Does this sound familiar?
You know it’s not sustainable, but you don’t see a way out.
Your calendar is a wall of colors. Your days are built for urgency and meetings, not the deep reflection and leadership the job requires. Big decisions stall because there’s just no time.
You struggle with a sense of isolation. Sure, you’ve got your team, but it’s lonely to be the visionary, the problem-solver, and the final decision-maker.
You’re values-driven: invested in community, equity, and progressive causes, but you feel disconnected from your own sense of purpose.
From pets to people, it feels like you’re constantly caregiving and everyone’s go-to person.
You’re not fragile.
You’re burned out because the entire system relies on your resilience.
You need a dramatic reset and meaningful support to reconnect to your purpose and do your work sustainably.
That’s where Strategic Vacations come in.
You need meaningful down time.
You need a structural intervention that allows you to reset. You want to reconnect to your sense of self and your capacity as a visionary leader.
You crave uninterrupted time for strategic thinking.
You’re constantly in reactive mode and struggle with decision-fatigue. No matter how hard you work, it’s as though there’s just not enough time in the day to prioritize the kind of big visioning your role demands and you crave.
You want substantive thought partnership and coaching.
You love your team, but as the leader, you’re not able to express your insecurities or fully acknowledge when you feel uncertain. You want someone to challenge your thinking and hold you in loving accountability.
You’ll leave with
A renewed sense of purpose and focus
Clarity on your most important decisions and the confidence to make them
Stronger boundaries to protect your time and energy
A 90-Day Action Plan: a personal strategic plan you can actually use
Strategies to reorganize and reprioritize as things change
Reflections from Captain (Retired) Andrea Marcille, U.S. Coast Guard
After she left her Strategic Vacation, Andrea wrote:
"I feel more grounded and focused than I have in years. My thanks. Truly.
More to do, but I'm leaving with much more clarity PLUS an action plan."
1 month after her Strategic Vacation, a colleague of Andrea's shared:
"Andrea came back a different person, with clarity and much stronger boundaries."
3 Months After her Strategic Vacation, Andrea Wrote:
"I have a renewed sense of purpose, of focus."
Strategic Vacation Case Study
Executive Summary
Strategic planning and several other major initiatives were stalled out in Victoria’s organization. As the leader, Victoria was uniquely positioned to make the decisions, but because she was constantly putting out fires, she didn’t have space to think them through.
Before the Retreat
There were big strategic decisions Victoria put in the too hard to deal with category.
Working 10 hours a day, she was drained and couldn't get clarity. She felt incapacitated to do meaningful work, doing unnecessary busy work instead of advancing her vision and strategy.
Exhausted at the thought of making another decision, she felt overwhelmed. Still, she knew if she didn’t create space to do this strategic thinking, she couldn’t keep doing the job.
“The idea of actually carving out time, getting meaningful support, and creating space to meaningfully ‘unstick’ myself was very enticing.”
During
The retreat created the space and capacity to develop this operational and strategic vision.
By talking through her hesitations and uncertainties with Lelia, Victoria finally gave herself permission to make the big decisions.
Having Lelia as a thought partner gave Victoria the confidence that she was on the right track, integrating all of her team’s feedback and her own vision to build out a meaningful plan.
“There’s a loneliness to executive leadership—I often feel like I’m an island. It was powerful for Lelia to share other clients’ experiences, so I knew this wasn’t unique to organizations like mine or women leaders like me.”
After
Victoria left with clarity and an organized, color-coded list of next steps. She came home with a level of confidence she’d been missing and the adaptability to adjust to her ever-changing landscape. The retreat was the disruption she needed to make key short-term strategic decisions, finalize her organization's strategic plan, and build her long-term vision.
Victoria’s Results at a Glance
Finalized her strategic plan and secured buy-in from key stakeholders
Decided next steps and developed her vision on previously too hard priorities
Created stronger boundaries and rearranged her calendar to protect weekly strategic thinking time
Months later:
Easefully reorganizing and reprioritizing as new challenges arise
Still using and evolving the new approach
