Lead As FEMME
Redefine power on your terms.
A transformational group experience for the modern leader who owns her feminine strengths and paves a new way of leading. Elevate your leadership with authenticity and step into your full potential.
Welcome to LEAD as FEMME
LEAD as FEMME is a 12-week live, virtual leadership development group coaching experience. This program is designed for ambitious women who are ready to break free from outdated models, lead with emotional intelligence and authenticity, and embody their fullest leadership expression.
You weren't Meant to Lead like Them.
The kind of leadership we’ve come to know? It wasn’t made for us women.
Instead, it’s a long-standing model that lacks diversity and creates environments where a woman’s potential is suppressed and barriers are created.
Seeing these kinds of leaders throughout my own corporate career, it was clear that the model of leadership created is for men.
Welcome to the gap in leadership.
Women have often had to conform and lead in ways that deny the qualities which are unique to them for fear of rejection or judgement to say the least.
So they continue struggling, using inauthentic tactics and strategies to navigate corporate arenas, thinking, this is the way, this will get me what I want, even at the expense of compromising who they are.
Not only has this kept women in a disempowered state, it overshadows a woman’s unique qualities, keeping her from fully realizing her true leadership potential.
- You want to stop performing and start leading as yourself
- Are a high-achieving woman ready to stop chasing and start claiming your power
- Have hit a plateau in your career or feel disconnected from your leadership
- Crave more emotional intelligence, authenticity, and self-expression in how you lead
- Are ready to stop twisting yourself into someone else’s version of success
What you’ll walk away with:
- Clarity in your identity and leadership style, authentic to who you are.
- Freedom from performative leadership and outdated paradigms
- Tools to navigate negotiations, feedback, and boundaries with power and grace
- Increased visibility because of the way you lead, simply by being YOU.
- Greater emotional intelligence, clarity, and confidence
The women who come to me often feel like they must twist themselves into a pretzel to make themselves known in business or place of work.
They’re exhausted from feeling they have to perform to navigate negotiations, ask for opportunities, use tactics that are inauthentic to get what they want, and struggle with owning being a leader because they’re a woman.
They hit a plateau in their career, struggle to reach career milestones or simply lose themselves in their leadership role feeling the need to conform.
The list goes on.
As a result, women have struggled with being recognized, honored and included as leaders. For many, navigating these environments have left the qualities of what makes a woman, a woman, ignored and suppressed in order to fit in.
When our time together is complete, these same women have gone on to be recognized for promotional opportunities, are sought after to lead high profile projects, lead more authentically, have been able to have more authentic relationships, go after desires they previously didn’t allow themselves to do and so much more.
An increase in confidence is inevitable, but the transformation they experience is life-changing. They elevate their leadership and increase their visibility where it matters. Even better, the organizations they’re a part of become stronger.
The work to bring gender equality, balance and include women as the true leaders they are, has been a work in progress for decades.
Why this program and why now?
I believe when more women are fully able to own who they are in their leadership role, their impact is amplified across all areas of their life. Business’s are more balanced, their work life where they spend at least 80% of their time is more enjoyable, relationships are strengthened and more authentic and life is just all around sweeter.
You’re not a female leader; you’re a leader. Period.
“The biggest skill Lisa gave me was she helped me better value myself. Working with Lisa has been life-changing, and I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to work with her.”
“You have changed my life and I can’t thank you enough for helping me become the person I am today from the person I was when we first met. Thank you so much and I hope we meet again!”
The question I often pose and stops women in their tracks is:
from a place that compromises who you are?
The answer is usually – too much.
The future will continue to see the rise of more conscious women stepping into their role as leaders’ sans slapping their gender in front of their title. Owning the qualities that inherently make them femme, and they naturally possess.
We’ll see an increase in empowered women paving the way for a new generation of leadership.
Paving a new way of living, doing business and working, while courageously doing so with heart.
Now is your time.
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- She is the leader who believes she is worth every investment to elevate and enhance her leadership.
- She is the leader who is an example for others to follow simply because of who she is, not for what she pretends to be.
- She is the woman who integrates the essence of being a woman in her role as leader.
- She is the woman who trades conformity for authenticity.
- She is the woman who celebrates her strength while embracing her softness, recognizing that too, IS her strength — and power.
- She is the woman paving a path for herself even in the face of adversity and challenges, trusting she is still a leader despite the obstacles that may come up.
Ready to Lead with More Presence and Power?
Meet Your Coach
Lisa De Nicola, PCC
My journey through corporate mirrors the experience of many women I now have the privilege to coach. Like you, I navigated systems that often rewarded performance over authenticity, and learned quickly what organizations were really looking for in their top talent.
In my former career in talent acquisition, I worked closely with leaders across every level, from frontline managers to the executive suite. I had a front-row seat to what sets great leadership apart and the barriers women often face trying to lead in a system not built for them.
I didn’t climb the corporate ladder by choice, but during my tenure, I gained a deep understanding of what the best leaders do differently. Yes, I made many of the same mistakes you’ve likely made, too, especially when leading remote teams.
Stepping into entrepreneurship brought a whole new set of lessons. Growing and running my own business gave me challenges that corporate life couldn’t teach, particularly as a woman building something from the ground up. It’s this blend of experience—corporate, entrepreneurial, and deeply personal that now shapes how I coach.
Today, I use what I call my FEMME leadership recipe, a framework I’ve lived, refined, and shared with high-achieving women who are ready to lead with more truth, confidence, and ease.
Lead as FEMME was created to meet more women where they are eager to lead with purpose, ready to break free from outdated models, and hungry to step fully into their power.
This is NOT for you if:
- You're looking for bandaid solutions and not interested in committing to long-term behaviour change
- You're not interested in connecting with other women in a group coaching experience
- You're looking for inspiration or a cheerleader and unwilling to become aware of your blindspots in order to overcome them
- Are unmotivated and don't want to prioritize the time to commit to a group coaching experience to achieve your goals
- You don't like or are interested in meditation
What’s included in Lead as Femme?
- 8 live group coaching sessions over 12 weeks (90 min each)
- Reflection exercises, prompts, and practices for implementation
- A private online community for support and connection (platform tbd)
- Guided meditations and integration tools between sessions
I’ve got answers
No. This group coaching experience is meant to be a LIVE coaching experience designed to be highly interactive with group discussions, teaching, coaching and Q&A. Your participation and attendance is greatly appreciated and needed to get the most of it. Please ensure your availability and schedule can accommodate your live participation. This may change in the near future as the program continues to run.
The times will be decided once the program is full. An email will be sent out to participants upon purchase confirming the times.
Each session will take place virtually via Zoom.
During the program, the focus will be on a group experience. If you want to dive deeper and continue your work, there will be an option to purchase an additional 3 or 6 months at the end of the program to continue working with Coach Lisa privately.
Due to the nature of the live group coaching experience, no refunds will be offered if you choose to drop out and are no longer able to participate in the coaching experience. Please ensure you’re 100% fully committed to attending and participating in this live, group coaching experience. We need and want your participation!
Yes. Lead as FEMME is offered both for individuals who are interested in investing in their professional and personal development and at the organizational level. If you have a group of corporate women in your organization at a Director level or above you would like to invest in to participate in a group coaching experience, please contact Coach Lisa here to discuss further.
Fill out the application and get on a call with Coach Lisa. She’ll give you all the information you need to make an empowered decision on how to move forward.
You Deserve to Lead Without Compromise
You don’t need to perform. You don’t need to conform.
You need to remember who you are.
Join the next cohort of women rewriting the future of leadership.
