“Why join the Navy when you can be a pirate?” — Steve Jobs
For a while, the Navy made sense.
Most leaders I meet have done the tour:
✔ Built teams
✔ Delivered results
✔ Earned the title
✔ Followed the frameworks
And for a time, it worked.
The structure helped.
The models brought order.
The leadership playbook gave them confidence.
But at some point, the tide shifts.
The structure starts to chafe.
The models feel too clean.
The language gets corporate.
The purpose? Blurred.
What used to feel like leadership starts to feel like performance.
This is where the rules stop serving you and the invitation begins.
The Project is not for everyone.
It’s not a rebellion for the sake of it.
It’s not about rejecting everything and building nothing.
It’s about creating space to lead differently with clarity, courage and presence.
No titles. No toolkits. No post-its on the wall.
Just real leaders having the conversations most people avoid.
The ones that don’t fit neatly into KPIs or 360s.
The ones that challenge you, stretch you and reconnect you to the reason you started leading in the first place.
This is leadership without beige.
Four nights. Off the grid, but not off-purpose.
Eight leaders who are ready to stop acting and start showing up.
Two experts who won’t give you answers — but will ask better questions.
If you’ve felt the nudge, that quiet internal shift, to break from the pack and do it your way…
This might just be your compass.