Why We Built This

Most senior leaders raising a child with autism have nowhere to talk about it with peers who understand the stakes. The boards they sit on, the firms they run, the advisors who counsel them on every other consequential decision — none of that infrastructure follows them home.

L3 is built for that gap. A small community. Annual membership. Year-round work. The founding table convenes at the Four Seasons and The Sebastian in Vail, October 3 to 4, 2026.

The Two Questions

Two questions frame the year.

1. How has raising your autistic child reshaped who you are as a leader?

2. What are you going to do about it?

The first is inward. The second is outward. The founding weekend is built around them, in that order.

The First Question.

Your child has reshaped you as a leader.

Your values, your style, your priorities, your sense of what is worth your time. Most of that change has been private — observed by your spouse and almost no one else. Most colleagues do not see it. Most boards do not ask.

L3 begins by making that change shared. Not as therapy. As work. The clearest leaders in the room are the ones who can name what has shifted, and what they want to do with it.

Two generations of senior executives, deliberately mixed. Some are decades into this journey. Others are earlier in it.

The Second Question.

What you have learned should not stay inside your head or your house.

Each member commits to one outward act in the next twelve months. The act is theirs to define.

For some, it is a benefits change inside their company — coverage their employees did not have before. For some, it is a hire, a board seat, an op-ed, or a check written. For others, it is quieter — a conversation with their other children, a different shape to their weekends, time spent in a way they had not before.

No member is asked to do everything. Every member is asked to do something.

The Working Agenda

The weekend is built around four questions:

1. How has raising your child reshaped who you are as a leader?

2. What will your child's life look like after you — and what does facing that question change about how you lead now?

3. What have you learned that the next generation of leaders on this road would benefit from?

4. What is one outward act you will take in the next twelve months?

What the Year Holds

• The founding weekend — Two working days in Vail, October 3 to 4, 2026. The founding table, in full, at one table.

• The pairings — Each newer cohort member paired with a seasoned member for the year.

• The ‘Brain Trust’ — Researchers, clinicians, and operators on call.

• Regional gatherings — New York, San Francisco, Chicago.

• Monthly briefings — A short note from the founder. What is moving. Who is available.

• One outward act — Each member commits to one act per year that carries the room into the world.