Navigate Your Leadership Transitions with Clarity, Courage and Community
You've built something meaningful. Now you're ready for what's next.
The Next Chapter Accelerator helps accomplished leaders navigate transitions with clarity, courage, and community.
Through our proven Strategic Pivot Framework, you'll design your next chapter with intention and confidence.
Hybrid Program
Design Your Next Chapter From Anywhere
A five-month strategic journey for mid-to-late career leaders ready to pivot with purpose. Women and men are both welcome.
What You'll Experience Over Five months:
Part 1: In-person kick-off workshop in Washington DC
Part II: Virtual interactive virtual masterclasses with peer dialogue and expert guidance + small group coaching sessions.
Community accountability that supports you to take action.
Program Dates: January 14, 2026 - April 15, 2026
Early bird pricing ends Dec. 31, 2025 - reserve your place now!
Camino Walking Retreat
Walk into Your Next Chapter
A six-day leadership journey along Spain's Camino de Santiago for accomplished women exploring ‘what's next?’
What You'll Experience:
Walk along the historic Camino with intentional reflection.
Expert facilitation blending strategy, mindfulness, and embodied learning.
Experience Galician hospitality and meals, including at a Michelin starred restaurant!
Program Dates: September 22-27, 2026
Capacity: Limited to 12 women
Customize Your Retreat
Start Your Customize Chapter
Interested in hosting your own Next Chapter Accelerator or Walking Retreat? We’d love to partner with you to design an experience that reflects your group’s unique goals, energy, and vision.
Whether you’re a team of professionals navigating transition, a circle of purpose-driven peers, or a group of friends seeking renewal and clarity, we’ll tailor a program that meets you where you are and on the dates that work for you.
Our goal is to help your group step forward with renewed focus, deeper connection, and a sense of purpose that lasts long after the retreat ends.
Which Format Is Right for You?
Purpose-Driven Professionals Who Benefit From the Next Chapter Accelerator Programs
At a career high point: Thinking about “one more big role” before shifting pace or focus.
In a life transition: Having stepped back for health, caregiving, or other priorities — and now seeking clarity on what’s next.
Leading with purpose: Currently in influential roles and wanting to take their leadership — and impact — to the next level.
Reimagining their work: Ready to pivot toward a portfolio career or entrepreneurial venture that offers more variety and autonomy.
Redefining retirement: Entering a new phase of life and wanting to design it around their true aspirations and practical realities.
A Strategic Approach to Life Design
The Next Chapter Accelerator is an exclusive experience for accomplished leaders ready to approach their transition strategically.
Through guided workshops with a select cohort, you’ll engage in our Strategic Pivot Framework:
Reflect & Release: Courageously examine not just what you’ve accomplished, but what you want to leave behind. Release old identities that no longer serve your next chapter.
Reconnect & Reimagine: Reconnect with your core values and reimagine what success looks like now. Ask better questions: What energizes me? What impact do I want to make?
Roadmap & Relationships: Create strategic plans while building a community of support. Bold moves require both clarity and courage—and courage grows in community.
Co-Created By Accomplished Leaders Who've Walked This Path
Fiona Macaulay is a serial social innovator and executive coach who designs and facilitates leadership workshops for Fortune 500 companies, leading NGOs and multi-lateral institutions.
She leads the WILD Network, a community of 25,000 purpose-driven leaders, and serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.Fiona has appeared in the NY Times and Oprah Magazine. She’s a columnist for Inc.com. Her first book, Aim high and Bounce Back: The Successful Woman’s Guide to Rethinking and Rising Up from Failure, launches March 2026.
Fiona has personally navigated multiple career transitions and brings deep expertise in helping accomplished leaders design their next chapters with courage and intention.
Lisa Neuberger Fernandez is a purpose-driven leader with a 25+ year high-impact career in the US and Europe. As Managing Director of Strategy + Innovation at Accenture, she led global teams to accelerate the net positive impact of Fortune 500 companies, governments and NGOs.
Now in a portfolio career, she delivers ‘innovation as a service’ to scale-ups, coaches C-suite executives, and teaches strategy at European business schools.
Co-author of Rebalance: How Women Lead, Parent, Partner, and Thrive, she holds an MBA from Wharton and a Master’s from the Fletcher School at Tufts.
An American living in Madrid, she enjoys singing jazz, playing tennis, and going on ‘walk and talks’ in beautiful places.
Supported by Our Advisory Circle
Our facilitators are backed by experts in sustainability, innovation, tech, leadership, and social impact who bring actionable insights to help shape the program and accelerate participant outcomes.
Advisory Circle includes:
Dr. Angela Jackson, CEO, Future Forward Strategies (Boston)
Concepción Galdón, Vice-Dean of Business with Purpose, IE Business School (Madrid)
Ellen Weinreb, CEO, Weinreb Group Sustainability Recruiting (San Francisco)
Gina Badenoch, Conscious Leadership Coach (London, Mexico City)
Guylaine Saint Juste, President & CEO, NABA, Inc. (DC)
Kim Spalding, CEO, Cheetah Technologies (San Francisco)
Megan Gilgan, Deputy Director, Private Sector Partnerships, UN Women (NYC)
Liana Slater, Co-Founder, Monumental Me (NYC)
Stephanie LeBlanc Godfrey, Former Global Head of Inclusion for Women of Color, Google and Founder, MotherAI (New Jersey)
Suzy Levy, Managing Director, The Red Plate (London)