Our story
Linda and Jack Hubbard
Steady and tough, Linda is an ultra runner and entrepreneur with a background in marketing and software. Optimistic and adventurous, Jack is a serial entrepreneur with companies in digital PR. We both love snowboarding, mountain biking and family adventures.
We followed our dream and moved to Morillon in 2014 to raise our 3 daughters surrounded by nature (they were just babies at the time).
Our idea
We escaped the corporate world. Meetings. PowerPoints. Stuffy event spaces.
And we saw a different kind of business gathering.
Instead of soulless hotel conference rooms, delegates could meet in the mountains.
Instead of swapping business cards over a bland buffet, they could share stories on the trails.
Instead of Marriott hotel bars, they could sip mulled wine by a fire in an 18th-century Savoyard farmhouse.
Instead of chasing targets on spreadsheets, they could reimagine work as a way to enrich life.
Instead of calling them “business delegates,” they could simply be human beings—free from office pods and corporate dogma.
If Davos hosts corporate elites seeking money and power, Dream Valley is for independent thinkers seeking connection, clarity, and contribution.
Our experiences
For ten years, our vision came to life.
We’ve hosted:
Mountain-top acoustic sets and pop-up wilderness banquets
Creative retreats for musicians, filmmakers, and artists
Executive interviews on snowshoes across high mountain passes
Leadership teams in transformative nature-scapes
Our flagship event, Alptitude, invites founders to find their wild.
Visitors keep returning to recapture the magic—some even move here.
But there wasn’t a permanent home for this community.
A home for our vision
Then we found it.
A run-down building in the village center. Boarded up. Rotting away. An unloved eyesore.
It had no financial potential.
But it had soul.
We traded early retirement for an admin ultramarathon. We became owners of a damp money pit that broke every property regulation.
A roof tangled with a neighbor.
A share of freehold to disentangle.
Two properties to transform: a restaurant and a doctor’s office into a community coworking space.
The system convulsed. Officials arrived with clipboards, measuring devices, and grave expressions.
Architect. Géomètre. Mairie. Préfecture. Fire safety. Disability access. Listed buildings.
For months. Years.
One by one, we met every objection—and then kept going.
The Finish Line
One year to buy. Two more navigating approvals.
By summer 2025, we got it.
Work began in September 2025.
And now?
We can’t wait to open.
