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Join a public BetterStory Studio™ to practice your message. The November 12 Pinnacle Prom™ is sold out. Private dinner invitations are curated for each room.
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The Pinnacle Dinner™ · Pinnacle Powered™ by Lighthouse
A small table.
A conversation worth having.
Curated client dinners and live experiences for revenue, go-to-market, and business leaders who grow through relationships.
Big hearts. Big ideas. Big follow-through.
We especially love the builders.
Client relationships · Market development · Partnerships · Live strategy
Commission an experience
Build it for your business.
Hire Pinnacle Powered™ to design and facilitate a customer, partner, market-development, or leadership experience around your goal. Your proposal defines the fee and delivery responsibilities.
Discuss a commissioned roomFor the people responsible for growth
Relationships are an advantage.
Give them a business purpose.
Your clients, prospects, and partners have a reason to know you. Create an experience that helps them know one another, understand the value of your work, and take a useful next step.
Wealth management + financial services
Build deeper client relationships, bring advisors and partners together, and create thoughtful conversations around the decisions clients are making.
High-ticket sales + professional services
Give buyers time to understand your expertise, explore a consequential purchase, and involve the people who matter to the decision.
Revenue, go-to-market + experience leaders
Connect the guest experience to a market-development, customer-insight, or partnership goal. Give your sales team a useful conversation to continue afterward.
Hire the strategy behind the room.
Kristi helps shape the purpose, guest mix, commercial message, conversation, and follow-through. The work can stand alone as one commissioned experience or sit inside a broader sales, growth, or strategic advisory engagement.
A small table can be the whole assignment. Client dinners, leadership gatherings, listening conversations, and larger collaborations each receive a scope that fits the job.
The curation has receipts
People feel the difference.
Then they follow through.
9.8/10Average overall experience rating
9/10ArtPop table-curation rating
9.4/10Average likelihood to attend another dinner
100%Private directory opt-in across ArtPop × The Pinnacle Dinner™ and Founder Soirée
Guest feedback from past Pinnacle Dinner™ experiences.
“The Pinnacle Dinner once again DELIVERED! 2 speaking engagements, 3 introductions to women I plan on working with, the opportunity to support a non-profit and an entrepreneur, and networking for days! My first question: when is the next one?!”
“In less than three hours, I met no less than 7 incredible connections that will be invaluable for the growth of my business.”
$5M
in business movement through five Pinnacle Dinners™.
Business movement includes relationships, client work, referrals, partnerships, and opportunities connected to the dinners.Active client work + repeat rooms
We’re already
doing this work.
Client experiences, operator conversations, leadership dinners, and ongoing strategic relationships. The room connects to work before and after people arrive.
Active client partnership
Elevate Digital · INFUSION
Sponsored conversations through The Last Straw and a hosted executive experience connect AI investment to practical business results. The November 3 INFUSION gathering brought that conversation into the room.
See Elevate’s INFUSION experience
Delivered · October 29, 2026
The Operator Dinner · With Drew Burdick
A repeat dinner collaboration with StealthX at CLT Startup House. On October 29, a curated group of executives, founders, and operators explored The Cost of the Workaround: AI, operational challenges, and decisions that move a business forward. An earlier Operator Dinner also included photo sharing and a specific invitation to continue the relationships afterward.
See the Operator Dinner on Luma
Delivered · Leadership community
Chief · Charlotte dinner
A hosted community dinner designed to help leaders get to know one another. Chief’s community manager shared member feedback on the welcome, planning, and connection created.
“Thank you so much for hosting and for making this celebration one that won't be soon forgotten.”
Bee Fagan · Community Manager, Chief · December 2024
Ongoing strategic advisory · Client-led experiences
Washington National Opera · Through Nicki Bland
Through advisory work with Nicki, Kristi helped develop the Field & Main gathering: 30 guests and $20,000 raised in support of Washington National Opera. The work continued into a second, distinct experience, The Voice at the Table™.
Positioning, the commercial ask, the live experience, and follow-through connect to the broader strategic engagement.
Read the client caseSelected rooms, hosts + collaborators
Local relationships.
National experience.
Also in the room history: SouthX · TEDxSugarCreekWomen community connections · Washington National Opera, through an advisory client’s gatherings.
Selected hosting, collaboration, and prior career experience. Each relationship has its own scope.
Pinnacle Powered™ · For organizations
“Could you do this
for our clients?”
Yes. Hire Lighthouse to design and facilitate a gathering around a business goal: stronger client relationships, a new market, useful customer insight, or a partnership worth exploring.
Client + partner dinners
Give selected customers and partners a reason to spend meaningful time together, with a clear next conversation.
Market-development experiences
Bring buyers, local leaders, and partners together around the market you want to understand or enter.
Customer listening dinners
Hear what customers need, what is changing, and where your offer or approach may need to change.
Want to design and lead it yourself? Explore Private RARE Rooms™.
Strategy, curation, facilitation, and agreed follow-through receive a custom proposal. A small table can be the whole assignment. Venue, hospitality, travel, production, and responsibilities are agreed before you commit. Start with the audience, objective, and timing. Lighthouse reviews the fit and proposes the experience, professional fee, and direct costs. Your agreement names who handles invitations, guest coordination, hosting, facilitation, and follow-up.
See Pinnacle Powered scope + inquiryThe RARE Rooms™ method
What makes it R-A-R-E?
RARE describes the people as much as the experience. Generous with what they know, who they know, and what they can help make possible.
Relationships
A reason to know one another
Generous with their relationships. Willing to give and receive, and thoughtful about the value of both.
Access
Every seat intentional
They open doors, make the introduction, and give the relationship room to develop on its own.
Resources
Something useful to share
Well-resourced through expertise, great work, reputation, perspective, and relationships. They have something useful to contribute.
Energy
Momentum beyond dinner
Big hearts. Big ideas. Big follow-through. Builders who give more than they take, and know how to receive.
Your next conversation
What could a live experience
move for your business?
Tell us about your customers, market, or partnership priority. We’ll help define the experience and a useful next step.
Discuss your business goalPrefer a message? Connect with Kristi on LinkedIn →