Calling all soon-to and recently retired EY PPMDs (and PLUS ONEs)
Navigate Your Professional and Personal Transition
at MEA’s Rising Circle Ranch in Santa Fe
Sep 5 - Sep 8, 2025 Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Chip Conley and retired EY PPMDs Mike Kanazawa and Jeff Stier
Embrace your next chapter with clarity, confidence, and purpose
As you prepare and plan for life after EY, how do you reconnect with who you are – beyond the roles, responsibilities, and rhythms that once defined your days?
And how do you begin to shape a life for you, your spouse, or life partner that feels more than just accomplished, it feels... deeply fulfilling, intentional, exciting, and joyful?
Leaving EY offers you a rare and meaningful opportunity to reset. To pause, reflect, and reimagine what’s next – whether that means pursuing new passions, exploring purposeful work, or simply redefining success on your own terms.
Join MEA founder and bestselling author Chip Conley and a team of former EY PPMDs for a transformative three-day experience at Rising Circle Ranch in the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Surrounded by natural beauty and a like-minded community, you will gain powerful tools to rediscover purpose, design your next chapter together, and embrace this new season of life with clarity, curiosity, and courage.
Designed and facilitated by former EY PPMDs.
This MEA program is designed to complement EY’s Future Directions and other transition programs and bridge professional transition with personal renewal. It offers you–and if you choose to bring a +1–space is designed to complement reflect, reframe, and design your next chapter with intention and insight – all on a spectacular 5,000-acre ranch in Santa Fe.
Here are just a few of the highlights!
Plus, you'll experience all of this with a cohort of thoughtful PPMDs and EDs from EY who are navigating similar transitions. The trusted relationships you'll form will support and inspire you for years to come.
Brought to you in partnership with MEA, which has been heralded by The New York Times as the “world’s first midlife wisdom school." MEA's science-backed curriculum was created in collaboration with experts from Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Yale, and offers proven tools, practices, and support to help you navigate transitions and thrive in the second half of life.
Meet your faculty
Michael Kanazawa
Former EY principal and equity partner - Innovation Realized Global Leader at EY / Trusted Board Member / Author / Founder
Michael is a former EY partner, strategist, and entrepreneur focused on helping others reach their full potential by unlocking their natural strengths and human ingenuity. He is co-author of “Big Ideas to Big Results” ( FT Press / Pearson) that serves as a playbook for transformation leadership.
After building and selling the innovation firm Bedrock to EY, he spent a decade leading global innovation and transformation initiatives. Today, he teaches at USC’s Iovine and Young Academy, where he leads a Venture Studio supporting emerging startups focused on the Future of Human Potential.
Michael is also a creative storyteller and musician, developing a documentary on the roots of American music that came out of Hawaii’s plantation era. He believes the transition from executive to what’s next isn’t an ending, but an opening to a more meaningful chapter of greater creativity and impact.
Jeffrey Stier
Former EY America’s Lead of:
- The Strategic Purpose and Vision Realized Practice:
- The People Sustainability Practice;
- The Global EY-Sinek Performance Practice
At EY Jeff was a Managing Director for 14 years whose work was 100% committed to help people, teams and individuals reach for their unique remarkable.
4 months after his career at EY wrapped, Jeff co-founded with fellow EY alum Woody Driggs www.VisiVera.com, A Growth Accelerator to Navigate the Trust Recession. VisiVera works with CEOs, boards and executive teams to build the “trust” skills, mindsets and leadership techniques required to mitigate the distrust that is seeping into and disrupting many aspects of today’s business operations address the foundational challenges. This includes building and maintaining higher trusting, belonging and productive teams and cultures; accelerating innovation; catalyzing greater customer sales and employee loyalty.
Jeff is a frequent speaker on topics that include: The Neuroscience of Loyalty; The New Covenant; High Belonging Teams; The Art & Science of Inspiring Leadership and more.
In 2014 Jeff was recognized by Consulting Magazine as a Top 25 consultant in North America
His TedX talk-- “Lessons in Purpose from the Paleolithic Age: how to become a beloved brand and a beloved leader following the ‘Law of Infusion of Purpose”—has been seen and reviewed around the world.
Chip Conley
MEA Co-Founder | Former Airbnb Head of Global Hospitality | Bestselling Author of : PEAK, Wisdom at Work, and Learning to Love Midlife
Chip Conley is a three-time TED speaker on the big stage and one of the world's leading experts at the intersection of business innovation, psychology, and spirituality.
As founder of the second largest boutique hotel chain in America and "modern elder" to the young Airbnb founders, Chip is a globally-recognized thought leader on the future of work and the competitive advantages of a multi-generational workplace. He serves on the board of Encore.org and the advisory board for the Stanford Center for Longevity.
Chip was inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a “modern elder” at Airbnb – where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary success – to found MEA (Modern Elder Academy).
He and the MEA team are a mission to disrupt the aging industry by giving people the tools they need to thrive in midlife and beyond and create long, healthy, purposeful lives for themselves.
This workshop is for you if...
You’re a soon-to or recently retired EY professional who's looking for clarity into your next chapter
You still have so much to offer the world and are looking for your next “big thing”
You're ready to harness your decades of experience to make a meaningful impact in the world
You want to get into sync with your spouse or life partner, and align on the next phase of your professional and personal life that you will travel together
You have big dreams you’ve often thought about exploring but have yet had the opportunity to pursue
You're excited to redefine “retirement” on your own terms and create a post-career life that delights and fulfills you
Santa Fe, USA
Rising Circle Ranch
An upscale regenerative ranch featuring traditional Pueblo architecture and spanning nearly 2,600 acres of wildlife, hiking trails in the arroyo, with ancient petroglyphs, and awe-inspiring beauty. Close to historic Santa Fe, an artisan’s mecca.
Plus, you’ll get to enjoy Equine Assisted Learning Exclusive to Santa Fe Workshops
Experience breakthrough learning with our Equine Assisted Learning program, where horses—our millennia-old wisdom partners—will help us understand our true selves. Guided by facilitators Lee Johnson and Sue Izzo on our own Rising Circle Ranch, this non-riding interaction with horses offers self-discovery through intention-setting, observation, and group discussion.
It’s a powerful enhancement to your workshop experience that will make you feel more profoundly connected to yourself and to the world around you.
Are you ready to explore what's truly possible in your next chapter?
People come for the workshops,
and stay for the community
This is truly MEA’s “secret sauce” and something you can only experience in person: the powerful connections you will make, not only with your fellow participants and the incredible MEA faculty, but also the deeper sense of connection you will feel to your own inner self and the natural world around you.
Research into aging shows that your relationships play a HUGE role in your health and wellbeing later in life. At MEA, you will make deep and lasting connections and become part of a larger community that will make your life richer and more meaningful.
Many of our alumni cohorts have stayed in close touch for years after their workshop and we have a growing number of local alumni chapters all over the world. It’s a joy for us to see them continuing to offer each other community, friendship, and support as they create thriving midlives for themselves. So if you have been feeling at all disconnected or isolated on your journey, we would love to have you join us!
Have we mentioned the food?
The MEA experience is designed in part by Chip Conley, a world-renowned boutique hotelier, which means the food is amazing.
All of the ingredients are locally sourced, organic, and made from scratch in our kitchens by hand-picked chefs. The delicious breakfasts, lunches and dinners will leave you feeling nourished inside and out – not to mention the blended drinks made with fresh fruit and other top-shelf ingredients.
Each retreat center has multiple kitchens that always have snacks and beverages available. At MEA, we believe that thriving is delicious!
Your Workshop Includes
Single Occupancy Rate
$3,600 per person
Double Occupancy Rate
$4,900 per couple
Ready to start your journey?
Navigate Your Professional or Personal Transition
at MEA's Rising Circle Ranch
Sep 5 - Sep 8, 2025 Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Chip Conley and retired EY PPMDs Mike Kanazawa and Jeff Stier
Step into your next chapter with confidence and ease, knowing that every detail of your experience is being taken care of by our world-class faculty and hospitality team.
$3,600 per single occupant
$4,900 per couple
