Embody the leadership that’s needed now

You are a changemaker leading with a compassionate and devoted heart.

In these times of disruption and chaos, you see a powerful opportunity for positive change. You understand that outdated patriarchal systems of oppression, injustice, greed and environmental destruction are crumbling – because the old world must die in order for a new one to be born. 

Your soul knows that the More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible – one that is safe, just and peaceful for all – is not only possible… It is already on its way.

And you’re ready to make it real.

… the new way is still emerging.

It is time for women to lead... but we must lead differently. We can’t birth a new paradigm using the leadership strategies and styles of the old. 

Feminine leadership has become a buzzword of late. But most women barely scratch the surface of understanding what it truly means to embody the Feminine in leadership. Patriarchal programs are still driving their thoughts and actions – and they don’t even know it. 

If you’re ready to step fully into your power and cultivate new ways of being, so that you can do what you came here to do in this lifetime… You must release old patterns and conditioning, so you can hear the whispers of the new world and allow them to inform your actions.

Signs that you might be trying to bring forward a new paradigm using the leadership of the old:

• You feel stretched-thin, depleted, and under-resourced from non-stop doing – and it’s hard to see how to deepen your impact without burning out.

• You sense that there is a creative, intuitive intelligence that will help you lead with greater impact and ease – but you haven’t been able to access that source consistently.

• You wish you could bring more of yourself into your work – especially your passionate, emotional, devotional, magical, spiritual side – but you fear being devalued or sidelined.

• There’s an uncomfortable split between your inner world of personal development, wisdom and spirituality... and your external world of career, productivity, goals, and accountability. 

• Your health has been asking for your attention, but there is always so much to do that your wellbeing continues to be last on the list.

• You know it is time to step into greater service, but you only know how you’ve done this in the past (usually by pushing, proving, and making things happen)… and it feels like something brand new is needed in our world now. 

If you’re a conscious woman leader and you hope to shift organizational culture – and our culture at large – you probably already know that you have to BE the change you want to create.

Intellectual knowledge is not sufficient; we need leaders who can generate change from deeply embodied wisdom. And that means you must go through a radical change that initiates you into an entirely new way of being, as a Feminine leader.

9-month journey

Sophia’s Wisdom: Devotion in Action is a nine-month mystery school that blends professional leadership development with spiritual development (because they truly are inseparable). Because it is guided and led by the Divine Mystery, you cannot really know what will happen – because much of the learning will come through your direct, emergent experience. 

Your instructor, Allison Conte, is a Harvard leadership educator – but you won’t find this material in the Ivy League! This program is the result of decades of Allison’s professional and spiritual evolution as a leadership consultant, executive coach, priestess, and medicine woman.

We will go beyond concepts and mental understanding to experience and embody the wisdom of integrated Feminine Leadership.

For women change-makers

Sophia Leadership’s mission is to develop conscious feminine leaders who will lead the way to a new paradigm of peace, equality, justice, and environmental restoration. 

We work with women who are:

• Professionally successful, with “leadership leverage” and therefore, can make real ripples when they learn to embody feminine leadership. This includes consultants, coaches, organizational development professionals – or social-impact entrepreneurs – who have a significant influence on leaders, teams or whole organizational systems.

• Wanting to make a deeper impact, but are struggling with issues such as: burnout; waning passion; lost radiance; feeling inauthentic, boxed in or rigid; loss of creativity; disconnected from intuition; struggling to see and address the deeper causes of imbalance and dysfunction in an organization; or looking for ways to accomplish more besides working harder and longer. 

• Already on a path of personal and spiritual growth and ready to develop new ways of being, seeing, and leading so they can help leaders, teams and organizations shift into the new paradigm.

Is this journey for you?

Are you a female consultant, coach, advisor or change-leader who knows the world needs to birth a radical new paradigm – and that the historical ways of working with leaders, teams or organizations needs an upgrade – but you aren’t sure how?

Are you keenly aware of the imbalances of the masculine and feminine capacities in the workplace and the world – and you’re looking for a way to assess and transform these imbalances in the leaders, teams and organizations you work with?

Do you sense that, in order to lead us into the new paradigm, you must first examine the shadow aspects and conditioning of the old paradigm that are still unconsciously embedded in your own way of seeing, being and doing?

Do you intuit that the way forward means having greater impact while doing less, not more – but you have no idea how to move in this way?

Are you tired of walking a professional path by day and a spiritual path by night – because you know that the integration of leadership + spirituality is part of the paradigm shift that’s needed?

Are you looking for a real phase shift in your leadership, so you can truly embody the leadership that is needed now?

If you answered yes to more than one of these questions, keep reading.

The Sophia Leadership Model is an elegant and credible framework for bringing Feminine values and capacities, like emotional intelligence, intuition, wisdom, collaboration – into balance alongside healthy masculine values, such as goal setting, measurement, execution and analysis.

The Sophia Leadership Assessment illuminates hidden dynamics and imbalances in leaders, teams and organizations – and points the way toward effective interventions. 

Guidance from Allison Conte, a master executive coach and priestess, to help you alchemize shadow material from the old paradigm that keeps your inner world of devotion, wisdom and magic separate from your outer world of action and achievement… so you can finally integrate your professional life with your spiritual life.

Shamanic ceremonies to support you to claim your sovereignty, aim your personal power towards wholeness, and engage in the deep transformation that is calling to you… so you can become the best leader you can be, and do the work that your soul came to this earth to do.

Your Action Learning Project (designed by you) is a real-world practicum experience in which you can apply your learnings and practice new skills and ways of being. 

Practical Magik – Feminine spiritual practices and energy work that will help you to:

• clear blocks in your energy field that keep you from realizing your wholeness and full potential as a leader.

• align your personal energy with the continuous flow of Universal Divine Source energy. 

• receive nourishment and replenish your energy, so that you can sustain lengthy projects and gestate new projects from overflow rather than depletion.

• tap into a creative intelligence that will help you discern truth, generate breakthrough results, and deliver on your mission with more ease and joy.

3 Retreat Intensives in which you will learn to balance the Masculine and Feminine energies within you so that you will know when and how to rest in the arms of the Divine Mother AND when and how to dance with the muse of your essential radiance and creativity.

Regular group sessions with Allison between retreats, in addition to small group meetings with women in your cohort. 

Pre-work requirements

• Attend the Opening Ceremony

• Attend the Orientation Session to meet other women in the program and receive instructions for your Leadership Assessment, Dream Team and Action Learning Project.

• Take the Sophia Leadership Assessment to learn more about your own patterns.

• Gather a Dream Team of women who will reflect your gifts and growing edges, encourage your learning and growth, and celebrate your Becoming.

• Identify an Action Learning Project that will help you to practice new ways of being and leading.

Retreat Intensive I

Stepping into Full Sovereignty

• Leadership development training on the Sophia Leadership Model and Polarity Wisdom, in order to assess the imbalances of masculine and feminine capacities in yourself and in the teams/organizations/clients you work with.  

• Share the reflections on your leadership from your Dream Team.

• Reflect on who you are called to become (and the rebalancing that is needed) in order to be a more effective feminine leader, and set this intention in motion in a ritual ceremony.

• Step fully into sovereignty and radical responsibility as you aim your personal power into the field of transformation, so that your work with clients (or in your organization) will have more potency to catalyze organizational change.

Interim I

Mining gold from the shadow 

• Training/coaching calls with Allison to examine the shadow aspects of the four universal energies in yourself (and that are at play in the collective), so you can get honest about what it really takes to live and breathe as an embodied and healthy feminine leader.

• Weekly calls with your small pod (three women from the program) focused on supporting your Action Learning Project through:

  • listening presence for your process (Static Feminine);

  • inspiration, reflection and celebration (Dynamic Feminine); 

  • accountability and measures of progress (Static Masculine); and 

  • consistent execution (Dynamic masculine).

Retreat Intensive II

Dancing with the Muse (Dynamic Feminine) 

• After spending months mining the gold from your shadows since the first retreat, we will co-create a Shadow Dance to express the journey of transforming our shadows, in order to integrate through our bodies the powerful shifts we’ve made. (Yes, ladies, with costumes and accoutrements!) 

• The high point of the mystery school experience is when we enter the temple to meet the Goddess, lay it all down at her feet in ceremony, and allow ourselves to be initiated into the Feminine Mysteries. In temple, we surrender to spiritual guidance from a living intelligence that helps us to transcend our egoic preferences, ideas, and trauma patterns – and reveal our essence and true nature as a divine being. 

• This retreat also features teachings and embodied practices to help you begin cultivating the Dynamic Feminine in yourself and your work as a leader, including relational skills, intuition, creativity, flow, spontaneity, beauty and magic.

Interim II

Cultivating Extraordinary Powers

• Training/coaching calls with Allison to cultivate new and more powerful ways of being in the Dynamic/Static Masculine/Feminine, so that you can embody healthy power in all four energies (because you need to embody wholeness and balance, before you can lead a client or organization toward wholeness and balance.)

• Weekly calls with your small pod (three women from the program) focused on supporting your Action Learning Project through:

  • Listening presence for your process (Static Feminine)

  • Inspiration, reflection and celebration (Dynamic Feminine)

  • Accountability and measures of progress (Static Masculine)

  • Consistent execution (Dynamic masculine)

Retreat Intensive III

Resting in the Arms of The Mother
(Static Feminine)

• Teachings and practices to deepen your relationship with Mother Earth, release stress and receive nourishment, so that you can cultivate sustainable ways to give your gifts from a place of overflow (rather than depletion). 

• Discover your relationship with “dolce far niente” – the sweetness of doing nothing – so that you can find out how much you are able to resource yourself (or not), renew your energy, open to new insights, and clarify your vision.   

• Sacred water ceremony to receive nourishment in the beauty and warmth of Her womb. (Afterward, we feast!)

• Perhaps for the first time in your life, feel The Divine Mother holding you so you can open into a radically deeper level of trust in life.

Interim III

Weaving All the Threads

• Training/coaching calls with Allison to integrate your Feminine Leadership so you can translate it into your work with clients, teams or organizations as an embodied way-shower of the cultural change that is desperately needed in our world.

• Weekly calls with your small pod (three women from the program) focused on supporting your Action Learning Project through:

  • Listening presence for your process (Static Feminine)

  • Inspiration, reflection and celebration (Dynamic Feminine)

  • Accountability and measures of progress (Static Masculine)

  • Consistent execution (Dynamic masculine)

Closing Ceremony

Take Your Seat

• Present your Action Learning Project (your Dream Team is invited to attend)

• Celebrate each woman’s being and becoming!

• If you desire to be sanctioned to bring this work to your clients, you will be invited to a separate ceremony specifically for this purpose

• Closing ritual & blessing

Program summary

Meet Allison Conte

Allison Conte, Founder of Sophia Leadership, has spent 25 years consulting to global and large organizations, while also cultivating personal and spiritual mastery.

She also is an instructor of leadership programs through Harvard Business School (Harvard Business Publishing), and an executive coach to c-level leaders. 

Allison holds a masters in Positive Organization Development from Case Western Weatherhead School of Management. She is a Gestalt practitioner, Spiritual Intelligence coach, and master of Polarity Thinking, and is certified in developmental psychology, appreciative inquiry, and emotional intelligence.

She was ordained as a priestess in the Sophia Lineage in 2013. As a medicine woman, she studies in the Apache Moonwalker lineage under Grandmother La’ne Sa’an Moonwalker.