The 69th Annual

Solutions Management Invitational

September 26, 2026  •  Wilmette Golf Club  •  1:00pm CST
What to Expect

SMI is a controlled environment where successful adults briefly abandon judgment, common sense, and whatever progress they've made in therapy. The golf is real. The memories are selective. The alibis are collaborative.

✱ Lifetime Emotional Blackmail

You'll leave with inside jokes, incriminating photos, and enough leverage over the group to guarantee lifelong attendance.

✱ Character Assassination

Leave your ego at home. Your friends have spent all year preparing new material, and absolutely no one is safe.

✱ Professional Gaslighting

If everyone agrees it didn't happen, did it really happen?

✱ Carefully Curated Bad Decisions

Every activity has been thoughtfully designed to produce at least one story that begins with, "No one can ever know about this."

September 26, 2026

The Plan

Meet & Greet

1:00 – 1:30pm

Opening Remarks

1:30 – 1:33pm

Golf

1:33 – 5:30pm

Cocktails + Fake Dinner

5:30 – 7:30pm

Party

7:30 – 🤡pm

  • "It was fine."

    2009 Attendee

  • "Every year I tell my family it's a golf tournament. Every year that's technically true."

    1987 Attendee

  • "My therapist refers to SMI as 'the annual setback."

    2021 Attendee

• A tradition like MANY others •