An executive expedition where the wilderness
rewires what your boardroom cannot
DURATION
48 Hours
GROUP SIZE
8 – 16 Executives
INVESTMENT
From $35,000 ex GST
LOCATION
Spicers Retreat
THE CHALLENGE
Most AI initiatives never escape the pilot stage.
Around 95% of enterprise AI investments stall — not for lack of technology, but for lack of leadership clarity, strategic coherence, and the courage to design for friction rather than optics.
Frontier Executive Summit is built for the 5% who intend to be different. It is not a conference. It is not a workshop. It is a test — of who your team is under pressure, and what your organisation could become in the agentic AI era.
THE 48-HOUR ARC
DAY 0 · EVENING
Arrival & Intention
Spicers retreat. Fireside opening circle.
Late afternoon arrival at a secluded Spicers property in the Scenic Rim. Pool, spa, the slow exhale of altitude and quietude. As dusk falls, a co-facilitated opening circle: Wildnco frames the wilderness ahead; XCARLO frames the strategic challenge. Each executive names the edge they are bringing; the dilemma, the anxiety, the opportunity they cannot resolve in a conference room.
DAY 1 · DUSK TO DUSK
Into the Wild
A dark sky expedition. Guided by Chris Dixon, founder of Wild&Co.
A demanding-but-doable dark sky expedition across mixed terrain, guided by Australia's premier adventure event founder Chris Dixon from Wildnco. Rotating leadership, silent segments, and on-trail interventions that make abstract strategy visceral; ambiguity, finite resources, agent handoffs, multi-horizon decisions. Return to Spicers for restoration: fireside reflection, degustation dinner, and an evening salon where the day's experience shapes a new readiness mindset to embrace the art of the possible in the Agentic AI era.
DAY 2 · FULL DAY
From Experience
to Enterprise
Facilitated by Dr Stuart Cranney, XCARLO founder, AI entrepreneur and social scientist.
Discover a blueprint to rewire your organisation to embrace the human-AI frontier. Morning: Art of the Possible — a primer to expand opportunity sensing with Agentic AI as collaborator. Midday: New Horizons — map initiatives and surface cognitive biases. Afternoon: design a vision for sustained renewal and venturing. Close: leave with a design artefact to reshape the future.
EDGE
Expert-guided, demanding-but-doable wilderness venture into the unknown that moves leaders out of cognitive autopilot and into the presence, trust, and courage that transformative decisions require. Premium safety. Small-group, high-touch facilitation for senior professionals.
INSIGHT
A research-grounded Agentic AI transformation lab blending technological insight and robust psychology to help leadership teams reimagine how their organisation senses opportunities and fosters the environment and behaviours to survive and thrive in the era of Agentic AI.
ENVIRONMENT
Spicers Retreats
Secluded, all-inclusive luxury lodges set in the Scenic Rim. Exceptional food, wine, and spa-level restoration that frame the offsite as a reward-level experience for a team that has earned the right to think at altitude. The setting is not incidental; it's strategic.
What you carry out of the wild.
These are not inspiration-day takeaways. They are artefacts — built together, under pressure, by the leadership team accountable for delivering them.
Human–AI Collaboration Model
A shared language for how agentic AI collaborators — not tools — reshape how your organisation thinks, operates, and creates value across horizons.
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Stronger Executive Cohesion
The intangible that compounds everything else: a top team forged under shared physical and intellectual challenge, with the trust to move fast on what matters.
Multi-Horizon Initiative Portfolio
A visual portfolio of 6–12 agentic-AI pathways across internal renewal and external venturing, mapped by Now / Next / New, with explicit knowledge flows.
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90-Day Commitments with Ownership
1–2 renewal engines and 1–2 venturing experiments with named owners, defined cadence, and board-ready governance clarity — designed for friction, not optics.
