the legacy intensive
WORK ON YOUR LEGACY
Ninety days, with two days in person · hosted throughout the year in Florence and cities around the world
Legacy is what you are building right now
For a long time I thought legacy was something you dealt with at the end. A will, a trust, a meeting with the lawyer once the hair has turned grey. I was wrong. You are already leaving a legacy — with your money, your company, your family, your friendships, the way you make decisions and the things you believe. The only question is whether you build it on purpose or leave it to chance.
What you actually hold
Most of us look after two of these with great care. The rest are nobody’s job.
The law will move what you own whether you plan it or not. Nothing will move what you are unless you do it on purpose.
WHAT YOU OWN
capital
Money, property, ownership and its structures, and what “enough” means for you.
business
The companies and organisations you have built, and their ability to stand without you.
your six assets
The law will move what you own whether you plan it or not. Nothing will move what you are unless you do it on purpose.
what you own
capital
Money, property, ownership and its structures, and what “enough” means for you.
what you build
business
The companies and organisations you have built, and their ability to stand without you.
who you have
people
Your marriage, your children, your family, and the key people around your work.
where you are known
access
Relationships, reputation, the rooms that open when you knock.
how you decide
judgment
How you decide. Everything you learned the expensive way and never wrote down.
what you value & will not do
conviction
How you decide. Everything you learned the expensive way and never wrote down.
With anything you hold, you can do three things
Building and ordering you can do alone. Entrusting always takes a second person — which is why it is the hardest of the three, and the one we postpone.
build
does it exist?
You made it. This is where most of us spend our lives.
order
Could someone else pick it up?
It is separated from you, structured and written down. It no longer depends on you being in the room.
entrust
Has someone, and did it stand?
A named person now carries it, does it differently from you, and it still holds.
why now?
this is not late work
A signature takes an afternoon. A structure takes a year. A prepared successor takes a decade. Judgment takes twenty years. So you begin with the slowest thing, and you begin while what you have built is still producing — whether you are thirty-five or seventy-five.
the legacy intensive
Ninety days to bring clarity to what you are building
Ninety days, with two days in person · hosted throughout the year in Florence The Legacy Intensive takes you through your own life with the same discipline you brought to your business. You begin with an honest look at where you stand. You spend two days in person with a small group of people who are also building something significant. And you leave with your Legacy Blueprint: a clear, bound plan for what you will build, order and entrust next.
90 days
From the first package at your door to your bound Blueprint
2 days
In person, in a small group of twelve to twenty
1 blueprint
Your own plan, with your values and vision
How the ninety days unfold
the first four weeks, individually
prepare
A box arrives at your door with LEGACY, our magazine, and my book Get Your House in Order. You take the LEGACY INVENTORY, and we go through your results together in a personal conversation.
in person
the two days
day one
What you are building, and where it is exposed
day two
What should continue, and who will carry it. Each session opens with a story from the Medici. A small group, a remarkable setting, and time to think.
the weeks after
your blueprint
Through a personal Legacy Interview, we explore your story, values, and vision for the generations to come. From this conversation, we craft your personal Legacy Blueprint, which I walk you through personally. Your Blueprint then arrives beautifully bound, together with my second book, From Success to Significance.
what you leave with
- What legacy means for you, in your own words
- A clear map of what you hold, and where it is exposed
- The people who will carry what you have built
- The conversations you need to have
- Three focus areas for the next twelve months
where and when
The Legacy Intensive is hosted throughout the year in cities around the world — most prominently in Florence, where the story began.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Business owners, entrepreneurs, investors and anyone who has built something worth keeping, at any stage of life. It is designed for individuals; couples can join by exception.
What the Medici kept
Most people remember the Medici as bankers. But the bank was the part that did not last. It failed in 1494.
What carried the family for more than two centuries afterwards was everything nobody audits: people raised to carry responsibility, relationships held across generations, judgment handed from one head of the family to the next, and convictions about beauty and learning they paid for without expecting a return.
Millions of people still travel to Florence every year to see what they entrusted. If a family in Renaissance Florence could think that far ahead, how much more should we?
cris auditore zimmermann
A German-trained lawyer who left the profession to build, Cris has founded and invested in companies across five countries and today runs a family office overseeing two family foundations.
He spent five years studying the Medici — a family whose bank failed, and whose legacy still draws millions to Florence every year. That work became Legacy Architecture: the discipline of building, ordering and entrusting everything a person actually holds.
He is the author of Get Your House in Order and From Success to Significance, and with his brother Philip founded the Medici community for business owners.
free
The Architecture of Legacy
Six things you hold, and what will become of them
A short framework in my own words: what you actually hold, the three things you can do with each, the page that shows where you stand, and six questions you can answer in five minutes.
start the conversation
Places are offered after a personal conversation
In a short call we look at what you have built, what you want to happen to it, and whether the Legacy Intensive is the right next step for you.
Paula Carrettoni
Executive Assistant to Cris Auditore Zimmermann
pcarrettoni@medicilegacy.com
+34 692 095 592
faq
Is this estate planning?
No. Estate planning transfers what you own. Legacy Architecture entrusts what made you able to own it. Your lawyer and your tax adviser remain essential. The Intensive covers what they are not positioned to: your people, your access, your judgment and your convictions — and how all of it fits together.
Am I too young for this?
Most people start too late, not too early. The slowest things — a prepared successor, judgment
someone else can carry — take years. The best time to begin is while what you have built is still
producing.
What does it cost?
The investment is shared in your personal conversation, together with the dates and locations that suit you.
Can I bring my spouse or partner?
The Intensive is designed for individuals, and couples can join by exception. For a whole family,
there is a Family Legacy Intensive, held privately. We can discuss both in your conversation.
Where and when does it take place?
Throughout the year, in Florence and other cities around the world. We share the upcoming dates in your conversation.
In which language is it held?
English.
What if I cannot attend my dates?
You can move once to a later Intensive.
Is what I share confidential?
Yes. What is said in the room stays in the room, and your Blueprint is yours alone.
What happens afterwards?
Some graduates are invited into the Medici community, a global community of business owners
where the work continues.