The Real Edge Retreat
Three days on the water. Space to hear what urgency has been drowning out. Clarity that changes how you lead when you return.
Squam Lake, Holderness, NH | June & September 2026
Arrive Performing. Leave Real.
And the difference follows you into the boardroom, the hard conversations, and the decisions that used to keep you up at night.
You already know what you need.
You just haven't been still enough to hear it.
Your Own Thinking
You have spent a career listening outward. To markets, to boards, to everyone else’s urgency. You haven’t heard your own thinking in years. Not because you’re not smart. Because you haven’t been quiet long enough to listen. Here, the noise drops. And what surfaces is the intuition and knowing that speed has been drowning out.
Real Energy
Most leaders mistake activation for aliveness. Running on cortisol and calling it commitment. You know the difference because you can feel it: the gap between performing energy and having energy. Here, your body remembers what restoration actually feels like. And the leaders who find that again are not softer. They are sharper. Clearer. Harder to rattle.
The Capacity to Stay
Stillness is not rest. It is where the sharpest strategic thinking lives, once urgency stops drowning it out. Stop long enough to hear what you’ve been overriding, and what emerges is the clearest thinking you’ve had in years. The kind of discernment that changes the quality of every decision you make when you return.
Honest Sight
The discomfort you’ve been managing is not the problem. It is the data. When you can finally stay with tension instead of solving for it, the fog clears. You see what is actually true. What needs to change. What you’ve known all along but couldn’t access at speed.
I came running on cortisol and performing my way through exhaustion. I left with real energy and a way of leading that my team felt immediately.
You might not have the words for it yet
But You'll Recognize This
● You are successful by most external measures, and yet something essential has gone quiet inside.
● You are making decisions faster than ever, and trusting them less.
● The exhaustion is not from working too hard. It is from performing too long.
● You have started wondering whether the version of you that people see is the version that is actually there.
● You do not need more information. You need access to what you already know.
● You are craving something more real, even if you would not use that word yet.
Your Guide
Dr. Camille Preston
PhD in Psychology · APA International Best Dissertation Award · Adjunct Faculty, Center for Creative Leadership
Every participant gets individual time with a business psychologist who has spent 20 years working with leaders at your level, seeing your specific situation with fresh eyes.
Camille is not a facilitator running a program. She is the psychologist who names the pattern you’ve been living inside of. The strategist who sees three moves ahead. The coach whose one question stops you mid-sentence. Or simply the person across the table who says: I don’t think you were joking when you said that.
She holds a doctorate in psychology (APA International Best Dissertation Award), has served as adjunct faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership, and has worked with C-suite leaders at Google, GE, Novartis, Fidelity, and over 100 other organizations. And she is a closet nerd who lights up when neuroscience confirms what her gut already knew.
“Camille was vital to my growth during the most tumultuous year of my life. I immediately felt I was talking to someone who cared about me versus someone putting me through a corporate coaching process.”
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Eight leaders. One business psychologist. Three days.
No slides. No binders. No performance expected. The lake, the trails, the long New Hampshire evenings. These do the first layer of work before Camille says a word.
This retreat is intimate by design. A brief conversation with Camille before you arrive ensures the right people are in the room, because who you sit alongside matters as much as the work itself. That conversation is also your chance to decide whether this is the right moment for you.\
Three Days
Arrive Performing. Leave Real
Arrive
You carry in speed and the posture of always being on. The lake begins the work before anyone says a word. By evening, you are around a table with people who understand your world without you having to explain it.
Go Deeper
The real conversations become possible. Facilitated work with Camille. Individual coaching where she sees what you cannot. Patterns become visible. Clarity starts to replace fog.
Carry It Home
One practice, not five, that you are carrying home. You leave different. Your team will notice before you say a word.
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“It wasn’t just my organization and work life that thrived; my family life improved, too. Coaching with Camille changed my life in every way.”
The Experience
What's Included
The Work
— Individual session with Dr. Camille Preston
— Facilitated experiences designed for depth, not information
— Conversations that go where most cannot
— Post-retreat follow-up to make sure what shifted stays shifted
The Setting
— Rustic accommodations on Squam Lake
— Meals, crafted for connection, not networking
— Long New Hampshire evenings
— Access to hiking trails, paddling, tennis, yoga, and swimming
When & Where
Squam Lake, Holderness, New Hampshire
Early Summer
June 2026
Early Fall
September 2026
One Conversation to Start
If something here stopped you, the next step is a brief, honest conversation with Camille. Not a sales call. A real one.
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