North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation
17th Annual
17th Annual · Angus Barn Pavilion
The North Carolina Leadership Luncheon
North Carolina's flagship annual gathering of business and government leadership.
November 19, 2026 · Doors open at 11:00 AM, program through 1:30 PM
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The Leadership Luncheon
Inside the room
Scenes from past North Carolina Leadership Luncheons at the Angus Barn Pavilion.
A look back
Last year's program
Highlights from the 2025 Leadership Luncheon at the Angus Barn Pavilion.
Why sponsor
Your brand, in the room with North Carolina's leadership
For 17 years, the Leadership Luncheon has brought together the people who lead North Carolina's largest companies, its major industries, and its public life. Sponsorship places your organization at the center of that room, in front of an audience that rarely sits together anywhere else.300
Seats, regularly sold out
100+
Organizations across every major sector
80+
Owners, CEOs, and senior executives
17
Years convened at the Angus Barn
What a sponsorship puts you in front of:
- One room, the whole economy. Leaders from energy, banking, healthcare, technology, agriculture, telecommunications, law, and construction, and the elected officials making policy decisions for those industries. More than 80 owners, CEOs, and senior executives, the people who set direction for their companies and their industries.
- Timed to the moment that matters. The Luncheon falls a few short weeks after the election, when the people who shape North Carolina's economy are reading the same results at once. The conversation is genuine and candid.
- Nonpartisan ground. NCFREE takes no sides. Sponsoring the Luncheon associates your company with balanced, credible analysis rather than with any political party or campaign. Our bipartisan slate of elected officials in attendance join us in their official capacities - not as political candidates.
- Good company. Recent sponsors include Duke Energy, SAS, CVS Health, AT&T, Charter, Fidelity Investments, Comerica, North State Bank, and more.
Members and sponsors