Common Ground Summit

North Shore, Kauai, November 20-22nd, 2024

An immersive gathering designed to change the way you approach connection to place: Join us for a 3-day regenerative leadership summit — featuring curated conversations, authentic experiences, ridiculously good food and meaningful relationships.

Join Us!

Building on last year’s conversation on food system design, in 2024 we widen our lens to focus on the power of “place” as a foundation of regenerative leadership and personal transformation.
Place is the (often lost) element that inspires and anchors profound, impact driven connection. It is a mindset that considers culture, community, environment and future generations in everything we do.
What does it mean to authentically connect with place? Join us as we explore place based leadership’s role in driving global systems to function like local communities as a critical pathway to forming regenerative relationships.

In Community with Place

“Building Common Ground to me is the genesis of a movement. It is well intentioned people coming together and creating the space for difficult conversations to occur about regenerating the Earth’s resources, regenerating the human spirit, regenerating connectivity to each other and I think that is what we are building.”

-Mike Kanazawa, Partner EY

Why we Gather

The Content

In 2024, the Common Ground Summit will focus on the power of “place”as a foundation to build a more positive future. Focusing on place not only as the physical locations, but also the foods, practices, histories, and people that brings them to life — challenges us to embrace a whole systems approach to regenerative change.

Engage

Stay tuned for 2024 Theme & Tracks announcement!

The Food

Prepare to indulge on a three day Island-to-Table culinary masterpiece. We source nearly all ingredients from local farms across Hawaii and gather a team of outstanding chefs, farmers, fishers, and producers to curate tremendous quality, unusually fresh & unique breakfast, lunch and dinner experiences.

Eat

“It’s my second year here and I felt the first year was epic and it couldn’t get any better, but the second year has just blown my mind exponentially. What I get from here is a recharge for another year.”

-Rebecca Sullivan, Warndu, Yale World Fellow

The Adventure

Join us 1 day before the Summit on Tuesday, November 19th for a curated adventure to the wondrous Hanalei Town.

Begin your exploration of ‘place’ and establish life long connections within our collective as we paddle up the Hanalei River and delight in fresh sashimi at the pier at sunset. Kaua’i is a window into our most beautiful & serene world.

Explore Kauai

The Experience

Mixology, tea blending, lei making, techniques of tropical food, Lau Lau and Imu prep, poi making, and tours of our food forest. Ride a horse carriage to Stone Dam and celebrate with a botanical libation. Celebrate the end of each day with live music and immersive experiences.

The Experience

The Community

*2023 participants reflected below.

Kealoha Domingo

Chef and Hawaiian cultural practitioner, Nui Kealoha catering, community leader
Lee Anne Wong

Chef, restaurateur, television culinary producer.
Evan Harrison

CEO Kiss the Ground, innovative audience builder, environmentalist
Leland Maschmeyer

CEO Collins, previous CBO Chobani, Board Member Sway, Basis, Circle of Blue, Nomi
Peleke Flores

Field Operations & Cultural Resources Manager at Mālama Hulē'ia, more
Mark Brand

Entrepreneur, Educator, Facilitator, Chef, Founder A Better Life Foundation
Neill Hannahs

Founder & CEO, Ho'okele Strategies LLC
Mark Somen

Strategic Advisor Craft House Consulting. former CEO The Conduit
Marisa Biaggi

SVP, Executive Creative Director at Edelman
Deimosa Webber-Bey

Director of Information Services and Cultural Insight Scholastic