What changes when the right people are in the same room with the right intentions?
You already know the people exist. The operators building at your level. The families structuring wealth the way you want to structure yours. The leaders whose values match the way you do business. The challenge has never been whether those people are out there. The challenge is getting them into the same room, at the same time, with the same intention to build. That is what The Commission was designed to solve.
You have already built something meaningful. That is a given, or you would not be reading this page. But you have also learned something that most people never talk about. The higher you climb, the fewer people understand the decisions you are making. The tax architecture. The entity design. The giving strategy. The succession planning. The way you think about capital, about risk, about what your business needs to look like in ten years. These are not conversations you can have at a conference. They are not problems a consultant solves in a deck. They require people who are making the same decisions, at the same scale, with the same values.
The Commission was built because that room did not exist. The knowledge was there. The strategies were there. The people were there. But there was no place where leaders at this level could come together with real intention, work on the things that actually matter, and build alongside each other instead of figuring it out alone.
So we built the room. We brought together operators, family office principals, institutional leaders, and cultural figures who share a common belief: that the right relationships, paired with the right frameworks, will produce outcomes that none of us could reach individually.
When you step into The Commission, you work directly with Nathan Harris and a curated group of peers through private strategy sessions, structured workshops on wealth architecture and philanthropic infrastructure, collaborative frameworks for investment and partnership, and immersive experiences that put everything into practice. You leave with your business sharper. Your structure clearer. Your giving strategy in place. And a network of people who have real knowledge of your work, your values, and your capacity.
This is not a program you attend. It is an investment in the infrastructure and relationships that will compound for the rest of your career.
Nathan Harris, Founder
Who This Is For
Built for leaders whose next chapter requires a different kind of room.
Every group is deliberately small. The people around you are the product. We select for leaders whose industries, strengths, and values complement each other, because the room only works when every person in it makes the room better for everyone else.
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Executives and Operators
You run a business with real revenue, real complexity, and real decisions about what the next chapter looks like. You have outgrown the advice that got you here. You need the structure, the strategy, and the peer relationships that match where you are going.
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Family Office Principals
You are managing multi-entity structures and thinking about succession, asset protection, and philanthropic legacy. You want to learn from families who have navigated these decisions and are willing to share what worked and what did not.
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Athletes and Cultural Leaders
You have earned a platform and built real influence. Now you are building the business infrastructure, the advisory relationships, and the giving strategy that turns what you have earned into something permanent.
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Institutional Partners
You are looking for aligned co-investment, strategic collaboration, and access to the kind of deal flow and operator relationships that only surface through trusted proximity over time.
10-15
Leaders Per Cohort
3
Phases of Work
2
Private Immersions
Who You Will Learn From
The leaders, operators, and builders shaping this program.
Every group brings a distinct combination of experience. Past and current participants include Pro Football Hall of Famers, family office principals, media executives, and senior operators building across technology, gaming, healthcare, and hospitality. The room is different every cycle. That is by design.
Ray Lewis
NFL Hall of Famer, Icons of Impact
Two-time Super Bowl champion. Focused on preventative care research and building legacy through philanthropy.
Kevin Kowalke
Kowalke Group
Serial entrepreneur, investor, and systems builder.
Nathan Harris
Chairman, and CEO of the Harris Family Fund
Entrepreneur and family enterprise architect building generational wealth & community impact.
Douglas Johnson
TIGER21 Family Office Chair - CO
Capital Strategy & Family Office Advisory
Francisco Lujan
Partner - The Standard & 52 Ventures
Economic Development, Fund management and advisory.
Aisha Bowe
Founder and CEO of STEMBoard
Trailblazing Aerospace Engineer
Afshin Safavi
Founder and CEO of Colorado Health & Tech Centers
Renown Biotechnology Investor & Scientist
The Program
Three phases. Real work. Lasting outcomes.
Each phase builds on the one before it. You start with your own structure. You move into working with your group. You finish with two private immersive experiences that bring everything together in person. By the end, you have not just learned something. You have built something.
June
Foundation
Private, one-on-one. Your business. Your structure. Your roadmap for the next five years.
Business Model Review +
Nathan and the advisory team work through your specific business with you. Not a template. Not a framework applied generically. A structured review of where your revenue comes from, where the gaps are, what your competitive position looks like in 24 months, and what structural changes would give you the most leverage now. You leave with a documented action plan, not a set of notes.
Tax Strategy and Philanthropic Architecture +
An educational deep dive into the strategies that institutional families use to maximize tax efficiency while building a giving infrastructure that compounds over time. Donor-advised fund structures, contribution timing, and the mechanics of pairing philanthropic giving with business strategy. You will understand the options clearly enough to have informed conversations with your own tax and legal advisors about implementation.
Entity Design and Asset Protection Education +
A walkthrough of how Series LLCs, trusts, and multi-entity holding structures work at the institutional level. What separates an individual who owns a business from a family that owns an enterprise. This is educational, designed to give you the vocabulary and strategic understanding to work with your own legal counsel on decisions that fit your situation.
Personal Strategy Sessions with Nathan +
Private sessions focused entirely on your priorities. Your five-year vision. Your leadership positioning. The specific obstacles between where you are and where you want to be. You set the agenda. These sessions are the most valued part of the Foundation month because they are completely yours.
July
Convergence
Your cohort comes together. Peer strategy. Cross-collaboration. Shared frameworks.
Weekly Cohort Strategy Sessions +
Structured weekly sessions with your full cohort. Each week is organized around a real challenge or opportunity that the group works through together. One week might focus on capital deployment strategies. Another on brand positioning. Another on structuring partnerships. The format is collaborative. Everyone brings their experience. Everyone leaves with something they can use immediately.
Cross-Collaboration and Sponsorship Design +
A structured process for identifying where your business creates value for another member, and where theirs creates value for you. We map strengths, gaps, and strategic interests across the cohort and design collaboration pathways that are specific, actionable, and mutually beneficial. These are not networking introductions. They are designed partnerships.
Peer Investment and Co-Investment Education +
Educational workshops on how peer investment deals, co-investment vehicles, and peer lending arrangements are structured within trusted networks. Legal considerations, governance frameworks, and the practical mechanics of deploying capital alongside people you know. All actual investment decisions are made independently with your own financial and legal advisors.
Innovation and Market Strategy Workshops +
Deep working sessions on the strategies The Commission has been developing across health innovation, commercial real estate, hospitality operations, and impact-driven business models. These sessions give you the frameworks. The August immersion shows you the frameworks in action.
August
Legacy
In person. Five days in Ohio. Exclusive Graduation Ceremony See everything in practice.
Canton, Ohio: Five-Day Immersion +
Five days across the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the SPIRE Research Institute, and Vincent William Winery. Innovation seminars. Private facility tours. A Jeffersonian dinner where every person at the table contributes to a single conversation about what they are building over the next five years. A fishing and golf fundraiser on Sunday that bridges for-profit relationships and philanthropic giving in the most natural way. Private dinners with hand-rolled cigars, fresh-cooked food from the day's catch, and unscripted remarks from the leaders in the room. This is the capstone of the cohort.
Location TBA: Cohort Graduation +
A closing celebration for the group. Reflection on the work. Commitments to what each member will carry forward. The formal transition from participant to permanent network. You leave the Exclusive Graduation Ceremony with relationships that will compound for the rest of your career.
Permanent Network Access +
The structured program ends. The network does not. Every graduate joins the permanent Family Circle with continued access to future events, deal flow introductions, cross-group peer connections, and the growing library of frameworks and strategies the program produces each cycle. The longer you are in the Circle, the larger the network around you becomes.
We built this because the room did not exist. The strategies were available. The frameworks were proven. The people were out there. But there was no place where leaders at this level could sit across from each other, learn the same material, and hold each other accountable to applying it. So we built the room. And the people who walk into it do not walk out the same.
Nathan Harris, Founder
What You Walk Away With
Six outcomes that justify the investment.
The Playbook of Top Operators
Direct access to the decision-making frameworks, wealth structuring strategies, and operating systems used by institutional families and Hall of Fame-caliber leaders. Not theory. The actual methods, taught by the people who built them.
A Working Peer Network
A group of leaders who have spent real time inside each other's businesses, reviewed each other's strategies, and built trust through shared work. Not contacts. Co-builders. The kind of relationships that take years to develop anywhere else.
Deal Flow and Investment Proximity
Access to co-investment introductions, collaboration opportunities, and syndicate awareness that only surface when you are inside a trusted network where people know your work, your values, and your capacity.
Your Business, Restructured
A documented review of your entity structure, revenue model, and growth strategy with specific, actionable recommendations you can take to your own legal and financial advisors for implementation.
Giving Strategy in Place
Education on donor-advised fund structures, contribution timing, and giving strategies designed to maximize tax benefits while funding the causes you care about. Built alongside your group, not in isolation.
Two Experiences You Will Not Find Anywhere Else
A five-day immersion in Canton, Ohio with private Hall of Fame access, research institute tours, Jeffersonian dinners, and a fundraiser on the water. An exclusive graduation celebration in destination TBA. These are not conferences. These are curated, private gatherings for your group alone.
The Network
The program ends. The community does not.
Every graduate becomes part of the permanent Family Circle. That means continued access to future events, introductions to leaders across past and future groups, visibility into deal flow and collaboration opportunities, and a growing library of the frameworks, strategies, and tools the program develops each cycle.
The value of this network increases with every group. The person you meet at a Canton dinner introduces you to someone from the next cycle, who brings a partnership opportunity that neither of you could have found on your own. That is how compounding networks work. And it is why the people inside this Circle treat it as one of their most valuable professional assets.
You earn entry once. The community grows around you from that point forward.
Past and Current Participants
Who has been in this room.
Heather Grey
Founder & CEO of Elixir Trials
Nathaan Demers
Principal Investor of Hopelab
Vaughn Barker
CEO of Barker & Barker & TITAN100 Exec
Antwane Owens
PE-Backed SaaS, Consumer & Hospitality Exec
Stephen Trivieri
Founder & Creative Director of Breathe.Ent
Josh Leavy
Owner & Brewmaster of San Francisco Brewing Co.
Adnan Merchant
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of MW Law
David Colombo
Founder & CEO of Alaris Security
Dr. Stephen Shaya
Executive Servant Leader of J & B Medical & Akkad Holdings
The Induction
Where strategy becomes practice.
Two private gatherings built for your group. The Induction is where the strategies, relationships, and frameworks you have been building are placed into physical environments designed for depth, honest conversation, and the kind of shared experience that turns professional peers into lifelong partners. Each season rotates to a new city. The location becomes the vintage.
The Induction: Canton
Canton, Ohio
Five days. The Pro Football Hall of Fame with Ray Lewis and NFL alumni. SPIRE Research Institute. Private vineyard dinners. A Jeffersonian conversation. A fishing and golf fundraiser. Innovation seminars. Fresh-cooked dinners and hand-rolled cigars. For-profit strategy on Friday. Philanthropic giving on Saturday. Everything converges on Sunday.
Cohort graduation. A day to reflect on the work, celebrate what was built, and make the commitments that carry the network forward. You arrive as a participant. You leave as a Commissioned Member of The Family Circle.
The Summer 2026 group begins in June. Seats are limited. The inquiry process starts with the form below, followed by a conversation with our team to confirm alignment and share program details.
Inquiries are reviewed within 48 hours. Program investment details are shared during the inquiry conversation. All communications are confidential.
Questions
What people ask before they inquire.
What is the time commitment? +
The program runs for 90 days. June involves private one-on-one sessions scheduled around your calendar. July includes weekly cohort sessions of about two hours each. August brings two in-person experiences: a five-day immersion in Canton, Ohio and a closing experience at a destination to be disclosed. Total commitment is approximately 40-50 hours over the full program, structured to work alongside your existing responsibilities.
How are cohort members selected? +
We select for alignment, not just achievement. Every cohort is designed so the members complement each other: different industries, different strengths, a shared commitment to building something lasting. The inquiry form is the first step. A conversation with our team follows to determine whether the program is the right fit for both sides.
What is the investment? +
Program investment details are shared during the inquiry conversation. This is intentional. The conversation helps us understand your goals and confirm mutual alignment before discussing terms. We believe the relationship should begin with a real conversation, not a price tag on a website.
Is this financial or investment advice? +
No. The Commission is an educational and peer community program. We provide general education on business structures, tax strategies, philanthropic frameworks, and investment concepts. We do not provide personalized financial advice, investment management services, or legal counsel. All implementation decisions should be made with your own licensed financial, legal, and tax professionals. The Harris Family Fund is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, law firm, or CPA firm.
Is this a one-time experience or ongoing? +
The 90-day cohort has a clear start and end. After graduation, every member joins the permanent Family Circle network with ongoing access to future events, peer introductions across cohorts, deal flow visibility, and the resources the program produces each cycle. You invest once in the cohort. The network continues to grow around you indefinitely.
What if I cannot attend one of the in-person experiences? +
The in-person experiences are a core part of the program and we encourage full attendance. If a scheduling conflict arises, we work with you individually. The virtual components in June and July are designed to be flexible around your existing commitments.
When does the next cohort begin? +
The Summer 2026 cohort launches June 1. The Fall 2026 cohort timeline will be announced after the Summer cohort completes. If you are interested in a future cohort, submit an inquiry and we will reach out as dates are confirmed.
Important Disclosures
The Commission is an educational and peer community program operated by the Harris Family Fund, LLC. The program provides general education on business strategy, entity structuring, philanthropic frameworks, and investment concepts for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing presented in this program or on this page constitutes personalized financial advice, investment advice, legal advice, tax advice, or an offer to sell or solicitation to buy securities.
The Harris Family Fund, LLC is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, law firm, accounting firm, or CPA firm. Participants should consult their own licensed financial, legal, and tax professionals before making any financial, investment, or legal decisions based on concepts discussed in the program.
References to deal flow, co-investment opportunities, peer investment, or peer lending describe educational frameworks and potential introductions within the network. They do not constitute investment recommendations, guarantees of opportunity, or solicitations of any kind. All investment decisions are made independently by participants with their own advisors.
Past experiences or outcomes described by program leaders or participants are not guarantees of future results. Individual outcomes vary based on circumstances, effort, market conditions, and independent decision-making.
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