Renaissance Weekend

Renaissance Weekends® are about the transforming power of ideas and relationships.

Founded in 1981 by Linda and Philip Lader, the former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Renaissance Weekends^® are private retreats for innovative leaders, and their accomplished families, in business and finance, education, religion, law and medicine, government, the media, science and technology, sports, non-profits and the arts.

The participants' widely divergent interests, backgrounds and views enliven panels and conversations in historic and scenic settings, over meals, on beaches, mountain trails, golf courses, tennis courts and bike paths. Every Renaissance Weekend^® fosters lively exchanges which transcend ideological, political, economic and religious differences.

This eclectic, non-partisan group - CEOs, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, Nobel Laureates and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, artists and scientists, admirals, astronauts and Olympic athletes, judges and journalists, volunteers, diplomats and work-at-home parents, Presidents, Prime Ministers, professors and priests, Republicans, Democrats and lots of Independents, innovators from across America and several nations - has become for many an "extended family."

Civility prevails. Partisanship is frowned upon, and commercialism is banned. The participants share innovative achievements on a national or regional scale and a "renaissance spirit" with broad-ranging intellectual interests.

Participation is by invitation only.  A very limited number of others expressing interest may be included, based on their potential contribution to the expertise, depth, breadth, and diversity of perspectives at each Weekend. For consideration, please note the Invitation Criteria.