Jade Green is the reason a company that books Sundance for a leadership offsite gets more than a beautiful backdrop — they get someone who has spent her whole career on the thing they're actually there to fix.

She started her first business at twenty-one in Darwin, Australia, and spent the next two decades in and around the hardest part of any company: its people. Thirteen years in executive search taught her what makes talent stay or walk. As the creator of the A·R·M Method — Attract, Retain, Maximize — she's helped fast-growth companies cut turnover, lift profitability, and build cultures that run without babysitting or burnout. She spent three years studying the neuroscience of flow and burnout with the Flow Research Collective — how people do their best work, and how they fall apart — and she's a certified performance and flow consultant with Entrepreneurs Institute (now GeniusU), where she works with Wealth and Talent Dynamics.

Underneath all of it is one line she's been chasing her whole career: she's afraid we're forgetting how to be human, and she wants to build places that help people remember. Sundance is where that mission finally found its home — and the first of five places she plans to build for exactly that purpose.

At the ranch, Jade runs the day to day: the guest experience, the marketing, and the relationships that turn a first stay into a standing reservation. She also still runs her people-and-culture practice, Väre, which means groups who want more than a venue can have her culture and flow work layered right over their stay.

Her motto, for anyone who's spent five minutes with her: "I live life on the red line."

Monty Waugh is the reason the books are honest and the model works — and, as it happens, the reason the ranch is called Sundance at all.

He's spent twenty-five years as a CFO inside some of the biggest names in mountain hospitality — Alterra Mountain Company, Palisades Tahoe, Silverton Mountain — plus a portfolio of heli and adventure-travel brands. It's seasonal, destination hospitality: the kind of business that has to make its whole year in a few short months while the weather does whatever it wants. Clean books, tight operations, and knowing exactly where the money is aren't optional in that world — they're the job. A guest ranch, he'll tell you, is the same animal with horses instead of helicopters.

There's a family reason it had to be this one. Monty's grandmother is from Sundance, Wyoming, where his grandparents' homesteaded ranch was, at one point in its life, run as a dude ranch of its own. So a couple of generations on, he's bought a dude ranch that carries the name of his grandmother's town — which, if you know Monty, is about as sentimental as he gets out loud. Mostly it's a return to how he grew up: fishing, the woods, and the kind of outdoor life that's easy to lose track of in a career.

At Sundance he's the co-owner behind the numbers, the model, and the systems — the quiet half of the partnership while Jade runs the floor. And for a company weighing a full-ranch buyout, he's the one who can walk you through the math without blinking.