Bringing Asia Pacific together: the TGS Practice Leadership Retreat, Bali 2026

6–7 July 2026  |  Merusaka Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia

The pressures facing accounting, tax, and legal advisory firms across the Asia-Pacific professional services landscape are increasing really fast. TGS Global believes the optimal response is not to wait and see, but to bring the right people together and think it through.

Why a Practice Leadership Retreat now? 

Three forces are reshaping professional services across the region simultaneously. Artificial intelligence is moving from experiment to deployment, handling work, drafting reports, reviewing contracts and doing 80% of financial analysis. All that was once the core work of professional firms. 

Geopolitics is redrawing investment maps, pushing companies to restructure across jurisdictions and seek advisors who understand multiple regulatory environments. Clients themselves are raising their expectations (partly thanks to AI): they increasingly need cross-border support that is seamless, not merely ‘available on request’.

What does relevance for local audit, advisory, tax and legal firms look like in this environment? 

It’s a Retreat, it’s not a Conference

The format has been deliberately designed to be different. There are no keynote presentations, no sponsor sessions, and no PowerPoints from remote experts delivering conclusions to a passive audience. The two retreat days are structured around peer discussion, collaborative simulation, and leadership reflection. These kinds of conversations never happen when you are busy running your firms. You have to retreat to do this. Then you can advance much, much faster when you get back. 

Day one opens with a partner roundtable and an open exchange of leadership challenges and success stories. Then we have some structured discussion on the future of the professions in Asia Pacific and a collaborative session exploring regional opportunities.

Day two begins early with a mindfulness yoga session, moves into a deep-dive leadership reflection workshop, and ends with a cross-border client challenge simulation where firms work together on real scenarios to practice the coordinated advice that clients are already asking for.

The venue is important too. Bali is not a standard conference destination. It is a place that naturally slows the pace and opens conversation. Again, a retreat of pace to then accelerate when you get back to the real world.

Who needs this retreat?

Our Bali retreat is aimed at partners and senior leaders of professional service firms across Asia Pacific in accounting, tax, and legal advisory. These firms are established in their local market and are thinking seriously about regional and international positioning. 

The retreat is also open to the business leaders those firms serve: CEOs and founders who are navigating the same shifts from a client’s perspective, and who stand to benefit from sitting alongside their advisors in joint sessions built around cross-border challenges and case studies.

Places are limited because the size of the event is intentional. The format only works when participants can speak openly and build lasting trust over two days. 

This retreat is part of a wider global commitment

The retreat does not exist in isolation. It is part of TGS Global’s effort since 2012 to build a useful regional presence across Asia Pacific. TGS Asia Pacific reflects the diversity of the market rather than imposing a single global model on it.

That work has been led from the ground up by Mikail Jaman, TGS board member and TGS Asia Pacific Leader. Mikail’s understanding of how the region actually operates has shaped both the network’s growth and the design of this event.

Andrew Menzies, TGS Global CEO, adds:

“What Mikail and the team have built in Asia Pacific from an understanding of what firms in this region need is something I’m proud to support. The retreat is the result of years of relationship-driven work and I hope it becomes a gathering that we look forward to every year.”

Places are limited. Early registration is encouraged.