Women in Leadership Intensive:
A 2-Day Re-Energising Retreat
30 APRIL - 1 MAY 2026
AT WAUrN PONDS ESTATE
Unlocking clarity and focus to lead with renewed energy and impact.
Why we’ve created this opportunity
We live and work in the context of increasing pace, complexity and uncertainty. Leading in these environments can be intensely challenging and unrelenting as we try to deliver strong organisational performance, meaningful impact for clients and build safe, engaging workplaces. We also have many other important roles in our lives that we combine with our demanding workplace leadership. This combination can pull us into overwhelm, reactivity and sometimes burnout.
Evidence-based research indicates that when leaders take time to reflect and refocus, we feel better able to lead with clarity, engage others effectively and deliver impactfully. With intentional support, these spaces enable us to better understand the drivers for our current state and to refocus on what matters most.
We work with many leaders who have found that taking time out to pause, connect and refocus can be an incredibly powerful way to sustain themselves in work and life and to grow as a leader.
This 2-day retreat creates the rare opportunity for up to 12 leaders to think deeply, reflect with purpose on how to navigate our work and our lives meaningfully and return with renewed focus and capacity to lead.
About the retreat
Join us for 2 nurturing and energising days amidst beautiful surroundings one-hour from Melbourne, where we create the space to build insights, refocus and re-energise in connection with other amazing women. Together we will explore:
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What’s important and what’s noise in our respective contexts?
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What patterns and ways of operating challenge us most and distract us from our purpose and goals?
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What are the values and outcomes that guide and energise us?
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What sustains us and keeps us focused on what’s most important?
The 2 days are designed to maximise meaningful insights and action commitments using structured activities, connected discussion, reflective spaces and evidence-based frameworks to build a transformational and rejuvenating experience.
In a beautiful, calming environment amidst nature, you will have space to explore, reflect, learn and create focused actions for taking yourself forward. We also promise amazing food and lots of fun.
The approach used is based on a range of research-based practices that we have integrated into the design.
Who is this designed for?
This retreat is for women who are leaders at any stage in their career working in private, public and not-for-profit sectors who are seeking a nurturing space to regain clarity, find meaningful insights and to bring renewed energy and focus to their leadership.
This retreat is specifically designed for women in leadership, recognising the unique challenges, career barriers, and societal expectations that female leaders often face.
Wendy Fromhold (she/her)
Wendy Fromhold Consulting
Wendy is a consultant, health executive leader, board director and mum who is passionate about helping leaders achieve greater performance, adaptability, and to create workplaces where people thrive. Based in Melbourne and specialising in the for-purpose sector, she works with leaders to build their impact through leadership growth, alignment and organisational capabilities.
Wendy originally trained and worked as a mental health practitioner prior to taking leadership roles in for-purpose organisations. She has spent over twelve years in executive level positions responsible for strategy, governance, people and culture, organisational performance and business management. Wendy has a Masters degree in leadership and organisational development and has Leadership Growth Program coaching certification.
Lucia Die Gil (she/her)
Integrative Somatic Coaching
Lucia is a collaborative leadership coach and facilitator who works in the space where organisational change and personal change converge. With extensive previous leadership experience across corporate HR in various countries, as well as a solo entrepreneur,
she is now a partner at Greaterthan, a progressive, global business that envisions a world where organisational structures and practices fuel vitality for all.
Her unique approach to transformation takes leaders of all sorts from knowledge to practice, through activating deeper connections, authenticity and wholeness at work. Her ability to support leaders and teams through their resistance to change, results in highly motivated, focused professionals who grow much more than they originally expected.
Lucia’s personal toolkit includes her Co-active Coaching accreditation, conscious leadership frameworks, experience design, systemic perspectives, social innovation tools, and her most recent qualification as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner.
The facilitators
Your invitation
This Leadership Intensive is not just another workshop—it’s a pivotal investment in sustaining yourself and growing as a leader. Step into a safe and nurturing space with curiosity, engage with yourself and your purpose, connect with other inspiring women, and return with clarity, energy and practical tools.
This retreat can be stand-alone or you can take up the invitation to progress your leadership clarity and growth with further components in 2026, including:
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Leadership assessment and individual coaching sessions
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Participation in our leadership community, including peer connections
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Further online and in-person workshops
The facilitators
“Leadership is not a solo endeavour”
Lucia Die Gil
Costs and inclusions
Inclusions: workshops, meals and accommodation in one venue:
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2 full days of facilitated workshops with expert facilitators
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1 night accommodation in a beautiful private room (overlooking native gardens and bushland) with private bathroom
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All meals including full dinner in the venue’s private restaurant, catered for dietary requirements
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Pre-retreat preparatory tools
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Toolkit guides
Exclusions:
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Transport to and from the retreat venue
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Additional drinks
Cost:
Early-bird price - $1,800 (until 27 March)
Standard price - $2,200
Venue:
Waurn Ponds Estate, on Nicol Drive South,
Waurn Ponds, VIC Australia
Registration process:
We care about creating a brave space for you and the other women who will be joining us. Once you submit your Expression of Interest, Wendy or Lucia will contact you within 24 hours for a short discussion prior to registration. In this call we'll get to know each other, understand expectations and answer any questions you may have.
