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• AI x Human Leadership for Navigating Complexity

  • When
    07/21/2026
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    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Canopy, Menlo Park
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  AI × Human Leadership - A 3-session experiential lab for women leaders ready to stop waiting for the perfect moment  and start moving

  The leaders who thrive in uncertainty aren't the ones with the best strategy.
  They're the ones who stopped waiting for the perfect moment to act.
  Most high-performing women we know have the intelligence, the experience, and the insight. What gets in the way isn't capability.

  Join us to experience how the shift happens

  • Dates/Times:  TBD
  • Location: Canopy, Menlo Park

  Session 1: Unlocking Your Inner Experimenter 

  Most leaders facing complexity don't have a strategy problem. They have a fear response and it's completely rational. This session interrupts it. Through live micro-experiments, you'll discover why the instinct to protect and perfect is actually slowing you down and experience firsthand what becomes possible when you give yourself permission to try instead of waiting until you're sure.

  You'll leave with:

  • Your specific "gremlin" pattern named and defanged  the internal voice that surfaces whenever change, AI, or bold action is required

  • One small, real experiment to run before Session 2, tied to a challenge right now

  • A visceral  understanding of why experimentation is the fastest path through complexity

  Session 2: The Good Enough Start 

  Perfectionism isn't about high standards. It's about waiting;  and waiting is a strategy for staying stuck.We open by debriefing the experiments you ran between sessions. Every outcome is treated as data, not judged as success or failure. Then we go deeper on what makes it so hard to start before you're ready, and what actually happens when you do.

  You'll leave with:

  • Real data about your own leadership patterns, drawn from your own experiment

  • A concrete protocol for giving yourself and your teams permission to start 

  • The Learning Autopsy: a simple framework for extracting insight from anything that didn't go as planned

  Session 3: The Agile Leader 

  The goal was never to be right. The goal is to learn faster than the world is changing. This closing session integrates everything from the lab and sends you home with practices built to last not just intentions that fade when Monday hits.

  You'll leave with:

  • A personalized experimentation practice specific enough to actually do, anchored real challenges

  • A 30-day plan you'll start before you leave the room

  • A learning partner and a clear picture of how to extend this practice to the teams you lead

  Reserve your seat today (14 spots total, this fills fast) 

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• Trust Is the Work: The Leadership Infrastructure We Can't Afford to Ignore

  • When
    08/18/2026
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Trust is one of the most frequently cited leadership priorities—and one of the least understood. Leaders talk about earning trust, rebuilding trust, and cultivating trust, yet few have been taught how trust is actually created, sustained, or repaired when it breaks.

  In today's workplace, where change is constant, teams are distributed, and expectations continue to evolve, trust is no longer a "soft skill." It is essential leadership infrastructure. Without it, communication breaks down, engagement declines, and even the strongest strategies struggle to gain traction.

  Join leadership strategist and executive coachAila Malikfor an engaging and practical conversation about the role trust plays in effective leadership. Drawing on more than two decades of experience coaching senior executives through organizational change, career transitions, and high-stakes leadership challenges, Aila will introduce a powerful three-layer framework for understanding and building trust:

  • Workability— creating shared clarity and alignment
  • Credibility— establishing confidence through knowledge, evidence, and consistency
  • Vulnerability— fostering connection through authenticity and shared humanity

  Through real-world examples and actionable insights, participants will learn how to identify trust gaps, navigate resistance more effectively, and create the conditions that help people feel safe enough to engage, contribute, and grow.

  Whether you're leading a team, managing through uncertainty, stepping into a larger leadership role, or navigating your own career transition, this session will provide practical tools to help you build trust intentionally—and lead with greater confidence, influence, and impact.

  What You'll Learn

  By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and apply the three layers of trust—Workability, Credibility, and Vulnerability—to strengthen leadership effectiveness and team dynamics.
  • Reframe resistance and disengagement during periods of change by shifting from"Why won't they follow?"to"What would make this feel safe?"
  • Recognize trust as a strategic leadership asset and develop practical approaches for building it across teams, organizations, and key relationships.
  • Strengthen their ability to lead through complexity, uncertainty, and transition with greater empathy and effectiveness.

  About the Speaker

  Aila Malik is a leadership strategist, executive coach, and founder of Venture Leadership Collective, a consultancy that partners with venture-ready organizations to advance equity, sustainability, and long-term impact. For more than 20 years, she has coached high-performing leaders through complex transitions, helping them navigate organizational change, build trust-centered cultures, and lead with greater clarity and purpose.

  Aila is also a sought-after speaker, children's author, and lifelong advocate for global learning and community impact. She once homeschooled her three children while traveling to 41 countries in 54 weeks, partnering with more than 25 nonprofits dedicated to preserving cultural and environmental wisdom.

  Her leadership and impact have been recognized through numerous honors, including being named aPresidential Leadership Scholar, aSilicon Valley Business Journal Woman of Influence, and a2026 Silicon Valley Business Journal AAPI Leadership Award Honoree. She holds a Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Science from UC Santa Barbara.

  
  

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• Leading in Rhythm: Nervous System Regulation for Women Leaders

  • When
    09/15/2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  You've built the career. Earned the recognition. Created impact.

  But maybe you're exhausted in a way sleep doesn't fix. Your capacity shifts from week to week for reasons you can't explain. Small stressors suddenly feel overwhelming, and you're left wondering why the strategies that seem to work for everyone else aren't working for you.

  The answer may not be mindset or motivation. It may be physiology.

  Women's nervous systems operate on two rhythms: the familiar 24-hour circadian rhythm and a roughly 28-day hormonal cycle that influences energy, stress resilience, focus, and emotional capacity. Yet most workplaces, schedules, and leadership expectations are built around only one.

  In this session, somatic leadership coach Rachel will explore what happens when women try to force a 28-day reality into a 24-hour framework and how working with, rather than against, our physiology can transform the way we lead and live.

  Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of the connection between stress, nervous system regulation, and female physiology, along with practical tools they can use immediately to support resilience and sustainable leadership.

  Participants will learn:

  • Why women experience stress differently and the impact of operating on both 24-hour and 28-day rhythms.
  • How hormonal shifts can influence capacity, reactivity, and decision-making throughout the month.
  • Practical nervous system regulation techniques, including breathwork and somatic practices, to use during moments of stress and overwhelm.

  About the Speaker

  Rachel is a remote-first People & Culture leader turned somatic leadership coach and expert in nervous system regulation for women. Drawing on more than 20 years of research and practice in mindfulness, somatics, cycle alignment, and nervous system regulation, she helps ambitious women lead sustainably without overriding their bodies in the process.

  After experiencing multiple cycles of burnout while pursuing increasingly demanding leadership roles, Rachel shifted her work toward helping women align with their physiology rather than fight against it. Her mission is simple: to provide women with tools designed for female physiology, not adapted from systems originally built for men.

  
  

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• Yet to Yes: Turning Hesitation into Forward Motion

  • When
    10/19/2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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  For women navigating career transitions, leadership growth, and pivotal decisions,"not yet"often shows up in familiar ways:

  The opportunity you want but don't feel ready for.
  The next step you know is right but can't quite commit to.
  The instinct you have but aren't sure you trust.

  While hesitation can sometimes be wise, it can also quietly become the barrier standing between where you are and where you're meant to go.

  In this interactive session, we'll explore the internal narratives and external pressures that keep capable leaders anchored in uncertainty and what it takes to move from hesitation to action with greater clarity and confidence.

  Together, we'll examine how to distinguish productive caution from momentum-blocking doubt and uncover practical strategies for creating forward motion in your career, leadership, and life.

  By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the internal and external patterns that keep them stuck in "not yet."
  • Differentiate productive reflection from hesitation that limits growth and opportunity.
  • Apply practical tools to move from uncertainty to decisive action.
  • Create momentum for themselves and the teams and organizations they lead.

  Speaker Bio:

  Michele Kawamoto Perry is a leadership expert, speaker, and host of the Expressions of Leadership podcast, where she explores the experiences, challenges, and lessons that shape impactful leaders. Through her work, she helps professionals navigate transitions, strengthen leadership presence, and move forward with greater confidence and purpose.

  Her perspective is grounded in the belief that growth doesn't come from avoiding setbacks, but from learning how to move through them with intention.

  As she shares:

  "The most grounded, most trusted leaders aren't the ones who avoided failure. They're the ones who let it change them."

  And:

  "There is a difference between reflection and rumination, and great leaders know it. They use reflection not to dwell on where they have been, but to lead more clearly toward where they are going."

  
  

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