Inner Emergence

Where people who’ve built remarkable lives turn their gaze to the second half.

After decades of leading, contributing, and carrying responsibility, many reach midlife sensing that something new is beginning to emerge beneath the surface. This retreat offers the pause that lets the second half of life come into view.

  • Bali · November 2025

    8 senior leaders — Chairmen, CEOs, and MDs.

    Every participant said the retreat met or surpassed expectations. All would recommend it.

    “I’m approaching my next chapter with clearer perspective and a steadier confidence.”

    “I arrived with questions. I’m leaving with space.”

    “I realized I don’t have to choose between the paths in front of me — I can build a life that integrates them.”

  • Singapore · May 2026

    A small circle of senior leaders.

    A 3-day, non-residential retreat (with dinner on Thursday evening):

    ▪ Friday 8am-8pm

    ▪ Saturday 8am-8pm

    ▪ Sunday 8am-6pm

    Dates to be announced.

    Expressions of interest are now open.

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Imagine

Stepping away, briefly, from the role that has defined you — the achiever, the solver, the one who holds it all together.

Entering a quiet place where all of that can be put down, nothing needing to be proven.

Sitting with others in the same turning of life. Different paths. Shared questions.

The next chapter doesn’t need to be forced. It only needs space to reveal itself.

This is emergence, already rising.

A space where the next chapter can be felt before it is named.

  • The signal beneath the noise.

    A subtle shift begins.


    What once fueled you now feels smaller.


    Something quieter is asking for space.

  • What you’ve avoided seeing.

    Without effort, the unseen rises into view.

    Patterns, habits, identities that once felt essential begin to loosen on their own.

  • What no longer carries you.

    You release the patterns that held everything together.

    A clear recognition: This no longer feels alive.

  • The loosening of how things must be.

    Action becomes lighter.

    Presence replaces effort.

    You begin to move from a deeper center.

  • The life that is already forming.

    You return with a different tempo, more spacious, more true.

    The next chapter doesn’t need to be built.

    It only needs to be lived into.

“Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.” — Antonio Machado

Aneace and Fabrice—Your Guides for the Journey Ahead.

  • Aneace Haddad

    Executive coach, former tech CEO, author of The Eagle That Drank Hummingbird Nectar and Soaring Beyond Midlife.

    Aneace spent the first half of his career building a global payments software company in the south of France, serving banks in over 30 countries.

    After selling the business in his late 40s, he discovered he liked people more than computers, and began a different kind of leadership journey—one rooted less in scale and speed, and more in presence, clarity, and what endures.

    Today, he works with senior executives and C-suite teams navigating their own pivotal transitions, helping them unlock a quieter, more powerful form of leadership.

    His approach blends strategic depth with a deeply personal understanding of what it means to begin again, late in life—with wisdom.

  • Fabrice Desmarescaux (Guest Facilitator)

    McKinsey partner, author of The Art of Retreats, and leadership guide.

    Fabrice brings over two decades of experience at the intersection of global leadership and inner transformation.

    He has guided CEOs, boards, and senior teams across sectors, while also immersing himself in meditation, somatic practices, and archetypal psychology.

    His retreats are known for their rare blend of structure and spaciousness—inviting leaders to reconnect with what’s essential, shed what no longer fits, and lead from a deeper, more integrated place.

    Fabrice’s presence offers a unique mix of gravitas, stillness, and renewal.

Before You Arrive.

There’s no preparation required—no goals to set or intentions to declare.


Instead, we invite something quieter—and more powerful: to carry a question.


Not one to solve, but one to live with.

A different kind of readiness.


  • “Knowledge is a love affair with answers.
    Wisdom is a love affair with questions.”
    —Julio Olalla

    There’s no performance to deliver. No expectations to meet.
    Just a question.

    Not the kind that demands an answer.
    But the kind that opens space inside you.

    A question that’s been quietly walking beside you—
    or one that meets you freshly now.

    You don’t need to speak it aloud.
    You don’t even need to understand it yet.

    The retreat will unfold around this question.
    Not to solve it,
    but to live in its presence.

    What question might accompany you in?
    Let it come. Let it stay. Let it change form.
    That is its work.

What You’ll Experience.

  • Unfolding

    Not through effort.

    Not through insight.

    Simply by slowing enough to notice what has been waiting beneath the pace of your life.

    What emerges here does so gently — in its own time, in its own shape.

  • Stillness

    Not silence as absence, but as a presence of its own.

    Room to hear yourself think — and feel — without interruption.

    Space where the mind softens, the breath settles, and what is essential becomes clear.

  • Presence

    To be with others who do not need anything from you.

    To be seen without the identity that has carried you.

    To meet yourself again — without performance, without striving, without proving.

    This is where insight becomes integration.

    Where clarity becomes embodied.

    Where the next chapter begins to live inside you.

After You Leave.

There’s no forced follow-up program, no checklist, no expected deliverables.


Instead, we offer something rarer: nothing.


Not absence, but space.

A different kind of support.

  • Nothing follows this retreat by design.
    No session to review what happened.
    No invitation to stay connected.
    No effort to convert insight into action.

    The work continues—without effort, without prompting.
    Because what changed wasn’t your plan. It was you.

    You may notice it weeks later.
    In a conversation that catches you off guard.
    In a choice that feels lighter than expected.
    Or in something you no longer need.

    There’s no pressure to track it.
    No need to capture or explain.

    The retreat ends, but the journey continues — quietly, organically..

Kind Words from Leaders Who Have Worked with Us in the Past.

  • "A deeply felt experience—examining how you are living, and how to define a purposeful path ahead."

    Ray Ferguson, Chairman, Singlife Group

  • "Wisdom naturally emerges from people in the room and helps them connect, create, and inspire one another. An art to be 'Here and Now.’"

    Audrey Ricard, Group Head Executive Development, Prudential

  • "It is transformative. Not an epiphany. A subtle discernment."

    Mathilde Swierczynska, Managing Director, Head of Compliance, UBP - Union Bancaire Privée

  • "Even though it was a tough few days, the results were transformational and set us on a path which has been successful and which is still working very well for us 18 months later."

    Bill Maldonado, CEO, Eastspring Investments

  • "Helps uncover blind spots, improve self-awareness, and see more clearly how others respond to you."

    Julien Callard, Group Chief Actuary, AXA

  • "Inspires and empowers individuals to discover their best selves."

    Alexandre Macaire, Group CFO, Techcombank

  • "Cultivates in individuals and teams a lasting sense of empowerment, resilience and confidence."

    Aarti Ramaswami, Dean, ESSEC Business School, Asia-Pacific

A setting apart, without leaving your life.

We meet in a quiet space in Singapore — 
unrushed, unhurried, set apart from the cadence of the week.

No travel.
 No disruption. 
Just three days where the pace slows enough
 for what has been forming inside you to become unmistakable.

This is a threshold you enter 
without stepping away from your life.

Investment: US$5,000 per person.

Includes all meals and full retreat program.

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