Three days on the mountain.
Ninety days of measured change.
Leadership expeditions in the world's most extraordinary terrain, with a baseline before you arrive and a report your CFO can read after. Twelve seats per departure.
The patterns that limit a leader rarely surface in a conference room.
They surface under real stakes, in the body, where you can't think your way out. The expedition puts your leaders in that crucible, then turns what surfaces into a measured development plan. The climb is the mechanism. Leadership is the point.
The Baseline
Each leader completes an intake, goal-setting, and a baseline read on the CoachFinder platform, so the work is targeted to their real challenge before they arrive.
The Immersion
A full day in serious terrain with certified guides at a 1:4 ratio, built for first-timers, with leadership facilitation woven throughout. Then a working session translating what surfaced into the challenge each leader brought.
The Ninety Days
A written 90-day plan, peer accountability partners, and continued platform access for each leader and their team, with competency shifts measured at 30, 60, and 90 days.
Most retreats end at the airport. Ours begins with a baseline.
Every expedition runs on the CoachFinder measurement layer, so the transformation is something you can show, not just describe.
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Baseline before arrival
Custom assessments establish where each leader stands, mapped to the instruments your organization already uses.
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Tracked at 30, 60, and 90 days
Competency shifts measured on-platform after the expedition, for each leader and their team.
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A report the CFO can read
Behavior change and ROI in the language of the boardroom, so L&D spend is defended with evidence rather than anecdotes.
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Platform access included
Ninety days to six months of CoachFinder access follows every seat, extending the work well past the mountain.
Featuring Leadership Ascent.
The inaugural expedition features Leadership Ascent, an established experiential leadership program created and led by Martina Felderman, PhD, PCC, and hosted on the CoachFinder platform.
Martina Felderman, PhD, PCC
Creator of Leadership Ascent · Executive Coach
Martina brings a rare combination to the mountain: fifteen years in the life sciences, operating experience as the chief operating officer of a biotech startup, and a doctorate in molecular biology, paired with two decades on rock.
Her Leadership Ascent methodology uses the climb as a precision instrument. How a leader moves under uncertainty on the wall is how they move under uncertainty in the boardroom, and she reads both. What surfaces in the morning becomes the working material of the afternoon.
Formerly a Core Guide and Executive Coach at Chief.
“The key is to start, trust the process, and keep moving forward. Just like in leadership, you don’t need the entire path mapped out before you begin.”
Bhargav Shah · CIO · Leadership Ascent
“Once I trusted and followed the guidance, I gained confidence and tried harder, and could climb higher because someone had my back. The same goes for leadership.”
Ben Shiramba · Leadership Ascent
“Everyone bravely stepped out of their comfort zones, achieving 100% participation, an inspiring testament to what the team could do together.”
Nozer Damania · Sr. Engineering Manager · Leadership Ascent
Twelve seats. The world’s most beautiful terrain.
One departure is open now. For the rest, register interest and we’ll bring you the details first, before dates are announced publicly.
Canyon trekking and red-rock scrambling in the best light of the desert year. A departure about recovery as a discipline: what depleted leaders rebuild first, and how they protect it afterward.
Sea cliffs, redwood ridgelines, and the Ventana backcountry in the quiet season. The work is presence: attention as a leadership instrument, practiced where the land demands it.
High-desert climbing in the Sangre de Cristo foothills, with Santa Fe’s studio culture in the evenings. A departure about perspective: stepping far enough back to see the whole board.
An alpine ascent in the Tetons at the height of June. Rope teams make trust literal: who you rely on, how you delegate, and what your team feels when you do.
Glacier country beneath the Matterhorn, with Alpine guiding at its most exacting. The focus is precision: preparation, checklists, and the discipline that makes bold moves safe.
Alpine granite in the Elk Mountains in high summer. The subject is energy: how leaders manage their own, and what burnout costs a team before anyone names it.
Sierra granite above the lake in early autumn. A departure on sustainable performance: pace, recovery, and building a leadership practice that holds for decades.
Desert towers and canyon country. Exposure is the teacher here: how leaders read risk, take it deliberately, and hold steady in consequence.
The Kumano pilgrimage routes and the temple mountains of Kansai in autumn color. A walking departure about the long view: institutions, patience, and decisions measured in decades.
The Southern Alps in the southern summer. A departure for leaders mid-reinvention: new markets, new mandates, second acts.
Torres del Paine at the end of the season, with the weather deciding the day. Leading through uncertainty, practiced in the most honest classroom on earth.
Andean trails, via ferrata, and altitude above the Urubamba. The lesson is perseverance: acclimatize, pace yourself, summit.
Arctic granite above the fjords, under a sun that never sets. Clarity is the theme: unbroken light, few distractions, and only the essential questions.
Alpine rock in the Canadian Rockies at full scale. A departure about ambition: sizing the objective honestly, then committing.
Via ferrata in Alta Badia, the whole team on the same cable. Interdependence made physical: how strong teams actually hold together.
Sandstone towers crowned with six-hundred-year-old monasteries. A departure on judgment: stillness, discernment, and choosing what not to do.
Further destinations under scout. Departures from $8,500 per seat, all-inclusive from the gateway city.
All of it, handled.
The climb
Certified guides at a 1:4 ratio, in terrain chosen for beauty and built for first-timers.
The faculty
Leadership facilitation woven through the immersion, and a working session on the challenge each leader brought.
The measurement
Baseline, 90-day plan, and competency tracking at 30, 60, and 90 days, on-platform.
The film
Professional cinematography of the expedition, for the memory and for the marketing team.
The table
Exceptional lodging and food. The conversations that matter tend to happen at dinner.
The network
Eleven other leaders who climbed the same wall. Relationships that outlast the ninety days.
The same expedition, exclusively yours.
Bring your executive team and we close the departure to the world: the mountain, the faculty, the film crew, and the measurement layer, arranged around your leaders and the challenges they're actually carrying.
Choose any destination on the calendar, or brief us and we'll scout one for you.
"The retreat puts your leaders in the crucible for a day, then turns what surfaces into a measured, ninety-day development plan."
FOR EXECUTIVE TEAMS · SENIOR LEADERSHIP OFFSITES · BOARD RETREATS
Return every year.
A founding membership opens with the inaugural cohort, for leaders who intend to make the expedition an annual practice.
Extended by invitation, following your first expedition.