Growth Circles

The Women, Wisdom, and What’s Next Growth Circle is an intimate experience for women who have had long and successful careers looking after organizations, teams, communities, or treasured missions. Women who are now wondering “What’s mine to do or be? Where and how can my experience and collected wisdom be put to best use in service of the ongoing transformation of my organization, my community, the world, and me?”

Sheila and Carolyn are asking these questions, too. Which is why last year, we chose to take our long experience of creating spaces where people come together in good company to see one another deeply and explore their edges and offer it to a group of women leaders who were on a similar journey. This experiment was a nourishing experience for eight amazing women as we created space to see each other deeply in our individual and collective wholeness, to explore what might be next, and often to simply relax into just being. Nothing to perform, nothing to do. And yet magic happened.

The Women Scaling their Leadership Growth Circle is an intimate experience for a small group (between 6-10 women at any one point in time), whose particular stories will differ from one another, but who are facing a similar need to lead differently and who want to do that without losing themselves in the process — women who realize that “what got them here, won’t get them there.”

The Circle is for women who have experience managing people but are now being asked to scale their leadership in some new way. This could mean managing more people, managing a larger budget, or simply moving into a position characterized by less direct control and much more uncertainty — where stakeholder relationships are both more important and less clear, where enabling is more important than doing and where “being” is more important than “doing” or “producing.”

We welcome and encourage women from a wide range of industries, geographies, backgrounds — cultural, racial, socioeconomic, academic, sexual orientation, and gender identity.