Sales + account leaders
Deepen customer relationships
You have important customers and prospects. You need a better conversation than another presentation.
Rare Rooms™
Build the room your business actually needs.
Rare Rooms™ bring carefully selected people together around a clear business goal.
Customers. Partners. Leaders. Founders. Sponsors. Markets.
We design who belongs, what needs to happen in the room, what gets asked, and what happens afterward.
Start with the goal. You can work out the format with us.
THE JOB COMES FIRST
For companies, institutions + communities
What could
your room do?
Start with the people and the business need. The format follows the job.
Founders + market-development leaders
Open a market
You are entering a market where people do not yet know your work or who should introduce you.
Business-development + partnership leaders
Build partnerships
The introduction happened. The people still need time to understand what they could build together.
CEOs + people leaders
Develop leaders
The team agrees in the meeting. The decision reopens afterward, or the hard conversation never happens.
Accelerators + universities + ecosystem leaders
Strengthen a founder ecosystem
Founders need people who can respond to the business, offer useful feedback, or open a specific door.
Association + institutional + community leaders
Activate members or sponsors
People joined, gave, or sponsored. You need a meaningful way for them to participate and stay involved.
HOW WE BUILD THE ROOM
One job.
Five steps.
- Name the job
What should be different because these people spent time together?
- Choose the people
Who needs to be in the conversation?
- Design what happens
Invitations. Seating. Conversation. Experience. Ask.
- Make the next step clear
What should somebody be able to say yes to?
- Follow through
Introductions. Meetings. Decisions. Proof. 30/60/90-day movement.
What’s included + Pinnacle Powered™ for organizations
WHAT YOU CAN HIRE LIGHTHOUSE TO DO
The people. The conversation.
The business around the room.
Choose the work your room needs. Lighthouse can design and curate the experience, lead the conversation, bring a keynote or live coaching, and connect the offer, invitation, useful ask, and follow-through.
Curate the room
Choose the people, purpose, and format. Give every seat a reason to be there.
Hold + lead the room
Set the context and norms. Ask useful questions, make participation possible, and guide the conversation.
Keynote + teach the room
Give people a shared language they can use in the decisions and conversations that follow.
Critique + coach the work
Use live feedback, hot seats, and practical coaching to sharpen a message, offer, ask, or decision.
Package + sell the experience
Define who it is for, what people receive, how it is priced and invited, and the fitting paid next step.
Follow through
Name the actions and owners. Connect people where useful and capture what happened after the room.
Creating a repeatable experience in your own business? Explore strategic advisory for the offer, assets, experience, and follow-up
PINNACLE POWERED™
Bring Rare Rooms™
inside your organization.
Pinnacle Powered™ is how Lighthouse designs Rare Rooms™ for companies, institutions, associations, sponsors, universities, and strategic partners.
Start with the business goal. Then we build the room around it.
- Executive dinners
- Customer rooms
- Partner activations
- Founder labs
- Market-entry rooms
- Leadership rooms
- Sponsor experiences
- Conference-adjacent rooms
- Private retreats
The work includes more than the gathering.
The scope can include room strategy, participant curation, conversation design, facilitation, a useful ask, and follow-through. We agree responsibilities for invitations, venue, hospitality, and production before the work begins.
SELECTED APPLICATION
Washington
National Opera
Culture. Philanthropy. Relationship.
Kristi helped an advisory client create a Rare Room™ at Field & Main. Thirty guests gathered around live performance and a shared purpose.
The evening raised $20,000 in support of Washington National Opera.
The work continued through the client relationship into The Voice at the Table™, an October 8 collaboration in Tysons using Pinnacle Powered™ and Rare Rooms™ around guest curation, conversation, relationship development, and follow-through.
Build a room around my goalThe Pinnacle Dinner™ results + how it began
THE PINNACLE DINNER™
Our owned proof lab
Where the method
became visible.
The Pinnacle Dinner™ began with one intentional table.
- Phones down.
- Every seat chosen for a reason.
- One conversation.
- One clear ask.
- Follow-through afterward.
Those rooms have produced documented relationships, clients, jobs, partnerships, sponsors, speaking opportunities, and other business movement.
$5M+ in documented business movement connected to Lighthouse-designed rooms, relationships, and experiences in 16 months.
9.8/10average overall experience rating
9/10ArtPop table-curation rating
9.4/10average likelihood to attend another dinner
100%post-room opt-in to the private relationship directory across ArtPop × The Pinnacle Dinner™ and Founder Soirée
ACTUAL ROOMS
People.
Conversation.
People, hands, table details, and the Big-Ass Ask™. See the method in practice.
MEET THE PERSON LEADING THE WORK
Kristi can hold the room.
And give it somewhere useful to go.
At the NC TECH opening keynote, organizers and audience members described a session that held attention and stayed in the day’s conversation. These comments are from that September 29 stage.
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See Kristi’s room work: live coaching, leadership experiences, and commercial applications
BEFORE YOU INQUIRE
Start with the goal.
Do we need a guest list or a venue already?
You can start with the purpose and the people who need to be in the conversation. The inquiry asks what is already in place so the scope can reflect it.
We already have an event team. Where does Lighthouse fit?
Lighthouse designs the purpose, participant mix, conversation, ask, and follow-through. We agree how that work connects with your invitations, logistics, and production team.
How is the work scoped?
The business goal, participants, format, and level of curation, facilitation, and follow-through shape the scope. The inquiry includes an optional investment question with “I need a recommendation” as a choice.
What happens after the inquiry?
Lighthouse reviews the goal, people, timing, and what is already in place, then follows up about the fit and a useful next conversation.
START WITH YOUR BUSINESS GOAL
What could your
Rare Room™ move?
- Who needs to be in the conversation?
- What needs to happen?
- What would make the room worth repeating?
Share your goal, people, and timing. Lighthouse will review the fit and follow up about the useful next conversation.