About the Collective
Grounded in the wisdom of the natural world, WLC founders Monette Bailey, Mindfulness Consulting, LLC and Lori Pyle, PhD, Stonewave Leadership LLC, offer an accessible and inspiring curriculum rooted in the wisdom of the natural world that connects women to their inner leaders and to each other. Through experiential education, individual coaching, group coaching, and community-building experiences, they help women develop greater capacity for awareness and presence, so that they can steady and sustain themselves across challenging environments.
Participants in WLC experiences will find a safe and stimulating space to explore, grow, and learn to lead with dignity, confidence, and authenticity.
"But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own..."
-Mary Oliver
Who is the WLC for?
WLC is for growth-minded women who may choose to define their own way of leading rather than squeezing themselves into a pre-defined leadership style. They may be in the midst of or want to create a career or lifestyle shift. Or they’ve hit a ceiling in the workplace, or may not even see themselves in the word, “leader,” yet are ready to have greater influence and a stronger voice.
We welcome and invite women who want to:
- show up as their whole authentic selves
- reacquaint themselves with their voice
- lead with more intention
- influence others and their organizations
- discover new inner resources for leading
- co-create a supportive community
- learn from the wisdom of the natural world
WLC Experiences
Get to know WLC
Interactive Webinar Series
We’re changing the narrative about leadership and what it means to be a leader, whether that’s a leader of an organization, a PTA, or your own life. Let’s shed the story that high productivity equals good leadership, that having all the “right” skills and education makes you good enough to lead, and that achieving and doing means you’re worthy. What if you could write a new story about being strong, grounded, and authentic? About being present for your life and work?
Join us for four, 75-minute conversations, and create your leadership story through thought-provoking dialogue, experiential exercises, and mindfulness.
REIMAGINING WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP
23 January - Leading with Strength
23 April - Leading with Groundedness
4 September - Leading with Authenticity
4 December - Rewriting your Leadership Story
Benefits of participation:
- Increased knowledge of self and leadership identity
- Whole-body integration of a new narrative
- Practices to help sustain presence
- Community of growth-minded women
Attend the series - $50
Individual session - $20
WLC Experiential Education
Dates and location TBD
Designed for a small group of women to establish a foundation for growing a more centered, aware, and adaptable leadership presence. We focus on community building, self-reflection, and interaction with the surrounding land as ways of cultivating awareness and creating connection.
- Boutique experiential learning experience
- Balance of individual, and structured and unstructured group time
- Learning materials and journal provided
- Virtual post-experience reflection
- Certificate of completion
- Options to continue deeper learning with WLC
WLC Learning Cohort
Dates: TBD, a six-month experience
Virtual + In-person TBD location
This deeper, extended developmental experience supports a small cohort of women in exploring and clarifying their identity as a leader. Community and coaching provide a nourishing developmental space for connecting with self and others as women learn to express their whole, authentic selves.
- Begins and ends with in-person retreats
- Bi-monthly individual coaching for each participant by certified women coaches
- Monthly virtual peer learning and group coaching
- Regular WLC gatherings
- Details to come!
Aspirations for Participants
- Gain compassionate, deeper self- and external awareness through multiple ways of knowing: through nature and community, cognitively, and somatically.
- Clarify, embody, and express their leadership identity.
- Feel empowered to express outwardly their authentic, whole selves.
- Report a high sense of belonging / community / connection with other individuals in the program.
- Establish a connection with the natural world.
The Founders
After Monette and Lori connected through their
Presence-Based® Coaching certification journey, they realized a common love, respect, and awe for the natural world and a shared passion for supporting women leaders. Although each has her own coaching and consulting business, the WLC is their collaborative dream and joint (ad)venture!
Monette Bailey
Through her firm,
Mindfulness Consulting, Monette creates opportunities for learning through attentive coaching, responsive consulting, and expertly facilitated workshops on leadership and group dynamics. She’s worked with executive teams navigating large-scale culture change initiatives, as well as with new teams seeking cohesion. Even so, she centers the individuals throughout the process. Monette is also a team coach for Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business Executive MBA program.
She is an International Coaching Federation (ICF)-certified Presence-Based Coach®, a discipline that focuses on the whole person, and is also a Gallup-Certified Strengths coach. Monette earned a master’s degree in management, with an emphasis on nonprofits and associations, from University of Maryland University College.
Lori Pyle
Lori thrives guiding small groups through developmental processes, whether teaching graduate students, facilitating appreciative inquiry workshops, or leading leadership retreats. She earned an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in strategic leadership studies from James Madison University, is an ICF-certified Presence-Based Coach®, and is the owner of Stonewave Leadership.
Her interest in women-specific development was sparked while co-creating a “Future is Female” workshop series for graduating college students. Seeing the difference even eight weeks of cohort-based learning made in how these young women saw themselves as leaders changed Lori forever. Her hope is that in 10 years, we might outgrow the need for women-specific leader development because the world has shifted toward greater equity.
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