You’ve built something that matters. The business, the wealth, the reputation, the security your family can count on — none of it was accidental. It took everything you had, and you’d do it again.

But something has shifted.

It might have been gradual — a quiet restlessness that surfaced between meetings, or during a trip that moved you in ways you didn’t expect. It might have arrived in a single moment: a conversation with your grandchild, a walk you didn’t want to end, a morning when the silence felt more interesting than the agenda.

Whatever its shape, the feeling is the same: a yearning for something your current advisors aren’t equipped to address. Not because they’re not good at what they do — they are. Your financial advisor, your attorney, your executive coach — each one is excellent within their domain. But none of them can help you answer the question that lives underneath all of their questions:

This isn’t a crisis. It’s not dissatisfaction, and it’s certainly not ingratitude. It’s something far more interesting: a signal that you’re ready for a dimension of your life that success alone couldn’t activate.

Legacy Activation

Legacy Activation is a private advisory engagement for leaders who are ready to explore what lies beyond financial legacy — and give shape to the deeper dimensions of what they’ll be remembered for.

This is not coaching. It’s not therapy. It’s not a peer group or a retreat. It is sustained, one-on-one work with someone whose sole focus is helping you see yourself with a clarity you haven’t experienced before — and building from what that clarity reveals.

The engagement begins with a comprehensive diagnostic using a proprietary methodology I’ve developed over years of deep study, integrating insights from ancient wisdom traditions and modern psychology. This diagnostic reveals your core patterns — the hidden architecture of your decisions, your leadership instincts, and the dimensions of your potential that remain untapped. Most people who go through this process describe the experience as startling in its accuracy. They see things about themselves they’ve sensed but never been able to name.

From there, we work together privately, structured entirely around your questions and your life circumstances. There is no curriculum. No pre-built program. The work moves at the pace of genuine insight, not a calendar.

Over the course of our engagement — typically three to six months — we build what I think of as an equilibrium scaffolding: personalized daily and weekly rituals designed to sustain the clarity that emerges from our work together. This isn’t about adding more to your life. It’s about creating a structure that holds what you’re discovering, so the insights don’t disappear when the engagement ends.

The entire process is built on complete discretion. I work with a small number of clients at any given time. I don’t name them. I don’t reference them publicly. The spaciousness and privacy of this work are not incidental features — they’re essential to its depth.

What I’ve observed, consistently, is that something shifts when a person is genuinely seen and deeply respected — not for the role they play or the capabilities they’re known for, but for who they actually are underneath all of it.

The gap between the public self and the private self begins to close. The yearning that brought them to this work doesn’t disappear — it becomes a compass, pointing toward what matters most in the years ahead. Decisions become clearer, not because the circumstances change, but because the person making them has changed their relationship to what they actually want.

People begin to think differently about legacy. Not the legacy their estate attorney measures — that’s handled — but the legacy that lives in how their children understand themselves, in how they show up in the rooms that matter to them, in the quality of presence they bring to the time they have left.

This isn’t dramatic reinvention. No one walks away from the life they’ve built. What happens is quieter and, in my experience, more profound: they become more fully themselves. And from that place, everything else — the relationships, the decisions, the sense of meaning — starts to align.

What does this look like in practice? I can describe the work, but a story tells it better.

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If something here lands, I welcome a conversation.

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