3:00 – 4:00 PM  
Welcome to Flourish

An introduction to the framework that will define the next 2 days and the leaders who shaped it. Designed to orient, challenge and set the standard for what is possible.

4:15 – 5:00 PM  
Opening Keynote: Leading with Signal, Not Noise

A leader’s decisions, behaviors, priorities and emotional tone orient an organization far more than stated intentions ever will. This keynote surfaces the gap between what leaders mean to communicate and what their organizations actually receive and the operational implications that follow. 

5:00 – 9:00 PM

Taste of Napa Welcome Event 

An evening on the Vineyard Terrace and Wine Cave at The Meritage Resort — where the summit’s most consequential conversations begin among peers who lead at the same level of complexity.

6:30 AM
Morning Renewal: Optimize Energy, Focus & Cognitive Readiness

A guided vineyard run, sunrise yoga, or quiet personal time — your choice. Designed to clear the mind and set the tone before a full day of high-stakes leadership work.

8:30 – 9:30 AM 

Networking Breakfast

9:45 – 10:30 AM 

Keynote: Building Executive PsyCap

Research shows that a discrete set of psychological resources — Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, and Optimism — directly predicts leadership performance under pressure. This session positions PsyCap as a strategic lever for sustained leadership performance with wellbeing, contributing to enterprise stability.

10:45 – 11:30 AM 

Applied Lab: Activating Your PsyCap

A hands-on leadership lab focused on applying the PsyCap framework to strengthen the internal capabilities that drive external results. Leaders apply evidence-based tools to increase confidence in judgment, adaptive resilience, and strategic optimism—adapted to their leadership context and immediately usable in boardrooms, crisis moments, and enterprise-wide decisions. 

12:00 – 2:00 PM 

Chatham House Lunch: Candid Peer Dialogue guided by a subject matter expert: The Flourishing Leader in Practice

An off-the-record peer conversation focused on the real pressures of senior leadership: talent strain, transformation fatigue, risk exposure, and cultural fragility. Leave with perspective, trusted relationships, and shared strategies for leading at the top – through the lens of your choice among the list of subject matter experts provided.

2:00 – 2:45 PM 

Session: The Flourishing Leader Framework: A New Performance Strategy 

A research-backed framework connecting executive wellbeing to leadership effectiveness and organizational performance. Leaders examine how their own sustained capacity directly shapes decision quality, culture, and enterprise results and what to do about it.

3:00 – 3:45 PM 

Crisis Lab: Leading Through AI Disruption

A live simulation in which executive teams navigate a high-stakes AI disruption scenario under real-time pressure, managing uncertainty, stakeholder tension, and reputational risk as conditions evolve. Designed to surface how PsyCap resources hold up, and where they break down, when it matters most.

6:30 – 8:30 PM 

Executive Dinner: Building Strategic Peer Capital

A dinner designed with the same intention as the summit itself, bringing together leaders whose work intersects in ways they may not yet know. The conversations that begin here tend to outlast the agenda.

8:00 – 9:00 AM 

Breakfast on the Terrace

Breakfast overlooking the Napa Valley vineyards before the summit’s closing sessions.

9:00 – 9:45 AM 

Executive Panel: Measuring What Matters: Organizational Flourishing Outcomes 

The metrics that connect organizational flourishing to business performance are neither soft nor speculative. In this panel senior executives present how they measure the business impact of flourishing to drive — retention, innovation, risk mitigation, and growth.

10:00 – 10:30 AM 

Summit Synthesis: The Blueprint Session

A behind‑the‑scenes look at how FLOURISH was intentionally designed to produce high performance—and a systems‑level blueprint CEOs can apply to build the same conditions for clarity, resilience, and results inside their own organizations.

10:45 – 11:30 AM

Closing Keynote: The Competitive Imperative of Organizational Flourishing 

The compounding effect of psychological capital at the organizational level is measurable, defensible, and largely untapped by the Fortune 500. This closing keynote makes the strategic case for leveraging flourishing as a competitive advantage.

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM 

Closing Exercise: Defining Your Leadership Intent

A reflective close where leaders articulate one concrete leadership commitment they will carry forward—anchored in accountability, peer connection, and long-term enterprise impact.

12:30 – 2:00 PM 

Farewell Lunch Celebration

A final opportunity to deepen connections and leave as part of a trusted leadership community—aligned around building organizations where performance and people mutually reinforce each other.