Join a small group of business owners at Amatara Wellness Resort in Phuket, Thailand — step away from the daily demands of leadership, reconnect with your vision, and build a business that supports the life you want to live.
Owning a business can be one of the most rewarding journeys you’ll ever take, but it can also be incredibly demanding. As business owners, we’re often so focused on serving others, leading our teams, making decisions, and growing our businesses that we rarely give ourselves the time and space to pause. It’s easy to lose sight of the very reason you started, or to feel stuck wondering what’s next.
This retreat is your invitation to step away from the day-to-day, reconnect with your vision, invest in yourself, and return home with renewed clarity, meaningful connections, and practical strategies to help you grow both personally and professionally.
While the educational workshops are at the heart of this retreat, I believe some of the most meaningful moments happen outside the classroom.
This week has been intentionally designed to give you the opportunity to step away from the constant demands of running a business, reconnect with your vision, and build genuine relationships with other business owners who understand the unique challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship.
Throughout your stay, you’ll enjoy a thoughtfully curated experience that includes:
Elegant accommodations at Amatara on the Cape Panwa peninsula.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus a daytime beverage package.
A 60-minute treatment at Amatara's award-winning spa.
A guided session in Amatara's seaside yoga sala.
A hands-on class with a visit to a local market.
Four half-day workshops with the retreat faculty.
Inspiring conversations with fellow business owners.
Temple tours, island escapes, or an elephant sanctuary visit.
Private transfers to and from Phuket International.
Space to slow down, reflect, and enjoy Phuket.
Group dinners and special evenings that celebrate community.
Host & Lead Facilitator
This retreat is about so much more than growing your business — it’s about investing in yourself as a leader.
“My hope is that you leave with much more than new business strategies. I want you to return home feeling refreshed, inspired, and more connected to yourself, your business, and a community of leaders who continue to support one another long after the retreat has ended.”
This retreat brings together leaders across sustainable growth, business systems, leadership, and financial psychology, each leading focused workshops during the week.
Host · Founder, Sustainable Growth Consulting & Coaching · Founder, Wellness Counseling Inc.
Arilda Surridge brings a rare blend of expertise to her work with business owners, entrepreneurs, and organizational leaders—bridging the worlds of human well-being and high-performance growth. With a foundation in mental health, she offers deep insight into the real drivers behind leadership: emotional intelligence, navigating change, building resilience, and truly listening.
Having grown her own business substantially using a sustainable, well-being-centered approach, Arilda helps leaders scale without sacrificing what matters most. She has led more than 18 retreats around the world—see more of her retreat work at therapistsretreats.com.
WORKSHOP
How Understanding Your Brain and Nervous System Can Transform the Way You Lead
Building a successful business requires more than a great strategy. It requires a leader who can navigate uncertainty, make difficult decisions, adapt to change, and continue moving forward through challenges.
As business owners, we’re constantly making decisions, solving problems, supporting our teams, and carrying the weight of responsibility. Over time, that pressure can affect the way we think, communicate, lead, and even envision the future of our businesses.
In this session, we’ll explore how your brain and nervous system influence the way you lead. Through a neuro-informed approach, you’ll gain practical strategies to improve resilience, make clearer decisions, strengthen your leadership, and create a foundation for sustainable growth.
Because the most valuable asset in your business isn’t your product, service, or strategy.
WORKSHOP
Creating Sustainable Success Without Losing Yourself Along the Way
Many entrepreneurs start their businesses with a vision of freedom, flexibility, and creating something meaningful. Yet somewhere along the journey, it’s easy to become consumed by the very business we worked so hard to build.
Success should never come at the expense of your health, relationships, purpose, or quality of life.
In this session, we’ll step back from the day-to-day demands of running a business and reconnect with the bigger picture. Together, we’ll explore what sustainable success looks like, define what truly matters, and begin designing a business that supports the life you want to live, not one that constantly competes with it.
Because building a successful business is only part of the journey. Creating a life you genuinely enjoy living is the greater goal.
Founder, HiveSourced & AnvilFlow
Alex Sandev works with founders who’ve built something real and hit the point where they’ve become the bottleneck in their own business. Through AnvilFlow, he builds the AI-driven systems, marketing infrastructure, and operational workflows that let a business run without the owner glued to every decision. He’s spent the past several years building and marketing therapy practices with his web design and SEO agency, HiveSourced, which he co-founded in 2023.
WORKSHOP
Building a Business That Doesn’t Need You in Every Room
Most founders don’t build a business, they build a job they can’t leave. Every decision, every fire, every client conversation routes through them, and growth stalls the moment their own capacity runs out.
In this workshop, Alex breaks down the systems layer that separates businesses that scale from businesses that stay capped at what one person can personally handle: what to automate, what to delegate, and where AI genuinely replaces hours of founder time versus where it can’t and shouldn’t. You’ll leave with a clear map of where you are the bottleneck right now, and the first system to build to remove yourself from it.
You’ll walk away with a practical framework for identifying your highest-leverage systems gap, and a concrete next step to close it, not a vague mandate to “automate more.”
WORKSHOP
Finding Your ICP and the Message That Actually Converts
Most businesses market to everyone and end up converting no one. When the message is broad enough to fit any customer, it lands with none of them.
In this workshop, Alex walks through how to define your ideal customer with enough precision that your marketing stops sounding like everyone else’s, and how to translate that clarity into positioning, outreach, and sales messaging that people actually respond to. You’ll work through your own ICP live, not in the abstract, and see how a sharper definition changes what you say, where you say it, and who replies.
You’ll leave with a written ICP definition, a messaging framework you can apply across every channel, and a clear next step for the sales system built around it.
Licensed Professional Counselor • Founder Saltwater Coaching
Denielle Rigoglioso-Lambert has dedicated her career to helping leaders build organizations that are as healthy as they are successful. Having built and led two multimillion-dollar organizations, she understands that long-term growth is never just about strategy, it’s about developing the leadership capacity to sustain it.
Drawing from her unique background in executive leadership and psychology, Denielle helps founders navigate one of the most important transitions in business: evolving from the person who drives the business to the leader who develops people, shapes culture, and builds an organization capable of thriving beyond its founder. Her work prepares leaders to make better decisions, strengthen their teams, and create businesses that support sustainable success without sacrificing themselves in the process.
WORKSHOP
How to Build a Business That Can Grow Without Burning You Out
Most entrepreneurs don’t stop growing because they run out of opportunity. They stop growing because they become the bottleneck.
As businesses expand, the demands on the owner increase. More decisions. More responsibility. More complexity. Without intention, success can quietly become unsustainable.
In this workshop, Denielle explores how exceptional leaders protect one of their most valuable business assets: their own capacity. You’ll learn to recognize the hidden patterns that lead to burnout, identify where your business is creating unnecessary strain, establish boundaries that strengthen both leadership and profitability, and make strategic decisions that support long-term growth.
You’ll leave with a practical framework for leading with greater clarity, protecting your energy, and building a business that grows because of you—not at the expense of you.
WORKSHOP
Building an Organization That Can Thrive Beyond You
Every successful business eventually reaches a point where the founder must evolve.
The leadership skills that build a business are not always the same skills that scale one. Sustainable organizations are built by leaders who know how to delegate, develop people, create accountability, and empower others to lead.
In this workshop, Denielle will guide you through the leadership evolution required to move from founder to CEO. Through practical strategy and real-world application, you’ll strengthen your ability to delegate with confidence, build high-performing teams, foster accountability, navigate difficult conversations, and create an organizational culture where both people and the business can thrive.
You’ll leave with a renewed perspective on leadership and a clear roadmap for becoming the CEO your business needs for its next stage of growth.
Financial Therapist · Certified Financial Social Worker · Financial Wellness Educator
Lindsey Konchar helps entrepreneurs strengthen one of the most overlooked dimensions of leadership: their relationship with money.
By combining financial psychology, behavioral science, and practical financial education, Lindsey helps business owners understand how their beliefs, emotions, and lived experiences influence every financial decision they make, from pricing and hiring to investing, negotiating, and planning for long-term growth.
Her work empowers leaders to move beyond uncertainty, develop greater financial confidence, and make strategic decisions that support both business success and personal fulfillment.
WORKSHOP
Breaking Through the Hidden Barriers to Financial Confidence
Financial success isn’t determined by numbers alone. It’s also shaped by the beliefs, experiences, and emotional patterns that influence every financial decision we make.
In this workshop, you’ll uncover the hidden money narratives that impact how you value your work, price your services, approach opportunity, and define success. Through guided reflection and practical application, you’ll develop greater financial confidence, strengthen your financial mindset, and build a healthier relationship with wealth.
You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how your relationship with money influences your leadership and the confidence to make financial decisions that align with both your values and long-term vision.
WORKSHOP
Making Confident Decisions in Times of Growth and Uncertainty
Every stage of business growth requires financial decisions that shape the future of the organization.
Whether you’re evaluating new opportunities, managing uncertainty, investing in growth, or navigating risk, confident financial leadership is essential for sustainable success.
In this workshop, you’ll develop practical strategies for making thoughtful financial decisions with greater clarity and confidence. You’ll explore how to evaluate risk, align financial choices with your long-term vision, and lead your business through every stage of growth without allowing fear or uncertainty to drive your decisions.
You’ll leave with a stronger framework for financial leadership and the confidence to make decisions that support both profitability and purpose.
Reconnect with your core vision and align your business decisions with your deeper purpose.
Develop greater emotional intelligence, presence, and capacity to lead with intention.
Learn frameworks for sustainable growth that honor both your well-being and your business goals.
Leave with clear, actionable insights and a concrete plan for implementing change.
Return home refreshed, grounded, and ready to lead with clarity and purpose.
Connect with other business owners navigating similar challenges and opportunities.
Set on the tranquil Cape Panwa peninsula in Phuket, Amatara Wellness Resort is an award-winning sanctuary of Thai-inspired suites, ocean views, and lush tropical gardens — designed for restoration, reflection, and genuine renewal.
All week, the Andaman Sea is your backdrop, with access to Amatara’s renowned spa, oceanfront yoga sala, and infinity pools — the kind of setting that makes it easy to slow down and reconnect.
From the moment you arrive, every detail is taken care of — so you can focus entirely on the experience, the learning, and the people around you.
Every option includes the full retreat — accommodations, meals, sessions, and wellness experiences. Choose private or shared occupancy.
RECOMMENDED
Your own private suite for the full week — space to fully rest, reflect, and recharge.
Share a suite with another attendee and save $1,500 — a great option to split the cost or make a new connection.
Pricing covers your suite, meals, retreat programming, and the included wellness experiences. International airfare is not included. Room assignments are confirmed on a first-reserved basis.
Registration opens soon. Only 15 spots are available for this retreat. Add your name for early access and be first to hear when registration opens.
Only 15 spots are available for this retreat. Add your name for early access and be first to hear when registration opens.
