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For ambitious women who demand excellence in work and life

A one-day professional women's retreat at the Four Seasons Boston, MA.

This exclusive retreat is designed for accomplished women navigating demanding careers—whether you're leading teams, driving initiatives, or excelling as an individual contributor. Through refined, insight-driven exercises, you'll reconnect with your personal values to elevate your impact and fulfillment. Expect sharper performance, richer relationships, and a renewed sense of direction, both professionally and personally.

Walk away with:

A personalized Q4 roadmap with clear next steps to advance your career and performance goals

2–3 curated peer connections from Boston's finance, law, and consulting leaders — relationships designed to extend beyond the event

Evidence-based tools for sustainable performance you can immediately apply to reduce burnout risk and elevate leadership impact

October 10, 2025 | Four Seasons Hotel Boston

Why Pause & Pivot?

You don't need another wellness cliché. You need tools that hold up in the real world—where pressure is high, time is scarce, and expectations don't ease up. This retreat delivers sharp insight and strategies built for accomplished women who perform at their best and value their time. This retreat cuts through the noise, and is built for professionals who operate at full capacity.

With a 1:5 ratio of experts to participants, you'll receive personalized attention and have the opportunity to engage with our facilitators one-on-one. Our team consists of licensed psychologists with decades of real-world experience working with high-achieving professionals—not just wellness coaches, but credentialed experts in human behavior and professional development.

This Year's Theme:
Clarity & Strategic Insight

This program commences with a focused "Power Hour" — a high-impact hour guiding you through refined, insight-driven exercises to anchor your actions in your core values. Rediscover alignment and elevate how you work, lead, and live.

The afternoon is dedicated to the acquisition of strategic intelligence and high-impact perspectives. Fueling meaningful exchange, the gathering features a thoughtfully curated culinary program. Attendees also receive an exclusive collection of resources designed to amplify and extend the insights gained.

From Overdrive to Optimization

Recognize hidden signs of chronic stress and craft realistic and creative routines that protect your energy.

Master Values Based Leadership

Unlock the process of discovering personal values and how living in alignment with them accelerates your leadership abilities

Ambitious, Not Alone

Build a private network of peers who understand the stakes and will sustain you after the retreat.

Tracks

Power Hour

A one-hour midday reset

Join us for an intense midday session. Through targeted exercises, you'll gain practical methods for aligning your daily work and leadership decisions with your core values.

Includes

Activities
Food & Drinks
  • Artisanal coffee & tea
  • Gourmet lunch
  • Afternoon refreshments

We invite you to specify any dietary requirements during the registration process. Every effort will be made to accommodate these needs with careful attention.

Location
  • Four Seasons Hotel Boston
    All Power Hour activities
Cost

$150 per person

Capacity

40 participants max

Full Pause & Pivot

A complete afternoon and evening experience

Immerse yourself in the complete retreat journey. This track includes the foundational Power Hour, followed by an afternoon of thoughtful discussion and expert-led sessions.

Includes

Activities
  • Complete Power Hour session
  • Speaker-led collaborative workshops
    • Thoughtfully selected speakers with a wide range of expertise, backed by empirical data and deep industry experience
    • Sessions designed to help you optimize performance, refresh your perspective, and achieve results
    • Personal expert feedback formulated to address your specific challenges submitted in advance
  • Intimate networking environment
  • A curated take home resource collection
Food & Drinks
  • Artisanal coffee & tea
  • Gourmet lunch
  • Afternoon refreshments
  • Wine & cocktail reception
  • Catered dinner

We invite you to specify any dietary requirements during the registration process. Every effort will be made to accommodate these needs with careful attention.

Locations
  • Four Seasons Hotel Boston
    Power Hour activities
  • Nearby private penthouse residence
    Speaker sessions, reception & dinner

Car service provided between venues

Cost

$895 per person

Capacity

20 participants max

Get Your Employer to Cover It

Many firms have professional development budgets that can cover this retreat. We've prepared a document outlining why this investment strengthens leadership capacity, provides evidence-based strategies for sustainable performance, and creates valuable professional networking opportunities.

Download "Why Employers Should Invest" (PDF)

Make the case for leadership development ROI and burnout prevention

Values Workshop

Unlock peak performance by leveraging your core personal values—a potent yet frequently overlooked strategy. Our unique deep-dive process provides profound clarity on your authentic values, reveals critical alignments (or misalignments) with your daily actions, and pinpoints the direct impact on your professional effectiveness.

You will leave with a personalized roadmap to integrate these insights, significantly elevating your performance and fulfillment both at work and at home.

Learn more about our values discovery and alignment process at azimuthpsych.com/values

Led by Collaborative Experts

Our facilitators are global thought leaders, skilled in guiding professionals through complex challenges. They ask the right questions and help chart a path forward – they don't just nod quietly.

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Ashleigh Reade

Voice & Speech Expert

Ashleigh is an acclaimed voice and speech expert specializing in empowering high-achieving individuals to communicate with clarity, presence, and authenticity. As an Assistant Professor of Voice and Speech at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, Ashleigh blends advanced techniques from Fitzmaurice Voicework™ and Knight-Thompson Speechwork™ with an innovative process that centers personal experience and dynamic expression.

With coaching credentials from the American Repertory Theater, The Huntington, and Boston Lyric Opera, Ashleigh's approach helps ambitious professionals harness their voice as a tool for connection, influence, and impact. She brings exceptional insight to women leaders seeking greater authority, ease, and effectiveness in their personal and professional communication.

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Renee Guilbault

Strategist & Author

Renee is a distinguished corporate strategist, author, and television personality with over three decades of leadership experience in the global food industry. As founder of Essayer Food Consulting, Renee has spearheaded transformative initiatives for renowned brands such as Pret A Manger, Bon Appétit at Google, Compass Group, and Le Pain Quotidien.

A graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, Renee authored "A Taste of Opportunity", a compelling guide that illuminates pathways to leadership and impact within the culinary industry. Most recently, Renee co-hosted AMC's "In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin" and co-founded The Open Food Company. Renee's inspiring journey embodies resilience, innovation, and vision, continually empowering others.

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Dr. Carmela Mancini

Founder, Concierge Primary Care & Women's Wellness

Dr. Mancini is the founder of a concierge primary care practice and the Women's Wellness & Menopause Center. Recognizing the need for dedicated, evidence-based women's healthcare, she specializes in guiding clients through postpartum, perimenopause, menopause, and midlife metabolic changes. Her approach centers on hyper-personalized care that evolves alongside her clients' changing needs.

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Janna Koretz, Psy.D

Founder & Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Koretz is the founder of Azimuth, a therapy practice specializing in the mental health challenges of individuals in high-pressure careers. She has spent over a decade helping her clients face and overcome their mental health issues by developing a unique understanding of industry-specific nuances in fields like law, consulting, finance, and technology.

Dr. Koretz has been featured in many publications, including Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal, focusing on the importance of recognizing career/identity enmeshment. She also writes and speaks on the challenges of discovering and living your personal values.

In addition to therapy, Azimuth provides a set of free online tools that have helped tens of thousands of people, including the Burnout Calculator, Career Enmeshment Test, and Values Navigator. The practice has also developed a values-based journaling iOS app, Clearly, available in the App Store.

Four Seasons
Hotel Boston

Set within one of the city's most recognizable landmarks and overlooking the iconic Public Garden, Four Seasons Hotel Boston blends refined luxury with the energy of a thriving, modern urban center.

Located in the heart of Boston's historic Back Bay neighborhood, the Hotel offers a perfect blend of heritage and contemporary sophistication.

200 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 USA

Four Seasons Hotel Boston - luxury venue for Pause & Pivot 2025 women's leadership retreat

Get Your Tickets

Full Pause & Pivot

$895

Complete afternoon & evening experience

Includes Power Hour + speaker sessions + dinner

Comparable executive retreats at Four Seasons start at $2,500+

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Power Hour Only

$150

90-minute midday values workshop

Strategic planning & alignment exercises

Executive workshops typically run $500+

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Why Employers Should Invest (PDF)

Make the case for professional development funding

Registration closes October 6. Only a few seats remain.

Leaders from top pharma, VC, and law firms have already registered.

Access is limited. This experience is intentionally selective. Designed for a small circle of high-achieving women, this retreat offers depth, clarity, and serious strategy—without the fluff. Secure your spot now for this transformative experience. If you're ready for something different—and built for you—this is where it starts.