Dear QLA Mentee/Devotee,
Your plans may sound convincing to you. They may even sound convincing to the people around you.
But what happens when someone challenges the assumptions behind them?
Why that goal? Why that timeline? Why that strategy?
Are you aiming for what you genuinely want to achieve, or what you feel comfortable explaining to other people?
These are not comfortable questions.
But reassurance is not always what moves you forward. Sometimes, you need someone to challenge what you have stopped questioning.
From 2 to 8 November 2026, Dan Peña will conduct the QLA Castle Seminar at Guthrie Castle in Scotland.
Seven days immersed in QLA, with Dan challenging the thinking, expectations and approach you bring to building your business and your future.
You may be preparing to pursue your first acquisition. You may already own a business and want to build something substantially larger. You may have ambitious goals but remain uncertain about your next move.
Whatever your starting point, there is an important distinction:
Having ambition is one thing. Making decisions that match that ambition is another.
Consider the size of the opportunities you pursue. The people whose advice you accept. The standards you set. The compromises you have come to regard as sensible.
Are those choices helping you build the future you want, or keeping you close to the position you already know?
At Guthrie Castle, you are invited to examine those questions seriously.
Not between meetings. Not while answering emails. Not as another task squeezed into your normal working week.
For seven days, QLA is the focus.
The purpose is not to defend every decision you have made so far. It is to become willing to question the decisions that will determine what happens next.
You do not need to arrive with everything figured out. You do need to arrive prepared to be challenged.
Prepared to think beyond your current circumstances. To reconsider limits you have treated as facts. And to take responsibility for putting what you learn into practice.
No one else can make those decisions for you.
But you can choose the environment in which you examine them, and the person who challenges you to expect more of yourself.
Join Dan Peña at Guthrie Castle, Scotland, from 2 to 8 November 2026.