Important gatherings should move the organization forward.
Beyond the Boardroom designs and leads leadership retreats, executive offsites, board experiences, companywide gatherings, strategic convenings and other consequential corporate experiences.
We connect the business objective to the complete experience, from strategy, agenda and attendee engagement to travel, hospitality, production, onsite execution and post-experience review.
One senior point of accountability. Strategy through execution.
Not simply a well-planned event. A well-designed business experience.
What does your organization need this experience to advance?
The format comes second. We first define what the gathering needs to support, strengthen or move forward, then design the experience around that objective.
Leadership Alignment & Strategic Direction
Create protected space for leaders to align priorities, work through consequential decisions, clarify direction and leave with defined next steps.
Team Connection & Engagement
Strengthen connection across leadership teams, departments, hybrid teams or distributed workforces through intentional shared experiences and dialogue.
Professional Development
Build experiences around leadership development, learning or capability-building, bringing in the right facilitators, speakers or subject-matter experts when needed.
Culture & Organizational Change
Support important transitions, culture priorities and organizational initiatives with experiences that help people understand the direction and connect to what comes next.
Wellbeing & Renewal
Intentionally incorporate wellbeing, restoration and sustainable leadership practices when the organization wants the gathering to create space to reset and reconnect.
Relationships, Recognition & Reputation
Deepen important client, board, partner and stakeholder relationships or recognize people and milestones in a way that reflects the organization well.
The right format follows the objective.
BTB shapes the experience around the people in the room, the work that needs to happen and the environment required to support it.
Leadership Retreats & Executive Offsites
Focused environments for alignment, strategy, leadership development, connection and decision-making.
Board & Executive Experiences
Thoughtfully managed experiences for governance, strategic discussion and high-level relationship building.
Companywide & Team Gatherings
Experiences built around culture, connection, communication, recognition or organizational priorities.
Strategic Convenings
Purpose-built gatherings for leaders and stakeholders who need to solve, decide, align, learn or move an initiative forward.
Client & Stakeholder Gatherings
High-touch experiences designed to strengthen relationships with clients, partners, donors, physicians, boards and other stakeholders.
Corporate Milestones & Recognition
Significant moments that recognize achievement, service, growth, transition or legacy with intention and care.
One strategy. One operating plan. One senior point of accountability.
From the first strategic conversation through the final post-experience review, BTB connects the moving pieces so your leadership team is not left managing vendors, timelines, attendee questions and last-minute details.
Time away from the business should give something back to the business.
Every significant gathering requires an investment of time, attention and resources. BTB defines the desired outcomes early, establishes appropriate measures of success and designs the experience around what the organization needs to move forward.
Depending on the engagement, success measures may include leadership alignment, strategic clarity, decisions reached, commitments made, participation, stakeholder experience, learning objectives, follow-through and budget performance. The goal is not measurement for measurement's sake. It is to understand whether the experience did what it was designed to do and what should happen next.
Attendee insight should inform the experience.
When appropriate, BTB can build feedback and engagement into the experience lifecycle rather than waiting until the event is over to ask whether people enjoyed it.
Pre-experience pulse surveys can help surface priorities, expectations and team needs. During the experience, facilitated feedback, polling and participation tools can provide useful signals. Afterward, a post-experience review can bring the data, stakeholder feedback, commitments and next steps together so the organization can understand impact and use those insights to inform what comes next.
- Pre-experience pulse or engagement surveys
- Participant priorities and expectations
- Registration, attendance and participation
- Session or program engagement
- Live polling and facilitated feedback
- Post-experience attendee surveys
- Leadership and stakeholder feedback
- Objectives, decisions and commitments achieved
- Executive-ready post-experience summary
- Recommendations for future experiences
Objective through review.
A disciplined process keeps the experience moving while giving leadership clear visibility into decisions, responsibilities and progress.
Discover
Define the business objective, participants, context, timeline, budget, sensitivities, success measures and what cannot go wrong.
Define
Establish the Experience Brief, scope, responsibilities, decision structure, approval milestones, priorities and experience standard.
Design
Build the agenda, itinerary, attendee journey, communications, hospitality, engagement approach and operating plan around the objective.
Assemble
Align internal teams and coordinate the right venues, facilitators, production, travel, transportation, culinary and other specialist partners.
Deliver
Lead final preparation and onsite execution against one clear operating plan, with contingency management and senior oversight throughout.
Review
Close the loop with relevant feedback, outcomes, operational observations and recommendations that can strengthen the next experience.
Not sure the challenge begins and ends with one gathering?
Start by understanding the whole picture.
When the need is broader than a single experience, BTB can begin by reviewing upcoming leadership moments, the current approach, internal resources, ownership and experience gaps. The result is a prioritized path forward built around what matters most, who should own it and how success can be measured.
The audit can clarify whether the right next step is a specific Corporate & Leadership Experience, a broader annual experience portfolio or ongoing Fractional CXO support.
DISCUSS AN EXPERIENCE AUDITGive your leaders their time back.
A senior leader, Chief of Staff or Executive Assistant should not have to become the experience department simply because an important gathering is on the calendar. BTB provides senior ownership across the work while keeping leadership informed at the decision points that actually require their attention.
If you already have events, communications, executive office or people teams, BTB works alongside them. When additional expertise is needed, the appropriate specialists and partners are aligned around one strategy, operating plan and experience standard.
Senior Accountability
One experienced lead connecting strategy, stakeholders, decisions, partners and delivery.
Executive Visibility
Clear decision points, status visibility and escalation when leadership input is actually required.
Specialist Network
Facilitators, planners, producers, AV, hospitality, creative, travel and other expertise brought in as needed.
Operational Precision
Timelines, dependencies, contingency planning and onsite command managed against one operating standard.
When the calendar keeps going, the strategy should too.
For organizations managing multiple consequential experiences across the year, Fractional CXO provides continuity beyond a single engagement. The annual portfolio is approached as one connected body of work rather than a series of unrelated events.
One senior experience partner. Multiple important moments. Greater continuity across the year.
Tell us what the organization needs to accomplish.
We will help determine the right experience, scope and level of support based on the outcome the organization needs to achieve.
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