Sustain Focus on What Matters Most. Secure the Energy that Allows You To Lead At Your Best. Build Trust at Scale and Turn Momentum into Agency.
The Winning Balance Retreat®
Step outside
your own
echo chamber.
Paradise Valley, Arizona · September 15-18, 2026
Organizations don’t outperform their leaders. They reflect them. Your focus defines what matters, your energy determines what happens. Sustaining both is the greatest challenge in leadership. It requires constant engagement and the discipline to stay on top of your game.
Exclusive pilot designed for just 6–9 Peers across industries
FORMAT
Residential, 4 days
COHORT SIZE
Nine participants
EDITION
Executive - 2026
METHODOLOGY
No keynote speakers.
No conference programming.
No passive consumption.
A structured environment that gives you something most leaders don’t have enough of: uninterrupted time to think, reflect, and engage in focused, high-quality exchange.
Take home One Idea that materially changes how you lead or how your organization operates. Not ten takeaways. One that sticks and translates into action.
We use cutting edge frameworks such as Immunity to Change to surface where you and your organization unintentionally hold yourselves back, and HBDI to sharpen awareness of how you think, decide, and react under pressure. These are applied directly to your context, in real time, through discussion and reflection.
The format is deliberately tight. All sessions run in a 3-to-1 setup, three leaders with one coach. That ensures depth, direct relevance, and real conversations.
This only works with the right people in the room. That is why we limit the group to six to nine senior leaders across industries. We are selective by design. The group is not a detail of the experience, it is the experience.
MEET YOUR COACHES
Dirk H. Horn is the founder and CEO of mab Partners, a boutique firm that has guided industrial, automotive, and food-industry clients through strategy, growth, turnarounds, and leadership transformation for decades. He is the author of The Winning Balance: Building Customer Trust at Scale and host of the podcast The Pitch and The Catch, where he explores leadership, risk, and purpose with top executives.
Daryn Walters is the former President of Exmark Manufacturing and a senior leader at The Toro Company. With deep operational expertise and a recent transition into “the real work” beyond the corporate role, Daryn brings grounded, battle-tested perspective on sustaining performance while redefining success.