We work with leadership teams across the country, from our home in Dallas–Fort Worth. If your team can get away, take it somewhere great. The right place helps a team slow down and think together. If you’d rather stay close to Phoenix, we’ll run it there. Either way, we interview every leader, design the days and run the room in person.
If your team has the time and the budget, we always encourage getting away. A few days with nowhere else to be gives leaders room to think and talk. A few of the places we’d start with:
The Sonoran Desert starts at the edge of town, old guest ranches sit an hour out and Sedona’s red rock is two hours north. Go from fall through spring, when the days are warm and the nights are cool. Every place has room for the whole team to work, eat and stay together.
A 1930s cowboy artist’s adobe hideaway with only 43 casitas, so a leadership group fills much of the inn and has real meeting rooms, not ballrooms. LON’s, the on-site restaurant, handles the food, and Camelback Mountain sits two miles away.
Group: 16 to 60
A guest ranch founded in 1948 and freshly renovated, with real boardrooms for a leadership team and a conference center for a bigger group. Meals can be included in the room rate, so a team stays on the ranch from breakfast to the campfire.
Group: 20 to 80
Every casita faces the canyon walls, and the meeting rooms run from a 12-seat boardroom to ballrooms. A team can meet, eat and hike without leaving.
Group: 20 to 80
The team takes the Ponderosa as its base, sleeps in cabins a short walk apart and meets in a great room by the creek. The inn handles meals and logistics.
Group: 8 to 16
A small team books the whole ranch, with no other guests on site. Remote enough to stay focused, with a history that makes the evenings.
Group: 8 to 16, the whole ranch
We interview every leader before we write a word of the agenda. For a team in Phoenix that happens by video in the weeks before. Then we meet you at the place you chose, across the country or close to home, and run the retreat in person.
Working sessions with you and a one-on-one interview with every leader.
Weeks 1–3A custom agenda built from what we heard. You sign off before anything is set.
Week 3Your team gets to know each other beneath the roles.
Retreat day 1An honest look at what's working and what isn't.
Retreat day 1–2Two or three priorities and a plan the team wrote together.
Retreat day 2A written readout of what we heard, what the team decided and who owns each priority.
After the retreatYes. Everest Collective is based in Dallas–Fort Worth and works with leadership teams across the United States. We interview every leader before the retreat, usually by video, then the two founders facilitate on site, wherever the team goes.
If the team has the time and the budget, we encourage getting away. The place is never the most important part of a retreat, and the right one still helps leaders slow down, step out of the day to day and talk. When travel doesn’t fit, a place within a couple of hours of downtown Phoenix works well too.
For a team that wants a house to itself, everyone with their own bedroom: Briar Patch Inn, Rancho de la Osa. For a team that would rather each leader have a room at the same hotel or resort: The Hermosa Inn, Rancho de los Caballeros, Enchantment Resort. All are within a few hours’ drive of downtown Phoenix.
Most of the places on this page are at their best in January, February, March, April, May, October, November, December. Each venue page lists its own best months and what to plan around.
About eight weeks from the first conversation to the retreat covers the leader interviews and agenda sign-off. Popular venues book group dates months ahead, so pick the place early.
Yes. Choose full service and we find the venue, book the rooms, plan the meals and run the schedule. Or book it yourself and we bring the interviews, the agenda and the facilitation.
Tell us about your team and what it needs. We’ll send a short list of places, anywhere in the country or close to Phoenix, and how we’d run the days.
