Key Executive Mastery Program

An immersive Program Designed For Entrepreneurial Companies

OCTOBER 5-8, 2025
Registration begins at 5 p.m. on the 5th,
with departure by 11 a.m. on the 8th.


MIT Endicott House near Boston

Take your leadership team to the top with a transformative learning experience.

The Key Executive Mastery Program is created to bring entrepreneurs and their core leaders together for learning and growth. In a beautiful venue, away from the distractions of daily life, you’ll learn together from expert speakers. This is more than great content – you’ll map out how to apply the learning in your company and take action. Join us to strengthen your business and reach new heights.

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World-Class Workshops

Your executive team will dive into strategic learning and discussions, guided by expert speakers. Each person brings a wealth of experience and a unique perspective on leadership, influence, and innovation. 

This year’s speakers include:

AI Beyond The Hype–Digital Marketing Workshop

Ethan King

Ethan King is a global keynote speaker, bestselling author, and award-winning entrepreneur known for transforming how leaders harness AI, creativity, and automation.

In his digital marketing workshop, AI Beyond The Hype: Real-World Strategies To Amplify Your Brand with AI, Automation, and Storytelling, Ethan cuts through the buzz to deliver practical, real-time strategies that drive measurable results. Attendees will explore how to integrate cutting-edge AI tools, storytelling techniques, and automation systems to elevate their brand's presence and performance. Whether you're an entrepreneur, marketer, or organizational leader, this session offers a transformative experience—designed to unlock new levels of innovation, simplify growth, and future-proof your business in today’s fast-evolving digital landscape.

Sales Culture: is yours by design or default?

Morne Smit

Morné Smit is a globally recognized sales strategist, award-winning CEO, and former national-level rugby player who brings a rare blend of discipline, grit, and proven results to sales leadership. As the founder of Emerse Group—named Best Sales Training & Development Company in the U.S.—he’s helped teams across 60 industries and four continents scale with systems that work.

In his keynote, Morné shares the frameworks and tools behind high-performing sales teams. He dives into practical strategies for hiring, developing, and managing talent, creating playbooks and processes, and fostering a culture of accountability and recognition. Drawing from real-world experience and sports leadership principles, Morné equips attendees with actionable insights to recruit like pros, coach with purpose, and build a sales function that scales.

pursuing a life well lived: discover the boundless approach

Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey is a serial entrepreneur, founder of Petra Coach, and the visionary behind the Boundless movement. Grounded in the belief that we should Think Big, Be Grateful, and Love Hard, Andy continues to lead by example, helping others align their lives with intention and impact.

In his keynote, The Boundless Approach: From Trying to Doing, Andy introduces a proven framework for breaking free from the cycle of busyness and stepping into focused, purpose-driven action. This interactive session helps leaders and teams identify areas of misalignment, clarify their goals, and build a roadmap to sustainable success—both professionally and personally. Andy equips attendees to scale their results with less stress and more clarity. It’s not just about thinking differently—it’s about doing what matters, consistently.

Accounting doesn't have to suck!

Spencer Sheinin

Spencer Sheinin is a CPA with 25 years of experience and a seasoned entrepreneur who has owned businesses in manufacturing, construction, real estate, and financial services. As the founder and CEO of Shift Financial Insights, he’s on a mission to simplify accounting by delivering clear, actionable financial insights to growing businesses. He’s the author of Entreprenumbers, a sought-after international speaker, and a passionate endurance athlete who has completed marathons, Ironman races, and 100-mile ultramarathons.

Designed for entrepreneurs without a financial background, this engaging talk offers a fresh approach to getting exactly what you need from your accounting team—without learning accounting yourself. You’ll walk away with simple tools to eliminate financial confusion, identify your biggest profit blockers, and implement a 15-minute monthly review process that empowers confident, growth-focused decisions.

unreasonable hospitality with Lindsey peckham & Billy Peele


The Workshop is a dynamic, half-day experience that immerses your team in the core principles and framework of Unreasonable Hospitality. Blending education with hands-on exercises, role playing, and experience design sessions, the program delivers an engaging mix of learning and practice that deepens understanding and drives real behavior change.

Designed to help teams consistently live out the values of Unreasonable Hospitality, the workshop focuses on both internal culture and external guest experience. It offers actionable tools and real-world applications of the concepts from the book, empowering your team to translate powerful ideas into daily habits that elevate your culture and create unforgettable moments for those you serve.

worth doing wrong

Arnie Malham

Arnie Malham is an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, and culture expert who has spent over two decades helping leaders build thriving, people-first organizations. Having founded and sold multiple successful businesses—including a $60M advertising agency—Arnie brings real-world experience to every stage.

In his keynote, Arnie shares how his early failures as a leader led him to adopt a bold, culture-first strategy that turned his struggling company into a national success. This session will challenge attendees to rethink who’s truly responsible for shaping culture and offer practical, “harvestable” ideas to strengthen team engagement. Arnie eliminates common excuses that stall progress and delivers a straightforward approach to evolving company culture in a way that’s actionable, sustainable, and deeply effective.

Program Host and Facilitator

Brian Brault

Brian is an executive coach, speaker, and facilitator with a passion for connecting people’s minds and hearts so they can reach their full potential. Drawing from his experiences taking two businesses from start-up to award-winning Inc. 5000 companies, Brian is an active leader in the entrepreneurial world. He is co-founder of Legacy of Significance.

Discovering Your X-Factor

Barrett Ersek

Every industry has its bottlenecks and road blocks. These constraints are challenges to everyone – you and your biggest competition. Innovation happens when you break a bottleneck. Barrett will guide us through a workshop to identify the bottlenecks for your industry. Then, you'll learn how to find strategies to break through this "X-Factor" and gain a 7 to 10 times advantage over your competition.

Barrett Ersek is a serial entrepreneur who speaks on the topics of innovation, entrepreneurship, gratitude, and sustainability. He has lectured at the London School of Business, India School of Business, and MIT, in addition to EO events across five continents. Barrett is the founder and owner of Holganix, an organic plant probiotic for lawns and farms.

Navigating the Obstacles to Business Success

Don Britton

Join us to gain valuable insights from the trenches with a successful entrepreneurial leader and the research he used. It will help you optimize your leadership and managerial structure to drive your business forward. Don's workshop is focused on helping you design an organizational and managerial structure that places the right people in the right roles, ensuring your team is set up for success. Regardless of what stage of the Corporate Lifecycle you are in, this will improve communication and efficiency within your organization.

For more than 30 years, Don Britton has been a pioneer in the cloud computing space. He successfully bootstrapped, grew, and sold his award-winning technology and service company, Network Alliance. Today, Don owns and runs a dude ranch in Idaho.

Restorative Leadership Practices

Dr. Malik Muhammad

Malik shares a transformational approach to leadership built on connection and challenge. His session will help us reflect on how we show up as leaders and the impact that has in our professional and personal communities. You'll gain an understanding of the restorative practices and principles that fortify leaders, especially when situations get tough.

For nearly 30 years, Dr. Abdul-Malik Muhammad has been a beacon of transformational leadership, focusing on underserved communities . He has an extensive background in education, mental healthcare, and entrepreneurship. He's the founder and CEO of Akoben LLC and Transforming Lives Inc.

Brand Strategy For Leaders

Sasha Strauss

Does your business have a Brand Strategy? Don't wait for your customers and competitors to define you. Sasha will guide you through strategically deciding who you are and why you matter. Then you'll learn how to embed it in everything you do – inside and outside your company – online and off. Discover how brand strategy is the key to employee retention, recurring revenue, and category leadership.

Sasha Strauss is the founder and CEO of Innovation Protocol, an award-winning brand strategy consultancy headquartered out of Los Angeles. He is a brand strategy "preacher" and brand firm principal with a penchant for non-profit work. He teaches as a graduate school professor at the top three business schools in Southern California.

Making the Deal: Unlocking Your Power of Influence

Niro Sivanathan

Leverage the latest science in behavioral decision-making to achieve ambitious goals at the bargaining table and beyond. In this interactive session, we will explore how individuals process information, including the mental shortcuts that affect our judgements, decisions and behavior. Niro provides practical tools, tips and examples so that you can frame proposals, requests, and choices to exponentially increase your ability to nudge others towards "yes."

Niro Sivanathan is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. His research draws on social psychological and evolutionary theories to examine how status and power within social hierarchies influence our judgments, decisions, and behaviors.

Built on Values: Creating An enviable company culture

Ann Rhoades

Leaders know that a winning, engaged culture is the key to attracting top talent and customers. But how do you develop the kind of culture that lets you soar above the competition? Ann will guide us through a proven system for creating the conditions and environment where a values-based culture can flourish. You'll gain insights on developing a workplace where everyone from the front lines to the boardroom knows the company’s values and feels comfortable and empowered to act on them.

Ann Rhoades is a visionary Human Resources Executive with over 25 years experience. Prior to founding her company, People Ink, she served as the vice president of People for Southwest and JetBlue Airways.

A Magnificent Venue

We’ll gather at MIT Endicott House, less than 12 miles from the city of Boston. The French manor-style estate features breathtaking vistas of the Blue Hills and beautiful gardens. 

The elegant, distraction-free setting is perfect for the focused strategic work you’ll do as a leadership team.

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Key Executive Mastery Program

October 5-8, 2025
$3450 per person
  • Expert speakers and facilitated learning sessions
  • Instruction, materials, and program activities
  • Chef-prepared meals featuring local foods
  • Beautifully-appointed accomodations

If you have any questions about the program or would like to discuss payment options, please email Jean Brault or use our the Contact Us form.

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