ArchitectHer
Where women who have risen in leadership prepare to Architect what comes next.
ArchitectHer is a one-year leadership architecture experience for women who have already risen and are ready to build what comes next.
ArchitectHer is reserved for female CEOs, founders, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and any female leaders carrying meaningful responsibility. The experience helps participants strengthen the clarity, capacity, authority, and human-centered leadership required to shape the next era of business, culture, and organizational life.
30 WOMEN
Curated Room
4 gatherings
Toronto, Canada
1 defining year
Leadership, Clarity, Capacity
private experience
Designed for women building
at a high level
Enter a room where high-capacity women sharpen how they think, decide, communicate, lead, and architect what comes next.
By the end of the year, you will:
◈ Build decision frameworks that protect your time and attention as your leadership scales.
◈ Learn the research behind the fact that female leadership drives 300% greater revenue and profit growth.
◈ Understand why strong female leadership leads to 200% better retention and production that keeps climbing over time.
◈ Strengthen your authority and presence. Lead with clarity, build proximity with women who understand your reality, and create a sustainable rhythm for your next decade.
What makes ArchitectHer different
Curated with Intention
A small room designed for trust, honesty, and depth. Every woman is carefully chosen to protect the right dynamic and the right conversations.
Elevated by Design
A refined year-long experience built around clarity, executive capacity, and strategic growth. Every element is intentional, so the work can translate into how you lead, decide, communicate, and build.
Built for the Whole Woman
ArchitectHer recognizes that leadership does not happen in isolation. The woman, the company, the family, the community, and the future she is shaping are connected. This experience helps women lead with greater clarity, steadiness, humanity, and sustainable power.
What ArchitectHer creates for your life and leadership
Women who move through this leadership experience find a measurable shift in both leadership and life. They return to their roles with lighter, more intentional calendars, teams that operate with less dependence, and a decision-making speed grounded in clarity. What follows is a renewed sense of steadiness and spaciousness, and a life that matches the level of leadership they’ve already built.
The New Human Economy
The next era of business will not be led by information alone. AI has changed who controls information, while technology keeps accelerating what people expect from the leaders and organizations around them. Employees want meaning in their work, not just a paycheck. Customers choose the brands they trust, communities shape reputation faster than any PR department can manage it, and the generation coming up behind this one is openly questioning the model of success it inherited.
The future will belong to leaders who understand people.
Dr. Don Barden’s research found that women lead with 300% more revenue and profit growth than men, and retain employees 200% longer while increasing production over time. This is the New Human Economy: trust functions as capital, culture operates as strategy, and human connection has become the infrastructure underneath both.
ArchitectHer prepares women to lead this era through leadership architecture built on trust, clarity, and sustainable capacity.
Leadership architecture that integrates leadership psychology, operational design, and the relational intelligence the next era of leadership requires, all built into one cohesive year.
The ArchitectHer Experience
Connect strategy, capacity, and what matters most and prepare for the next era of leadership, as women become indcreasingly central to the future of business, culture, and organizational life.
ArchitectHer moves beyond surface-level leadership ideas and into the architecture high-capacity women need. This redesigns the structure your leadership runs on.
◈ We redesign the structure of your leadership, so the pressure you carry no longer compresses you.
◈ We offer a precise framework that eliminates decision friction
◈ The ArchitectHer Method™ rebuilds the blueprint. It’s the architecture beneath your leadership.
This is the paradigm shift: from carrying the weight of your role to being the architect of it.
A word from Dr. Don Barden on the meaning behind ArchitectHer
Investment in Your Next Level
$22,000
For the Full Year
Includes four in-person gatherings in Toronto, ongoing virtual sessions, and access to the cohort throughout the experience.
session one
November 3-4, 2026
session two
January 12-13, 2027
session Three
April 6-7. 2027
session four
July 13-14, 2027
Why ArchitectHer Matters
There comes a point when success alone is no longer the question, the question becomes what kind of leader you’re building toward. ArchitectHer is designed for that moment. It gives you the architecture to move into your next era with intention, on your terms, before the demands of the role make that decision for you.
◈ A full year of architectural leadership design. This is a high-touch, high-caliber environment built to design the next era of your leadership from the foundation up.
◈ Four Immersive Executive Intensives (Toronto): Eight total days of deep, hands-on architecture work built around your life and company.
◈ Monthly Virtual Strategic Sessions: Private monthly sessions with your ArchitectHer leadership concierge to ensure your frameworks stay sharp against the real demands of your role.
◈ Decision Architecture and Capacity Mapping: Frameworks and tools built to return hours of executive capacity to you each week.
◈ A Curated Room of 30 Peers: A vetted circle of high-capacity women managing similar scale, complexity, and responsibility.
◈ Ninety-Day Implementation Cycles: A disciplined rhythm that ensures the work translates into how you actually lead, not just how the year felt.
The next move: If you feel the pull toward what’s next, trust it. This is the room built for women who have already risen and are ready to be the architect of what comes after.
Meet the Minds Behind ArchitectHer
ArchitectHer is led by facilitators with deep experience and academic research in leadership development, emotional capacity work, and operational design. This work is informed by years of supporting high capacity women who carry significant responsibility in their companies, communities, and homes. The experience is guided by professionals who understand the realities of leading at a high level and who know how to help women build lives and businesses that are both successful and sustainable. The room is held with intention, clarity, and a level of care that allows each woman to step into her next era with confidence.
Dr. Don Barden
Dr. Don Barden is a globally recognized leadership researcher, behavioral economist, and transformational strategist with more than 30 years of executive leadership experience. He has built teams generating over $1 billion in annual sales and authored The Perfect Plan, which has been published in over 39 countries. Don is the pioneering mind behind Here Come the Girls, the research that identified the leadership shift now reshaping business, culture, and organizational life. This research translates what the economy, the workforce, and the consumer are already revealing about the future of leadership. Recognized as one of North America’s Top 30 Most Transformational Leaders by John Maxwell, CEO of the Year by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, and visiting professor at Wake Forest University, Oxford University (UK), Truett McConnell University, The Wharton School of Business, and the US Army Ranger Regiment.
Dr. Barden brings ArchitectHer the rare blend of research, real-world results, and visionary insight needed to help women lead what comes next. His forthcoming book, The Alignment Way, continues that mission.
Dr. Ursula Lentine
With a doctorate in Advanced Consciousness Studies and over two decades of experience, Ursula helps senior leaders identify and redesign the unconscious patterns quietly driving their decisions. She brings twenty years of work across more than 1,000 group trainings and 6,400 private executive sessions to her work inside ArchitectHer.
By integrating the latest consciousness science with practical business outcomes, Ursula delivers a transformative experience that sustains long-term performance. The result is sharper judgment, stronger boundaries, and a more sustainable relationship to their own authority. She guides leaders from reactive decision-making to clarity grounded in their own values. It is work that strengthens executive presence, reduces decision fatigue, and builds the internal architecture that holds up under real pressure.
Inside ArchitectHer, Ursula’s work supports the identity and integration side of the experience: helping each woman lead from a more whole, more grounded sense of her own authority, with clearer access to what she already knows
Lisa McGuire
Lisa McGuire is a Strategic Identity Advisor, Business Alignment Strategist, and creator of Category of ONLY™. She helps high-performing leaders, founders, and consultants navigate the identity evolution that happens when the role, reputation, or business that made them successful no longer reflects who they are becoming. As host of the globally ranked podcast Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand, heard in 43 countries, Lisa advances a movement she calls Identity Before Strategy: the idea that most messaging, visibility, and leadership challenges aren’t strategy problems first. They’re identity problems.
At ArchitectHer, Lisa brings the identity architecture and authority layer to the room. Through her Identity Evolution Journey and Category of ONLY™ process, she helps women name where they are Successfully Stuck, recognize the old success identity that can no longer carry what’s next, and reclaim the authority they’re here to lead from.
Her work helps women stop performing outdated models of success and start owning the difference they were taught to dilute, building from truth rather than performance.
Cindy Howard
Cindy serves as The Perfect Plan’s Chief Operations Officer, where she transforms strategic vision into operational reality. With a foundation in psychology and counseling, she brings a unique understanding of team dynamics and human behavior to the administrative backbone of the organization.
Cindy’s philosophy centers on seamless integration. She believes exceptional operations should be invisible, allowing teams to focus on what they do best while systems work effortlessly behind the scenes. Her approach combines organizational precision with an innate curiosity for innovative solutions, constantly seeking better ways to streamline processes and enhance efficiency.
Cindy is the concierge of your ArchitectHer experience. She coordinates logistics, supports members, and handles the details with warmth and discretion so every gathering feels seamless from start to finish.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is ArchitectHer for?
This is for women who:
• Lead at a level where their decisions shape people, culture, and outcomes
• Carry a dual load of professional leadership and personal responsibility
• Have achieved success and are ready to lead from a foundation built to last
• Want more clarity and less reactivity in how they lead
• Are ready to build what their next decade requires
• Want to lead in a way that lets ambition and life move in the same direction
If you are here, you have already proven what you’re capable of. ArchitectHer is where
you build what comes next, in a room designed to meet you at your level.
Tell me more about the room.
The ArchitectHer Room is the architectural blueprint for your next era of leadership. It provides the high-level systems and structural clarity required to move from constant execution to intentional command. This is a vetted environment where the pace of your growth is matched by the strength of your systems, allowing you to carry significant responsibility with grounded precision.
What is the difference between Feminine Flow and Masculine Structure?
Feminine Flow brings vitality back into the way you lead. It reconnects you to intuition, creativity, and a natural rhythm that supports sustainable leadership.
Masculine Structure provides the systems that hold your vision. You learn how to build frameworks that support your goals, your time, and your leadership.
The Whole Woman is the leader who is present, powerful, and fully resourced. She shows up with clarity, steadiness, and the internal capacity to carry what matters most.
Is this only for CEOs?
ArchitectHer is reserved for female CEOs, founders, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and other female leaders carrying meaningful responsibility.
Can I attend a single event?
ArchitectHer is a year-long experience. The continuity across all four gatherings is a core part of the value.
Why only 30 women?
Because depth, trust, candor, and caliber of room matter. ArchitectHer stays small and curated by design, with each year limited to approximately 30 women.
Can male leaders join?
This particular room is reserved for women so the conversations can go deeper, faster, and with the level of honesty, trust, and lived understanding this work requires.
What makes this different from other leadership experiences?
ArchitectHer is designed for the whole woman and built around specific leadership strategies the next era requires. The year moves through reflection, application, peer connection, and sustainable growth.
Is the investment in US or Canadian Dollars?
US Dollars, but if you are Canadian, we will accept Canadian Dollars at the standard conversion rate.
Can I bring a guest?
There are options available for guests and junior associates. Please contact us, and let’s discuss a customized experience tailored to your needs.
What if I am interested but still have questions?
That is exactly why we offer a private conversation.