The Custom ‘Heroine’s Journey’ Conference
The Heroine’s Journey Flagship Gathering… Now Customized for Individual Companies
In the years since founders began building companies in public — pitching, scaling, and telling their story to investors, teams, and customers alike — Peter de Kuster recognized a pattern nobody had named yet: every founder is living inside a heroine’s journey, whether they know it or not. Rather than waiting for the world to build a gathering around that truth, he decided to create and stage it himself. The one cardinal rule: it cannot be just another conference.
So was born The Heroine’s Journey Conference.
Since its first gathering, hundreds of founders, co-founders, and builders of the Heroine’s Journey have made the annual pilgrimage to join Peter de Kuster at The Heroine’s Journey Conference. Why? Because they desperately needed a unique space and visionary guidance to explore, share, interact, and network with others living the founder’s journey in real time. Peter designed and directed each The Heroine’s Journey Conference (held in a different city every year) as a series of staged experiences that fostered creativity, innovation, learning, and idea exchange — using highly interactive techniques, intense individual and small-group participation, and free-form exploration. True to its word, it was never “just another conference.”
Today, the annual public The Heroine’s Journey has taken its final bow. In its place is an exciting new option: Peter de Kuster’s legendary event can now be designed and staged just for your company. We call it The Heroine’s Journey Conference
Heroine’s Journey Conference Creation, On-Demand
The Heroine’s Journey Conference borrows the proven format of the original The Heroine’s Journey Conference and lets companies customize the content and location especially for their own hand-picked participants — founders, co-founders, and the key people building alongside them. Personally directed onsite by Peter de Kuster, companies can now stage a customized two-day immersive learning experience on demand that exclusively serves their needs and objectives.
Companies pick from a list of past The Heroine’s Journey city options (or choose a new one!) to serve as the stage for the learning, then work with Peter to select the content focus that fits their needs — in areas such as The Call to Adventure & Founding Vision, Crossing the Threshold in Scaling, Authenticity Under Pressure, Digital & Virtual Ventures, and Observational Skills for Founders. The Heroine’s Journey Content Presentations, Looking Excursion, Facilitated Debrief, and List of Top Ten Founder Journeys will all revolve around content that you’ve co-designed with Peter — yielding a one-of-a-kind outcome that is highly impactful for your participants. It’s rigorous “exercise for the imagination” that changes how founders see their own story — and does not let minds snap back to their original shape.
The Heroine’s Journey Conferences can accommodate groups as small as 6 and as large as 38. Companies work directly with Peter de Kuster to select their city, content focus, and participants. Over the course of a 60-day planning window, a customized run plan and all supporting materials will be produced to give the event every hallmark of a classic The Heroine’s Journey Conference — right down to the admission passes, Top Ten postcards, and Director’s chairs.
Explore the Possibilities of a Customized The Hero’s Journey Conference for Your Company
For More Information
Consider what a two-day immersion in the Heroine’s Journey can do for your company and a team of founders, co-founders, or key builders. Reach out to schedule a call with Peter de Kuster for pricing, availability, and scheduling information to explore the possibilities of a customized The Heroine’s Journey Conference for your company.
A High-Level Overview of The Heroine’s Journey Conference
Day One
It’s all about Content and Context. Get intimate, interactive learning on the content of your choice, then take to the streets with our renowned Looking Excursion, using customized tour exercises to physicalize your thinking about the journey your company — and you — are on.
Day Two
We debrief and apply. Using Peter’s proprietary methodology, we facilitate a series of conversations across teams and topics as we debrief the learnings from Day One to surface significant new ideas. Finish the day with a tour of the Top Ten Founder Journeys, from which you’ll extract “best principles” to apply to your own company’s story.