The pressure to prove what your career has already established.
Replace over-functioning and over-explaining with grounded authority, strategic confidence, and emotional precision.
She LeadsEQ™ Presents
Ascend 2026™
The Inaugural Women’s Leadership Summit™
A deeply intentional, all-women summit for advanced professional and executive women who have already proven they can lead—and are ready to experience success without carrying every responsibility at the expense of their peace, vitality, identity, or joy.
Lead From Within™
Save the Date
December 18–19, 2026
Friday evening opening experience followed by the full Ascend 2026™ Summit on Saturday.
Venue imagery represents the anticipated luxury setting. Official hotel coming soon.
You Have Already Proven You Can Lead
The next level should not require you to lose more of yourself.
Leadership has rewarded your strength—while quietly asking you to carry more than most people will ever see.
You have earned the position, made the difficult decisions, guided teams, delivered results, supported others, and remained composed through pressure. Yet accomplishment does not eliminate exhaustion, self-doubt, isolation, or the invisible expectation to keep giving long after your own capacity has been depleted.
Ascend 2026™ begins with a different belief: your next level will not be reached by proving that you can carry more. It begins by strengthening the woman who is carrying it.
Extraordinary leadership is not measured by how much a woman can endure. It is revealed in her ability to lead with clarity, authority, vitality, and wholeness.
That is the promise of Lead From Within™.
The energy required to sustain the life and leadership you built.
Protect your health, sharpen your thinking, and stop treating depletion as the unavoidable cost of success.
The woman beneath the role, title, expectations, and responsibilities.
Lead from a place of identity and intention—without disappearing inside everything and everyone you are responsible for.
The Strategic Elevation Model™
Because sustainable elevation requires the expansion of the whole woman.
She LeadsEQ™ does not separate the leader from the woman. The Strategic Elevation Model™ develops four interdependent capacities that shape how you think, communicate, influence, recover, present yourself, navigate relationships, and sustain responsibility.
Capacity 01
Emotional Intelligence™
Strengthen self-awareness, emotional governance, communication, relationship management, resilience, and influence under pressure.
The result: greater composure, discernment, and relational authority.
Capacity 02
Health & Vitality™
Protect the physical, mental, and emotional energy required for longevity, executive decision-making, and sustained leadership.
The result: success that no longer depends on chronic depletion.
Capacity 03
Executive Image & Presence™
Align your visible presence, personal brand, communication, style, and executive authority with the level at which you already operate.
The result: a presence that communicates credibility before explanation.
Capacity 04
Behavioral Insight & Intelligence™
Understand the patterns, triggers, habits, and interpersonal dynamics influencing your decisions, relationships, and outcomes.
The result: intentional choices instead of unconscious repetition.
The Vanguard Circle™
The women entrusted with stewarding every dimension of your elevation.
You should not have to search in four different places for the support required to lead as one whole woman.
The Vanguard Circle™ brings together distinguished authorities across the four Strategic Elevation capacities. Their collective insight ensures that Ascend 2026™ moves beyond inspiration and delivers integrated guidance for how women lead, live, communicate, recover, present themselves, and evolve.
One Community. One Philosophy. A Lifetime of Elevation.
Ascend 2026™ is where accomplished women stop carrying leadership alone.
More than an annual summit, Ascend 2026™ is the flagship experience of the She LeadsEQ™ Strategic Elevation Ecosystem.
It was created for women who have achieved success yet recognize that the next level is not found in doing more—it is found in leading from a deeper place of emotional intelligence, vitality, presence, behavioral insight, and meaningful connection.
Through the Strategic Elevation Model™, the guidance of the Vanguard Circle™, and a community committed to whole-woman leadership, you strengthen the capacities required to sustain extraordinary success without sacrificing your peace, your health, or yourself.
Collective Signature Portal™
Your entry point into the She LeadsEQ™ philosophy, intelligence, experiences, and community.
Collective Select™
Intentional practice, curated experiences, summit access, and continued leadership engagement.
Collective VIP™
Coaching-supported growth for women who want deeper accountability, reflection, and application.
Vanguard Inner Circle™
A highly personalized elevation experience supported by the She LeadsEQ™ leadership ecosystem.
Ascend 2026™
The annual immersive gathering where the philosophy, capacities, authorities, and community converge.
What begins at the summit continues in how you lead.
Respond with clarity instead of reacting from pressure.
Protect the energy required to sustain your influence.
Ensure your presence reflects the level of your contribution.
Recognize patterns that no longer serve your next level.
Build relationships where leadership does not have to feel isolating.
Advance without making personal depletion the price of progress.
The Ascend 2026™ Summit Experience
Two intentional days. One integrated path toward how you lead next.
Hosted at a luxury hotel in Orlando, Florida, the inaugural summit begins Friday evening and continues through a full Saturday experience from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The guest speaker, hotel, and full summit agenda will be announced soon.
Eligible Member Admission
Included with active membership
Included
For active Collective Select™, Collective VIP™, and Vanguard Inner Circle™ members at the time of the summit.
- Friday evening opening experience
- Full Saturday Ascend 2026™ Summit
- Strategic Elevation Model™ programming
- Vanguard Circle™ guidance and insight
- Connection within the She LeadsEQ™ ecosystem
Public Early-Bird Admission
The complete Ascend 2026™ experience
$299
Early-bird public admission. Registration officially opens in October 2026.
- Friday evening welcome and connection
- Saturday summit from 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
- Four-capacity leadership development
- Luxury Orlando hotel setting
- Access to the inaugural summit experience
The Vision Behind She LeadsEQ™
Built from a body of work—not an event trend.
Founded by Dr. Claire A. René, Ed.D., MBA
With over 14 years of emotional intelligence practice across tech, global banking, government, and higher education, Dr. René has built a reputation as one of the most precise voices in executive leadership development. She is the architect of the Emotional Governance™ Framework and the R.I.S.E.™ Methodology.
She LeadsEQ™ Collective is the natural expression of Dr. René's life's work: a space where women don't learn to lead—they refine how they already do.
Priority Pre-Registration
There is another way to carry leadership—and it begins within.
Join the priority list to receive the luxury hotel reveal, featured guest speaker announcement, Vanguard Circle™ updates, summit agenda, membership instructions, and early-bird registration notice.
Ascend 2026™ Priority List
Complete the secure pre-registration form to receive official summit announcements before public registration opens.
Complete Priority Pre-Registration