Richmond, Virginia
You Take Care
of Everyone Else.
This Weekend,
We Take Care
of YOU.
A luxurious and intimate retreat for accomplished women who are ready to rest, be celebrated, and return home renewed, body, heart, and spirit.
Apply for the full program or an individual weekend.
You Do Not Need Another Conference.
You do not need another crowded conference room, another networking event, or another weekend filled with presentations and pressure to produce.
You need a beautiful space where you do not have to perform.
You need meaningful conversations with women who understand what it takes to build a business, lead others, carry a vision, and still try to remember themselves.
The Leadership MEQ™ Women's Renewal Retreat is your invitation to pause. For three days, you will be cared for, poured into, listened to, and reminded that you are more than the responsibilities you carry.
This Retreat was Created
for the Woman who…
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Is building, scaling, reinventing, or preparing for her next chapter. Transition takes more than strategy. It takes space to think.
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Makes decisions for everyone else but needs space to hear her own voice. When was the last time someone asked what you needed?
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Wants genuine relationships with accomplished women, not surface-level networking. Real connection with women who truly get it changes everything.
Whether you are 30 and building your vision, 45 and reevaluating what success means, or 65 and preparing your legacy, there is room for you here.
The Leadership Throne.
Once per retreat, each leader takes the chair.
You bring one real decision, the one you have been circling for weeks, and put it in front of the other four. For thirty minutes, they are your board: questioning, pressure-testing, offering what they have seen. Dr. Sabine facilitates. Nobody performs.
Five leaders. Five chairs. Four times a year. They will help you think through the hardest decisions of your life, just as you have done for them.
This is why the cohort is five. It is the largest number where everyone still gets the chair.
Private Session with Dr. Sabine Charles
Every participant will have a private one-on-one session with Dr. Sabine Charles. These conversations are confidential and yours to direct. Bring the decision you've been circling, the pattern you can't seem to break, or the question you haven't said out loud yet. Dr. Charles will help you name what's actually in the way and leave with two or three specific next steps not just insight, but something you can act on Monday.
Dr. Sabine Charles, DBA
Certified EQ-i 2.0 & EQ-i 360 Practitioner · Creator of the Leadership MEQ™ Framework
For fifteen years, Dr. Sabine Charles advised senior executives at Deloitte, American Express, and Citibank on risk, internal controls, and fraud, rooms where the stakes were high, the pressure was constant, and nobody asked how you were holding up.
She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration, a master's in accounting, and more than twelve professional designations, including the CIA, CFE, CISA, and CISM. She earned most of them as a full-time working mother. She knows precisely what it costs to keep achieving while everyone assumes you're fine.
That gap, between public strength and private exhaustion, is what led her to build something different. She is a certified EQ-i 2.0 and EQ-i 360 practitioner, the assessment credential behind the Leadership MEQ™ Framework you'll complete in February and again in November. She is also a certified hypnotist, and she has taught auditing, forensic accounting, and fraud as an adjunct professor at New York universities. She has guided more than 250 professionals to certification with an 85% pass rate, and she has authored several books, including Leadership MEQ.
The Leadership MEQ™ framework, Mindset, Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership Qualities, is the result: rigorous where rigor matters, and human everywhere else.
"Successful women deserve more than another strategy session. They deserve a place to rest. They deserve to be heard. They deserve to be celebrated. And sometimes, they simply need someone else to be in charge of lunch."— Dr. Sabine Charles
She created this retreat because caring for yourself is not a distraction from success. It is what makes it sustainable.
Come As The Leader.
Leave Reconnected To The Woman.
During this intimate weekend, you will have the opportunity to experience all of this, and more.
Rest Without Guilt
Slow down in a peaceful private-estate setting where every detail has already been handled. This is what permission to exhale actually feels like.
Be Cared For
Beautiful accommodations, catered meals, a Private Crystal Singing-Bowl Sound Bath, thoughtful welcome gifts, and an environment designed entirely around your comfort.
Reconnect With Yourself
Step away from the noise long enough to hear what your mind, heart, and spirit have been trying to tell you. You will be astonished by what surfaces.
Experience Genuine Sisterhood
Build meaningful bonds with a small circle of women who understand leadership, entrepreneurship, transition, and responsibility from the inside.
Receive Personal Guidance
Private coaching with Dr. Sabine, dedicated time to explore the questions, decisions, and dreams that matter most to you right now.
Be Beautifully Celebrated
Leave with professional photographs that document your confidence, softness, strength, and the renewed sense of self you are stepping into.
An environment designed
entirely around your comfort.
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Catered Meals
Every breakfast, lunch, and dinner is prepared and served to you. Gather around the table for nourishing meals, laughter, and the kind of honest conversation that doesn't happen during a rushed business lunch.
You do not have to cook, organize, plan, or take care of anyone else.
One evening, Dr. Sabine takes the group to one of Richmond's finest restaurants for a proper celebratory dinner. A real night out, together, as yourselves.
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Personal Coaching & Reflection
Each woman receives dedicated private time with Dr. Sabine to explore the questions, transitions, and decisions that matter most right now.
This is not about fixing you. It is about creating space for you to remember who you are, recognize what you need, and decide what comes next.
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Relaxation & Meditation
Guided meditation, breathwork, and morning movement are woven through the weekend, held in the quietest corners of the estate. Nothing is compulsory and nothing is rushed.
You are not here to be productive. You are here to put something down.
Inside the Estate.
A private home outside Richmond, Virginia, reserved entirely for five women. Every room, every view, yours for the weekend.
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Three days. Every detail already handled.
Structured experiences alongside generous time to rest, reflect, and simply enjoy being somewhere beautiful with people who see you.
Day One, Arrive & Awaken
- 3:00 pmArrival & private welcome
- 4:00 pmOpening circle, intentions & theme introduction
- 5:30 pmUnstructured, settle in, walk the grounds
- 6:30 pmCatered welcome dinner
- 8:00 pmFireside leadership discussion
- 9:30 pmEvening reflection & journaling
No rushing. No pressure. No performance.
Day Two, Go Deeper
- 7:00 amMorning movement & mindfulness practice
- 8:00 amCatered breakfast
- 9:00 amLeadership MEQ™ deep-dive workshop
- 10:45 amThe Leadership Throne, peer consulting
- 12:15 pmCatered lunch & peer connection
- 1:30 pmThe Leadership Throne, peer consulting
- 3:15 pmPrivate coaching sessions begin
- 7:15 pmCatered dinner
- 8:30 pmFireside: Breakthrough conversations
Energy in the morning. Depth in the afternoon. Stillness in the evening.
Day Three, Integrate & Commit
- 7:15 amMorning reflection & light movement
- 7:45 amCatered breakfast
- 8:15 amPrivate coaching sessions continue
- 11:30 amTheme debrief & personal leadership commitments
- 12:00 pmClosing circle: Accountability & next 90 days
- 12:45 pmCelebratory farewell lunch
- 2:00 pmProfessional photography
You will return home with more than notes.
Choose The Weekend
Your Soul Needs.
Each retreat stands beautifully on its own, attend one or experience all four.
Clarity & Vision
For the woman ready to reconnect with what she truly wants and where she is going.
Reserve My Seat →Presence & Influence
For the woman ready to stop shrinking and step fully into her voice and visibility.
Reserve My Seat →Resilience & Restoration
For the woman who has been carrying too much and is ready to rebuild from a full place.
Reserve My Seat →Identity & Legacy
You leave with your Leadership Legacy Statement: one page, written at the estate, in your own hand.
Reserve My Seat →Because you deserve to be known
not lost in a crowd.
The retreat is intentionally limited to five women so that every participant receives personal attention, meaningful coaching, real space to speak, and the opportunity to form genuine relationships.
This is not manufactured scarcity.
It is how we protect the intimacy, trust, and care that make this experience unlike anything else available to women like you.
The five women who share this estate will leave changed, not only because of what Dr. Sabine said, but because of what they said to each other, and what they finally allowed themselves to hear.
What Women Say
About Working With Dr. Sabine.
"For two years I chased a CPA credential because I thought I was supposed to. I wanted more; I couldn't name it. The retreat shifted me from what I should be doing to what I was called to do, and the closing session with Sabine turned that into a plan. I've since launched a nonprofit. The breakthrough wasn't the next step on my path, it was choosing a new one."
"I met Dr. Sabine at the CalCPA Women's Conference in San Jose, where she was speaking, and that meeting changed the trajectory of my career. She has been my leadership coach ever since, and it is one of the best professional decisions I have made. She helped me find my voice, build unshakable confidence, and approach my career with purpose and authenticity. She helped me step into my power and reclaim my throne."
Everything the year includes.
One membership, four retreats, and the structure between them that keeps the work from fading on the drive home.
Private estate accommodation across all four retreats.
90 minutes of one-on-one time with Dr. Sabine per retreat, a 30-minute preparation call before you arrive, and a 60-minute deep session at the estate.
Your own seat at every retreat, plus a seat at everyone else's.
A multi-rater baseline in February, your manager, your peers, your direct reports, repeated in November. Growth measured, not assumed. Full confidential debrief with Dr. Sabine.
The cohort meets between retreats to maintain momentum.
A private check-in one month after each retreat. Commitments made at the estate do not fade in the drive home.
Every meal across all four weekends, prepared and served at the estate, from the welcome dinner through the farewell lunch.
Your Leadership MEQ™ workbook and pre-retreat materials, with a roadmap updated quarterly to reflect your growth and evolving commitments.
Documentary photography at each retreat, your leadership chapter, captured.
Two Ways To Participate
Both options include the same private estate, catered meals, professional photography, and personal coaching.
Year-Long Leadership Development Program
Four Retreats + a Comprehensive Year-Long Leadership Experience- All 4 retreats, same five women
- 20 Leadership Throne Series your seat at every retreat, plus a seat at everyone else's
- 4 private coaching sessions, 90 minutes each: a 30-min preparation call plus a 60-min session at the estate
- Leadership MEQ™ Assessments, multi-rater baseline in February, repeated in November, with confidential debrief
- Monthly virtual accountability calls between retreats
- 30-day integration call after each retreat
- All catered meals across all four weekends
- Luxury welcome robe & spa slippers
- Champagne & chocolate welcome at every retreat
- Personal leadership roadmap, updated quarterly
- Leadership MEQ™ workbook, retreat materials & curated goody bag
- Professional photography at all four retreats
- Lifetime alumni gathering, every past cohort invited back each year
Secure your spot with a $1,997 deposit. Balance of $10,000 due January 1, 2027. Payment plans available upon request.
Individual Weekend Retreat
Based on Cohort Availability- 1 retreat weekend of your choice
- Your seat in The Leadership Throne, plus a seat at all four others
- 1 private coaching session, 90 minutes: a 30-min preparation call plus a 60-min session at the estate
- All catered meals across the weekend
- Luxury welcome robe & spa slippers
- Champagne & chocolate welcome
- Leadership MEQ™ workbook, materials & curated goody bag
- Professional photography session
- Invitation to the annual alumni gathering
Secure your seat with a $997 deposit. Balance due 30 days prior to your chosen retreat.
Have your Company Fund it.
This is a leadership development program, and most organizations already hold a budget for one. Everything your L&D or finance reviewer needs is prepared for you.
Where a sponsoring organization is involved, Dr. Sabine offers a brief alignment conversation with your manager at the start of the year and a development summary at the close. No confidential content is shared, only the goals you choose to make visible.
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A formal invoice
Issued to your organization, with payment terms that fit a procurement cycle.
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A program prospectus
Written for L&D and finance reviewers, not for a landing page. Outcomes, structure and time commitment, stated plainly.
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Leadership MEQ™ Assessments
The assessment methodology behind the multi-rater baseline, so your reviewer can see what is being measured.
Everything You Want To Know
Before You Say Yes.
Five seats.
One will be yours.
Applications close when five women are confirmed. The women who arrive in February will not be the same women who leave in November.
Five Women · One Beautiful Estate · A Life-Changing Experience