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💫 Global Membership of Leading Women since 2015
🏔️ 11th Annual Conference @fswhistler May 6-8, 2026
🔗 Join the Membership Waitlist

✨ Introducing the WNORTH Thought Leadership Summit

✨ Introducing the WNORTH Thought Leadership Summit in partnership with @thinkific.

Join us for a morning designed for leaders, coaches, and consultants who are ready to elevate their visibility and expand their influence.

At a time when platforms, technology, and audience expectations are rapidly shifting, this summit equips you with timely tools, expert insights, and practical strategies to ensure your voice is heard-and trusted-now.

📍 THINKIFIC HQ, Vancouver
🗓 Friday, January 30 | 9–1
🥐 Breakfast and networking

🎤 Featuring:
Sunny Lenarduzzi • Sonia Sunger • Melissa Wong • Heather Odendaal • Caroline Carter-Smith • Dan Burgar…. and more speakers to be announced

🎟 Complimentary for WNORTH Members
🎟 $95 for Non-Members & Allies

Spots are limited. Member RSVP approval required.

🔗 Link in bio

This is your sign. ✨ If this is the year you say

This is your sign. ✨

If this is the year you say yes to bigger conversations, more meaningful connections, and a community that matches your ambition — the WNORTH membership is opening again very soon.

👉 Join the waitlist and start the year surrounded by women who get it.

Learn more through the 🔗 in our bio.

#NewYearEnergy #ConnectionBuildsMomentum #WNORTH

A few weeks ago, we hosted the North of Now Summit

A few weeks ago, we hosted the North of Now Summit in partnership with @virginunite.

What stayed with us most wasn’t just the conversation about AI — it was the clarity.

That we’re standing at a pivotal moment, and the future we build will be shaped by how we lead.

Attendees shared a powerful throughline:

✨ Technology doesn’t create transformation — people do. AI should expand human potential, not just efficiency. When used well, it gives leaders back time for better thinking, deeper connection, and more meaningful work.

✨ Culture is the real work. Psychological safety, trust, and purpose can’t be bolted on. Change fails when it’s rushed or driven by fear. The leaders who move forward are the ones leading with curiosity, courage, compassion, and community.

✨ This is long-game leadership. Designing systems that reflect our values. Building inclusion into how we measure success. Being transparent when things don’t go as planned — and learning together.

✨ Leadership must be visible and human. When leaders learn out loud, ask questions, and show their own journey, others follow. The future doesn’t arrive through mandates — it arrives through example.

This is why we gather.

To slow down. To think together. To lead with intention in uncertain times.

✨ Join us at an upcoming WNORTH Summit or Conference in 2026:

🌍 WNORTH Thought Leadership Summit
📍 Vancouver | January 30, 2026
(in partnership with Thinkific)

🏔 WNORTH Conference XI
📍 Four Seasons Resort Whistler
🗓 May 6–8, 2026

🗽 WNORTH New York Summit
📍 Tribeca, NYC (during UNGA)
🗓 September 17, 2026

🚀 2nd Annual WNORTH Entrepreneur Summit
📍 Toronto | Fall 2026

🇬🇧 2nd WNORTH Leadership Delegation to London
An immersive global leadership experience
🗓 Late Fall 2026

Because building a more human future isn’t inevitable —
it’s a leadership choice we make together.

✨ Advanced Pass Sales End December 30 ✨ Canada’s

✨ Advanced Pass Sales End December 30 ✨

Canada’s premier destination women’s leadership conference: the 11th Annual WNORTH Conference

📍 Four Seasons Resort Whistler
🗓 May 6–8, 2026

300 leaders. 3 days. Connected by the mountains.

For over a decade, WNORTH has brought together women and allies across corporate, entrepreneurial, and public sectors to accelerate growth, expand influence, and build the connections shaping the future of leadership.

2026 Theme:
⚡️ The Power Shift: Leading Through Change, Creating What’s Next

As leadership, influence, and wealth rapidly evolve,
a new kind of decision-maker is rising —
one defined by empathy, agility, and impact.

Together, we’ll explore how power is shifting across generations, economies, and cultures — and how to lead what comes next with intention.

🎟 Only 300 in-person attendees
🎟 Advanced Passes at our best rate until December 30

Advanced Pass:
$1,499 + GST

—or—

💳 2 instalments of $794 + GST

WNORTH Members receive $300 off ($1,199)
(Not a member? Join the waitlist — we’ll notify you when a spot opens.)

🎤 Speaker announcements coming in early 2026

🔗 Register through the link in our bio

The latest Lean In McKinsey & Company Women in the

The latest Lean In McKinsey & Company Women in the Workplace report has reignited a familiar debate around women’s ambition.

This year’s findings suggest that, for the first time in over a decade, women report slightly less interest in pursuing promotions than men — a headline that has sparked widespread debate.

Here’s what we see every day inside the WNORTH community:

Ambition isn’t fading — it’s flourishing.

Our members are deeply invested in their growth. They’re stepping into bigger leadership roles, expanding their influence, and making intentional choices about how they lead and live.

Ambition today doesn’t always look like chasing the next title on a traditional ladder.
Sometimes it looks like prioritizing impact over optics.

Connection over competition.

Leadership that’s bold, sustainable, and values-aligned.

This week in London, that ambition was tangible — women traveling across borders to invest in themselves, their leadership, and one another.

That’s ambition.

Grounded. Global. And very much alive.

At WNORTH , we’re proud to be surrounded by ambitious, courageous leadership every day. ✨

Pictured here, our 2025 London Delegation (L to R): Karine Sarkissian, Elizabeth Peacock, Christine Buttkus, Rachel Bond, Heather Odendaal, Jessie Kaur Lehail, Sharon Piggott, Heather MacDonald, Stephanie Redivo, Noleen Mariappen, Denise Evans, Selena Sandhu, not pictured Nicole Beauregard MSc MCC

Photos featured from 3 days of delegation programming including the WNORTH North of Now Summit presented in partnership with @virginunite and the Canada-UK Leadership Summit in partnership with @canadaukchamber.

Want to join our next Delegation? Sign up for the Membership Waitlist through the 🔗 in our bio.

#WNORTH #WomenInLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #WomenSupportingWomen #GlobalLeadership #WomenAtWork #FutureOfWork #AmbitionRedefined

Our team has arrived in #London! We kick off our 3

Our team has arrived in #London! We kick off our 3- day Leadership Delegation this evening with Leaders from Canada, US and UK all trickling into London-town.

This morning we did show run throughs, stuffed gift bags and finalized guests list. #eventmode activated!

Over the next three days, our 2025 Delegation will experience:

🎇 A magical London welcome & 6-course dinner aboard the Bustronome London Premium Dining Experience through the city

💬 A full-day WNORTH x Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce Leadership Summit at Canada House supported by TD Securities and AtkinsRéalis featuring speakers May Busch, Jackie Jones, Vivienne Artz OBE FCSI (Hon) CMgr CCMI AIGP, Victoria Jones FIEDP, Viviane Paxinos, Sim Scavazza, Pavita Cooper, Jean Oelwang, Mary Robinson and Giorgos Tsetis

📍 Canada House, Trafalgar Square
🗓 Tuesday, December 9
🕤 Full-day Summit, 9:30 - 15:15 PM
🎟️ Sold Out

🎄 A Private Soundbath by WNORTH Member @mytruenorthyoga hosted by @spacehouselondon followed by the Christmas Market in Covent Garden

🎟️ Access to the North of Now Summit in partnership with Virgin Unite (Dec 10), featuring speakers Nikki Humphrey, Anna Gowdridge Chartered FCIPD, Annabel Gillard, Rob McCargow, Laura Durrant, Suzy Gigante, Viviane Paxinos, Hannah Awonuga and Noleen Mariappen.

📍 Virgin Group Headquarters, Fitzrovia
🗓 Wednesday, December 10
🕣 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
🎟️ In Person - Sold Out
💻 Also available via livestream with donation to Virgin Unite

🔴 A private tour of Whitfield Studios – The Virgin Group HQ

🥘 A festive Closing Dinner for the Delegation

Follow along here to see our adventures in London 🇬🇧

#WNORTH #wnorthconnect #NorthofNow #VirginUnite

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