By Application · Twelve Seats · January 2027

For those standing at the threshold.

A private six-month fellowship for accomplished people — executives, founders, and public lives — whose next chapter deserves more than drift. It begins in the Maasai Mara.

The title, the compensation, the competence — all intact.
And somewhere along the way, the fit is gone.

Who This Is For

You will recognize yourself, or you won't.

  • You've recently stepped away — or the decision is quietly made.
  • The rewards land, and you feel less than you expected to.
  • Your body has been keeping the books on two decades of performance.
  • You want what's next to be built — not drifted into.

Written from months of research with accomplished people — executives, founders, and public lives — standing exactly here. If it reads like recognition rather than marketing, that is why.

The Shape of It

Six months. Three movements.

Unheld, the passage out of a defining career takes years. Held well, it becomes the most consequential six months of a working life.

I

The body, firstMonths One & Two · The Mara

Before any question of what comes next: sleep, breath, and a nervous system unwound from twenty years of vigilance. The fellowship opens with six nights on a private conservancy in the Maasai Mara — a landscape that resets a person's sense of scale, held by guides who belong to it.

II

The self, beyond the roleMonths Three & Four

Who are you when the role stops telling you? The middle movement is the deliberate work of identity — what the years of building actually built, what belongs in the next chapter, and what was only armor. Bi-weekly sessions, private coaching, and a pod of three who will not accept your press release.

III

The buildMonths Five & Six · Closing Immersive

Not retirement. Not a sabbatical. A working transition into the venture, portfolio, board seat, or practice that fits the person you've become — pressure-tested by eleven peers who know exactly what it costs. The fellowship closes with four nights in North America, and a plan with your name on it.

The Particulars

Stated plainly.

Cohort
Twelve to fourteen members, by application and conversation
Opening Immersive
Six nights · private conservancy, Maasai Mara · Feb–Mar 2027
Rhythm
Bi-weekly cohort sessions · monthly private coaching · pods of three
Closing Immersive
Four nights · North America · July 2027
The Household
Partner conversations at the opening, middle, and close
Fellowship Fee
US $30,000 · founding members enter at $24,500, on terms offered once

Confidentiality is absolute and mutual — the discipline of a good forum, held by contract and by culture. International airfare is arranged individually; everything on the ground is held for you.

“Who am I without the title?”
Everyone we interviewed asked it.
Almost none had said it out loud.

From the fellowship's founding research
Your Guides

Two coaches who have sat in the seat.

Z

Zamir Janmohamed

Leadership & Embodiment Coach

Zamir has designed and led immersive leadership experiences across four continents, working at the intersection of performance, the nervous system, and what makes success sustainable. Raised between worlds — Nairobi to Toronto — he brings the crossing itself into the room.

R

Rahim

Executive Coach

Rahim spent his career leading at the most senior levels of global finance, developing executives inside one of Canada's largest institutions. He coaches from lived authority: he knows what the seat gives, what it takes, and what it means to question it.

Twelve Seats · January 2027

It begins with a conversation.

Forty-five minutes, confidential, and useful to you whether or not we go further together. One of the two of us — not a team, not a funnel — will reply.

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