Where Growth-Minded Leaders Connect
Three days in Kananaskis. 325 leaders. Come for the content. Leave with a community.

Three days in Kananaskis. 325 leaders. Come for the content. Leave with a community.

BEx is a high-impact executive retreat experience designed exclusively for CEOs and senior executive leaders who need space to think, reset, and lead with clarity.
Away from the noise of day-to-day operations, BEx creates the conditions for deep strategic reflection, meaningful peer connection, and renewed leadership focus—so you return sharper, clearer, and energized to lead.
BEx is an intentional pause for leaders who carry the weight of the organization and are ready to lead the next chapter with clarity and conviction.
CEOs, Presidents, Founders, and senior executives of mid-sized Canadian companies. Leaders from construction, technology, professional services, healthcare, manufacturing, and beyond. What they share isn’t an industry. It’s the weight of the role.
At 325 attendees, BEx is large enough to expand your network and small enough that you’ll leave with real relationships – not business cards.
"Regardless of the industry that you’re in, I highly suggest coming out. You’re going to learn some things, build some strong connections, and have a lot of fun."
Michelle OkereExecutive Director, Indigenous Prosperity Foundation
Connex is where leadership teams align and momentum builds. Most impactful when the CEO attends alongside their leadership team. Individuals welcome.
It’s all about the people and the execution. If you miss BEx you are missing the best execution summit that I have ever been a part of.
The best way to understand BEx is to hear from the leaders who’ve been in that room.
“These speakers are so well chosen and impactful in our business that I’ve had at least five or six lightbulb moments. If you take all of that with you, you’ve got an opportunity to grow your business in a meaningful way, with a great network of people behind you.”
“Bex is learning how to do leadership the right way. Bex really elevates your focus on strategy—on what the company is doing in the long term, as opposed to what you’re doing in the company. As an executive, we can get caught up in transactional conversations”
“BEx is powerful & informative. What brought me originally was meeting like-minded leaders willing to share challenges, strategies, and successes. You can grow as a person, but more importantly, it’s all that information that you pick up personally – you can bring it back to your organization.”
It's all about meeting people. Because if you want to be incredible, you have to surround yourself with incredible people.
From Sunday arrival to Tuesday departure – here’s what those three days actually look like.
Sunday afternoon
You start your drive and the mountains take over.
By the time you arrive in Kananaskis, you know you're somewhere different.
Arrival
Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge.
Calm, focused, and just removed enough from the everyday that you can think clearly again.
Sunday — Champagne Welcome
Someone hands you a glass before you've set your bag down.
You glance around and recognize the type — leaders who didn't come here by accident.
Registration
People who showed up on purpose.
The Results team is ready. The energy in the room is already different.
Sunday Walk & Talk
A walk through the mountain air.
Or gathering around the fire pit. Either way — this is where real connections often begin.
Sunday afternoon
Candid conversations. New introductions.
A relaxed setting that makes it easy to talk. For those who came to make real connections, this is where it often begins.
Sunday evening — Welcome Reception
Cocktails. Appetizers. Conversation.
Before the program even begins, you're already meeting people you're glad you came to know.
325 business leaders. One room. Practical lessons. Real conversations. Insights from people who have actually built exceptional companies.
Monday, keynote
You open your workbook — not because you're supposed to.
Because you need somewhere to put the ideas.
Monday morning
These are not passive listeners.
The opening keynote sets the tone immediately.
Breakout Session
The room gets smaller.
Questions. Perspectives. A chance to have roundtable discussions with peers
BEx Connex
This is where insights turn into real conversations about your business.
Breakout sessions
Less theory. More working through it together.
Real challenges. Peer perspectives. Ideas exchanged between people navigating the same decisions.
Monday Evening
After a full day of learning, the evening shifts gears.
Great food. Great company. A room full of leaders who all showed up for the same reason.
Gala dinner
A chance to relax, connect, and celebrate.
Before the program even begins, you're already meeting people you're glad you came to know.
The final day shifts from learning to integration — turning ideas into clear next steps. Your workbook is nearly full.
Between sessions
Morning in the Rockies feels different.
The mountains are quiet. The air is sharp. It's the kind of setting that puts things in perspective.
Final breakout
Plans get clearer. Ideas get sharper.
A few commitments get spoken out loud. Execution starts here.
Departure
Grab-and-go lunch. Handshakes that mean something.
People exchange numbers, promise to stay connected, and begin the drive home through the mountains.
The question on everyone's mind isn't "Was it good?"
It's: What will I do differently tomorrow? Small, consistent improvements create meaningful results.
Because that's what BEx is about. Not just ideas. Results.
Every year, BEx brings in speakers selected specifically for what Canadian CEOs and executive leaders are navigating right now.

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
One of the most-booked keynote speakers in North America. McKeown made the case to BEx CEOs that the ability to say no - deliberately, strategically, without guilt - is the most underrated leadership skill in business today.

Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Harvard Business Review) Contributing editor at Harvard Business Review. Gallo gave BEx leaders a research-backed framework for navigating the difficult relationships that drain executive energy - the passive-aggressive colleague, the insecure boss, the credit-stealing peer - and turning those dynamics into productive ones.

This Is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters. Named one of the world's top leadership thinkers by Inc. Magazine. Dudley challenged the definition of leadership - away from titles and authority and toward the everyday moments where a leader changes someone's world without ever knowing it.

Influence Is Your Superpower (Yale School of Management). Yale professor and former Google executive. Chance showed BEx leaders that the most effective form of influence isn't pressure or persuasion - it's creating the conditions where people genuinely want to say yes. Highly practical, immediately applicable.

The Bold Ones: Innovate and Thrive When the Old Rules No Longer Apply. Saskatchewan-born, globally recognized innovation strategist. Kanungo challenged BEx attendees to stop treating disruption as a threat to manage and start treating it as a competitive advantage to pursue - with specific frameworks for building innovation into everyday execution.

Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve. Organizational psychologist at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Fragale's BEx session decoded the relationship between status and power - how leaders earn genuine authority, why likability and assertiveness aren't opposites, and how the most respected leaders in any room got there.

ASK: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You
Your team knows things you don't - and they're not telling you. Wetzler's keynote gave BEx CEOs a practical five-step method for unlocking the intelligence already inside their organizations by learning to ask the right questions in the right ways.

Gridiron Genius: A Master Class in Building Teams
Three Super Bowls. Thirty years alongside Bill Walsh, Al Davis, and Bill Belichick. Lombardi translated championship-level thinking about culture, talent, and organizational execution directly into the language of Canadian business leaders.

What's Your Problem? (Harvard Business Review Press)
Research shows 85% of companies struggle to solve the right problems. Wedell-Wedellsborg taught BEx attendees his reframing method - a deceptively simple technique for stepping back from the obvious solution and finding the problem worth solving.

Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending (UBC)
Professor of Psychology at UBC and one of the world's leading researchers on money and well-being. Dunn challenged BEx leaders to rethink how they invest - in their businesses, their teams, and their own lives - to maximize what actually matters.

Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies
Named one of America's Top 50 Leaders to Watch alongside Jeff Bezos and Sergey Brin. Spence distilled the six strategies behind every high-performing organization - Vivid Vision, Best People, Performance Culture, Robust Communication, Sense of Urgency, and Extreme Customer Focus - into frameworks BEx CEOs could apply the following Monday.

Blindsided! (Published in 80 countries)
Named TEC Canada's Speaker of the Year in 2024 - the largest CEO peer group in Canada. Harris challenged BEx leaders to confront the disruptive forces reshaping their industries before those forces arrived uninvited, with specific strategies for staying ahead of AI and exponential change.

The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire. Former Chief Learning Officer at GE. Eber showed BEx leaders how neuroscience explains why facts alone never change behaviour - and how the right story, told at the right moment, can shift a team's direction faster than any strategic plan.

Don't Feed the Elephants: Overcoming the Art of Avoidance
Wilson challenged BEx executives to confront the conversations they've been avoiding - the ones about underperformance, misalignment, and culture - and gave them practical tools for having those conversations in a way that builds trust rather than breaking it.

Olympic Gold Medalist, Advocate, Author
1992 Olympic gold medalist in swimming. Tewksbury brought the psychology of peak performance to BEx - how elite athletes train for pressure, manage adversity, and maintain the discipline to execute when everything is on the line.

World-class ice climber, Red Bull athlete
The only person to have ice climbed both the Niagara Falls and the glaciers of Kilimanjaro. Gadd's BEx keynote reframed risk - how leaders assess it, manage it, and use it to move toward goals that most people never attempt.

The Power of Healthy Tension. Complexity expert and facilitator. Arnold gave BEx executives a framework for leading through competing priorities - the tensions between short-term and long-term, people and results, stability and growth - without defaulting to false either/or choices.

Olympic Silver Medalist, Author of The 4 Year Olympian
Went from a complete beginner to Olympic silver medalist in rowing in four years. Brown's session explored what it means to commit fully to an outcome you're not yet qualified to achieve - and the leadership lessons that come from building belief before having proof.
Three days in the Canadian Rockies. A luxury mountain lodge. This isn’t a conference hotel – it’s the ultimate retreat.
A place to step out of your day-to-day and into the kind of setting that resets how you think, work, and connect.
Early bird pricing ends September 1. This event sells out every year.
BEx brings together CEOs, Presidents, Founders, and senior executives of mid-sized companies. You’ll find leaders from construction, technology, professional services, manufacturing, healthcare, and beyond. What they share isn’t an industry. It’s the weight of the role and a commitment to leading well.
At 325 attendees, BEx is large enough to expand your network and small enough that you’ll leave with real relationships, not business cards.
Most conferences put you in a seat and talk at you. BEx is built around the reality that the most valuable leadership development happens in conversation with peers who understand what you’re carrying — not in a ballroom listening to someone who doesn’t.
The programming is deliberately designed to create conditions for those conversations: structured peer connection sessions (BEx Connex), intimate breakout groups, and an entire evening gala designed for real relationship-building.
BEx continues to sell out before we announce a single speaker.
""There’s literally no downside to this leadership conference. The return on investment will be seen time over time. So absolutely do it.”
Rick HarperCEO, Truckzone
Most leadership events optimize for scale — big rooms, sponsor logos, and content that has to appeal to everyone, which means it speaks directly to no one.
BEx is built for one audience: leaders who carry the full weight of an organization. The speakers are selected for their relevance to that specific experience. The peer sessions are structured so that conversations go somewhere. The environment — three days in the Canadian Rockies, away from your inbox and your team — removes the distractions that make reflection impossible at home.
Our net promoter score is among the highest of any leadership event in Canada. Our return rate says more: a significant share of our attendees come back year after year, not because they have to, but because they haven’t found anything that replaces it.
The honest answer: if your business can’t function for 2 days without you, that’s exactly the conversation BEx will help you have.
For most leaders, the real cost of attending isn’t the ticket or the time away. It’s the difficulty of giving yourself permission to think — without a deliverable, without a team needing a decision, without the noise of operations.
BEx is built specifically for that. Two days of uninterrupted strategic thinking, peer conversation, and new frameworks is the kind of investment that changes the next quarter, not just your mood for a week. The leaders who’ve been to BEx consistently report that the decisions made in those mountains — about strategy, team structure, succession, culture — far outweighed the cost of being away.
Past BEx programming has covered:
Beyond the keynotes, three structured workshop sessions go deeper on application — not just ideas, but how to actually use them in your organization.
General Admission includes: four keynote speakers, three workshop sessions, all meals and receptions (Sunday welcome reception, Monday gala dinner and entertainment, breakfasts and lunches), a BEx workbook, post-event access to a 30-day speaker portal with all keynote recordings, preferential pricing if you return the following year, and access to all Results-hosted leadership events throughout the year (most are free).
VIP Admission adds: Sunday access to the Kananaskis Nordic Spa, the Black Diamond Club private concierge experience, and an intimate pre-conference lunch at Two Trees Bistro — the single best way to build deep relationships before the main event starts.
BEx is intentionally designed so you won’t feel like you’re arriving alone. Sunday is built around making real connections before the programming even begins. The afternoon starts with an optional nature walk and relaxed s’mores gathering—easy, low-pressure ways to start meeting people. That evening, a champagne welcome reception with assigned seating and guided conversation activities helps break the ice so no one is left wondering who to talk to. BEx Ambassadors are there throughout to introduce people and help spark conversations.
By the time Monday morning arrives, you won’t feel like a newcomer—you’ll already have a handful of familiar faces, shared moments, and conversations you’re excited to continue.
BEx is designed as a peer experience, not a marketplace for business development. The leaders who attend come to learn from one another, share openly, and grow alongside peers facing similar challenges—not to sell to each other.
We also take practical steps to protect that culture. BEx publishes the attendee list in advance—names and companies only—so you can understand who will be in the room and set your own intentions for the experience before you arrive. Your personal contact information is never shared without your consent, and you decide who you choose to connect with afterward.
Most importantly, the culture at BEx has been shaped over more than a decade by the people who attend. It’s a community of leaders who show up with curiosity, generosity, and a willingness to learn from one another—not to deliver pitches.
Yes. Social tickets are available at a separate low cost and include all meals including attending Sunday evening’s welcome reception and Monday’s gala dinner and entertainment. It makes for a genuinely memorable mountain getaway alongside the professional experience.
See 2027 details & pricing, and purchase a social ticket at registration.
Arrive Sunday afternoon — the optional walk and s’mores start at 3:30 PM, champagne welcome at 4:00 PM. Tuesday’s programming wraps at 12:30 PM with a grab-and-go lunch, putting you home in time for dinner.
The Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge — a luxury resort in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, 75 minutes from Calgary and 4 hours from Edmonton. Once you register for BEx, you’ll receive a link to book your room at our discounted group rate. We recommend booking early, as rooms do sell out and the Black Diamond Club (VIP wing) typically goes first.
Results Business Consultants is a Canadian business consulting firm with 25+ years of experience in leadership development. BEx started in 2015 as a small mountain retreat. It has grown into a 325-person annual event with a sold-out track record and one of the highest net promoter scores in Canadian executive events.
We built BEx because we believe there is no problem so great that it can’t be solved by bringing the right people together. Ten years later, that belief holds.
Contact Nicole Romaniuk, our Community Engagement Director, directly at info@UnleashResults.com. Nicole knows BEx inside-out, has answers to questions we haven’t thought of yet, and genuinely loves connecting with new people. She’ll get back to you fast.
BEx was founded by Results Business Consultants in 2015 to bring Western Canada’s top executive leaders together for three days of strategic thinking, peer connection, and renewed leadership focus.
Since 2015, leading Western Canadian organizations have partnered with Results to make BEx possible.
Interested in joining us as an event partner for BEx? Contact us for more information.
A brief timeline of BEx history
The inaugural BEx was held at the iconic Banff Springs Hotel, with John Spence as our keynote speaker. A bold beginning that set the tone for the years to come.
There was no BEx in 2016. Despite efforts to bring together John Spence and David Irving, there simply wasn’t enough time to make it happen. A reminder of the importance of planning and timing.
With just hours to go before a potential cancellation, a last-minute sponsorship from Stacy Adams at Direct Tec saved BEx. But even with support, BEx ran at a loss. That experience pushed us to rethink everything – we introduced a “kill criteria,” refined our event model, and began pursuing new partnerships.
Seeking a more intimate atmosphere, we moved BEx to the newly renovated Kananaskis Mountain Lodge. The change paid off – BEx18 sold out by Christmas 2017.
Just hours before departure, we had to cancel due to COVID-19 restrictions. But out of disruption came innovation — we launched the Unleashed Leadership Podcast and hosted virtual leadership sessions to fill the gap.
To continue serving our community, we hosted a 3-hour immersive virtual workshop led by Sarah Knoll Wilson. Designed for BEx 2020 registrants, it helped leaders navigate constant change and uncertainty with confidence and clarity.
Post-pandemic, the energy was electric. BEx22 was completely sold out, with a packed house and a high-impact lineup of keynote speakers. The BEx community was back – stronger than ever.
We reached a milestone – BEx25 sold out before we even announced a single speaker. Demand is so high that we introduced BEx Connex – a one-day, leadership experience in both Edmonton & Calgary designed to connect senior leaders and rising managers closer to home.
Early bird pricing ends September 1. This event sells out every year.
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