Eight months of group support ending with a retreat in Hawaii to multiply your productivity & balance within a community of like-minded women

Are you a high-achieving, female professional looking to sustain passion, purpose, and balance day-in and day-out in your leadership? While it might be easy to find your best self at a leadership retreat surrounded by towering trees and crashing surf, it’s a struggle to stay centered amidst the constant demands, huge responsibilities, and societal pressures in the modern workplace, especially when you’ve got something big on the horizon.

The heroines who’ve attended our women’s leadership retreat return home:

• “feeling more confident in my ability to lead myself and others with grace”

• having “connected more deeply with myself and reignited my inner spark”

Hooray!

But amidst the busy-ness of day-to-day work it’s hard to sustain that hard won confidence, skill, grace, connection, and spark. It’s damn hard. Even for us. And we’re leadership coaches! We teach this stuff!

Thus, for the first time, we are creating an eight-month leadership circle for an intimate group of ten seasoned, high-achieving professionals. You have an inner heroine within, but struggle to keep her front and center in the midst of the daily challenges that come with leadership. You’ve reached the limits of trying to sustain this way of being alone. You want others to do it with.

Let’s make sure this leadership circle is for you. Are you someone who…

… self identifies as a powerful, dynamic woman or non-binary person, though it’s really nice to be reminded just how capable and strong you are.

… is a mid-career professional actively leading a team or supporting other leaders, but the weight of responsibility can sometimes feel heavy and overwhelming.

… is confident in some aspects of integrated leadership (spaciousness, flow, connection, inner heroine, outer presence), but not all at once, or not when stressed.

… is committed to practicing conscious leadership (closely related to servant leadership), but continually give away your time and energy to other people, and don’t invest enough in yourself.

… is ambitious and driven, but struggles to do the important when the urgent is pressing.

… thrives in the company of like-minded peers who can see, value, and honor one another’s diverse experiences and backgrounds, but leadership feels lonely right now.

… whole-heartedly embraces new experiences and being lovingly challenged.

If this sounds like you, then you’re in the right place. Welcome!

VISION — Live into your purpose and calling. Clarify your values. Make progress towards a huge professional goal that matters most to you; or clarify the goal. Learn skills to achieve this vision.

CONNECTION — This group of supportive women at your back ensures leadership doesn't feel lonely. Here, you will be valued, seen, supported, and embraced for the messy miracle of a human you are. You’ll leave with the life-long skills of how to create a support network for you and your teams.

SPACIOUSNESS — Practice personalized strategies to manage the busy-ness of everyday life. Create healthy boundaries. Develop resilience. Manage energy, not time. Find what works for you.

INNER WISDOM — Deeply know all aspects of yourself: your emotional intelligence, bodily wisdom, and inner cheerleaders/critics. Through cultivating this inner wisdom, you can fully understand your unique leadership style and become confident that you are leading in a way that feels true to yourself.

FLOW — Rather than fight the current or get stuck on the rocks, enter a state of flow with whatever the Universe may bring. Find humor, magic, gratitude, and awe in even the hardest of times.

OUTER PRESENCE: Navigate the world of relationships, both managing up and harnessing the strengths of everyone on your team so that your org can do impossible things. Become clear and confident expressing your values and presence to the outer world through both the good and bad times.

This curated group of four to ten experienced leaders will meet for 90 minutes on Zoom every other week from mid-October 2023 to mid-May 2024. The first month’s focus is to clearly identify your inner heroines and share her with the group.

Then, each member picks a big thing: a major professional goal to accomplish by May 2024. Our work together as a group is to help each and every one of us achieve their big thing while simultaneously sustaining your inner heroine, through the good times, the tough times, and everything in between.

Finally, it all culminates in a four-day, three-night retreat in Oahu, Hawaii, May 17-20, 2024! What better way to celebrate the collective achievement of our big things than gathering in person to toast our success with umbrella drinks! The long weekend will be an integrated mix of workshops, surfing, artistic expression, and fun in the sun with this extraordinary circle of leaders. You’ll have private accommodations in a gorgeous, waterfront resort on Oahu. Prepare to be pampered with delicious drinks, meals and snacks starting with Friday dinner and continuing through Monday breakfast. You are responsible for your own travel & transportation to and from our resort, but we’ll take care of everything from there.

Bonus! You'll receive lots of special surprises: welcome gifts, free books, 20 minute leadership videos every week, office hours, and special surprises.

Examples of past client goals:

• Finally ending workaholism to create balance, find other passions, and invest in the relationships that matter most

• Transitioning from one career to another that’s more purposeful and fulfilling, or leaving the corporate world to work for yourself

• Launching a book into the world

• Speaking on stages to share your message

• Starting a school, startup, or non-profit organization

• Selling your company and exiting gracefully

• Reorganizing your organization and shepherding stakeholders through the change

• Bringing the parts of yourself that matter (e.g. family, religion, race & culture, artistry, spirituality, service) into your professional life

Tutti Taygerly

Tutti coaches cofounders and tech leaders to embrace their unique leadership style to achieve professional impact and a sustainable company culture. She focuses on working with women, people of color, and immigrants. Previously she was a design leader at design firms, startups, and large companies including Disney and Facebook. Tutti writes for Harvard Business Review, Business Insider,  and Fast Company and her book Make Space to Lead shows high achievers how to reframe our relationship to work. She’s currently bewitched with her second book, Hardworking Rebels: How Asian American Women Claim Their Integrated Leadership.

Tutti grew up in seven countries on three continents and is settled in San Francisco as her home base. She spends her time parenting two spirited girls, obsessively reading, and paddling out for the next wave.

Irene Salter

Irene has an unparalleled mind with a PhD in neuroscience, master's in psychology, and 20+ years of leadership experience, but it’s her heart and soul that people fall in love with. Irene's ability to weave science and magic through storytelling makes her a sought after coach who cultivates leadership circles and retreats for leaders driven by passion, purpose, and people. Her book on the science of why we love to travel is due on bookshelves in late 2024 or early 2025, but you can find her writing in magazines, her blog, or her monthly column in Shasta Scout.

Irene is an adventurer and unabashed science geek. Many of her favorite experiences involve travel: waking up at dawn in a tent in the Amazon, diving a shipwreck in Thailand, being lowered by winch into a tomb filled with hundreds of mummies. Her home base is in rural Northern California where she lives with her amazing husband and two kids.