Dr. Jen Clifden
Researcher | Educator | Guide
If you are the one that everyone depends on,
this is for you.
Are you quietly holding more than anyone can see?
Is it costing you more that it should?
Women who lead are often socialized to sacrifice first and restore later; if at all. You have learned how to carry, manage, and keep going. But no one taught you how to be supported while you lead. This is the space where you don't have to hold everything alone. We support both your leadership effectiveness and your well-being at the same time.
While many leadership programs emphasize strategy, productivity, and authority, they often overlook the emotional, relational, and identity-centered dimensions of leadership areas where women carry deep responsibility and influence.
Women Who Lead helps women distinguish between the leader they became to survive and the leader they are capable of becoming when they no longer have to organize their lives around survival.
If you are:
Wondering how long you can keep doing it this way
Holding emotional weight that isn't yours alone
Managing constant demands without space to recover
Functioning well on the outside, but feeling depleted on the inside
You can learn to:
Recognize where you are over-caring
Reinforce internal capacity, nervous system support, and mental health
Lead from care instead of depletion
Stay connected to your calling and work without losing yourself because of it
At the heart of
The Light We Cast | Women Who Lead™
is the powerful metaphor of the Mother Tree.
Mother Trees thrive because they intentionally rest, restore, and revitalize themselves.
Their strength is not constant by accident; it is cultivated through intentional cycles of renewal. They sense distress in the ecosystem, respond with attuned resource-sharing, and stabilize the forest because they have first tended to their own restoration.
Because they can heal, they can sustain. Because they can sustain, they can nurture.
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Women Who Lead™
From Survival to Rootedness
Feminine leadership is not about constant output.
It is about regenerative, rooted Presence.
The purpose of this experience is not to teach you how to do more.
It is to help you remember who you are beneath the survival strategies that have helped you get this far.
Rootedness is the capacity to govern your life, leadership, and relationships from your deepest truth rather than from fear, conditioning, or chronic obligation.
A rooted leader is a woman who is no longer ruled by forces that do not belong to her.
She is rooted in her values.
Connected to her body.
Grounded in discernment.
Able to lead without abandoning herself.
Able to care without carrying what was never hers to hold.
Able to remain compassionate without disappearing.
Women Who Lead™ unfolds as a six-session hybrid leadership experience, with each session aligned to one phase of the Regenerative Leadership Cycle: Root, Renew, Reveal, Resonate, Rise, and Rejoice. Together, these phases guide leaders through a rhythm of grounding, restoration, vision, relational leadership, empowered action, and collective celebration.
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We will begin with an all-day in-person opening restoration retreat to establish connection, trust, and community among participants.
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The remaining five monthly sessions will be held on Zoom, creating an ongoing space for reflection, dialogue, continued learning, and sustained support.
This extended rhythm is intentional.
"Taking time for oneself is healing. I appreciated having time set aside to allow me to grow in my understanding of myself, as well as others. Doing this work with other leaders was powerful."
School Principal
What Women Leaders Gain & What This Training Delivers
1 | A Protected Space for Renewal,
Not Just Skill-Building
Many women leaders are already highly competent. What they often lack is protected space for restoration, reflection, and renewal.
Renew your inner leadership resources through practices that regulate the nervous system and restore energy, honoring the unique rhythms and stages of women’s health. This training creates space for physical well-being, mental ease, and a calm, regulated body.
2 | Meaning & Purpose
in Leadership
Many women leaders are motivated by purpose, not just advancement.
Reconnect with your purpose and root system as a leader, clarifying your values and aligning your leadership with the impact you want to create while cultivating thriving, hope-centered communities.
3 | Leadership
Identity Exploration
Many women leaders want help understanding their natural leadership style and strengths.
Deepen self-awareness and uncover your innate leadership gifts, using tools like the Enneagram to understand how you show up under stress, recognize blind spots, and maximize your natural leadership strengths.
4 | Tools to Prevent Burnout,
Compassion Fatigue & Sacrifice Syndrome
Women leaders often carry invisible emotional labor: mentoring staff, mediating conflict, supporting struggling employees, and maintaining morale.
Develop tools to recognize and prevent burnout, compassion fatigue, and sacrifice syndrome, regulate stress before it becomes chronic, and lead with empathy while maintaining healthy boundaries.
5 | Authentic
Leadership Development
Many women leaders want support in leading in ways that feel authentic, rather than
conforming to leadership models that prioritize control or hierarchy.
Cultivate Resonant Leadership skills of developing emotional intelligence, relational awareness, and collaborative leadership skills that allow you to lead through influence rather than force and power struggles.
6 | A Community
of Women Leaders
Leadership can feel isolating. Women leaders often crave connection with peers who understand their experiences.
Engage in a supportive community of women leaders, where you can speak openly about challenges, share wisdom and strategies, and build lasting relationships through circle-based dialogue and collaborative reflection.
7 | Permission to Lead
Without Self-Sacrifice
Many women leaders have internalized messages that leadership requires constant giving and self-sacrifice.
Learn to lead without losing yourself, developing tools to set healthy boundaries, protect your well-being, and sustain your leadership energy while aligning your work with your core values.
8 | Immediately Applicable
Leadership Tools
Female leaders often appreciate training that is immediately applicable in their real work environments.
Develop practical leadership tools to navigate conflict, support struggling staff, regulate team stress, and maintain clarity and compassion during difficult conversations.
9 | Navigating the Second Shift
Women leaders often carry a dual load of care; leading and supporting others in their professional roles while also managing caregiving, emotional labor, and household responsibilities at home.
Develop practices that help you recognize the impact of the second shift, establish sustainable boundaries, and maintain healthy integration between leadership, personal life, and family so you can sustain your energy and well-being over time.
Participants receive a downloadable
Women Who Lead™ |
Regenerative Leadership
guidebook filled with reflection prompts, trauma-responsive practices, and leadership resources.
Each participant will also receive a copy of Strong Ground by Brené Brown as our companion text. This book provides a shared language for grounded leadership while WWL offers nervous system awareness, reflective practice, and embodied experiences that help bring these leadership qualities to life.
Every Women Who Lead™ session engages:
Sustained connection in a supportive circle where insight deepens over time
Restorative, nervous system–informed practices designed to cultivate mental ease and whole-body regulation; soothing fight–flight responses, softening freeze–fawn patterns, and restoring grounded presence
Exploration of leadership principles tied to real challenges women leaders face
Space for collective wisdom-sharing and meaningful group reflection. Simple “put into practice” rituals to support integration in daily life and leadership
Sustained support between sessions via newsletters and a private text thread to deepen reflection, support integration, and strengthen collective connection
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1 | Embody Healing
Through intentional movement, breath, and sensory awareness, women leaders learn research-based practices to recognize how stress and resilience show up in their bodies and develop practices that restore balance, renew energy, and support sustainable leadership, rather than pushing through chronic pressure or emotional depletion.
2 | Learn the Science
Participants also examine the science of relationships and how attuned, regulated leadership influences trust, psychological safety, and team well-being. Through a trauma-responsive leadership lens, women leaders learn to recognize early signals of burnout, compassion fatigue, sacrifice syndrome, and secondary stress in themselves and their teams and develop practices that regulate stress, strengthen relational attunement, and sustain compassionate leadership over time.
3 | Practice Relational Empowerment Skills
Women leaders strengthen relationship-centered leadership skills that draw on the powers of Social Emotional Literacy: attunement, empathy, collaboration, and relational awareness. Through practical frameworks and reflection, participants learn to lead through connection rather than control, cultivating trust, emotionally intelligent communication, and collaborative decision-making that foster cultures of care, belonging, and collective resilience.
4 | Thrive in Community
Women leaders gather in a relational learning community rooted in matriarchal connection and mutual support. Like Mother Trees in a forest, participants strengthen one another through shared wisdom, reflection, and dialogue, creating a network of trust and encouragement that sustains their leadership and deepens their impact. Through this network of connection, participants strengthen one another and collective resilience that sustains their leadership and deepens their impact in the communities they serve.
"I just appreciate Jen's approach and that she is encouraging us be our full selves; not trying to tell us who to be."
District Curriculum Director
Invest in Your Leadership & Well-Being
Total Program Cost & Value
Women Who Lead™ Leadership Cohort is a complete leadership development experience designed to support both professional growth and personal renewal; unfolding over time within a connected community of women leaders.
Program Investment: $700
(Total Program Value: $1,850+)
Your Enrollment Includes
Women Who Lead™ Leadership Cohort (6 Sessions)
Full day, in-person, immersive revitalizaation retreat and five live Zoom sessions
Value: $900
Full Access to The Light You Cast™ | ON-DEMAND Training
6 months of complimentary access to guided mental health practices, restorative movement sessions, and stress regulation strategies.
Value: $300
Women Who Lead Leadership Workbook
A downloadable guide with reflection prompts, leadership practices, and resources grounded in The Light We Cast™ framework.
Value: $150
Leadership Text
A copy of Strong Ground by Brené Brown.
Value: $35
Clock Hours
Participants receive a 12.5 Clock Hour Certificate of Completion eligible for CEUs.
Professional development value: $200+
Leadership Community & Peer Network
A sustained circle of women leaders learning and growing together across six months.
Priceless
Preferred Partner Pricing
Special pricing options are available to support the well-being of your entire staff through The Light You Cast™ professional development (either in-person or ON-DEMAND)
ADD-ON Coaching & Support
For leaders who would like additional personalized support, individual coaching sessions with Jen are available as an optional add-on.
These sessions provide dedicated space to explore leadership challenges, deepen integration of the practices, and apply the regenerative leadership framework to your unique professional and personal context.
Add-On (Zoom) Coaching Options (*separate payment with Jen directly)
1-2 (60 minute) coaching session(s) ---- $100 per session
3 (60 minute) coaching sessions — $75 per session
6 (60 minute) coaching sessions — $50 per session
If this experience resonates with you, we invite you to reserve your place in this intimate circle of women leaders.
Enrollment is limited to 15 participants to ensure meaningful connection and shared learning.
You’ll receive a 12.5 hour Clock Hour
Certificate of Completion, which may be used for CEUs or licensure renewal and is often eligible for PD funding.
