Why Ascend?

Powerful women have a rigorous route to navigate in order to claim their best selves and build the kind of businesses and opportunities they want to lead. And we’re sick of being told to re-engineer ourselves to succeed within the predominant paradigm.

We believe that we have unparalleled potential as leaders to create a thriving and equitable world, but we need a nourishing culture of women-supporting-women to get there. We believe that to step into the leaders that we truly are meant to be, we need a community that will hone our existing strengths, the infrastructure to develop our capabilities, and the courage to be unabashedly ourselves.  

What you get

Over an intensive 6-month facilitated process, you set your own achievable goals with growth-igniting content in a committed group of women to co-create transformative personal and shared experiences. Utilizing Womenpreneurs’ signature peer-peer methodology, we will peel back the layers to embrace our best selves, while building strategy, removing obstacles, and strengthening from the inside out. 

6 monthly circles

The core of the program is six in-person facilitated group circles, scheduled each month, with a cohort of curated female leader peers.

18 hours Virtual facilitation

Each circle is roughly 3-hours (total 18 hours of facilitated meeting time) with discussions, reflections, curriculum & thematic exercises designed specifically for female leaders. The central ethos of the Circles leans heavily on Womenpreneurs’s peer-peer mentoring methodology.

private community portal

The group will be provided a Slack channel to regularly communicate with your circle peers, Circle graduates & other Womenpreneurs community members.

Data-based content

Themes, resources, and exercises are rooted in industry-accepted leadership research. Prior to each circle, the group will receive a short syllabus to guide preparation for the upcoming circle. It will include 2-3 reflection questions and 4-5 resources, including readings, TED talks, and videos. This individual time is estimated to require 2-3 hours/month (12-18 total hours in the term).

Theme Summary

1) Convergence: Creating a Community of Practice

Through peer-mentorship and participative leadership we together lay the groundwork to ascend individually and collectively. We will converge shared knowledge and experiences to begin forming strength in the group. This will be a brave place to examine your leadership philosophy, take stock of your strengths, and set goals to help you rise.

2) The Ancient Circle: Your Feminine and Inner-Knowing

Consciousness, intuition and relational prowess. We face clear challenges as women but are afforded many strengths by virtue of our being. Claim your feminine power and begin putting it to work.

3) Transformation: Your Self, Worldview & Limiting Beliefs

Carve a channel of connection to your true self and welcome discovery. Dive into your core beliefs and values in order to distinguish between dated mental modes and regenerative ones. Release perceived obstacles and maneuver around structural ones to overcome doubt and embrace your best self.

4) Your Whole Vision

Embracing your whole self allows you to lead from your deep purpose rather than fear or anxiety of the ego. Find balance in mind, body and spirit to chart your bold, holistic vision. Backcast your vision into a personal strategic plan with achievable goals in alignment with your values.

5) Regenerative Power: Fueling Your Authentic Leadership 

Harness the courage to lead in a way that is uncompromisingly you. Tap into your source and the Circle and fuel your authentic leadership to your fullest potential with the regenerative power we create together.

6) Ascendance: Rising in Power

Harvest the Circle’s collective learnings and put your strategic plan in motion. Chart next steps and live boldly with purpose and confidence.  As a group, set your intentions for continuation to rise from your new source of power.

Concrete takeaways

In addition to a dedicated circle of female champions and carefully crafted content, you’ll leave this program with three tangible takeaways to give your ambitions and business flight.

Output #1: Passion Pitch

Your unique elevator pitch with refined presentation skills, confidence in improvisation, and call to action.

Output #2: Personal Strategic Plan

Your vision back-casted into measurable and achievable 6-month, 12-month and 36-month goals. You’ll also have a detailed network map and energy map drafted to source power-players and sustain your creativity and exertion while you rise.

Output #3: Leadership Profile & Philosophy

Your carefully crafted, challenged and refined matrix of you, including your passions, strength, purpose, values, and challenges. Your written leadership philosophy will be your personal compass guiding your actions and decision-making to make your work less stressful and more productive. 

testimonials

“As a mid-level professional in a sprint-paced career with two elementary aged kids and a partner in tow, Ascendent Circles was the program I wasn't even aware I needed. Ascendent Circles was the exercise of pausing, reflecting and planning to ensure that goals were set to achieve a better future. And, to do it with a circle of other thoughtful and diverse women, all with unique perspectives and insights, made these sessions incredibly worthwhile. 

During the circles, we planned achievable and actionable goals and thanks to the exercises in planning, focus and outlining the steps to achieve them, I launched a new division with the trust of the executive committee at my organization. I also made lasting relationships and expanded my network in the most thoughtful way, through deep connections with these other women, who have now shared their networks. Everyone should have the opportunity to grow and learn in this setting. 

Womenpreneurs changed the way I plan and reflect, to be sure that I am not getting trapped by my life. All of us get stuck, and the Ascendent Circles helped me rise up, take the 30,000 foot view and get back in control to have the greatest impact and purpose.”

- Kimberly Venable, Strategic Partnerships & Alliances at Addepar

“I found a support network in the Circles at a moment when I critically needed it. The funny thing is that I didn't realize how critically I needed it until the end of the first session, when in a vulnerable moment I admitted (as much to myself as to the group) how scared I was about a transition I was going through. Over the course of the program, the exercises we practiced and the conversations we had helped me to find the opportunities in this transition as well as confidence in the path ahead. Thanks to the Ascendant Circles, I'm a more authentic leader and more comfortable taking on that leadership role than I have been at any point in my career.”

- Chrisella Herzog, CEO of Fibonacci Media Co.

Investment

$900

*We don’t want price to be a limitation to high-potential leaders. Discounts can be available. Please contact us to discuss.*

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COHORT DATES

Our Spring 2021 cohort is already underway. We plan to facilitate one-two more cohorts in 2021, targeting the second launch in the summer.