Change the place. Change the conversation.
Curated business retreats for leadership teams who want to hack their culture, sharpen their strategy, or reset how they work together.
Why some conversations don’t belong in a meeting room
Most leadership teams are running too fast to pause, yet too misaligned to move cleanly.
- Strategy days get squeezed between emails and deadlines
- “Offsites” become long presentations in a different building
- Culture work is reduced to slogans and slide decks
The result?
Important topics - trust, behaviour, decision-making, the real blockers to transformation - never get the time, space, or safety they need.
A well-designed retreat doesn’t take people away from the work.
It puts them in the only context where certain work can actually happen.
Hack your culture
Strategize your transformation
Reset your
leadership team
Design new ways of working
What we create together
BusinessRetreat World designs and facilitates
bespoke retreats for leadership and transformation teams. Each retreat is tailored, but most focus on one or more of these outcomes:
Hack your culture
Name the behaviours, dynamics, and unwritten rules that are helping or hurting your strategy. Create new agreements on how you want to work together — and how you’ll hold each other to them.
Strategize your transformation
Use the retreat to map your next 12–24 months: priorities, trade-offs, and owners. Leave with a concrete, shared roadmap instead of a vague “good feeling”.
Reset your leadership team
Address fatigue, conflict, or disconnection in a safe, guided way. Rebuild trust, clarify roles, and reconnect to why you’re doing this work in the first place.
Design new ways of working
Experiment with decision-making, collaboration, and communication patterns that you want to bring back into the business.
Location as a silent facilitator
Every retreat combines the
right context with the
right content.
We work with locations that support the work you need to do:
Dolomites, Italy – altitude and perspective for culture resets
Essaouira, Morocco – ocean rhythm for fast strategic alignment
Swedish forest lodges – deep calm for psychological safety and honest conversations
Lisbon, Portugal – vibrant city energy for transformation roadmapping
Azores, São Miguel – powerful nature for leadership renewal
We’ll help you choose a location that matches your team’s energy, budget, and objectives - or work with a place you already have in mind.
How it works
Step 1: Clarity call (online)
We explore your context: where you are in your strategy or transformation, what’s working, what’s stuck, and what a successful retreat would change.
Step 2: Design your retreat
You receive a tailored retreat concept with:
- Objectives & success criteria
- 2–3 location suggestions
- A draft 2–3 day program
- Budget and logistics options
Step 3: Facilitation & hosting
On-site, we hold the process so you can fully participate:
- Facilitation of plenary and breakout sessions
- Exercises from change management, systems work, and leadership development
- Space for both structure and serendipity
Step 4 – Integration
After the retreat, we support your next steps with a short integration package (e.g. summary, action plan, follow-up session) so that insights become commitments - and commitments become practice.
Who is this for?
Is Business Retreat World for you?
Our retreats are a good fit if you are:
- A CEO, founder, CHRO, or transformation lead
- Leading a team of 6-20 people
- In the middle of or preparing for significant change (merger, digital transformation, new strategy, restructuring, or fast growth)
- Willing to engage in honest conversation and co-creation - not just “another offsite”
Not sure yet? A short conversation will usually make it clear within minutes.
Contact BRW any time
Contact Us
Who’s behind BusinessRetreat World?
Hi, I’m Astrid.
I’ve spent over a decade in change management and transformation, working with finance, IT, digital teams, Agile/Lean environments and M&A integration. I combine structure and strategy with something equally important: how it actually feels to be human in the middle of change.
What I bring to your retreat:
- 10+ years of experience helping organisations navigate complex change
- A people-centred approach rooted in transparency, safety, and real dialogue
- Strong storytelling and facilitation skills
- The ability to work across cultures and languages (I speak 11 languages)
- A good sense of humor.
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BusinessRetreat World is where my love for strategy, human transformation, and meaningful locations comes together.
Frequently asked questions
Q1: How long is a typical retreat?
Most retreats run
2–3 days, plus travel. For deeper work, we can design up to 4 days.
Q2: Where do you operate?
We design retreats mainly across
Europe and neighbouring regions, but are happy to explore other locations.
Q3: What’s included?
Design and facilitation are always included. Locations, travel, and accommodation can be fully curated with partners, or coordinated with your internal team.
Q4: We already have a location. Can you just design/facilitate the program?
Yes. We can work with your preferred venue and focus on program design and facilitation.
Q5: Is this a “fun trip” or serious work?
It’s both human and strategic. There is space for connection and enjoyment, but the retreat is built around
clear business outcomes.
Ready to design a retreat that actually moves the needle?
If you’re leading a transformation or feel your leadership team needs a reset, let’s explore whether a retreat is the right next step.
No obligation - just a focused conversation about your context, your team, and what a retreat could unlock.