A day well lived
Find Your Community. Change Your Perspective.
Mutiny Retreats creates experiences that inspire better thinking, build meaningful relationships, and help people return to their work with renewed clarity.
Why Mutiny Retreats Exists
The strongest ideas rarely emerge from repeating the same conversations in the same places.
Mutiny Retreats was created to give leaders, teams, and creatives an intentional alternative: a space where unfamiliar environments, exceptional local culture, and thoughtful facilitation make new forms of conversation possible.
Every experience is designed to be restorative without becoming passive and strategic without feeling like another day in a conference room.
How We Work
Four Principles
A consistent set of commitments shapes every Mutiny, whether it is a single day or a multi-day journey.
01
Immersive Local Culture
Use the food, landscape, architecture, people, and traditions of the destination to shift perspective.
02
Intentional Practice
Create a rhythm of exploration, conversation, reflection, and connection.
03
Professional Facilitation
Offer the right level of structure to help groups make progress without overwhelming the experience.
04
Looking Outward
Engage with people, organizations, and contexts beyond the team’s normal environment.
We Start With You
Learn about our planning process here →
Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico
“You have an eye for finding us the best experiences! What a great trip.”
Wendy, Principal UX Designer
What we Believe
A Point of View
These are the trade-offs that guide every decision we make.
01 Thoughtful over excessive
02 Local over generic
03 Small groups over crowds
04 Meaningful access over tourism
05 Conversation over presentation
06 Outcomes over activity
07 Community over networking
08 Transformation over escape
Kris
Founder & Innovation Strategist
Networking is a habit, not a strategy. Collect enough contacts, enough cards, and trust is supposed to follow. It doesn’t.
Real connection takes time, a shared table, a shared problem. It’s the thing I’ve seen work in every room I’ve been in.
Community over networking. It’s not a tagline — it’s the lesson, and belief, that Mutiny Retreats is built on.
At Hopscotch Labs, the consultancy I’ve run for a decade, that meant taking clients into customers’ homes — the kind of context a video call can’t offer. It’s also what sent me to emerging markets, where banking, entertainment, and behavior shift with context.
At Amazon, the same instinct overcame a saturated home market that stopped producing new ideas through a workshop series, held around the country, that moved an entire product suite forward. I worked with our business coaches the same way — they stopped being seen as tech support and became business partners.
At AIGA/NY, I co-chaired a mentoring program of 120+ participants a year; pairs are still connected to this day. At SDXD, I led five years of events—60+ of them—building the mechanisms that turned members into a real network we can count on.
Mutiny Retreats exists to build that pattern, deliberately, every time.
Focus Areas
Also leads an innovation practice.
Kris
Founder & Innovation Strategist
Networking is a habit, not a strategy. Collect enough contacts, enough cards, and trust is supposed to follow. It doesn’t.
Real connection takes time, a shared table, a shared problem. It’s the thing I’ve seen work in every room I’ve been in.
Community over networking. It’s not a tagline — it’s the lesson, and belief, that Mutiny Retreats is built on.
At Hopscotch Labs, the consultancy I’ve run for a decade, that meant taking clients into customers’ homes — the kind of context a video call can’t offer. It’s also what sent me to emerging markets, where banking, entertainment, and behavior shift with context.
At Amazon, the same instinct overcame a saturated home market that stopped producing new ideas through a workshop series, held around the country, that moved an entire product suite forward. I worked with our business coaches the same way — they stopped being seen as tech support and became business partners.
At AIGA/NY, I co-chaired a mentoring program of 120+ participants a year; pairs are still connected to this day. At SDXD, I led five years of events—60+ of them—building the mechanisms that turned members into a real network we can count on.
Mutiny Retreats exists to build that pattern, deliberately, every time.
Focus Areas
Also leads an innovation practice.
