Corporate Retreats & Conferences
Bring Your Leadership EVP for Women to Life
Co-designed retreats and conferences that strengthen women’s leadership, career longevity and sustainable performance, while making your organisation’s commitment to women visible, practical and genuinely felt.
Leadership Programs
Burnout Prevention
Corporate Retreats
Consulting
More Than a One-Off Women’s Event
Women’s leadership, retention and career longevity are not strengthened through isolated events, generic wellbeing days or inspirational talks alone.
They require experiences where women feel recognised, understood and invested in while giving organisations a practical way to demonstrate their commitment to women’s careers, sustainability and leadership.
Corporate Retreats & Conferences by Women at Work By Design are co-designed with organisations to deliver meaningful, high-quality experiences focused on women’s career longevity, burnout prevention, leadership sustainability and personal agency.
They bring together the full Women at Work By Design body of work, including:
- The Leadership Architecture Blueprint™;
- The Integrated Feminine Leadership Model™;
- The Hidden Architecture of Women’s Careers™;
- The 9 Layers of Women’s Burnout™;
- Recoding the Beliefs That Shape Women at Work™;
- The Cluster Belief Reframe Process™;
- The Leaders Who Raise Women Up™;
- The 12 Ways Leaders Impact Women’s Careers; and
- Tanya Perry-Iranzadi’s books and resources.
These experiences are designed to move beyond a one-off women’s event.
They become a visible expression of the organisation’s Leadership Employee Value Proposition for Women, showing women that their contribution, sustainability, progression and lived experience are vital to the organisation.
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What Is a Leadership EVP for Women?
An Employee Value Proposition for Women is the lived promise an organisation makes about the conditions under which women can contribute, lead, progress and sustain their careers.
Recognition
Of the full value of women’s contribution, how are women seen, acknowledged and rewarded?
Leadership opportunity
Are women supported to develop, progress and exercise authority?
Career sustainability
Can women remain and rise without relying on constant availability, over-adaptation or personal depletion?
Support across life stages
Are changing responsibilities, life transitions and capacities understood without being treated as a lack of commitment?
Conscious leadership
Are leaders equipped to positively influence women’s confidence, visibility, opportunity and workload?
Organisational responsibility
Is the organisation willing to examine the systems and assumptions requiring women to continually adapt?
A corporate retreat or conference can become a powerful way to make this promise visible, practical and felt.
What These Experiences Are Designed to Do
Corporate Retreats & Conferences can be designed to support organisations seeking to:
Retain experienced women
Invest in women before burnout, stalled progression or career withdrawal results in avoidable talent loss.
Strengthen leadership pipelines
Support women to remain engaged, visible and prepared for future leadership opportunities.
Prevent burnout and depletion
Enable women and leaders to understand the personal and organisational conditions that affect career sustainability.
Activate women’s networks
Move beyond social or inspirational events by introducing deeper intellectual substance, practical frameworks and meaningful discussion.
Build belonging and recognition
Create an experience in which women feel their contribution, leadership and lived realities are genuinely understood.
Better equip leaders to support women
Leaders are willing, it is knowing the how, and the practical actions that count.
Connect women’s initiatives with strategy
Align the event with retention, leadership development, psychosocial risk, talent and broader workforce priorities.
The focus is insight, reflection, practical tools, shared language and organisational commitment.
Choose the Focus of Your Experience
Each retreat or conference can draw on one central theme or combine several into a connected program.
Women’s Career Longevity
Support women to understand what enables them to remain, rise and thrive across changing life stages, leadership demands and personal responsibilities.
Ideal for: senior women, high-potential cohorts, women’s networks and organisations focused on retention.
The Hidden Architecture of Women’s Careers™
Explore the personal, physiological, relational and organisational forces that contribute to women’s depletion and career withdrawal.
Ideal for: burnout prevention, psychosocial risk, sustainable performance and career-longevity initiatives.
Recoding the Beliefs That Shape Women at Work™
Examine the beliefs and conditioning influencing confidence, visibility, boundaries, authority and responsibility.
Ideal for: women’s leadership development, voice, visibility, opportunity, agency and sustainable performance.
Integrated Feminine Leadership
Introduce a more complete model of leadership that combines direction, structure and delivery with awareness, connection, adaptability, meaning and regulation.
Ideal for: senior leadership cohorts, executive teams and organisations reconsidering inherited leadership models.
Leaders Supporting Women to Thrive™
Equip leaders to understand the practical role they play in women’s confidence, opportunity, recognition, workload, visibility and sustainability.
Ideal for: people leaders, executive sponsors, mixed-gender leadership forums and leadership development.
Beyond Extractive Leadership
Explore why inherited models of performance and leadership must evolve in response to AI, psychosocial risk, workforce transformation and future of work.
Ideal for: executive conferences, leadership strategy events and future-of-work programs.
Possible Retreat and Conference Formats
Each retreat or conference can draw on one central theme or combine several into a connected program.
Half-Day Women’s Leadership Conference
A focused experience combining keynote content, facilitated discussion and practical learning around a selected theme.
One-Day Career Longevity Retreat
A deeper experience helping women explore sustainability, burnout prevention, leadership and personal agency.
Two-Day Leadership and Burnout Prevention Retreat
An immersive program combining education, reflection, practical tools and organisational application.
Senior Women’s Leadership Experience
A tailored program for experienced women navigating leadership pressure, progression, transition and career longevity.
Women’s Network Flagship Event
A substantive event designed to activate a women’s network and create a shared organisational conversation.
Executive-Sponsored Women’s Conference
A high-profile experience connecting executive commitment with women’s leadership, retention and sustainable performance.
Mixed-Gender Leadership Forum
Bring women and leaders together to explore how organisational systems and everyday leadership decisions shape women’s careers.
Leaders Supporting Women Session
A practical leadership experience focused on voice, visibility, opportunity and sustainability.
Keynote and Facilitated Workshops
Combine a keynote presentation with breakout sessions, reflection or action planning.
Bespoke Organisational Program
Create a tailored experience aligned with a specific workforce challenge, leadership priority or organisational strategy.
Program Delivery
Programs may be delivered in person, online, hybrid, onsite, offsite or in partnership with retreat venues of your choice.
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For much of modern working history, workplaces were not designed around women’s lives, bodies, responsibilities or leadership.
What Can Be Included
Depending on the organisation’s needs, the experience may include:
- keynote presentations;
- facilitated workshops;
- reflective exercises;
- leadership diagnostics;
- women’s burnout prevention education;
- career longevity planning;
- belief and conditioning work;
- panel discussions;
- executive sponsor conversations;
- small-group reflection;
- practical tools and worksheets;
- book bundles for participants;
- post-event integration resources;
- follow-up coaching or group sessions;
- recommendations for organisational next steps.
Each experience is designed to feel thoughtful, substantive and aligned with the organisation’s broader commitment to women.
The Models and Books Behind the Experience
Corporate Retreats & Conferences can draw on the full Women at Work By Design intellectual property ecosystem.
Models and Frameworks
- Leadership Architecture Blueprint™
- Integrated Feminine Leadership Model™
- The Hidden Architecture of Women’s Careers™
- The Integrated Feminine Leadership Model™
- The 9 Layers of Women’s Burnout™
- Recoding the Beliefs That Shape Women at Work™
- The Cluster Belief Reframe Process™
- Leaders Supporting Women to Thrive™
- The 12 Ways Leaders Impact Women’s Careers™
Books and Resources
- Beyond Extractive Leadership
- The War Women Fight…Within
- Recoding Eve
- The Leaders Who Raise Women Up
Books can be included as participant resources, leadership gifts, conference materials or pre/post-event learning tools.
Why Organisations Invest in This Work
When experienced women become depleted, step back or leave, organisations lose more than headcount. They lose:
- Leadership maturity
- Organisational memory
- Client and stakeholder knowledge
- Judgment and relational intelligence
- Investment in development
- Future executive capability
A well-designed retreat or conference allows organisations to invest in women before that capability is lost.
It also creates a visible moment of commitment.
Done well, the experience communicates that women are not being asked to become more resilient inside unchanged systems.
They are being recognised, understood and supported as part of the organisation’s future leadership capability.
This is not a reward event. It is a strategic investment in women’s retention, leadership sustainability and organisational performance.
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Every organisation is different. The most effective corporate retreats and conferences are designed around the organisation’s:
- workforce profile;
- women’s leadership priorities;
- retention and engagement risks;
- existing women’s initiatives;
- leadership strategy;
- psychosocial risk context;
- culture and values;
- desired outcomes;
- available time and budget.
Women at Work By Design works with organisations to shape an experience that is commercially relevant, emotionally intelligent and intellectually substantial.
The result is an event that feels aligned to your organisation, not a generic women’s program delivered under your logo.
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Create an Experience Women Remember, and Your Organisation Can Build From
When You Get in Touch, You Can Expect:
A focused conversation about your audience, priorities and desired outcomes
Recommendations tailored to your organisation, time and budget
A no-pressure discussion about whether Women at Work By Design™ is the right fit