Twenty places for 2027
Mental isolation is what happens to a father who owns a business, who is never short of company and has nowhere to be honest. One year, forty men, and a network where that stops.
The business might not be easy but it works well. There's family weeks away in Rock and Corfu, skiing in Verbier and a plethora of sporting events through the year.
The children are at schools that donate the "made it" tag.
Like everyone else, you took up padel a couple of years ago.
Unless there's obviously a divorce happening, everything looks like a bed of roses from the outside.
A fortune went into your education. A fortune is going into your children's. Add up both numbers.
Then ask what has been spent on you since. Not the season. Not Twickenham, Lord's, Henley, The Golf Course or the membership at The Hurlingham. Those are good days and you have earned them.
What's actually been spent on you, the man carrying all of it.
If you had taken the corporate route, development would have been spent on you whether you wanted it or not. Most of it forgettable. A hotel near an airport, a facilitator you will never think about again, and a room full of people you would not choose to have a drink with.
That is what personal and professional development means to most men, and it is why the phrase may make you wince.
You own the business. Nobody books you onto anything, and nothing you have come across has looked like it was built for someone like you, with men you would actually want to spend the day with. This may sound exclusive, good, it's exactly what it is.
You were sent away. Most of the men in this room were.
It made you resilient, capable, and someone who does not need much from anybody. It also taught you, young, that nobody was coming, and that being useful was safer than being known.
You have been running that show ever since. The thing is, eventually the body catches up.
You are not short of people. Some of your friends you've known for thirty or forty years.
But when did one of them last ask you something that moved the dial? When did anyone hold you to a thing you said you were going to do? Most of the "friendship" happens over a drink, and over a drink everybody talks in the third person and nobody listens.
Promises made, promises broken.
You go home having spoken little truth with little depth, and nobody noticed, because you are very good at this. You are a brilliant people person and people pleaser toboot.
There is a difference between men you would have a great night with and men you would ring at eleven at night. You have plenty of the first.
Not one coach telling you what to do.
A room of peers who build your network, and hold you to account in your personal life and your professional one at the same time.
Most programmes pick a side. This one runs both, every week, all year. Mondays are personal. Thursdays are professional.
The growth and consistency is online, the network is in person.
But you do not need to own all of it.
A partner in a private equity firm.
A partner in a professional practice.
A shareholder in a business you built with a couple of others.
A sole owner.
Any of these work - you just need to be under the cosh to get the most out of Monumental.
Most members run the subscription through their own company as professional development.
Most join after something tips them, and most say they wish they had come sooner.
You have no agency over your time.
Are looking for a quick and easy "fix".
The framework
Q1
Clarity on the year. The habits the man you want to be already has. And the accountability to actually live it.
Q2
Yourself. Your marriage. Your children. And the family you came from.
Q3
Friendship, curiosity and play. Then who you are underneath the performance.
Q4
Self-worth, self-talk, and what they drive you to charge. Then legacy.
Underneath the four pillars sit twelve monthly themes and forty-eight specific areas we go into.
Thursdays. The professional track.
You make the biggest decisions alone. You cannot talk openly about your real numbers, your real position, or your real fear of it coming apart.
Nobody in this room is your advisor. They are thirty-nine men carrying the same weight, who will challenge you from the inside rather than from a consultancy deck.
One hour, every Thursday. You put a live challenge in front of men who understand exactly what it costs. You say what you are going to do about it. You get held to it seven days later. Wins included. Most owners never say those out loud anywhere.
Every other month. Business leaders and recognised names working on something specific with the room. Not a talk you could have watched online.
Lunch in a London club, four times a year. A serious speaker for forty-five minutes, then the room and a round table. Growth, relationships, network and wealth - these lunches are a potent combination of the 4 pillars of Monumental.
Clients. Introductions. The right hire. The right buyer. It is never the stated aim and it happens anyway.
This is why it goes through the company as professional development. Because that is what it is.
An owner recovered from two years of suppressed performance and delivered over one million pounds above his normal revenue in his first year of membership.
A founder reported a fifty per cent increase in performance through sharper, faster decision-making within six months of joining.
An owner reclaimed eight hours a week through clarity and delegation. Four hundred hours a year, redirected into the work that matters.
An owner avoided a six-month absence that would have cost his business one hundred and fifty thousand pounds in salary and disruption alone.
Retained a key person at risk of leaving, returning ten times the membership on avoided recruitment costs alone.
Under five minutes. Four pillars, one honest score.
Every quarter you get a report: where you are now, compared to where you were. Watch the progress as it happens.
You have run a business for possibly decades on numbers. You have never once measured the thing that determines how you run it - you.
Mondays. The personal track.
Ben Bidwell, Human Perfomance and Breathwork Coach, holds the personal development for the year. Breathwork at the start of every month, two open circles, and one workshop co-facilitated with well known experts.
One hundred and four sessions across the year. Monday personal, Thursday professional, one week off at Christmas.
Most men arrive certain this part is not for them. Ben has heard that several hundred times and it stops being true after the first session.
It is not chanting and there is nothing to believe in. It is a way of getting underneath forty years of holding it together, and it works on men who are quite sure it will not.
Twice a month, small groups, run by Ben, Pete and men who have been with Monumental for years. No performance, no advice unless you ask for it, and no one talking over you.
This is the time in the month where the thing you have been carrying since Sunday gets said out loud, and nothing bad happens.
At month three, when you know what you actually came for rather than what you said you came for. And at month nine, when there is still time to do something about it.
Two conversations a year with someone whose entire job is the man rather than the company. For most members it is the first time anyone has ever had that job.
Not a keynote. Not a stage, a lectern and four hundred seats. Forty men in a room, one person who knows something the rest of us do not, and enough time to actually ask them anything. These are the people we bring in.
Founder of Dent Global and ScoreApp, and the author of Key Person of Influence, Oversubscribed, 24 Assets and Entrepreneur Revolution. Forty thousand entrepreneurs have been through his workshops. He has been on The Diary of a CEO the most of any guest in its history, most recently on what artificial intelligence is about to do to the value of a business, and on why the rules founders learned no longer apply.
Why it matters to you: this is the session on building something that is worth something without you standing in the middle of it.
A consultant psychiatrist and the founder and managing director of Cognacity, after nineteen years in the NHS. Lead Psychiatrist at the London 2012 Olympics. Mental fitness coach to a Formula 1 team and adviser to McLaren. A former premiership rugby player who now works with people at the very top of business, sport and entertainment.
Why it matters to you: performing under real pressure for years at a time without quietly coming apart. He has seen what that costs and he is direct about it.
A New York psychoanalyst with more than thirty years in private practice, and the author of Being There and Chicken Little. She writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal and the Institute for Family Studies. Her conversation on The Diary of a CEO, on attachment and on what children actually need from their parents, is one of the most listened-to the show has done.
Why it matters to you: this is the one about your children. For most men in the room it is the session that lands hardest, and the one they did not see coming.
The first man to walk the length of the Nile: four thousand miles, six countries, nine months on foot. A former officer in the Parachute Regiment with operational experience in Afghanistan. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an International Fellow of the Explorers Club. Sunday Times bestselling author and the face of the Channel 4 series.
Why it matters to you: doing hard things on purpose, and what happens to a man who stops choosing discomfort.
Roughly one a fortnight. Every date for 2027 is in the prospectus.
4 a year
Three single days at Monksmead in Berkshire, one on the Isle of Wight.
2 a year
Two days at Monksmead where your partner is in the room. The men do the work alone first, then six weeks later the partners come.
4 a year
Lunch in a London club. A serious speaker for forty-five minutes, then the room. You have sat in board meetings all your life. You have not sat in this room.
11 a year
Wednesday mornings at MANOR SW1 in Victoria. Midweek and in town, so it costs you nothing at home.
2 a year
Golf at Royal Cinque Ports, padel at Acton. Bring whoever you want.
Going further
Spain. A surf weekend. A triathlon entered together. Wild swimming. We arrange it, date it and fill it, and you come if you want to. You were never short of money or appetite. You were short of the people.
A day at Monksmead Farm, men only, on how you are actually turning up at home. For most men it is the first honest look at their own marriage. She may not be in the room physically but she's definately there metophorically.
Six weeks later, same place, same time but this time your partner is in the room.
That gap is deliberate. A man needs to have looked at it himself before the person it concerns is sitting next to him.
A second retreat at Monksmead in October. Then the year closes with lunch in a London club, partners included.
Three days a year where this stops being the thing you go off and do, and becomes something you are both inside.
The ferry from Portsmouth is the part nobody expects. Forty minutes, and something in you drops before you have even arrived.
Two nights and three days on the Isle of Wight.
Cold water at dawn. Sauna. The coastal path before anyone else is awake. Circles that run until they are finished rather than until the clock says stop.
And a fire on the beach at night, with men who by then know exactly who you are.
Personality structure. How you actually operate under pressure. Who you are when nobody is watching.
Nobody performs on the island. There is nowhere to do it.
Going further
Spain. Ravines, mountains, cold rivers. A surf weekend. A triathlon entered together. Wild swimming.
We arrange it, date it and fill it. You come if you want to. Some men do all of it, some do none, and both are fine.
You were never short of money or appetite. You were short of the people, and the willingness to organise it.
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Under five minutes, across the four pillars. The same audit every member takes through the year.
Take it before you join and January is already on the record.
Questions
What does it cost?
£1,000 a month plus VAT. £12,000 for 2027, moving to £20,000 in 2028 for new memebers. Nothing further to pay all year.
Can I really put this through the business?
Yes, and almost every member does. It is professional development and peer business coaching. Reclaim the VAT, take the corporation tax relief, and the true cost is nearer £750 a month.
Do I have to own the whole business?
No. Partners in private equity firms, partners in practices, and shareholders in businesses they built with others are all in the room. The most common is the business owner but it's not a blanket rule.
What do I actually get for the business?
The Work Circle every Thursday, six business workshops a year, four Monumental Tables, and thirty-nine other owners who will take your call. Have a read above to see the results men have had before with their businesses.
What is the time commitment?
That's completely down to you. As much or as little as you like but you know as well as we do that what you put in, you get right back.
How much time does this actually take?
The timetable is built with you the business owner in mind. A man who has agency over his calendar. Most of the commitments are midweek and close to home. The retreats are single days at Monksmead in Berkshire. The Resets are Wednesday mornings in Victoria, London. The Tables are lunches are also in Central London.
The Isle of Wight retreat in September is two nights.
Online, Monday evenings are personal and 75 minutes. Thursday lunches are professional and 60 minutes.
Do I have to come to everything?
No, and nobody does. But a man who appears twice a year is not really a member, and we will have that conversation rather than let it drift.
How is this different from coaching?
It is not coaching and it is not therapy. The growth comes from the room rather than from one expert - albeit we have those too. You are with thirty-nine other owners, for a year, inside a structure. One massive Premier League squad rather than kicking the football against the wall.
Why only forty?
Forty is small enough that every man genuinely knows every other man. That intimacy is the difference between good and great.
Can my partner be involved?
Yes. Three events are open to partners: two retreats at Monksmead, and the lunch that closes the year. It's also not "Mandatory" - it is totally down to you and your partner.
How do I know if it worked?
The Monumental Audit. Under five minutes, scored across the four pillars, taken again through the year. Your November report sits next to your January one, and the shift is in your own numbers tells the story.
That how a man is doing underneath is not separate from how his business performs. It is the thing the business is standing on. Owners who work on the whole of it outperform the ones who only work on the company.
£12,000 for 2027. £20,000 in 2028 (for new members).
Through the company as professional development. Reclaim the VAT, take the corporation tax relief, and it costs you nearer £750 a month.
Less than your car.
It starts with the Monumental Audit. Score yourself across the four pillars, unlock the Monumental Locker, and put your name down from there.
Members are selected from the waitlist, and Pete speaks to every man himself.
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