Come TREK With Us

Overview 

In today’s dynamic professional world, women leaders are continually rising to the challenge, demonstrating resilience, vision, and innovation. This Executive GlobeTREK Leadership Sabbatical provides the rare gift of structured and self-guided time to renew, restore, and redefine leadership from the inside out, specifically aimed at preventing burnout, disconnection, and diminished creativity. 

Set within the extraordinary natural and cultural landscape of Oʻahu, this week-long experience integrates embodied wellness practices, cultural immersion, time in nature, and executive coaching within an environment that invites participants to slow down and reconnect. Through reflective practice, experiential learning, and meaningful engagement with the island, participants will explore the relationships among personal wellbeing, purpose, community, and the ways we choose to lead. 

This experience creates intentional space to step away from the pace and expectations of professional life. Not simply to rest, but to listen more closely: to oneself, to others, and to the environment around us. 

This is not simply a retreat. It is an opportunity for executive women to reclaim their presence, renew creativity, deepen their sense of purpose, and consider how personal wellbeing can sustain meaningful leadership over time. 

Why Oʻahu Hawaiʻi? 

Hawaiʻi offers an environment that naturally invites leaders to step out of urgency and into deeper reflection, and Oʻahu serves as a compelling living classroom for this work. As the cultural, political, and economic center of the islands, Oʻahu holds a productive tension between modern leadership demands and deeply rooted traditions. Sacred sites, working communities, and urban centers exist side by side, creating a real-time context in which leaders can examine how values, decisions, and responsibility intersect. The island’s geography—from the Koʻolau Mountains to the surrounding ocean—reinforces perspective, reminding participants that leadership unfolds within larger systems shaped by history, memory, and relationship to land. Rather than retreating from complexity, Oʻahu invites leaders to engage it thoughtfully, making it an ideal setting to explore alignment, accountability, and long-term impact across interconnected organizations, communities, and futures.

What You’ll Experience 

Grounded in Hawaiian cultural traditions, each day pairs a leadership quality with an immersive experience. Through this journey, you will: 

Participate in cultural excursions to sacred sites like heiau (Hawaiian temples) or ancient fishponds, discovering how strong foundations sustain teams and organizations. 

Engage in daily wellness rituals including yoga, meditation, and spa treatments.  

Reconnect with the natural world through forest immersion, oceanfront reflection, and cultural rituals rooted in healing traditions.  

Participate in 1:1 executive coaching sessions to crystallize clarity of purpose and design actionable leadership strategies.  

Build connections with other executive women through peer learning and dialogue, creating networks of trust and shared wisdom.  

Enjoy nutritious gourmet cuisine and restorative accommodations that nurture the body as much as the mind. 

Learning Objectives 

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

Personal Renewal 
Reconnect with self through wellness practices, nature immersion, reflection, and intentional space away from everyday demands. 

Sustainable Leadership 
Explore the relationship between personal wellbeing and leadership capacity, moving from pressure-driven productivity toward greater presence, clarity, and intentionality. 

Purpose & Connection 
Reconnect with the values, relationships, and sense of purpose that give meaning to both life and leadership. 

Community 
Build meaningful relationships with other executive women through conversation, shared experience, and peer learning. 

Stewardship 
Consider what it means to care intentionally for oneself, others, organizations, communities, and the places we inhabit. 

Integration 
Return home with actionable commitments and practices that sustain personal wellbeing, professional effectiveness, and a more intentional approach to leadership.