Propel '26: Strategically Plan for a Profitable and Aligned 2026Â
A 1-Day Strategic Planning Virtual Retreat for Founders and Strategic Operators
Simplify your path to scale and build a roadmap that aligns vision, strategy, and team focus for the year ahead.
📅 Date: Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
⏰ Time: 11AM - 5PM ET | 8AM - 2PM PT
📍 Location: Live on Zoom with Replay
Simplify to Scale in 2026
If you’ve been feeling like it’s harder to see what’s working or find clarity in a market that keeps changing, this retreat will help you find solid ground again.
In one focused day, we’ll bring your goals, offers, and strategy into alignment so you can move into 2026 with a plan that’s realistic, actionable, and built around how you want to work and grow.
Together, we’ll look at what’s working in the market right now and what’s not, connect that to your long-term vision, and define the most aligned path that gets you there.
By the end of the retreat, you’ll have:
- A 12-month roadmap that makes growth decisions simple and grounded in reality
- Clarity on which initiatives to focus on, pause, or lean out and eliminate
- A plan your team can confidently execute - and that keeps you focused on the right things as conditions shift
2026 is most definitely not about doing more, but it will take doing things different.
It’s about aligning every effort and investment with the outcomes that matter most so your business scales more simply and sustainably.
This retreat will show you how.
Gift yourself the space away from your day-to-day to work on your next level of leadership & business growth
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Sometimes you need to step away from your daily routine in order to truly level up.
Give yourself the dedicated focus time so you can reflect and think strategically about your next level of business success.
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REGISTER NOW FOR PROPEL '26 ON 12/16What Makes This Different
Many planning sessions keep you in brainstorm mode - you leave with great ideas but no clear steps forward.
Others get too into the weeds and have you map out a detailed plan for an entire year - based on the mistaken belief that you can predict exactly what you need to do 12 months from now (spoiler... you can't - not in this market!).
This retreat is different. Pulling from our proprietary Lean Strategic Planning™ framework, we develop your strategic roadmap for 2026 - giving you the clarity and direction you need balanced with the adaptability to keep things agile.
Together, we’ll define where your business is heading next, what it will take to get there given the realities of 2026, and how to translate that into a focused plan that your team can take action on and continuously adapt.
You’ll finish the day knowing exactly what to simplify, where to invest, and how to organize for a stronger 2026.
How It Works
This is a live, interactive retreat led by Crista Grasso - strategic partners to those leading 6-8 figure service-based businesses.
Crista has led planning retreats for more than 2 decades, helping visionary leaders simplify their strategy, structure their growth, and scale without burning out or overbuilding.
This year, she’s bringing the retreat back to help you reset and plan for a changing market.
Your path to realizing your big bold vision in 2026 and beyond
There are two ways in which you can join Propel '26.
Option 1:Â Secure your spot for $497 for a once-off experience.
Option 2: Become a member of our SOL Collective community and get the members-only complimentary access.
SOL Collective is an elite space where forward-thinking fractionals, consultants, founders, and right-hand leaders sharpen their strategic leadership skills, stay ahead of shifting expectations and apply AI with purpose, and elevate their positioning to stand out in an ever-evolving market.Â
Being part of the SOL Collective will provide you with access to recurring live experiences, exclusive tools, and a community of your peers to aid you in achieving your goals long after the 1-Day Virtual retreat has ended.Â
A Bonus You Won't Want to Miss
Early Access Bonus: The One Number That Simplifies Your 2026 Strategy
Join through the SOL Collective option and get a live bonus session on December 2 where we’ll identify the single number that drives your growth next year.
You’ll see how to connect your financial targets to your offers and delivery model - so you can lead your business from data, not guesswork.
We’ll also share AI tools and prompts to help you forecast, adjust, and stay on track throughout the year.
Hi, I'm Crista Grasso, Founder of Strategic Ops Institute
I am a scaling strategist and operations alchemist and and creator of the Lean Scaling System™.Â
With over 3 decades of experience in strategy and operations, I have supported thousands of businesses to scale more sustainably, profitably, and with less complexity.
I'm known for helping founders get out of the day-to-day operations and for helping experienced operators become the strategic partner every founder wants and every small to mid-sized business needs.
I have built multiple 7-figure businesses of my own and has spent decades advising fast-growing small businesses and Fortune 500 companies alike.
After hosting annual planning retreats for years, I’ve seen what happens when leaders pause to plan with intention - and what happens when they don’t.
In a market that keeps shifting, clarity and focus are everything. This year, I’m bringing the retreat back to help you identify what’s working now, eliminate what’s not, and create a 2026 roadmap that helps you scale simply and sustainably.
REGISTER NOW TO JOIN PROPEL
What Previous Attendees of a Retreat Say About Working with Crista
"Working with Crista was a game-changer for me. She helped me see what the roadmap was and the things I could cut out. I now take Fridays off and I stop work at 5pm.
She has that amazing system that makes me focus each 90 days on one thing. I realized how much I don’t need to be doing.
I now do two things - that’s it - simple. I can spend time in my zone of genius and not my zone of competence.”
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"I feel so much more grounded in my business after working with Crista. It's been such a pleasure to work with her on mapping out my business and getting much clearer on my business goals.
It's wonderful to have someone who can really find the sweet spot of what you're challenged with in your business and help you crawl out and make sense of it, and get more simplified and clearer on how you want to be working in your business."
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"I have a game plan moving forward of what I’m going to do in my business.
Things I kind of already knew I was going to do, but now I actually have the activities and the actual quarterly game plan that is there to help hold me accountable to achieving my goals.
So, if you’re looking to level up you your business and simplify if – this is the key thing – creating more space in your life so you can take care of your mind body and soul, and have a plan to achieve your financial goals, I can’t recommend Crista more.”
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"Crista's method has taught me that small, focused goals lead to the big picture and the vision, and the reality is you accomplish more with less.
In the beginning of my journey, I would flounder, push out other ideas, create more work, and more avenues. Crista reeled me in every time. We went back to her Method...and every time it brought me back to my short-term goals that I would focus back on and accomplish. I was tired of spending years having new ideas, goals then getting overwhelmed and not completing them or at least not to my liking.
Thank you Crista for being a coach that not only helps propel the business, but propels the person to ensure that wellness and self-care are part of the journey, so I can enjoy the journey, not lose vision and feel great about it along the way. "
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"What Crista helped me do is take all the noise in my business and distill it down, figure out my priorities, and chart out a strategy that enables me to focus on what's important.
When I am working with Crista, I feel like a weight has been lifted and I have a clear vision of where I need to go."
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Reserve Your Spot
Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 | 11AM - 5PM ET | Virtual
Choose Your Experience
One-Day Strategic Planning Retreat ($497)
Retreat + Bonus Workshop + 1 Year in the SOL Collective Community for ongoing support ($97 / mo x 12)
The Future of Your Business Starts with One Day
(December 16th to be specific)
You don’t need more ideas or things to do - you need the strategy, structure, and supporting roadmap that connects your beautiful big bold vision with what it will take in 2026 to get you there.