You’ve put in the work. Now you’re ready to grow your business, strengthen your leadership, and make clearer decisions about what comes next.
The Thing Orlando 2026 is a three-day gathering for entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and builders who are done trying to figure out what’s next by themselves.
Since 2017, The Thing has brought together people who are doing their Thing—and helped them do it better, together.
Whether you’re growing a consultancy, expanding a coaching practice, leading a team, or building a personal brand, you’ll find people who understand the work and bring a different perspective to it.
Learn from experienced speakers, work through real business challenges in live Q&As and hot seats, and exchange ideas with peers who bring their own experience to the table.
We stay in one room. We learn together. And the speakers sit beside you. No competing breakouts. No choosing one session at the expense of another.
The speakers join the conversations, answer questions, and share what they’re learning. Around the tables and between sessions, you’ll have time to ask your hardest questions, contribute what you know, and build relationships that continue when you get home.
Come with what you’re working on and where you want to go. Leave with fresh perspective, stronger relationships, and practical next steps.
You may already know the decision you need to make. Or you may need time away from the day-to-day to see what deserves your attention.
Bring your questions into conversations about how to:
Decide what deserves more attention, what needs to change, and what you may need to stop doing.
Explore how to strengthen your business, reach more people, or expand your work without losing what made it valuable.
Work through the decisions that come with responsibility—and consider how to move forward without compromising your values.
Connect what you’re learning to your own work, so you leave with practical next steps rather than another notebook of ideas.
Meet people you can call for perspective, encouragement, and honest feedback when the next question comes.
Join us for the main gathering, arrive early for additional experiences with speakers and peers, or begin the week with focused small-group strategy.
The complete Main Thing experience brings practical teaching, honest conversations, and generous people into one shared room.
Arrive early for a creativity and leadership experience, a dedicated workshop, and additional time with speakers and fellow attendees.
Begin with a private dinner hosted by Terry and Leslie, followed by a full-day whiteboard experience with a small group of entrepreneurs and leaders.
You don’t need the biggest business or the most polished introduction to belong here.
The Thing is for people who take responsibility for their work, care about how they build it, and want to learn alongside others.
Your experience may be exactly what someone else needs. Share what you’ve learned, offer an introduction, and make room for another perspective.
You don’t have to pretend you have everything figured out. Bring the question you’ve been wrestling with and be open to an answer you haven’t considered.
Results matter. So do your character, relationships, and the life you’re building along the way.
This isn’t a room for unsolicited pitching or collecting contacts. Come ready to listen, participate, and help someone else move forward.
We build longer tables. We save seats. We give more than we take.
Join us for the main gathering, arrive early for additional experiences with speakers and peers, or begin the week with focused small-group strategy.
From the start, our vision has been to blur the line between speakers and attendees.
At The Thing, speakers do not deliver a talk and disappear. They stay in the room. They join the conversations. They answer questions, make connections, and share the experience alongside you.
Many people who first came to The Thing as attendees have since stepped onto its stage. That is what happens when a community sees people, makes room for new voices, and believes shared wisdom is more powerful than guarded expertise.
Past attendees and speakers have worked with organizations including Disney, the NBA, Amazon, USPS, TED, Nickelodeon, NASA, Farmers Insurance, Ford Motor Company, Warner Bros., Walmart, and Pepsi. They have built startups, global agencies, creative careers, online platforms, local companies, and businesses of every size.
The people on stage bring remarkable experience. The person sitting beside you might, too.
We saved you both a seat.
That replace vague inspiration with useful ideas and action
with people who are doing the work right now
Plus conversations shaped by the questions in the room
Instead of hiding in a green room
Surprises, special gatherings, and unexpected moments you could never schedule
That become collaborations, partnerships, and friendship
A culture where people give freely, make introductions, and celebrate one another’s wins
That go deeper than surface-level business advice
Helping leaders find their people, clarify their path, and do their thing.
Terry Weaver helps remarkable leaders get clear about what matters now, navigate consequential decisions, and take meaningful work farther.
He brings honest stories, practical insight, and questions that stay with you long after he leaves the stage. He helps leaders understand where they are, clarify where they want to go, and identify the path between the two. He helps people move—not someday or when every detail is perfect, but now, with greater confidence, stronger relationships, and a clear next step.
The Thing grew from a conviction at the center of his work: meaningful work rarely reaches its full potential in isolation.
So Terry and Leslie created the room they wanted to exist—a place where entrepreneurs, creators, leaders, and original thinkers could learn from one another, build genuine relationships, and find the clarity and support to keep moving forward.
What began as an event has become something more: a community shaped by generosity, curiosity, integrity, belonging, and the belief that every person carries something worth building.
Terry’s role is not simply to host what happens on stage. It is to protect the culture in the room, ask the questions that create clarity, connect people who need to know one another, and help make space for the extraordinary.
Because what you’re building becomes stronger when you don’t have to carry it alone.
Let’s build what’s next—together.
The Thing Orlando 2026 takes place in the Disney Springs area, with sessions held around tables so you can learn, talk through ideas, and get to know the people beside you.
Hyatt Place Orlando/Lake Buena Vista
8688 Palm Pkwy
Orlando, FL 32836
A block of rooms has been reserved for the event. Please make your reservations by Friday, October 12, 2026 to receive your group rate. Reservations made after this date will be subject to prevailing rates and availability.
To get the discounted room rate with discounted parking and free breakfast. Use the code via the Hyatt website or 800 number.
1-888-492-8847 using code G-3232
Give yourself three days to step back, hear a different perspective, and spend time with people who understand what you’re building.
Bring your hardest question. Bring what you’ve learned. Bring where you want to go.
We saved you a seat.
Main Thing registration starts at $497.
