBA ’05) and Patricio Gutierrez Tommasi (MS ’99)
11:45am – 12:45pm | Lunch at Bishop’s Lodge
1:00pm | Leave for Modern Elder Academy (MEA)
MEA
1:30 - 2:15pm | Arrival and Tour of Rising Circle Ranch by MEA Staff
2:15 - 4:45pm | Why Your Best Years Are Ahead of You with Chip Conley (’82, MBA ’84)
Chip Conley founded and was CEO of the second largest boutique hotel company in the U.S., but after running it for nearly two-dozen years, he felt stuck and saw his personal, emotional, physical, and business life all fall apart in his late 40s. At the time, he considered it might be a "midlife crisis," but he's come to believe it was a "midlife chrysalis," a time of deep transformation, because his next fifteen years after selling his company to the Pritzkers and Hyatt have been the best of his life. Chip went on to become the "modern elder" to the young founders of Airbnb and create the world's first midlife wisdom school, the Modern Elder Academy (MEA), with a beachfront campus in Baja and a four-square-mile regenerative horse ranch campus in Santa Fe. Tapping into some of MEA's well-known guest faculty content - from Christian mystic Richard Rohr to Blue Zones' Dan Buettner to author Elizabeth Gilbert - Chip will offer an afternoon of learning that will help us reframe our relationship with aging, purpose, and wisdom.
4:45 - 6:15pm | MEA Curated Ranch Experiences
(Choose one)
Ridge Top Rally (1.5hours - by sign up)
Equine Meet and Greet (1hour - by sign up)
Relax Poolside at Wisdom Well
6:15 - 7:00pm | Poolside Cocktails with Chip Conley
7:00 - 8:30pm | Gourmet Dinner and Drinks with Chip Conley
Friday Morning, May 2
Bishop’s Lodge
Morning | Various Unscheduled Onsite Activities
Please note that you will be billed separately for resort meals and activities.
