Small-group retreats in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia — where senior leaders step out of the noise to think clearly about AI. Hosted by me, in the region I've made home.
Join the WaitlistI spend my professional life helping mid-market leaders build with AI. The pattern I see most often isn't that the technology fails — it's that the people making the decisions never have enough quiet to think them through.
The work that matters most — choosing what to automate, what to preserve, where AI augments judgment and where it replaces it — gets squeezed between Slack pings and back-to-back meetings. Decisions of consequence get made in the gaps between notifications. That's a clarity problem more than a strategy one.
Magic is the answer I've built. A small-group retreat in a part of the world where the signal genuinely drops — the Dinaric mountains rising out of the Adriatic, stone towns that have watched empires come and go, and the kind of hospitality that turns visitors into family. The land does part of the work. The people do the rest.
These places aren't a backdrop. They're the conditions you need to think the thoughts that need thinking — and, just as importantly, to remember what hospitality, slowness, and presence actually feel like.
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia sit along the eastern Adriatic — where coast meets mountain, and old country runs deep.
Specific venues rotate by season and cohort. Waitlist members hear the details first.
I'm from the Caribbean — that's where I was raised, and where I learned that hospitality is a discipline. A meal is how you say you matter. Guests become family the moment they walk in. French and Kreyòl were the first languages I spoke before I ever spoke English.
Years ago, life brought me to the South Adriatic. I didn't come as a tourist — I came, stayed, and built a life across Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, and Montenegro. Along the way, I discovered that this corner of Europe holds the same hospitality ethic I grew up with, expressed in a different language and a different food. Polako — slowly, gently — was the local word, but I knew what it meant the first time I heard it. Don't be surprised if a Caribbean dish slips into a long Adriatic dinner, or if someone hands you a cup of hot chocolate the way my mother makes it.
Magic is what happens when two cultures of hospitality meet. I'm not offering you my ancestral home. I'm offering you the home I chose — the places I've come to love, the people who welcomed me when I was the newcomer, and the table where I now welcome you.
The Dinaric mountains rising straight out of the Adriatic. Ancient olive groves on Croatian islands. River canyons in Bosnia you can swim in. The Bay of Kotor at dawn. Hiking, sailing, swimming, sitting still — the land sets the pace.
Long meals made from what's in season. Fresh fish from the morning catch. Dishes from neighbors who taught me how to cook them. Wine from small producers an hour from where we're sitting. Sometimes a Caribbean dish slips into the menu — that's just what happens when I cook. The table is where most of the work actually happens.
Centuries of layered history — Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav, modern. Old towns of stone and red roof tile. The bridge in Mostar. The walls of Dubrovnik. The hospitality that's been a regional discipline for a thousand years. You'll see this region through the eyes of someone who came from somewhere else, fell in love with it, and stayed.
The friends and chosen family who welcomed me into this region will receive you the way they received me — warmth that's a way of life, not a service. By the time you leave, you'll have people here. And if you'd prefer to think out loud in English, French, or Kreyòl, you can.
A genuinely remote location far from your inbox. Phones get parked. Notifications go silent. The retreat is designed so disengagement is the easy path and re-engagement requires intent. The sea, the mountains, and the stone walls do most of the work.
Small cohort of tech-oriented senior leaders and operators wrestling with the same questions you are. Facilitated sessions on the human side of AI strategy — what to delegate, what to protect, what authentic intelligence means in your context. Held in places where conversation can actually unfold.
You don't leave with a deck. You leave with clarity — on one or two big calls you've been circling for months, written in your own hand, ready to act on Monday. And you leave with a small group of people who saw you think out loud, plus friends in three countries you didn't have before.
Magic is for people whose work depends on clear thinking. It's deliberately narrow — not for everyone, and not trying to be.
Magic launches Summer 2027 with a small pilot cohort. Waitlist members get first access to dates, locations, and pricing — and a quiet conversation with me before anyone else.
Thanks for raising your hand. I'll be in touch personally as Magic takes shape — no marketing autoresponders, I promise.