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Retreats

Two kinds. One standard of peer quality.

Leaders Retreats
For founders, CEOs, business leaders, and executives.
Ecosystem Retreats
For industry-specific leaders and stakeholders.

All editions

1 · The Flagship

Leaders Retreat

This is not a leadership course. You're not behind. You're not broken. You're carrying decisions that affect teams, customers, and families — and you've realized that the usual advice (hustle more, delegate more, optimize more) misses the point entirely.

The Leaders Retreat is where the agenda drops. We gather 15–20 founders and CEOs in a deliberately chosen location — remote enough to demand presence, comfortable enough to enable honesty. Through facilitated peer circles and structured reflection, you work on the actual bottlenecks in your business and the specific decisions you have been delaying.

You leave with a clearer sense of what needs to change, a recalibrated internal compass, and a peer group that understands the weight of your role. It is the end of leading in a vacuum.

What changes

  • You stop carrying decisions you have been delaying — and you make them with better inputs.
  • You re-evaluate direction with context, not pressure.
  • You build relationships with peers who have no reason to flatter you — and every reason to be useful.

Format

  • 15–20 leaders.
  • 2–3 days, fully residential — accommodation, meals, and all sessions included and co-located.
  • High-trust, low-noise — full presence expected, not as a rule but because the format requires it.
  • Premium, application-based.
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2 · The Verticals

Ecosystem Retreats

Every industry has its own version of the same problem: the people building the most important companies and institutions inside it are largely isolated from each other. They repeat the same mistakes because there is no trusted room where the actual lessons get shared. Ecosystem Retreats create that room — one industry at a time.

Same format and quality bar as the Leaders Retreat. The difference is focus: every participant, every session, and every peer dynamic is shaped by a shared industry context. A founder building in healthcare will have different problems, different vocabulary, and different peers than a founder building in logistics. The retreat reflects that.

  • ReSET Tech

    The Gulf is now one of the most consequential places in the world to be building AI and digital infrastructure — where sovereign cloud mandates, government-backed capital, and national data strategies are creating an environment that no Western playbook was written for. The constraint for leaders in this space is no longer capability. It is clarity: which bets are worth making, which regulations will define the next decade, and how to build teams that can execute at the speed this moment demands.

    Who it's for

    • Founders scaling AI or deep-tech ventures past product-market fit in a Gulf or MENA market.
    • CTOs and senior technology executives inside government-adjacent institutions managing digital sovereignty mandates.
    • Operators in infrastructure, cybersecurity, or cloud with real regional exposure and real organizational complexity.
    Apply for ReSET Tech

  • ReSET Energy

    The energy transition in the Gulf is not the European story. It is shaped by sovereign capital at a scale most Western transition frameworks were not designed for, by the political weight of energy as national identity, and by the very specific challenge of managing a hydrocarbon legacy while building the infrastructure that may eventually replace it. The leaders navigating this deserve a room that starts from that reality.

    Who it's for

    • Founders building in renewables, green hydrogen, or the emerging energy economy with real Gulf or MENA operations.
    • Senior executives at national energy companies managing the internal politics of a transition mandate.
    • Investors or operators positioned at the intersection of traditional hydrocarbons and the technologies reshaping the sector.
    Apply for ReSET Energy

  • ReSET Agri

    Food security in the Gulf is not a long-term policy objective — it is a live, funded, urgent infrastructure problem with serious government capital behind it and serious consequences if it stalls. The entrepreneurs and institutions doing the actual work are largely operating without a peer ecosystem. This retreat exists to build one.

    Who it's for

    • Founders scaling agri-tech, aquaculture, or controlled-environment agriculture for the MENA market.
    • Supply chain and logistics operators whose businesses run through the food distribution infrastructure of Gulf cities.
    • Government or institutional executives allocating capital to food security and agricultural transformation initiatives.
    Apply for ReSET Agri

  • ReSET Finance

    Founders and executives building financial products in the Gulf operate at the intersection of Islamic economic principles, rapidly evolving regulation, and a digital transformation agenda that most Western fintech frameworks were not designed for. This retreat starts from that specific context rather than working around it — because pretending the context is universal is how good ideas fail at the execution layer.

    Who it's for

    • Founders scaling fintech or Islamic financial services products beyond Series A in GCC or MENA markets.
    • Family office principals or wealth managers navigating the gap between traditional capital structures and the next generation of asset allocation.
    • Executives inside banking or insurance institutions managing the internal politics of a digital transformation mandate.
    Apply for ReSET Finance

  • ReSET Media

    Building Arabic-language media in 2026 means navigating one of the most under-served and over-scrutinized content environments in the world — where distribution platforms apply inconsistent standards, where the gap between what the market can absorb and what it actually needs is real, and where the business models that work in English-language markets often fail without explanation. This retreat is for the people staying in the room anyway.

    Who it's for

    • Founders building Arabic-first digital media, content, or entertainment products with real traction.
    • Creative directors and cultural producers working at the intersection of MENA identity and global distribution infrastructure.
    • Executives inside telcos, OTTs, or government media entities managing content mandates and audience-building under new commercial pressure.
    Apply for ReSET Media

  • ReSET Education

    Every Gulf government has an education transformation agenda. Most are stuck between a policy vision and an implementation gap — and the educators, edtech founders, and institutional leaders trying to close that gap are working largely in isolation from each other, duplicating effort, and repeating each other's early mistakes. This retreat puts them in the same room and asks them to be honest about what is and isn't working.

    Who it's for

    • Founders building edtech or vocational learning products for the MENA market with real institutional or consumer traction.
    • University leaders, deans, or department heads operating inside institutions with explicit modernization mandates.
    • Policy-adjacent executives inside education ministries or sovereign investment vehicles allocating capital to human capital development.
    Apply for ReSET Education

  • ReSET Logistics

    The Gulf is becoming a global logistics hub faster than the infrastructure can keep up with. Founders and operators building last-mile delivery, cross-border trade, and supply chain intelligence in this region are making capital-intensive decisions under geopolitical uncertainty — without the peer group that would help them make those decisions better. This retreat exists for that specific kind of complexity.

    Who it's for

    • Founders scaling logistics, freight, or supply chain ventures in or through the Gulf with real operational footprint.
    • Operations executives inside regional trading companies managing multi-country exposure and supply chain vulnerability.
    • Investors or advisors deploying capital into trade infrastructure with a long-term view on where the value actually accrues.
    Apply for ReSET Logistics

  • ReSET Healthcare

    Healthcare in the Gulf is at a genuine inflection point: sovereign capital, a privatization agenda, a young demographic, and government-backed digital health mandates are converging in a way that creates real structural opportunity. The founders and executives navigating it are doing so without a strong regional peer network. This retreat builds one around the specific conditions of this market at this moment.

    Who it's for

    • Founders scaling digital health, medtech, or life sciences ventures in MENA with real clinical or commercial traction.
    • Hospital executives and health system operators managing digital transformation under government mandates and reimbursement pressure.
    • Investment or policy professionals allocating capital to the healthcare value chain with a 5-to-10-year horizon.
    Apply for ReSET Healthcare