The Course That Will Transform Your Strategic Business Thinking
Learn to run your business like a CIA operative—analyze risks, identify opportunities, and make strategic decisions with the precision of an intelligence professional. A master class for solo and/or boutique consulting firms.
Dates
September 23-25, 2025
Status
Annual Event
Format
Live
Location
The Ritz-Carlton Sarasota, FL
Fee*
$12,500 - Before June 1st, 2025
$15,000 - After June 1st, 2025
*Includes lodging and most meals
Application Due
September 0, 2025
Learning Track
Advanced strategic workshop for entrepreneurs looking to reach 7-figures and beyond in their consulting business (any consulting business)
CURRICULUM
Inside this Elite Course…
- Module One: The Strategic Mindset of Spies and How it Applies to Business
- Module Two: The CARVER Framework for Business Analysis
- Module Three: International Negotiation Strategies
- Module Four: Building Industry Leading Intellectual Property
- Module Five: Sales and Marketing Like an Intelligence Service
- Module Six: Crisis Communications and Problem Solving (for your clients and yourself)
- Module Seven: Recruiting the Right People for Your Team
- Module Eight: Building Your Global Brand (PSYOPS)
Also includes 90 days of on-going coaching support to you and your organization!
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Students who will benefit from this intensive course include: solo entrepreneurs, boutique consulting firms, employees looking to transition into a private consulting practice, anyone who desires to gain a leg up on the competition.
REVIEWS
As someone who has run my own successful security consulting business for more than four decades, I can always count on Luke and the CARVER team to share insights on staying ahead of the trends."
- Vincent Volpi, CEO, PICA
"It's like taking the best parts of an expensive MBA program, combining it with the latest inside tech secrets from Silicon Valley, and smashing it into two intensive days of learning at a destination venue."
- General Yousif Mansoor, Saudi Arabian Armed Forces (retired)
PROGRAM CALENDAR
Business, like the world of espionage, is a combination of aggression and skillful play.
CARVER Business Mastery arms you with the tools to think critically, act decisively, and lead your organization strategically in any situation.
INSTRUCTOR
Your primary instructor for the course will be Luke Bencie. However, there will also be surprise guest speakers who are experts in the field of CARVER Business Mastery.
LUKE BENCIE has spent over two decades working within the US Intelligence Community, traveling to over 130 countries as an intelligence professional and as a certified CIA training instructor. The author of seven books on security and intelligence, he began his career as a technical operations officer at the CIA, where he was assigned to the Office of Special Activities and served as a liaison to the US Department of State’s Foreign Emergency Support Team. He later worked for Raytheon Company in the Intelligence and Information Systems Division. For the past fifteen years, he has run the globally successful consulting firm, Security Management International.
In 2010, Luke started his own global security consulting firm, Security Management International, which specializes in training government agencies and Fortune 500 security teams in the CIA’s CARVER Methodology.
He has been a keynote speaker for the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) in McLean, Virginia, the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO) in Melbourne, Australia, as well as the International Spy Museum in Washington DC, along with various universities. He has lectured at the Pentagon, regarding the latest espionage threats facing military personnel during their overseas deployments. Luke has also been a consultant to Paramount Pictures, where he lectured to Hollywood reporters about espionage and surveillance methods for the release of the movie, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Rest Assured
We are so sure that you will enjoy your experience with our products and services that we have proudly offered all of our clients a 30-day, money back (minus your lodging/meal expenses), guarantee on all our training courses since we opened the business in 2010. If you are not completely satisfied with you purchase, send us an email and we will refund your money. Now, you have no reason not to try our services.
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