Build Your Own Rare Room™ / Live cohort

Hosting is leadership.
Become the market maker.

Create a gathering that gives valuable people a reason to meet, helps them trust one another, and gives the relationship somewhere to go. Build a new path into a market, referrals, partnerships, or client conversations.

$3,500 per participant · Three-week live sprint · Maximum 12 participants

From rainmaker to market maker

Give your relationships a place to become useful.

You have expertise and people who respect it. You want to enter a new market, deepen customer relationships, build partnerships, or make referrals more intentional. Becoming the convener gives you a way to bring those people together around a purpose.

The cost of another vague gathering can be weeks of preparation, a guest list with no shared reason to be there, and promising conversations that never become a next meeting. Here, you work on the business behind the room.

Room + revenue purpose

Define what needs to move, who belongs, and why they would care. Shape the concept, format, guest criteria, and invitation.

Trust + leadership

Design the flow, norms, questions, and signature moment. Practice leading participation and making a useful ask.

Follow-through + opportunity

Connect the room to your offers, introductions, referrals, and partnerships. Name the next steps, owners, and measures.

Your working plan

Leave with a room you can put into motion.

Live work + direct feedback

  • Three 90-minute live virtual sessions over three weeks
  • Pre-work applied to your business before each session
  • One 30-minute private review of your room plan
  • One group follow-through session approximately 30 days after the sprint

The assets you develop

  • Purpose, format, guest criteria, and invitation language
  • Room flow, facilitation prompts, and the ask
  • Follow-up sequence and commercial next-step map
  • A 30-day launch plan and a tracker for what moves afterward

The implementation

You develop and lead your own experience, with feedback on the plan. Venue, hospitality, production, and guest outreach remain with you or your team.

For private work across your offers, positioning, business model, or implementation, explore founder advisory. For a room designed and led with Lighthouse, explore Pinnacle Powered™.

The method in use

Other leaders have brought their rooms to life.

Nicki Bland

Nicki developed her experience inside the Rare Rooms™ cohort, then refined it through private coaching. Her Washington National Opera experience sold out.

A September 24 Pinnacle Powered™ fundraising experience at Field & Main brought together 30 guests and raised $20,000 in support of Washington National Opera.

Donna / The Presence Room

Donna developed The Presence Room inside the cohort and refined it through private coaching. Her experience sold out.

These examples show the method being applied by other leaders, with continued private support where their work required it.

Five Pinnacle Dinners™

$5 million in business moved. The owned experiences demonstrate how curated relationships, useful asks, and follow-through can create commercial movement.

That is evidence of the method in practice. Cohort participants build toward their own goals; a specific revenue, attendance, or deal outcome is not guaranteed.

Kristi Straw with Nicki Bland and Francesca Zambello at The Voice at the Table
The Voice at the Table™ · A client-developed experience refined through private advisory

Investment + timing

$3,500 per participant.

The same seat price applies to founders, independent experts, and company-funded participants. The founding beta price was $1,555.

The next open cohort dates will be set when at least six interested participants can share a schedule. The cohort runs once six seats are enrolled. Request details to discuss timing and fit. Your inquiry does not reserve or charge for a seat; dates and enrollment terms are confirmed before payment.

Request dates + enrollment details

Company-exclusive cohort

Teach your team to become the convener.

For sales, business development, partnerships, and relationship-led leaders. Participants can apply the method to a shared company initiative or to their own areas of responsibility.

$3,500 per participant. Six-seat minimum: $21,000. The defined virtual cohort includes up to 12 participants at the same per-person rate. We agree on the participant count and dates before enrollment.

Additional customization, on-site delivery, travel, event implementation, and ongoing advisory receive a separate proposal.

Discuss a company cohort Compare learning, live practice + commissioned work

Start with your situation

What needs to change?

Tell Kristi what you’re leading or building, what’s getting stuck, and your timing. She’ll follow up about the fit and useful next step.

Start the conversation

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