2026 CFO Retreat: Ignite Your Leadership

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If you’d like to be added to the waitlist, please email Kaleigh White Smolinski, PhD at kaleighsmolinski@misbo.com. Should space become available, we’ll reach out in the order requests are received. April 2026 | A 3.5-Day Transformational Experience for Independent School CFOs

Welcome to ThinqShift x MISBO: The Fabulous Leader Retreat

April 2026 | A 3.5-Day Transformational Experience for Independent School CFOs

Your operating environment is VUCA—volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. AI is reshaping finance and operations. Expectations from boards, audit partners, employees, and families are shifting faster than policies can update.

The World Needs Fabulous Leaders

Your operating environment is VUCA—volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. AI is reshaping finance and operations. Expectations from boards, audit partners, employees, and families are shifting faster than policies can update.

In this context, technical finance expertise is necessary—but not sufficient. This is not Finance 101. The CFOs who will thrive are those who can:

Redefine success on their own terms and for their institutions

Lead with personal power, not just positional authority

Stay cognitively adaptable and whole-brain in how they analyze, decide, and influence.

This retreat is designed to grow those leaders.

This experience is a win for both you & your school:

Why it matters for you?

Elevate from financial expert to institutional strategist—with a sharper leadership narrative, board-level influence, and cross-functional credibility.

Gain advanced tools and frameworks (Thinq360, Fabulous Leadership, 4 Voice Model) to navigate scenario planning, trade-offs, and change with more confidence and less burnout.

Why it matters for your school?

Positions the finance office as a driver of sustainability and culture, not just compliance and reporting.

Translates megatrends (AI, enrollment volatility, workforce shifts, VUCA dynamics) into actionable financial strategy—multi-year modeling, risk mitigation, and decisions that improve employee experience and student outcomes.

FROM A PAST ATTENDEE:
“attending this conference was a life changing moment for me. I so appreciate having been put into a place of discomfort and real learning as an adult! Our roles are primarily centered around people... people we lead with, people we collaborate with, and people within our organizations who need mentoring/training/guidance in their professional journeys. All of these human interactions involve different levels of complexity, and speaking personally, I am certain that the knowledge gained will be of significance as I better understand not only how or why folks think, respond, and prioritize what they say and do, but more importantly, why my thoughts and actions lean in one way or the other (and how to adjust them to best serve the people I engage with!!)”

What Is ThinqShift?

We help fabulous people do the hard stuff—creating focus, then shifting mindsets, behaviors, and culture across teams and organizations. We specialize in accelerating your top 10%—because identifying high performers isn’t enough; you have to invest in them.

We deliver a performance acceleration experience tailored for senior finance leaders and rising controllers/operations executives—and now we’re partnering with MISBO to bring this work to you.

About the Retreat

An immersive experience built for independent school CFOs and finance leaders. Step out of the day-to-day to reflect, reset, and rewire your leadership for the future of work and the future of school finance.

This goes beyond traditional finance training. You’ll apply whole-brain leadership models like Thinq360 and the Fabulous Leadership Framework to CFO realities: multi-year forecasting, tuition strategy and affordability, compensation and total rewards, capital planning and facilities, auxiliary revenue, risk and controls, technology ROI, and board engagement. Vipul Kapadia -- As ThinqShift's CEO, Vipul Kapadia is the driving force behind their leadership experiences. A visionary speaker, creator, and facilitator, Vips is dedicated to empowering exceptional leaders and high-performing executives to reach their next level of greatness.

Speaker

Vipul Kapadia -- As ThinqShift's CEO, Vipul Kapadia is the driving force behind their leadership experiences. A visionary speaker, creator, and facilitator, Vips is dedicated to empowering exceptional leaders and high-performing executives to reach their next level of greatness.

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