Navigate Your Leadership Transitions
You've built something meaningful. Now you're ready for what's next.
The Next Chapter Accelerator helps accomplished leaders navigate transitions into their next chapter.
Hybrid Program
Design Your Next Chapter from Anywhere
A transformational journey for mid-to-late career leaders seeking their next chapter with clarity and purpose. Welcoming women and men alike.
What You'll Experience:
Part 1: In-person kick-off workshop
Part 2: Interactive virtual masterclasses featuring expert guidance, meaningful peer discussions, and small-group coaching.
Community accountability that supports you to take action.
2026 - 2027 Program Dates:
Part 1, two dates to choose from
December 11, 2026: In-person workshop in Boston, MA (Cambridge)
January 19, 2027: Washington DC
Part 2:
January - March 2027, live online twice monthly
2027 Camino Walking Retreat
Walk into Your Next Chapter
A six-day leadership journey along Spain's Camino de Santiago for accomplished women exploring ‘what's next?’
What You'll Experience:
Walk along the historic Camino with intentional reflection.
Expert facilitation blending strategy, mindfulness, and embodied learning.
Experience Galician hospitality and meals, including at a Michelin starred restaurant!
Program Dates: Sunday, September 19 to Friday, September 24, 2027
Capacity: Limited to 10 women
Customize Your Retreat
Customize How You Kick off Your Next Chapter
Interested in hosting your own hybrid or virtual Next Chapter Accelerator or Walking Retreat? We’d love to partner with you to design an experience that reflects your group’s unique goals, energy, and vision.
Whether you’re a team of professionals navigating transition, a circle of purpose-driven peers, or a group of friends seeking renewal and clarity, we’ll tailor a program that meets you where you are and on the dates that work for you.
Our goal is to help your group step forward with renewed focus, deeper connection, and a sense of purpose that lasts long after the retreat ends.
Which Format Is Right for You?
Purpose-Driven Professionals Who Benefit From the Next Chapter Accelerator Programs
At a career high point: Thinking about “one more big role” before shifting pace or focus.
In a life transition: Having stepped back for health, caregiving, or other priorities — and now seeking clarity on what’s next.
Leading with purpose: Currently in influential roles and wanting to take their leadership — and impact — to the next level.
Reimagining their work: Ready to pivot toward a portfolio career or entrepreneurial venture that offers more variety and autonomy.
Redefining retirement: Entering a new phase of life and wanting to design it around their true aspirations and practical realities.
Co-Created By Accomplished Leaders Who've Walked This Path
Fiona Macaulay is a serial social innovator and executive coach who designs and facilitates leadership workshops for Fortune 500 companies, leading NGOs and multi-lateral institutions.
She leads the WILD Network, a community of 10,000 purpose-driven leaders, is a Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative, (ALI) Fellow and serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.
Fiona has appeared in the NY Times and Oprah Magazine. She’s a columnist for Inc.com and best-selling author of Aim high and Bounce Back: The Successful Woman’s Guide to Rethinking and Rising Up from Failure.
Fiona has navigated multiple career transitions and brings deep expertise in helping accomplished leaders design their next chapters with courage and intention.
Lisa Neuberger Fernandez is a purpose-driven leader with a 25+ year high-impact career in the US and Europe. As Managing Director of Strategy + Innovation at Accenture, she led global teams to accelerate the net positive impact of Fortune 500 companies, governments and NGOs.
Now in a portfolio career, she delivers ‘innovation as a service’ to scale-ups, coaches C-suite executives, and teaches strategy at European business schools.
Co-author of Rebalance: How Women Lead, Parent, Partner, and Thrive, she holds an MBA from Wharton and a Master’s from the Fletcher School at Tufts.
An American living in Madrid, she enjoys singing jazz, playing tennis, and going on ‘walk and talks’ in beautiful places.
Supported by Our Advisory Circle
Our facilitators are backed by experts in sustainability, innovation, tech, leadership, and social impact who bring actionable insights to help shape the program and accelerate participant outcomes.
Advisory Circle includes:
Dr. Angela Jackson, CEO, Future Forward Strategies (Boston)
Concepción Galdón, Vice-Dean of Business with Purpose, IE Business School (Madrid)
Ellen Weinreb, CEO, Weinreb Group Sustainability Recruiting (San Francisco)
Gina Badenoch, Conscious Leadership Coach (London, Mexico City)
Guylaine Saint Juste, President & CEO, NABA, Inc. (DC)
Kim Spalding, CEO, Cheetah Technologies (San Francisco)
Megan Gilgan, Deputy Director, Private Sector Partnerships, UN Women (NYC)
Liana Slater, Co-Founder, Monumental Me (NYC)
Stephanie LeBlanc Godfrey, Former Global Head of Inclusion for Women of Color, Google and Founder, MotherAI (New Jersey)
Suzy Levy, Managing Director, The Red Plate (London)