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Leadership MEQ™ Women's Renewal Retreat
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.

SettingPrivate Estate, Richmond VA
Group SizeFive Women Only
IncludingMeals · Coaching · Renewal

Apply for the full program or an individual weekend.

Private estate retreat house near Richmond, Virginia Dr. Sabine Charles
Creator of Leadership MEQ™
250+Professionals served
5Women per retreat, by design
4Retreat weekends per year
15+Years of leadership coaching experience
Dr. Sabine Charles speaking during the Leadership MEQ retreat weekend
Women in a group leadership session with Dr. Sabine Charles in the garden at the Virginia retreat
Dr. Sabine Charles coaching two women in a small-group session at the retreat
A Different Kind of 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.

Welcome to Chez Sabine sign in the dining room of the Virginia retreat estate
Is This You?

This Retreat was Created
for the Woman who…

  • Is building, scaling, reinventing, or preparing for her next chapter. Transition takes more than strategy. It takes space to think.
  • Makes decisions for everyone else but needs space to hear her own voice. When was the last time someone asked what you needed?
  • 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 Centerpiece

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.

The dining room at the Virginia estate, set for a Boardroom peer consulting session
Dr. Sabine Charles
Speaker TEDx · CalCPA · IIA International · Fintech TV
DBA EQ-i 2.0 & EQ-i 360 Certified CIA CFE CISA CISM CRMA CGEIT Certified Hypnotist
Your Host & Guide

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.

What You Will Experience

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.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

04

Experience Genuine Sisterhood

Build meaningful bonds with a small circle of women who understand leadership, entrepreneurship, transition, and responsibility from the inside.

05

Receive Personal Guidance

Private coaching with Dr. Sabine, dedicated time to explore the questions, decisions, and dreams that matter most to you right now.

06

Be Beautifully Celebrated

Leave with professional photographs that document your confidence, softness, strength, and the renewed sense of self you are stepping into.

The Estate. The Experience. The Exhale.

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.

Your Weekend of Renewal

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.

Back lawn and garden of the Virginia retreat estate on arrival day
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Day One

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.

A woman leading a group coaching session with women seated in conversation
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Day Two

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.

Group morning yoga session at the women's renewal retreat
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Day Three

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.

Retreat Calendar

Choose The Weekend
Your Soul Needs.

Each retreat stands beautifully on its own, attend one or experience all four.

01Feb
February
Feb 19–21, 2027

Clarity & Vision

For the woman ready to reconnect with what she truly wants and where she is going.

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02May
May
May 14–16, 2027

Presence & Influence

For the woman ready to stop shrinking and step fully into her voice and visibility.

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03Sep
September
Sep 17–19, 2027

Resilience & Restoration

For the woman who has been carrying too much and is ready to rebuild from a full place.

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04Nov
November
Nov 5–7, 2027

Identity & Legacy

You leave with your Leadership Legacy Statement: one page, written at the estate, in your own hand.

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Why Only Five Women?

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."

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Nishana A. Nonprofit Founder Leadership MEQ™ Session · Puerto Rico
★★★★★

"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."

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Precious O. CPA, MSc Leadership MEQ™ Coaching · San Jose, CA
The Annual Series

Everything the year includes.

One membership, four retreats, and the structure between them that keeps the work from fading on the drive home.

All 4 Retreat Weekends

Private estate accommodation across all four retreats.

4 Private Coaching Sessions

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.

20 Leadership Throne Series

Your own seat at every retreat, plus a seat at everyone else's.

Leadership MEQ™ Assessments

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.

Monthly Virtual Accountability Calls

The cohort meets between retreats to maintain momentum.

30-Day Integration Calls

A private check-in one month after each retreat. Commitments made at the estate do not fade in the drive home.

All Catered Meals

Every meal across all four weekends, prepared and served at the estate, from the welcome dinner through the farewell lunch.

Personal Leadership Roadmap

Your Leadership MEQ™ workbook and pre-retreat materials, with a roadmap updated quarterly to reflect your growth and evolving commitments.

Professional Photography

Documentary photography at each retreat, your leadership chapter, captured.

Investment

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
$ 11,997
for all four retreat weekends
  • 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
Claim My Seat

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
$ 3,497
per retreat weekend, all-inclusive
  • 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.

Employer Sponsorship

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.

  • A formal invoice

    Issued to your organization, with payment terms that fit a procurement cycle.

  • A program prospectus

    Written for L&D and finance reviewers, not for a landing page. Outcomes, structure and time commitment, stated plainly.

  • Leadership MEQ™ Assessments

    The assessment methodology behind the multi-rater baseline, so your reviewer can see what is being measured.

Questions & Answers

Everything You Want To Know
Before You Say Yes.

You need to be leading something real, founders and business owners, senior executives and partners, practice and department heads, consultants running their own book. What matters is that you arrive with decisions that carry weight, because the Leadership Throne Sessions only work when the four women across from you have made decisions of the same size. If you're mid-career and moving toward that, say so on your application. A woman three years from the C-suite often sharpens the room rather than slowing it.
Yes, and it's in writing. Every participant signs a mutual confidentiality agreement before arrival. Nothing shared in the Leadership Throne Sessions, at the fireside sessions, or in your private coaching leaves the estate. Your one-on-one sessions with Dr. Sabine are confidential from the group and from any sponsoring employer. If your company funds your seat, they receive a development summary covering only the goals you choose to make visible, never the content of your sessions.
Dr. Sabine builds each cohort deliberately and facilitates actively, no one dominates the room, and no one disappears in it. But chemistry is not something anyone can guarantee in advance. If you complete the February retreat and feel this cohort isn't your room, tell Dr. Sabine within seven days. Your remaining balance transfers at full value to private coaching with her, or to any TAPA Institute program, with no time limit. You keep the February weekend, your 360 baseline, and your materials. You will not be talked into staying, and you will not be left with nothing.
Both, deliberately. The leadership work is substantial: a full MEQ™ 360 multi-rater assessment built on the EQ-i 360 instrument Dr. Sabine is certified to administer, four private coaching sessions, and twenty Leadership Throne Sessions where your hardest decisions get pressure-tested by four peers. The restoration is equally real: catered meals, a private estate, guided meditation, and long unscheduled hours. The February assessment repeats in November, and the gap between those two reports is the most honest picture of your year you'll receive. Most programs make you choose between rigor and rest. This one doesn't.
Only what you choose to. You set your own depth, in the group and in your coaching. Nothing is compulsory, nothing is rushed, and no one is put on the spot. The one structured moment where you're at the center is your turn in the Leadership Throne, and you decide what decision you bring to it. The meditation and sound bath are there for rest, not doctrine; there's no belief system attached, and you can skip any of it.
Your own private bedroom at the estate, five rooms, five women. Two of those rooms share a bathroom; Dr. Sabine will confirm your room with you before you arrive. Every meal from the welcome dinner on Day One through the farewell lunch on Day Three is included, along with one evening out at one of Richmond's finest restaurants. Strong WiFi and a quiet office if you need to stay reachable. Travel to Richmond and out to the estate is your own arrangement, full directions, parking, and arrival details come once your seat is confirmed.
Life at this level is unpredictable, and the year is built to absorb it. If you miss a weekend you receive a 90-minute private catch-up session with Dr. Sabine, the full workshop materials and theme debrief, and a place on the following cohort call. You will not fall behind the arc. This is different from the fit question above: because the estate is reserved and your seat held whether or not you arrive, fees aren't refunded after the deposit window, but no one is left to catch up alone.
Frequently, yes. You'll receive a formal invoice, a program prospectus written for L&D and finance reviewers, and documentation on the Leadership MEQ™ Assessments. Where an organization sponsors your seat, Dr. Sabine offers a brief alignment conversation with your manager in February and a development summary in November, goals only, never session content.
Arrive One Woman. Leave Another.

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