Vision Into Velocity 2027
A strategic retreat on K'gari for women in business
Friday Oct 8 - Monday Oct 11
Three days of thinking. Twelve months of clarity.
Space to think, and a plan to show for it
You're accomplished. You've built something that matters. But somewhere between client work and everything else a full life asks of you, the bigger picture has gone a little blurry. The vision that once felt sharp has softened at the edges, and you haven't had a proper stretch of time to think strategically about where you're heading in longer than you'd care to admit.
That's what this is for. Three days on K'gari with a small group of women in the same season of building, away from the desk and the noise, with the space to think clearly and the structure to turn that thinking into a plan.
You'll leave with a personalised twelve-month strategic roadmap. Not vague goals or a generic framework, but a month-by-month plan built around your business, your priorities and the real shape of your life. The kind of plan you can follow when you're back at your desk and the week is coming at you.
What Makes Vision Into Velocity Different
Plenty of retreats send you home inspired and unsure what to do on Monday. This one is built the other way around. The restoration is real, the setting does half the work, but you come back with something concrete in your hands.
With a small cohort, every session is shaped around where you actually are. Your work starts before you arrive, with a pre-retreat strategy session, so we're straight into the substance from day one. By the time you leave, you'll have:
A personalised twelve-month roadmap with a clear focus for each month, so you always know what you're working on and why.
The success blocks that have been quietly slowing you down, named, with practical tools to move past them.
A momentum system built around how you actually work, not how productivity advice says you should.
Lasting connections with a handful of women who understand the season you're in, formed through real conversation rather than networking.
Your Retreat Guides
Vision Into Velocity is led by Lizzie Macaulay and Kylie Brennan, who bring strategic clarity and mindset work together so you leave with both the plan and the means to follow it.
Kylie Brennan: Mindset & Impact Coach
Kylie helps ambitious women unlock their potential by working with what's happening beneath the surface. She's become known for helping successful women find and move past the hidden blocks that keep them stuck. Her approach pairs deep mindset work with practical tools, so you don't just understand why you get in your own way, you leave able to change it.
At Vision Into Velocity, Kylie is the one facilitating the breakthroughs: separating the blocks from the vision, working with the inner critic, and making sure the plans you build aren't quietly undermined by old patterns. Her strength is creating a space where accomplished women can be honest about what's hard, and discover that what felt like personal failings are common patterns with clear ways through.
Lizzie Macaulay: Communications & Business Strategist
Lizzie is the founder of Bigger Picture Business Solutions and a communications and business strategist who helps women turn a big vision into a plan they can follow. She built her reputation on strategy work that fits the real business and the real life around it, not a formula borrowed from someone else.
At Vision Into Velocity, Lizzie brings the strategic frameworks and the focus on implementation. She's the one who helps you translate vision into concrete action, keeps the plan grounded in the reality of building something while living a full life, and makes sure you leave with a roadmap you can hold yourself to. Her strength is taking a tangled set of challenges and making them clear, ordered and doable.
Why This Partnership Works
Real change needs both halves. You can have the perfect plan, but if hidden blocks are undermining it, you won't move. You can have every mindset breakthrough going, but without strategic direction you're just busy.
Lizzie and Kylie built Vision Into Velocity to hold both at once, so you leave with clear plans and the tools to act on them. Lizzie's grounded pragmatism and Kylie's depth balance one another, and the result is an experience that's both practical and profound.
YOUR 12-MONTH STRATEGIC ROADMAP
Here's what sets Vision Into Velocity apart from other retreats: you don't just leave inspired, you leave with a complete, personalised strategic roadmap for the next twelve months.
This isn't a planning template you could download. It's a month-by-month handbook built entirely around your business, your vision, your challenges and your real circumstances.
What Your Roadmap Includes:
Monthly focus areas, so you always know the priority in front of you.
Quarterly milestones, to measure progress without getting lost in the day-to-day.
Implementation sequences, the order to tackle things, because doing everything at once is how nothing gets done.
Obstacle navigation, the challenges you're likely to meet and how to handle them.
Decision-making frameworks, to weigh the opportunities that arise and stay focused on what matters.
Energy and momentum strategies, built around your patterns so you keep moving.
Re-entry strategies, to protect your clarity once everyday life resumes.
The roadmap is built collaboratively across the three days. Your pre-retreat session with Lizzie lays the foundation, the group work helps you identify your blocks and design your momentum, and your one-on-one time pulls it all together. By Monday, you're holding a guide for the next twelve months. One participant called it "a strategic business partner in my pocket for the entire year."
Your Retreat Setting: Kingfisher Bay Resort, K'gari
There are few better places to think than a World Heritage island. Kingfisher Bay Resort pairs quiet luxury with the kind of natural surroundings that loosen your thinking: white beaches, ancient rainforest, and the bay turning gold as the sun goes down.
Your private king room is a calm place to reflect, and the resort offers plenty of spots for both focused work and easy conversation. From beachside walks to poolside planning, the setting is part of the method, not just the backdrop.
A Special Evening Experience
As part of the retreat, you'll see Illumina, K'gari's story told through light, laser and projection. It's a striking way to spend an evening, and a fitting counterpoint to the work you're doing on your own next chapter.
OFFICIAL EVENT PARTNERS…
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EmpowerHer Conference
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Guseli Design
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Inspire Associates and Co
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Boxful Events
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Evervessel
What's Included in Your Vision Into Velocity Experience:
When you reserve your place, you're investing in a complete experience, from the preparation before you arrive to the plan you carry home.
Before You Arrive:
A comprehensive pre-retreat questionnaire to capture where you are, what's challenging you and where you want to go.
A focused one-hour session with Kylie, to clear the hidden block that quietly holds you back and arrive on K'gari with real clarity, confidence and presence
A private 60-minute strategy session with Lizzie, so your foundation work is underway before you set foot on the island.
Preparation materials to help you get the most from your three days.
During the Retreat:
Three nights' luxury accommodation at Kingfisher Bay Resort, single occupancy, your own quiet sanctuary.
Most meals from Friday dinner through to Monday breakfast, plus refreshments throughout.
Six facilitated group sessions across the three days, each shaped around your cohort.
A personal one-on-one session with Lizzie.
The Illumina light experience on Saturday evening.
A beautifully designed printed workbook and planning materials, yours to keep.
An implementation toolkit of frameworks, templates and guides.
What You'll Leave With:
Your complete twelve-month strategic roadmap, personalised, detailed and actionable.
A clear 90-day action plan with milestones.
A momentum toolkit built around your patterns.
Your success blocks named, with practical tools to move past them.
A clearer understanding of your communication style and how to use it.
A steadier relationship with your inner critic.
A re-entry plan for holding your momentum at home.
Lasting connections with the women who shared the room.
Digital resources and templates for the work that follows.
This is a strategic reset with real restoration built in. Every element is there to support both the breakthroughs in the room and the work that comes after.
THE WEEKEND AWAY IS JUST THE BEGINNING…
What our 2025 participants said about their Vision Into Velocity experience:
Your Investment in Clarity and Direction
There's never a perfect moment to step back like this. There's always a deadline, a commitment, a reason to wait. But the women who go on to build something extraordinary tend to understand one thing: sometimes you choose yourself first.
If you can see yourself leaving K'gari with a twelve-month roadmap and the clarity to follow it, we'd love to have you in the room.
New Participants:
Regular rate: $3,000
Bring a Buddy:
$2,600 per person when you register together
(Perfect for business partners, colleagues, or friends on similar journeys)
Alumni Rate:
$2,500 for Vision Into Velocity 2025 and 2026 graduates
Payment plans are available, with the details set at registration to suit you.
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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October is a good time to step back and find clarity before the year-end rush. You'll return with clear direction and a practical plan, ready to finish the year well and start the next with purpose.
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It's a strong fit if you're an established businesswoman or leader ready for your next level of impact, and you want both strategic clarity and real restoration. You value practical outcomes as much as the experience, and you want real connection with like-minded women rather than another networking event. It's probably not the right fit if you're just starting out and need different foundations first, if you prefer large groups with little individual attention, or if you're after motivation rather than a plan you can act on.
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You get two expert perspectives, mindset and strategy, in a small group that allows real individual attention, in a setting designed for clear thinking. And the focus is on implementation, so you leave with concrete steps, not just inspiration.
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Your best thinking rarely happens at your desk. Three focused days can save you months of uncertainty and move you forward faster, and October is an ideal point to reset before year-end.
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If life intervenes, we offer a full refund less a $250 AUD administration fee if you cancel more than 90 days before the retreat, a 50 per cent refund between 60 and 90 days before, and no refund inside 60 days, though you're welcome to transfer your place to someone else or apply your payment to our next retreat.
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We'll send a detailed packing list closer to the date, but think comfortable casual clothing for the sessions, something nice for the Saturday evening Illumina experience, swimmers, walking shoes if you'd like to explore, and a few layers for the evenings. October on K'gari is usually warm by day and pleasant by night.