I had the great good fortune to attend the Women’s Leadership Summit last weekend at the beautiful Asilomar Conference Grounds in Monterey – a place I always love to go to for any reason.

This was Sage Lavine’s event – the goddess I’m hugging in this photo. I love this woman, and the way she leads and does business. She’s a beautiful example of the new paradigm of business, and of true partnership – with self, others, work, community, spirit and nature.

(I wrote about partnership last week. Read that article here.)

I love how she combines conscious business coaching with spirituality, mutual support, and giving back. I love how she speaks in her whole soul’s voice.

​​​​​​​Partnership in work: She demonstrates partnership with her staff – acknowledging them and celebrating them more than any other workshop leader I’ve seen.

As participants, she called us women into greater partnership with each other – to truly support, empower and uplift each other. She evoked and celebrated the divine feminine, and called us into a higher level of being and leadership.

Partnership in community: She actively promoted and brought up onstage 2 photographers, her jewelry designer and her videographer.

Partnership with men: Though this was a women’s event, she celebrated and honored the men who were there as support team and speaker, and evoked the presence of the divine masculine.

Partnership with spirituality: The weekend was infused with a generous and open spirituality that connected us all to something bigger than ourselves and gave room for different expressions of Spirit to be honored.

Partnership with the global community and with nature: She raises money for the Pachamama Alliance at the event. They help preserve the Amazon rain forest, and improve the health and lives of women in the indigenous tribes in Ecuador.

And – Partnership with self: She is radiantly authentic onstage, being her whole self with vulnerability, confidence, humility, power and humor, which creates safety, connection and transformation for everyone in the room.

This is the kind of new paradigm leadership to aspire to, dear ones. I loved watching it in action.

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Blessings,