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About · The Renewal Office

About TRO.Corporate retreats, planned from start to finish

Part destination management, part design, part production, part wellness. At the center of it all is intentional team programming.

Every element is built around your company's goals. Built for what's next.

Jonathan holding Triceratops, his small black-and-white dog
Triceratops, co-pilot

Meet the founder · Corporate retreat planner

Jonathan Riccobono.

Too many events Jonathan produced were high-tops and mixers, with no real substance. Clients kept asking him, what are we missing? It wasn’t another activation or more branding. It was a different container altogether. So he built TRO.

You choose the place and bring your goals, strategy and agenda. TRO designs the retreat around it, adds the group sessions, books the facilitators and runs it all on site, so your team just shows up.

Objectives first. Place on purpose.

  • 01Architects of community

    Retreats built with intention and purpose.

  • 02Founder-led

    Business first, personally overseen from start to finish.

  • 03Connection by design

    Never left to a high-top, or to chance.

  • 04Born to hold the space

    Why his chart is wired for this work.

"We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own."
— Robert N. Bellah, the line TRO is built on
Founded 2025SF · PS · LAFounder & Principal Retreat Designer

P.S. Meet Triceratops, co-pilot. Zero patience for overthinking.

The founder

Jonathan →

Founder & Principal Retreat Designer

Why it works at TROVirgo MC: a detail never missed, in service of big ideas. Taurus Sun keeps it grounded; Mars in Gemini brings the quick, restless drive. A creativity stellium lives in the 5th house: expressive, a little theatrical, always in motion.

Favorite practice
Studying the Tao Te Ching, plus five minutes of meditation
Proudest accomplishment
Producing retreats that activate real movement forward and change
Hardest event produced
AIDS LifeCycle: a 7-day cycling ride from SF to LA with 3,000 cyclists and 2,000 volunteers
Change corporate culture most
Lower the ego and have more authentic conversations. We’re all carrying something; more compassion in the workplace.
Cringiest buzzword
"Scalable"
House of Divas
Florence Welch and Fiona Apple. Zero apologies.

The three engines

    Not the whole chart. Just the three placements we read for work: what grounds them, what they make, and what moves them.

    Natal chart wheel for Jonathan Riccobono: Scorpio rising at 28 degrees 59, Midheaven 14 Virgo, Pluto in the first house, Mars in Gemini in the eighth, Moon 14 Pisces on the IC♈︎6♉︎7♊︎8♋︎9♌︎10♍︎11♎︎12♏︎1♐︎2♑︎3♒︎4♓︎5ASC28°59’ ♏︎MC14°47’ ♍︎DSC28°59’ ♉︎IC14°47’ ♓︎3°☽︎14°☿︎19°♀︎1°♂︎12°♃︎12°♄︎20°R♅︎26°R♆︎7°R♇︎8°R☊︎11°01020304J·RNATAL CHART
    Jonathan Riccobono · Michigan, USA
    Whole sign houses

    The founder's chart

    Born to hold the space.

    Why his chart is wired for this work.

    1. 01
      Scorpio rising · Pluto in the 1st

      Senses what isn’t being said. People get honest around him.

    2. 02
      Chart ruler · Mars in Gemini, 8th

      Leads through conversation. As at ease with a budget as a deep talk.

    3. 03
      Midheaven · Virgo in the 11th

      A career built on service, systems and wellbeing, for teams.

    4. 04
      Pisces Moon on the IC

      The spiritual and the corporate on one axis. That’s TRO.

    Want one for your team?

    We map your team’s charts, and your company’s, cast from its founding day.

    Ask about a team chart → A conversation tool, not a belief system.

    About

    Our team

    Filed under — Personnel
    H.L.

    H.L.

    Life Coach & Facilitator Management

    MC in Aquarius

    Redesigns the system, not soothes it. Retreats built for real change.

    Sabrina

    Sabrina

    Experience Designer

    MC in Libra

    Beauty and balance under pressure. The eye behind an effortless run-of-show.

    Casey

    Casey

    Experience Producer

    MC in Aries

    First through the door. The spark that gets a group out of its head and into the moment.

    Scot

    Scot

    Operations & Production

    MC in Scorpio

    Full intensity, steady under stakes. Every logistic locked so the team never feels it.

    How we read a team

    Three sample workshops. One team.

    No. 03Workshop sampleLive demo · try it on our bench
    Hover the wheelThe archetypes at work

    Eight ways people show up in a room. Every team needs a mix.

      % = how strongly each of us shows up there

      Archetypes at Work is one of Tro’s signature workshops.

      Want one for your team? →
      WarriorLoverSageMagicianRulerCreatorCaregiverExplorerATWORK

      Where we accelerate

      Creator, Caregiver, Explorer. New ideas, delivered with care, in places your team hasn’t been yet. That’s the engine of every retreat we design.

      Room for improvement

      Ruler and Sage run quieter on our bench. So your leaders set the direction, and guest guides take the deep questions.

      The point

      This is why we’re good at what we do.

      We read our own bench first. Then we design toward the same balance for yours.

      Case file 001 · Palm Springs

      Proof, not a promise.

      Case file 001
      Sept 2026
      The Brad Krefman Interior Design team on a lawn in Palm Springs, palms and the San Jacinto mountains behind them
      Day two, 6:47 PM
      Status: renewed

      Brad Krefman Interior Design brought its Sausalito and Palm Springs offices together for four days in the desert. Brad set the goals. We designed the retreat around them and ran it on site.

      “The programming put us on a different playing field, and we saw the vision for what comes next, together. We couldn’t have done this on our own.”

      Brad Krefman, Founder of BKID
      Read the case file →
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      Inside a TRO retreat. Tap the speaker for sound.

      Why TRO · The TRO difference

      Most retreats change the scenery. We change what happens inside the team.

      A DMC hands you an itinerary and sells you on “experience” and “branding.” We build retreats that move teams forward. Not branded moments that fade by Monday, real change your team carries home.

      A DMC SELLS “BUDGET”ITINERARIES
      The Renewal OfficeBUILT FOR WHATCOMES NEXT
      Starts with
      A DMC: A destination and an itinerary
      The Renewal Office: Your team’s goal
      Sells
      A DMC: Branded moments and logistics
      The Renewal Office: A shift your team carries home, ready for the next goal
      Who leads the sessions
      A DMC: Vendors they book
      The Renewal Office: Our own bench of world-class facilitators
      Connection
      A DMC: Left to chance
      The Renewal Office: Designed into every part of the day
      Goes inside
      A DMC: No. Fixated on event design and branded moments no one remembers
      The Renewal Office: Yes. Group inner work that makes a real impact on people, so they keep working better together long after it ends
      Who you work with
      A DMC: An account manager
      The Renewal Office: The founder, start to finish
      After the retreat
      A DMC: A recap deck
      The Renewal Office: Integration, surveys and follow-up
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