WNORTH Forums Peer Mentorship

WNORTH Forums are designed to offer women on a path towards senior Executive leadership or scaling entrepreneurs a dedicated SPACE for tackling challenges and achieving significant milestones.

Connect with your new inner circle inside WNORTH to brainstorm your best ideas, bust through challenges and build deeper connections that help advance your career and life.

Duration: 10 Weeks
Cadence: 5 Meetings twice a month
Group size: 6 – 7 Participants plus Facilitator
20th Cohort: Applications now closed.
Cost: Complimentary inside of the WNORTH Annual Membership

Forums are complimentary for all WNORTH Members. Applications for the 20th Cohort are NOW CLOSED. See you in the Fall.

Not yet a WNORTH Member? Join WNORTH to participate in our Forums program and benefit from all perks.

Peer mentorship

In WNORTH Forums, your professional peers serve as your mentors. Each Forum is led by an experienced Leadership Coach or Senior Leader, helping to facilitate conversations and help the group accountability.

Peer mentors are essential in motivating and encouraging one another while holding each other accountable for reaching goals. By joining a peer mentorship group, you can benefit from deep connections, professional insights, and female support from the community of talented women in business, women executives and entrepreneurs, and corporate innovators.

Collaboration

Connect with like-minded women to work on a shared goal⁠.
accountability

Get additional support from 1-on-1 accountability matching inside each Forum⁠.
mentorship

Gain new perspectives and guidance from Senior Leaders, Leadership Coaches, and Founders.
career advancement

Receive professional guidance from a group of talented women⁠.

20th Cohort Forum Facilitators

Your Work Is Not Your Worth: Learn To Self Source Your Own Value

▸ Facilitator: Katherine Lazaruk, Founder and President | Lazaruk Consulting
▸ Dates: Thursdays, 4 pm PDT | 7 pm EDT
▸ Start: June 5th, 2025

How to Stop Chasing External Validation and Self-Source Your Value to Build Unshakeable Confidence

You’ve checked all the boxes, earned the money, and got the title, yet it never feels like enough. You lie awake wondering if you’re falling behind. You replay that conversation, again. You scroll for answers you already know and judge yourself the whole way through. You’re exhausted by your own perfectionism and ashamed that you’re still anxious, still overwhelmed, and still trying to prove you belong. In these five powerful sessions you’ll begin breaking free from the loop that keeps you chasing the sweet dopamine hit of external validation and start confidently self-sourcing your value, so you can make decisions with calm conviction, set boundaries without guilt, and feel powerful from within.

Embrace, Evolve, Excel: Cultivating Resilience and Adaptability

▸ Facilitator: Dr. Kelly Pennell, Sr. Business Program Manager, Executive Customer and Partner Engagement | Microsoft
▸ Dates: Tuesdays, 1.30 pm PDT | 4.30 pm EDT
▸ Start: June 10th, 2025

Life is full of unexpected challenges, but by staying committed to our passions, focusing on our goals, and leveraging strategies to strengthen resilience and adaptability, we can achieve both personal and professional fulfillment.
Resilience is the ability to cope with stress, adversity, and change in a positive and constructive way. It is not a fixed trait that some people have and others lack, but rather a skill that can be developed and improved over time. In this Forum, we’ll dive into strategies for strengthening resilience and adaptability—essential skills for achieving our goals. This inspiring forum provides an opportunity to learn, grow, and empower one another on our paths to success.

The Future of Work: Leading Aligned, Efficient Teams Through Change

▸ Facilitator: Dr. Hilary Curry, Managing Director | Halston Consulting
▸ Date: Wednesdays, 8.30 am PDT | 11.30am EDT
▸ Start: June 4th, 2025

The future of work is already here, and women in leadership have a powerful opportunity to shape what comes next. As organizations shift to hybrid models, leaders must cultivate new strategies for building trust, sustaining engagement, and driving performance across dispersed teams. This experience will dive into the tools and mindsets needed to lead with clarity and confidence in a hybrid world—while also fostering connection and collaboration across virtual and in-person settings.

At the same time, the rise of AI is reshaping the skills leaders need to stay ahead. From understanding AI’s potential to managing the cultural and operational shifts it brings, this forum will equip you with practical tools to lead through complexity. You’ll explore how to support teams through continuous change, champion innovation, and model the kind of adaptive leadership that ensures both business results and a resilient, empowered workforce.

The Intersection Between Personal and Professional Leadership

▸ Facilitator: Deborah Stellingworth, Founder | Aligned and Prosperous Coaching Inc
▸ Dates: Thursdays, 9 am PDT | 12 pm EDT
▸ Start: June 5th, 2025

To lead others effectively, you must first lead yourself. This forum explores how self-awareness, personal boundaries, and intentional communication are essential to strong leadership—both at work and in life. Discover how prioritizing your energy, setting clear limits, and showing up with purpose can help you lead with clarity, confidence, and sustainable impact.

Authentic Leadership: From Inner Alignment to Outer Impact

▸ Facilitator: Natasha Olga Gulati, Leadership Coach and Facilitator | Imagine Success
▸ Dates: Wednesdays, 10am PDT | 1.00 pm EDT
▸ Start: June 4, 2025

What does Authentic Leadership look like—in a bottom-line driven culture focused on speed, scale, and certainty?
It’s easy to lose yourself to the pressures of leadership expectations. Authentic Leadership isn’t about control — it’s about presence. It’s not about having all the answers — it’s about leading from who you are, even when the stakes are high.
Bi-weekly sessions will explore how to do just that through emotional agility, inner alignment and vulnerability, creating outer impact that feels right to you.

Calm, Clear & Capable – Strategies for Women Who Do It All

▸ Facilitator: Shannon Frame, Founder | The Collective Alchemy
▸ Dates: Tuesdays, 11am PDT | 2pm EDT
▸ Start: June 3, 2025

This Forum is designed for high-achieving women who are ready to reconnect with themselves and reclaim a sense of calm and clarity. Rooted in nervous system awareness, this group weaves together breathwork, somatic practices, and mindset tools, in a supportive space to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. By learning how to find safety and support from within, you’ll be more capable to reduce overwhelm, clear emotional blocks, and shift limiting beliefs to regain confidence, clarity, and purpose – so you can lead with intention in both your personal and professional spheres.

Boss or Buddy: Balancing Act for Today's Female Leaders & Entrepreneurs

▸ Facilitator: Katherine Johnston, Founder & Executive Director, Speaker, Author, Consultant | Global Mindz
▸ Dates: Fridays, 9.30 am PDT | 12.30 pm EDT
▸ Start: May 30th, 2025

Are you a leader in your organization or an entrepreneur leading your own business? Looking to strengthen and broaden your leadership skills? Join me and other inspiring women as we explore the Boss&Buddy® concept for female leaders. The Boss role encompasses 7 key skills focused on setting direction, providing clarity, and increasing speed. The Buddy role includes 7 skills that boost innovation, build community, and leverage the strengths of your team members. For effective leadership, developing techniques using both the Boss & Buddy playbooks is essential. The art of leading is a balancing act dependent on the situation and the individuals you are guiding, and there are often gender & cultural implications.

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Includes access to WNORTH Forums Peer Mentorship Program up to three times a year.

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