A Year-Long Leadership Journey for Your High Potential Women
When women lead, organizations thrive.
Organizations from industries like mining, energy, logistics, and healthcare partner with the Women's Leadership Intensive (WLI) to develop their high-potential women leaders — and retain them at rates far above industry averages.
Here's the return on investing in your women leaders.
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Why WLI
Many leadership programs are built for head-office environments alone. WLI is built for operational environments — designed by women leaders with real industry experience.
Retain the high-potential women you can least afford to lose
Demonstrate credible action on representation — to your workforce, board, and stakeholders (MAC TSM EDI)
Build a succession-ready bench for technical, operational, and strategic roles
Compound results with annual cohorts that build an internal network of women leaders
In our mining client partnerships specifically, that return looks like this:
Cumulative retention — mining partnerships
The Retention Gap Costing You Your Best Leaders
When competitive industries lose employees, it tends to be exactly the ones you want to keep.
In mining, for example — women make up roughly 15% of the global workforce, and the turnover rate for women is 10–11% per year, nearly double the turnover rate of male employees. With the increasing competition for top talent, changing those retention numbers is critical.
Why partner instead of build?
WLI are experts in leadership. We understand the challenges that women in operations-based environments are facing, and we have experience developing them to be successful whether that is increasing their scope of influence in their current role, or getting ready for their next.
Organizational Challenges
Losing high-potential women to competitors · Representation commitments without a credible strategy · Generic programs that don't fit your operating environment · No internal capacity to build this in-house
What you Gain
Stronger retention · A visible, credible commitment to stakeholders · A growing internal network of women leaders · A succession-ready bench
98% of participants were better equipped to
promote an inclusive culture within their organization
Top Benefits:
For Your Organization
Stronger retention of high-potential women, and a succession-ready bench for technical, operational, and strategic roles.
For Your Participants
Confidence and credibility in high-pressure or male-dominated teams, and a full year of leadership skill development including assessments, coaching and a real-world leadership project for application.
One seat changes a career.
An ongoing commitment changes your organization.
Our partners don't send one participant — they sponsor a group of high-potential women from across their organization every year, as part of an overall development program tied to their talent strategy.
That model compounds. Each year's cohort returns to your organization with shared language, mutual accountability, and a peer network that cuts across sites and functions. By year three, you don't just have alumni — you have internal infrastructure. One of our mining partners is now in its fifth consecutive cohort since 2021, with outstanding retention and career advancement, including transitions into GM roles.
Identify
You select your high-potential women — we support nomination criteria drawn from years of partnership experience.
Develop
Your leaders complete the year-long journey: 3 retreats, 1:1 coaching, monthly learning, and a leadership project.
Compound
Alumni stay active in the WLI community — and each new cohort strengthens your internal network of women leaders.
Sarah, P.Eng, mining engineer
Sarah is one of the roughly 15% of women in the global mining workforce. Her employer recognized both her potential and her risk of isolation as a minority in a predominantly male peer group — and sponsored her through WLI. She built confidence leading a team of men, and now coaches and sponsors other women coming up.
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Core Leadership Capabilities Developed
The year-long Women's Leadership Intensive is an immersive development journey — with a talented team of faculty and coaches with personal leadership experience and an understanding of your industry.
Leadership Skills Development
The full-year program at a glance: Three retreats, ongoing 1:1 coaching, monthly learning, a workplace leadership project, and two formal leadership assessments (EQI and Working Genius) — all backed by ongoing access to the WLI alumni community.
"If you feel like you're stuck spinning your wheels in your career or struggling to move forward in some way, this program is for you. BY FAR the most impactful leadership training I've had… Learn how to use your voice!"
— April Belecque, Mine Rescue Officer
March 3–5 · June 9–11 · October 20–22
Millcroft Inn & Spa,
Alton, ON
2027 Retreat Dates
Program Facilitators
Belinda Clemmensen, B.Sc., M.Ed., MCC
Partner, Head of Program Design & Delivery
Belinda brings over 25 years of experience in leadership development, helping organizations build inclusive, values-driven, and human-centred cultures. She is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with a Master’s in Workplace Learning & Change, a published author, and an expert in advancing women in leadership across industries including mining, energy, and healthcare.
CLAUDIA VALLE, B.Sc., B.Ed.
Facilitator
Claudia brings over 20 years of experience in experiential education and leadership development, helping leaders and teams reach their full potential. She has designed and delivered programs for Fortune 500 companies around the world and holds certifications in Polarity Management®, Core Strengths Relationship Intelligence, EQ-i Emotional Intelligence®, and Working Genius.
Trusted by Leaders Across Industries
From global corporations to purpose-driven organizations, we’ve partnered with clients who believe in building leadership capacity that lasts.
Invest in your leaders. Empower change. Transform your culture.
Join the growing number of organizations partnering with the Women’s Leadership Intensive to create lasting, measurable impact — for their leaders and their culture.
