Kanbrick is a long-term investment partnership that buys, builds, and grows great businesses for the long-term. Kanbrick provides midsize companies a long-term alternative to traditional private equity.
Co-Founders Tracy Britt Cool and Brian Humphrey are both investors and operators who are passionate about empowering people and organizations to reach their full potential.

The Business Builder event is a Kanbrick Community event and opportunity to bring together like-minded business builders who want to learn, share, and build long term relationships. We put on this event because we believe that learning compounds and that we are all stronger in sharing from our common successes, failures, and general learning. We love sharing our experience and insights from working across and in dozens of companies, and connecting other great leaders. We also think its fun to meet interesting people who are building and growing world class companies.

The Kanbrick Community is an exclusive, invitation-only community of CEOs, owners, and executives who are leading high quality businesses. These leaders are focused on continuous improvement, building strong companies, and coming together to share best practices and learnings in a low-ego environment. The Kanbrick Community has access to Kanbrick’s programming, events, and content, where we seek to openly share our lessons and learnings from running companies, as well as access to other leaders who are part of the Kanbrick Community.

We love meeting owners, executives, and CEOs whenever given the chance and our Kanbrick Community events ensure that we regularly meet interesting leaders, build meaningful relationships, and learn about a variety of industries. The event also allows us to share aspects of our Kanbrick Business System and see how these learnings and experiences can add value to mid-size companies.
Lastly, we are guided by our purpose of empowering people and organizations to reach their full potential and the Community is an extension of our approach to building a strong foundation, empowering people, and driving growth.

The event will offer a mix of larger group sessions with dynamic speakers, customized and tailored breakout sessions, panel discussions, and plenty of networking.

This event is invitation-only, and we seek to build a curated group of attendees who are focused on building high quality businesses, consistently improving, and sharing best practices with others. Your invitation is non-transferable.

We take a lot of time building a tailored group of attendees. You were potentially recognized by someone on the Kanbrick team or someone currently in our Kanbrick Community as someone who would be a great participant and enjoy being a part of what we are building. Alternatively, if you are self-nominating, we are excited to learn more about you and your background to see if this event would be a good fit.

As we get closer to the event we will share attendees of the event. Please see our list of Build with Kanbrick Alumni here to get a sense of a portion of who is already a part of our Kanbrick Community.

No, travel and hotel will be separate and the responsibility of each participant.

Rooms are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and participants are limited to one hotel room each. A booking portal with special pricing will be made available to you after registration (room rates start at $209 per night plus taxes and fees). You are responsible for booking and covering the cost for your own hotel room and airfare.

Your guest would need to register for the waitlist and then we could review and confirm an official invitation. We are wanting to specifically bring together CEOs, Owners, and C-Suite Executives from different companies and industries. Generally, we want one main representative from a company to ensure a diversity of attendees.

By registering, you are agreeing to the refund/cancellation policy. Registrations are non-transferable (the program is highly curated based on the participant list).

Business Builder 2023 Cancellation Policy
Cancel by August 30, 2023: Full Refund
Cancel by September 30, 2023: 50% Refund
Cancel after October 1, 2023: No Refund

Your registration includes meals, programming, content, and the experience of the Business Builders event. The fee helps to cover a portion of Kanbrick’s costs for the event overall.

The Business Builders Event is priced to breakeven. We charge a ticket price to cover our costs for the event and do not aim to make a profit. If there is a situation where there is a profit after the end of the event, we would use those funds towards a future Kanbrick Community event

Dressy Casual. Jeans are acceptable. We want you to be comfortable. Bonus points for wearing your cowboy boots to Nashville.