From Technician to Entrepreneur & Manager

Ascend26 is not four days sitting in a ballroom. It is four days designed to help great advisers build better businesses, become better leaders and think more deliberately about what they are trying to achieve — while challenging themselves, building relationships and having a hell of a lot of fun on Hamilton Island.

Monday, 9 November - Friday, 13 November 2026
Hamilton Island


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Monday, 9 November
Friday, 13 November 2026

Hamilton Island

Ascend26 is not four days sitting in a ballroom. It is four days designed to help great advisers build better businesses, become better leaders and think more deliberately about what they are trying to achieve — while challenging themselves, building relationships and having a hell of a lot of fun on Hamilton Island.

Delegate Registration

BUILD THE BUSINESS YOU ACTUALLY WANT

Being a great adviser is only the beginning.

Building a great advice business requires a different set of capabilities — clarity of purpose, confidence in your value, capacity to grow, a reliable flow of the right clients, great people and an enterprise that can ultimately thrive beyond its founder.

Ascend26 brings those challenges together through practical business education, extraordinary speakers, adviser conversations and shared experiences designed to turn ideas into action.

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YOUR PRIMARY AIM. FOUR PILLARS. CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT.

There is no single definition of a successful advice business.

The starting point is understanding your Primary Aim — what you want your business to deliver for you, your clients, your team and ultimately your future.

From there, Ascend26 focuses on four areas that can materially improve almost every advice business.

PRICING CONFIDENCE

Know your value. Articulate it. Price it sustainably.

CAPACITY BUILDING

Create leverage through people, process, technology and better ways of working.

LEAD FLOW

Build a consistent pipeline of the clients your business is designed to serve.

ENTERPRISE VALUE & SUCCESSION

Build something valuable, sustainable and capable of succeeding beyond you.


SERIOUS BUSINESS. A VERY DIFFERENT CONFERENCE.

Discover Ascend26

This is not four days sitting in a ballroom. Discover how Ascend26 helps advisers build better businesses, become better leaders and get deliberate about their Primary Aim.

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Hamilton Island Awaits

Set in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef, Hamilton Island provides the perfect backdrop to step away from the everyday and get serious about your business — and yourself.

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A Program Built to Change What You Do Next

From keynote conversations to practical business sessions, every part of the program is designed around one question: will this change what you do when you get home?

→ Agenda & Experiences

Business Growth. Personal Growth. Shared Experience.

Some of the most valuable conversations at Congress happen on stage. Others happen climbing Passage Peak at sunrise, over breakfast after an ice bath, around the pool at Sunset Social, or late into the night after someone has challenged the way you think. Watch the stories below to see what makes Ascend26 different.

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Wealth Adviser National Congress
9 – 13 November 2026
Hamilton Island


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Ascend26 Education Partners
We thank our Education Partners for their valued support in bringing Ascend26 to life.

Zurich
OnePath
TAL
AIA
Acenda
North
Pinnacle
Russell-Investments
Aware-Super
Trellia
Macquarie
Milliman