Gathering a leadership committee in a private estate

A leadership meeting does not need one more screen. It needs an enclosed setting, a table where eight can sit without a microphone, and a silence that allows for long sentences. A privatised estate offers exactly that.

Confidentiality as a brief

Full privatisation, a small and known staff, no outward signage, no online trace of the stay: these requirements are settled well in advance, never on the day itself.

« Difficult decisions are rarely made in seminar rooms; they are made at table, late. »

A three part format

• The morning's work, in a closed drawing room, with no interruption to service.
• Lunch, brief and served on site, so as not to break the thread.
• The evening, a single table and seasonal cooking, where the essentials are said.

And for owners

Corporate use is the quiet season of great houses: it fills the calendar outside the months of celebration. It is one of the levers we bring to bear for the owners who entrust us with their property.