Leadership rarely doubts that connection matters. What they doubt is the spend. A retreat competes with every other line in the budget, and "it'll be good for the team" doesn't survive a finance review.

This template turns your retreat idea into a case a CFO can approve — ROI framing, per-person benchmarks, and pre-written answers to the objections that always come up. Fill it in, send the one-pager, and change the conversation from whether to where.

• ROI framing: what retreats measurably change and how to present it
• Cost breakdown structure with per-person benchmarks
• Common objections and the answers that work
• Executive summary one-pager, ready to send