DAY 1: Wednesday | May 17th

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Welcome Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Designing a Leadership Lifestyle

This session is intended to invite space for personal reflection and to establish a baseline of one’s current overall health and well-being – personally and professionally. Together, we’ll debrief the learnings, individually and collectively, and learn leadership lifestyle practices that integrate principles of functional medicine, positive psychology, and mind-body wellness.

Kelly Weber

Founder & Owner of The Wander Project

With nearly 20 years of recognized management consulting, certified professional coaching, and transformative leadership development experience, Kelly Weber is the founder and owner of The Wander Project, a woman-owned Certified B Corporation and an executive coaching and leadership development firm based in the beautiful Northwest.

2:00 – 3:15 pm

Resilience Strategies for Leaders of Ambitious Impact | Unlocking Resource Strategies for Advancing Profitability while championing wellness for You and your team

Learn advanced time-blocking strategies to unlock how to prioritize outcome quality over task quantity. Discover how to set boundaries strategically offboard and gate-keep resources. Connect actions and intentions to ethos and expenditures for optimal profitability. Reframe the resources gained from setbacks as a power source to reach more dynamic success. Gain practical strategies to help unlock the power of resilience.

Stacie Alexiou

Founder & CEO of Watt + Flux

K.A. Stacie Alexiou is a Greek American Engineer and B Corp Founder with a background in the Merchant Marine. Alexiou's B Corp has removed over 30 million pounds of GHG. Its latest mission is to build the impact and profitability of diverse businesses through a high-performance coaching program called Reverse Engineer Method of Resilience Strategies, including a highly effective TimeBlocking Intensive.

3:15 – 3:30 pm

BREAK

3:30 – 4:30 pm

How to Raise Supportive Funding from Investors

Your business doesn’t need to be a wannabe unicorn to find supportive, patient, values-aligned investors. Learn the 6 pillars for designing a successful strategy to raise funding on your terms. And learn tools to conquer the limiting beliefs that get in our way on the fundraising journey.

Jenny Kassan

Attorney, Investor, Capital Raising Coach

Jenny has over 27 years of experience as an attorney and advisor for mission-driven enterprises. She is the author of Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul (Berrett-Koehler, October 2017). Jenny earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and a masters degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jenny’s legal practice, The Kassan Group, provides legal services, coaching, and consulting for mission-driven companies, investors, and intermediaries.

4:30 – 5:30 pm

Panel Discussion: Sustainable Business Practices

In this panel discussion, three panelists will share their experiences in running sustainable businesses. They will share practical examples, the challenges they face, and how they overcome them. They will also provide expert tips on how to be more environmentally sustainable as well as contribute to sustainable happiness for employees.

moderator:

jennifer Harrity-Cantero | director of Sensiba Center for Sustainability

Jennifer brings more than 20 years of business and marketing experience to her role as the leader for the Sensiba Center for Sustainability at Sensiba San Filippo. She leads the firm’s core sustainability efforts as well as consults with small to medium size business clients assisting with their sustainability strategy.

Panelists:

Etienne Morris | founder and CEO of Collective Engagement

Etienne is President of Morris Recruiting & Consulting and founder and CEO of Collective Engagement where she helps leaders create engaging environments where their team members are happy, productive & want to stay by focusing on purpose, belonging, and growth as a key business strategy.

Samantha Richardson | FOUnder of Ethical Profit Agency

Samantha is a third-generation accountant who now runs Ethical Profit Agency, Canada's second B Corp accounting firm. Samantha recognises the only way sustainability will be widely adopted is through education about its business benefits, so she poured her knowledge into "Ethical Profit: A Guide to Increasing Profit Using Sustainable Business Practices" in order to spread an important message: being "green" actually increases profits.

Amanda Simons | co-founder of Honeycomb Strategies

Amanda is a sustainability trailblazer with nearly 20 years of experience in the hospitality, event, and tradeshow industry. Her innovative strategies have led to some of the most sustainable events in the world, and she's passionate about using her expertise to tackle climate change and environmental justice issues. Amanda has played a major role in developing sustainable industry standards and certification programs, and she's constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in sustainable business operations. With a Master's Degree in Environmental Management and a Graduate Certificate in Sustainability from Portland State University, Amanda is a true leader in her field.

5:30 – 6:00 pm

FREE TIME

6:00 – 7:00 pm

COCKTAIL HOUR

7:00 pm

dinner

DAY 2: thursday | May 18th

8:00 – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 am

Panel Discussion: Pitching Your Purpose

It’s been well documented that women are far more reluctant to share their own accomplishments than their male counterparts. In nearly every situation, women are more eager to promote and celebrate their colleagues' achievements over their own. Why is it so hard to sell our own story, and so easy to celebrate everyone else’s? And how can we get better at claiming our own powerful stories? In this session, we’ll hear from a set of extraordinary professional communicators whom have each found a way to overcome this common challenge, and authentically pitch their purpose for business success.

moderator:

Carrie Fox | Founder & CEO of Mission Partners

Mission Partners is a social impact consultancy that guides leaders to be more authentic in their words, equitable in their strategies, and intentional about their impact. Carrie is the host of the MIssion Forward podcast and her book, More Than Words: Communications Practices of Courageous Leaders is set for release on May 16, 2023.

Panelists:

Mikaeler Kiner | founder & CEO of Reverb

Reverb is a leading provider of flexible People Operations services for startups and fast-growing companies in the Pacific Northwest. Reverb’s purpose is to help companies create a healthy, inclusive culture that engages and inspires employees. Mikaela is the author of Female Firebrands.

Anne Staines | Founder & CEO of Sagent Marketing

Anne founded Sagent in 2004 in response to the dare: “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” She set out to create her dream job, applying strategic marketing expertise to make the world better. Sagent specializes in marketing that helps purpose-driven companies grow; and creates public outreach campaigns that help public agencies and nonprofits create positive social impact. The firm helps purpose-driven companies build strong branding and content, and grow their brand value, customer loyalty, and sales.

Sandra Stewart | Principal of Thinkshift

Sandra is an impact communications leader and a savvy strategist, storyteller, and builder of brands. As principal of the mission-first public relations agency Thinkshift Communications, she brings the heart of a brand to life, connecting clients with media and markets.

10:00 – 10:30 am

WTC Strategy | Membership Update

Hear the latest on WeTheChange's strategy for the future as well as key initiatives to keep membership and activity going strong.

Michelle Hirons

founder & ceo of higherring

Michelle is an entrepreneur with a strong background in eCommerce, call center operations, systems design, and implementation. Her company HigherRing specializes in efficient and affordable outsourced fractional and full-time operations support. We hire, train, manage, and mentor people from 31 states and two Canadian provinces to help small to medium-sized purpose-driven companies scale.

10:30 – 11:00 am

B LAB UPDATE

Get the scoop on breaking B Lab news including organization updates, new initiatives, and certification enhancements.

ROSE LAVELLE

B Lab U.S. & Canada , B Local Program Manager

B Local PDX, Certifications Chair

Rose works in the B Corp Community through her work with B Lab U.S. & Canada and as a volunteer Board member for B Local PDX. She believes in the power of business as a force for good and is an advocate for building community locally. She worked for a small B Corp maker for over ten years, where she was the Operations and Sustainability Director and led the certification efforts.

She now supports hundreds of B Local Leaders in over 30 groups across the U.S. & Canada. She’s inspired by the ever-growing B Locals, the connections, collective action, and the positive impact the local communities create.

11:00 – 12:00 pm

Co-Creating a Liberated Future

How do we spend more time living and working from a value driven consciousness? In this group breakout session you will be empowered to identify specific behaviors you can take to propel consciously liberated culture in your life, your business and the Movement.

Kamilah Exum

principal of exum consulting

Public interest lawyer, turned consumer protection regulator, turned coach, Kamilah has discovered that the path to disrupting the status quo on our planet begins with doing so intra-personally. To that end, today Kamilah unites B Corp leaders in building cultures of liberation in their lives, in their businesses, and across the B Movement.

12:00 – 1:00 pm

lunch

1:00 – 3:00 pm

Do More Without Trying So Hard: Using the Kolbe A Index to Boost Your Productivity

You’ll learn about the Kolbe A Index, and we’ll explore how to harness your natural problem-solving methods to be even more productive — and less exhausted! You’ll see how each of the 12 action modes comes to life, and which of the twelve are in your top 4. And we’ll talk about how problem-solving diversity can help your business thrive.

NOTE: Contact Kate Dixon at kate@katedixon.org to take the Kolbe A Index Assessment prior to the retreat! Kate will be reviewing our results in this session!

Kate Dixon

Principal of dixon consulting

Kate Dixon is Principal and Founder of Dixon Consulting, a Certified B Corp total rewards and leadership development consultancy specializing in compensation solutions, salary negotiation coaching, service pricing advice, as well as workshops and teambuilding for organizations of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 100 companies.

3:00 – 3:15 pm

BREAK | mastermind setup

3:15 – 3:55 pm

Mastermind Breakouts

Rotation 1

smaller, more intimate sessions to go deeper on topics of your choice. select three of the following:

Maximizing Your Small B’s Potential with Alysha Schultz of Intuitive Digital

Being a small business B Corp and how to make the most of it. How to put people first while still successfully operating a business. How can you reach climate, JEDI, and policy goals while still managing day-to-day operations with a short roster and team members wearing multiple hats? Let's mastermind!

Unlocking Self-Leadership to Increase Impact while Avoiding Burnout with Ana Melikian of The Mindset Zone

Explore the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and how to overcome the tendency to unwittingly repeat old patterns to develop your self-leadership skills and increase your impact while enjoying the process. Let's unlock your human potential!

Going Beyond: Deepening Impact with B Lab Impact Business Models with Anna Madill of Avenue

We're here to deepen our impact in our respective worlds. Let's discuss what it means to go beyond business as usual to improve social and environmental impact inside and outside the framework of B Lab’s B Impact Assessment. Using the lens of B Lab's Impact Business Models, we'll spotlight the BIA improvement journeys at Avenue and two other B Corps as case studies.

Identifying Your Why: Use Your Story to Go from Why to How with Rebecca Goldcrump and Sarah Holdeman of The Impact Collective

Together, we will help you find clarity and confidence on your unique path to greater impact by starting with YOU. We'll walk you through an exercise to determine what motivation has guided you along your journey. Then we'll help you go from why to how, so you can more easily make decisions in line with your values.

3:55 – 4:35 pm

Mastermind Breakouts

Rotation 2

4:35 – 5:15 pm

Mastermind Breakouts

Rotation 3

5:15 – 6:00 pm

free time

6:00 – 7:00 pm

cocktail mixer with b local pdx

7:00 pm

dinner with b local pdx

DAY 3: FRIDAY | May 19th - ALL ABOUT WELLNESS - DRESS FOR COMFORT!

7:00 – 8:00 am

Morning Yoga

Join us for a yoga class designed to help you tap into your body and listen to its wisdom. Through breathing, balancing, and opening the physical body, we are more able to hear what the body wants and needs, and then strategize in providing it when off the mat and living busy, meaningful lives. This series of breath, movement, and stillness helps with balance, core strength, and stamina. Folks often report leaving class feeling grounded yet lighter, with a sense of ease, focus, and creative expansion.

NOTE: Bring your own yoga mat, water bottle, and towel (We'll have 10 mats available).

Dr. Valerie Brown

Align Wellness PNW

Val is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Integrative Physical Therapist, and Reiki Master, specializing in natural healing for pain, trauma, and anxiety. Her background in neuroscience, yoga therapy, and the brain-gut connection inform her comprehensive and trauma-informed approach. She offers visceral manipulation, craniosacral, and neuromuscular rehabilitation in her Portland office, as well as nutrition, reiki, and lifestyle medicine services in person and online. Val teaches Yoga for Your Brain and hosts Dance for Change events at Lighthouse Yoga, and Guided Imagery to graduate students and healthcare professionals. In her spare time, she is typically adventuring outdoors, dancing, practicing yoga, or spending time with loved ones. You can learn more about Val's approach and background here.

8:00 – 9:00 am

Breakfast Buffet

9:00 – 9:30 am

The KOAN Method: Breathwork for Breakthrough Leaders

The KOAN Method confronts the failure of yesterday’s models of leading and organizing to solve today’s most pressing problems and makes the case for a new, and better, way. This engaging, grounding, and interactive session gives breakthrough leaders the tools they need to be at their best more often. By leveraging the power of BREATH (and adopting it as a mantra), we can all find our way back to our best selves as we build a better world together.

Jennifer Simpson

CEO of integrated work

Jennifer Lyn Simpson is CEO of Integrated Work, a woman-owned, woman led, B Corp that works with mission-driven leaders to build new models of organizing that foster flourishing and are rooted in principles of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. She is also Author of The KOAN Method: Breakthrough Leadership for a Divided World (available for pre-order now).

9:30 – 10:00 am

Mindful Hydration

We will take a moment to ground ourselves, hydrate, and connect to our water and bodies in a way that is centered in gratitude and love.

NOTE: Please have some water so you can join in the experience.

Minna Yoo

FOUNDER & CEO of LoveBottle

Minna's journey in Neuroscience, Clinical Research, and Nutrition led her to seek an easier way to improve health on a fundamental level. Her answer was Water that came with Love. First, she created a beautiful bottle that was healthiest for the planet and our bodies. Now, she is going beyond the bottle to educate and inspire connection to the water on our planet and in our bodies. Minna teaches Mindful Hydration to businesses and students. She is the Membership Chair at B Local PDX.

10:00 – 10:15 am

Self Care & Self Love – What is the difference and Why you need to be doing both!

cindy LOVE tysinger

Founder and Chief Culture Officer of Regenrus, REIKI PRACTITIONER

Cindy is a purpose-driven entrepreneur, thought leader, and Founder and Board Chairwoman of Regenrus, RegenrusCARES™, and GSATI. She is also the Board Director of Uganda Generation Hope. Regenrus offers clean products and wellness center services in a positive, nurturing environment with a host of healing modalities.

10:15 – 10:45 am

Hormones/Menopause

Menopause is a normal and expected experience for women. Hear how our bodies change as they transition out of the reproductive phase of life, find out how this process could manifest for you or your loved ones, and learn what tools are available to you along the way.

ChristinA Cameli

Nurse-Midwife and Menopause Specialist

Through her practice, Menopause Northwest, she supports patients through their own unique menopause transition with knowledge, humor and patience. Holding space for women as they continue to develop and mature is deeply meaningful for her.

10:45 – 11:00 am

BREAK

11:00 - 11:30 am

Guided Meditation & Journaling

Yoga nidra, a powerful form of meditation which translates to "conscious sleep," assists the body in a deep practice of stilling the mind. In strategically "letting go" of tensions, and moving the consciousness throughout the body, one is able to optimize brain function, relax the nervous system, and harmonize the systems of the body, in order to activate energy, focus, and confidence, while simultaneously improving sleep quality, tissue regeneration, and inner knowing.

NOTE: Bring your own journal and pen.

DR. Valerie Brown, featuring sound healing by Aria Tau

11:30 – 12:00 pm

Closing Ceremony

Aria Tau

Musician | Transformation Coach | Founder

Aria is known for her ethereal voice and the spiritual songs she sings in her transformative DJ sets. She is the founder of healing arts community, Sacred Waters, inspiring breakthroughs with Music, Medicine & Movement. She will be joined by Sacred Waters sound healers Viveka Moonchild and Bridgitte Lynch. www.sacredwatersmusic.com