The Impossible Wish

The Impossible starts here: The Hatchery, October 29th! RSVP here and use the code WISH for 50% off!

The Impossible Wish

The Impossible starts here: The Hatchery, October 29th! RSVP here and use the code WISH for 50% off!

CEO Summit Series | 8 Cities. 8 Months. One Relentless Question:

What are you really here to build?

Forget safe. This is for founders who know the biggest risk is playing small.
The national summit tour for high-velocity entrepreneurs, bootstrapped visionaries, and founders one decision away from their inevitable legacy.
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Why This Summit Exists

Entrepreneurship was never meant to be safe.
This isn’t a “how-to-scale” playbook. This is a reckoning.
You already know the tactics. What you need is clarity. Conviction. And the company of people who refuse to settle for a “reasonable” life.
The Impossible Wish Summit Series is a 8-city, 8-month national tour curated by Strategic Intercept International, Inc., designed to bring early- and mid-stage founders into rooms that recalibrate what’s truly possible.

Lineup

Headliner

Dorothy Rosen

Headliner

Ben Dooley MCC,
CPCC

Headliner

Charlotte Kovacs,
CPCC, PCC

Headliner

Rowan Richards,
Director of Coaching,...

Chéri S. Allen MCC

Sally Eames CPCC

Jon Schickedanz

What You'll Walk Away With

Unfiltered Insight.
Unreasonable Possibility.
Uncompromising Alignment.
Person Sprinting

The Impossible Wish Sprint

Every stop ends with a founder committing—on record—to a 90-day pursuit of their most unreasonable outcome. And yes, we follow up.
People high fiving

Founder-to-Founder Labs

No gurus. No fluff. Just raw conversations, shared frameworks, and fierce clarity from others in the trenches.
Lightbulb and gear

The Strategic Intercept Live

The core methodology trusted by scale-stage companies to burn the playbook and lead with precision. Brought to the startup world. Raw. Unfiltered, Alive.
Revenue

Values Roundtables

Every event is the unwavering pursuit of founders most unreasonable outcome, and values are the key.

Tour Cities & Schedule

Tour Schedule 2026
Chicago
Chicago
February 25
New York
March 25th
Boston
Boston, MA
April 29th
Seattle, WA
May 20th
SanFransisco
Oakland/SF, CA
June 17th
Salt Lake City, UT
July 15th
Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
August 12th
Los Angeles, CA
September 16th

Each stop features

One full-day immersive summit
2 keynote/fireside sessions
founder-led breakouts
Private invitation-only mixer

The Impossible Wish Testimonials

What People Are Saying

 

“I walked in skeptical and left rethinking everything about how I lead. This wasn’t fluff, it was a strategic awakening.” 

-Attendee, The Impossible Wish

 

“The most relevant and human CEO gathering I’ve ever attended. No filler. All fire.” 

-Strategic Intercept Mastermind Alum 

“We left with actual revenue ideas and partnerships. No other event has delivered like that.” 

-Founder, commercial food services startup 

"Our lives have completely transformed, everybody has really been focused and dedicated and really chasing down their impossible wish." 

-Attendee, The Impossible Wish 

 

“It has shown and proven to be something different and mind blowing." 

- Attendee, The Impossible Wish 

 

"You’re not dreaming big enough…This is going to help you dream, put a plan in action, and do it. It won’t just be a dream; it will become a reality."

-Attendee, The Impossible Wish

 

"It’s like breaking your own glass ceiling… pushing past your fullest potential." 

-Attendee, The Impossible Wish 

 

 

"I knew this program was going to be life-changing…it will change your life. You have to do it." 

-Strategic Intercept Mastermind Alum 

 

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Sponsorship & Partnerships

Align your brand with the founders rewriting the playbook.
The Impossible Wish Series isn’t just a summit. It’s a national platform for startups becoming movements—and movements becoming markets.
Partner benefits include:
  • Branded roundtable opportunities
  • Thought-leadership features in The Savvy CEO
  • Direct access to high-growth founder cohorts
  • Recognition and promotion across all 8 markets
  • VIP presence at every event
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From the Creators of Strategic Intercept

The Impossible Wish is powered by Strategic Intercept International, the radical alignment platform trusted by companies ready to lead from the future.
From startup to enterprise, we help leaders strip away noise, codify their real mission, and lead from strategic clarity.

“This isn’t inspiration. It’s activation.”

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Your Impossible Wish Deserves a Stage

You don’t need another webinar.
You need a room full of people who make you braver.

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Jon Schickedanz

Jon Schickedanz is a media producer, entrepreneur, and founder of Strategic Intercept International, Inc., a company dedicated to elevating leadership and organizational culture through conscious enterprise. With a career spanning storytelling, production, and strategic consulting, Jon has built a reputation for blending creativity with clarity, guiding leaders and companies to align vision with execution. He created The Strategic Intercept, a structured methodology designed to help CEOs and executives unlock higher levels of awareness, sharpen decision-making, and embed mission-driven values into scalable business practices.
Jon is also the driving force behind initiatives like The Impossible Wish CEO Summit Series and The Savvy CEO, a publication and platform that showcases bold voices in conscious leadership. Grounded in a belief that empowerment is the new currency of success, Jon’s mission is to help leaders and organizations transcend limits, embrace possibilities, and create lasting impact through intentional action.

Sally Eames CPCC

Sally spent several years as an Instructional Designer, creating training for national and global clients, with a focus on CX support, marketing and sales training. Her designs have won multiple gold, silver and bronze Brandon Hall Excellence awards.
Other experiences she brings to her business consulting and coaching are her work as a CTI Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and as a professional actor, and time spent as adjunct faculty at the University of Idaho. She also spent several years as a contract member of the Artist Relations team for the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, where she helped create a supportive experience for the artists that allowed them to bring their best to the performances.
Sally is a proud member of the Interaction Design Foundation.

Chéri S. Allen MCC

Chéri S. Allen is a Master Certified Coach, CEO of @CHOICE Coaching & Consulting LLC, and founder of the DIVA Breakthrough Experience | DBX. Chéri, aka The DIVA Whisperer, has a 35-year career coaching entrepreneurs and individual contributors through the C-Suite. She has the distinct honor as a board member and adjunct faculty for Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership in the School of Continuing Studies. As the first African-American Master Coach in the federal sector, she co-created the first government-wide ICF-accredited coach training program and contributed to the book Coaching in Government published by Rutledge. A bold intrapreneur turned entrepreneur, Chéri guides powerhouse, wealth-creating superwomen to reclaim their essence and well-being unapologetically, so their success can feel as good as it looks!

Rowan Richards, Director of Coaching, Allies for Community Business

Since September 2017, Rowan established and continues to lead the business coaching program at Allies for Community Business (A4CB). As Director of Business Coaching, Rowan developed a multi-stage program, fully integrated into A4CBs well known lending program, providing a full package solution program for small businesses. In addition, Rowan is a founding partner for A4CB’s Neighborhood Entrepreneurship Lab (NEL), which is a 3-month small business accelerator program. Rowan oversees the NEL program from selecting the small business owners to managing the $3M in capital that distributed to cohort members over the past eight years. Rowan also designed and co-managed a Revenue Based Financing program focused on emerging and established businesses seeking growth capital. Prior to joining the A4CB team, Rowan founded Assemblize, an early-stage investment firm focused on Chicago’s black, brown and women founders. Prior to 2010, Rowan was a senior trader at Marquette Partners, L.P., with nine years of experience in the domestic and international futures industry.

Charlotte Kovacs, CPCC, PCC

Charlotte Kovacs is a certified development coach, speaker, and Designing Your Life facilitator who helps people design fulfilling lives and careers aligned with their values. She works with people in transition - navigating changes in career, identity, or purpose - who are ready for something new, even if the path isn’t yet clear. Known for her clarity, energy, and balance of reflection and action, Charlotte supports clients in exploring possibilities and moving forward with intention.

Ben Dooley MCC, CPCC

Ben Dooley has guided thousands of business owners, entrepreneurs, and leaders in reconnecting with their passion, rekindling their drive, sharpening their focus, and moving forward with clarity and purpose. His diverse background—as a writer, actor, director, circus clown, and more, combined with top-tier training in coaching and leadership, gives him a unique arsenal of tools to serve his clients.

As one of fewer than 1,600 Master Certified Coaches worldwide, Ben specializes in helping left-brain thinkers unlock creativity and right-brain thinkers harness focus and goals. By integrating both sides, he empowers clients to leverage their strengths, transform limitations into assets, and develop unshakable confidence, power, and success.

His clients around the globe consistently report breakthroughs: achieving work-life balance, boosting positivity and productivity, streamlining systems, advancing into new careers or relationships, and stepping fully into leadership, with lasting impact on both their personal and professional lives.

Dorothy Rosen

Dorothy Rosen is a first-generation American born and raised in Chicago's northern suburbs where she still lives. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a double major in English and Political Science. She worked for the premier loyalty design firm Brierly & Partners in numerous positions including running the Chicago office as Senior VP. In addition, she led teams developing loyalty programs for United Airlines, American Eagle Outfitters, Ann Taylor, and Borders Books. She then went on to be the President of four business units with 400 personnel for Protocol Marketing - leading teams across the country for presitigious business-to-consumer and business-to-business Fortune 500 clients. She is the co-founder of Women Belong an international networking organization supporting women professionally and personally through relationship-based networking. Dorothy has appeared in numerous podcasts and is known for her advocacy of women breaking down barriers and achieving success.