Deepening Our Commitment

Each year, the entire Yeske Buie team gathers in person for our Annual Staff Retreat. The time together serves as an opportunity to discuss our vision and goals for ourselves, for our Clients, and for the firm, and to strengthen our relationships so that we can best serve our Clients day in and day out.

This year, we gathered in San Francisco for a three-day retreat focused on enhancing our personal well-being and the well-being of the firm. Our conversation topics included:

• Interviewing Elissa and Dave, our firm Founders, to learn more about their successful, entrepreneurial careers and the lessons they’ve learned as they’ve built their legacy;
• Reflecting on death and well-being with the intention of shining light on the preciousness of life for ourselves and in our work with Clients;

• Brainstorming personal well-being protocols including movement, shifting self-limiting beliefs, giving to others, letting go of things you can’t control, having self-compassion, and practicing gratitude and appreciation to help us bring our best selves to our work each day;
• Revisiting our communication agreements to further refine our skills to be better communicators with each other and with our Clients; and
• Deeply reviewing our core values to ensure we’re making decisions and serving Clients in alignment with the foundations of who we are as a firm.

The conversations were rich, deep, and thoughtful and the team said goodbye feeling an even greater sense of connection to each other and passion and drive for the work we do for our Clients.