Conclave 2026

Whether you plan to sell, pass it to your children, or simply want the decades you have invested to mean something beyond your last day behind the counter, this session is for you. Many jewelers build genuinely successful businesses and still have nothing structured to show for it at exit. Not because they failed, but because success alone does not create a transferable legacy.

This session covers the financial and operational systems that turn a successful jewelry business into one that can be passed down, sold, or protected regardless of what the future brings.

Mariel Diaz founded Accounting for Jewelers in the shadow of her father, a talented and successful jeweler who built something real but left no systems behind to protect it. When he was gone, so was everything he had built.