Dream Camp 2026
April 14th - 17th
✧ Santa Barbara✧
Dream Camp is Closed
If you didn't get in this year, feel free to apply for next year!
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Meet Your Dream Camp
Guide in Residence: Kaiser Yang
Kaiser doesn’t teach innovation from the sidelines.
He builds it, scales it, and proves it under pressure.
Over nearly three decades, he helped grow tech startups to exits totaling more than half a billion dollars.
Your Dream Camp Guide in Residence has led across sales, ops, strategy, and growth. He also built a restaurant that’s still thriving 30 years later. Kaiser understands what it takes to create results that last.
Kaiser passionately believes that even the most transformative innovations can be fast,
scrappy, and accessible to us all.
Over the last 25 years, Kaiser has been at the forefront of global innovation, building and scaling
multiple technology startups and guiding transformative initiatives with clients such as Microsoft, Disney, The Gap and other Fortune 500 organizations.
Today, he helps leaders and teams achieve the outcomes they crave - growth, innovation, competitive advantage, deeper engagement, and predictable results.
Kaiser’s award-winning book, Crack the Code, 8 Surprising Keys to Unlock Innovation, demonstrates his proven system to help everyday people innovate in their everyday work.
Kaiser is also an award-winning restaurateur, a passionate breeder of koi fish, a golf enthusiast, and the proud father of teenage twins.
What You’ll Get at Dream Camp
Practical frameworks you can use immediately.
You’ll learn and practice tools Kaiser developed in the startup world, including:
• Judo Flip — invert assumptions to unlock new options
• Option X — use constraints to force breakthrough thinking
• Innovation Studio methods — generate and pressure-test ideas fast
These aren’t long, academic processes. You can run them with your team the week you get home.
A stronger way to use AI
Kaiser shows why AI needs human creativity in the driver’s seat. You’ll learn how to ask sharper questions, steer output, and avoid wasted effort.
Creative confidence
Most leaders lose creative reps over time. Dream Camp rebuilds that muscle through live practice and real challenges from the room.
Why Dream Camp Works
This isn’t a “watch a speaker” event. You’ll spend multiple days working beside Kaiser and a carefully chosen group of operators.
You’ll test frameworks on real problems, then leave with tools you can teach your team.
You’ll arrive looking for new ideas.
You’ll leave with new ways to think—and a plan to act.
Secure Your Place Now!
Limited to 40 Dream Campers — Don't Wait, We Will Sell Out.
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$5,000
👉 Price includes your 3-Night Stay at the Forbes Travel top-rated Hotel Californian
Spouse Pass: $1,750
Hernani Alves
Hernani Alves is a transformational leader and best selling author who helps organizations fall in love with accountability.
Starting as a part-time employee, he rose to become President of Sleep Train, part of a $3 billion publicly traded company with 15,000 employees.
The company was consistently recognized as the Best Workplace, a testament to his ability to build teams that not only deliver results but thrive in their environment.
Don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to spend two days with Hernani and learn from one of the best of all-time in the mattress industry!
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