Embodied Leadership Intensive

The Future of Leadership Is Human

Next Cohort starts
SEPTEMBER 2026

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A 3-month embodied leadership program for leaders
who want to move through
burnout, complexity, and hybrid workplace pressures
with grounded clarity, emotional freedom,
and authentic presence
and lead with the humanity this moment requires
while shaping a more honest, sustainable future.

The Embodied Leadership Intensive

INTRODUCING

For leaders wanting a leadership program that honors your values, your lived experience, your humanity and prepares you for this moment.

Most leadership programs teach from outdated leadership theory and static skills that do not meet the current workspace landscape.

This program teaches leaders how to be leaders, in a way that honors identity, humanity, lived experience, and real-world complexity.
What truly sets The Embodied Leadership Intensive™ apart is that it is:
Identity-Aware & Human-Centered
We don’t treat your identity, values, background, or lived experience as an afterthought. They are central to how you lead. This program understands that who you are shapes how you lead, and gives you tools to make that your strength, not a barrier.
Embodiment-Based (Not Just Cognitive)
I don’t stop at theory. You learn to lead from your body, your presence, your grounding, your intuition- the parts of you that actually show up in real-time leadership moments.
Designed for Hybrid + Modern Reality
Most programs still operate from pre-2020 leadership assumptions. The Embodied Leadership Program acknowledges hybrid burnout, identity pressure, constant change, and the emotional complexity of leading right now.
Rooted in Adult Learning Principles
You learn the way adults actually learn: through reflection, real-time application, storytelling, discussion, and practice — not passive consumption. You will receive tools and approaches to make your learning sustainable, allowing you to put your learning into action.
Small Cohort, Deep Transformation
This is not a giant webinar. It’s intimate, immersive, relational, and built for depth- built for you and your unique leadership abilities.
Led by a facilitator who understands identity, culture, and human behavior
You’re not learning from someone who read a book about leadership. You’re learning from someone who has trained leaders across industries, identities, and lived experiences — and brings a deeply human, grounded, culturally aware lens.

I bring 10+ years of experience working with leaders, teams, and organizations across the world. I pair this rich experience with lived experience, intuition, and a deep understanding of the emotional, cultural, and identity layers of leadership. Within this program, what I bring includes:
A unique blend of lived and professional experience
I’ve led in corporate, nonprofit, community, and academic spaces.
I’ve taught leaders across backgrounds, identities, and roles.
I understand the realities leaders face because I’ve lived them and supported leaders through them.
Identity- and values- rooted leadership lens
Your leadership doesn’t thrive in a vacuum. It thrives when your humanity is honored.
I bring a culturally aware, psychologically grounded approach that sees the whole leader, not just the role.
Adult learning expertise
I design learning that actually transforms behavior, not just inspires you for a moment.
Emotional intelligence + embodiment tools
I help you connect to the version of you that can lead with calm, clarity, and emotional grounding, even in uncomfortable or high-pressure moments.
Grounding + strategy
I blend structure with experimentation, strategy with grounding techniques, helping you build a leadership practice that feels aligned, not forced.
A deeply human approach
I don’t teach performative leadership. I teach authentic, embodied, values-forward leadership — the kind that sustains careers, communities, and teams.
When you join this program, you’re not receiving information. You’re receiving guidance, support, and a leadership evolution shaped by my experience, my design, and my commitment to your growth.

Because leadership shapes everything: your wellbeing, your confidence, your opportunities, your earning potential, your relationships, your team dynamics, and your long-term career trajectory.
Here’s what the program investment actually gives you:
A permanent upgrade in how you lead
You will walk away with a clearer presence, stronger identity, and more grounded confidence — skills that impact every job, team, and opportunity you touch afterward.
Tools that reduce burnout and emotional overwhelm
This directly translates into better performance, satisfaction, and long-term career sustainability.
Improved communication + conflict navigation
Skills that immediately increase your effectiveness in hybrid, remote, and cross-functional environments.
Leadership clarity that opens doors
When you understand your leadership identity and can articulate it — you become more promotable, more visible, and more influential.
A leadership vision that guides your next chapter
This is the work that shapes promotions, pivots, new roles, and new opportunities.
A modern, relevant, research-backed curriculum
You’re not paying for inspiration — you’re paying for transformation, grounded in adult learning, emotional intelligence, and embodiment.
Long-term impact
This investment stays with you for years. Every role, every team, every relationship benefits.
The ROI isn’t just financial — though it often is. It’s emotional, energetic, relational, and strategic. It’s the difference between leading from survival and leading from alignment.

This program isn’t about becoming a stereotypical leader.
It’s about becoming your most aligned, grounded, powerful version of a leader.

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Why This Program,
Why Now

The workplace is changing. Teams are burnt out. Hybrid culture is confusing. AI is accelerating everything. And in the middle of all of this are leaders , real people, trying to hold it all together while also holding themselves.

Most leadership programs teach old frameworks for old problems. This one doesn’t.

The Embodied Leadership Intensive™ is a human-centered, identity-rooted, experience-based leadership program designed for this moment. For leaders who want to show up with presence, humanity, clarity, and integrity — without shrinking, assimilating, or burning themselves out.

This program integrates:

Modern leadership research
Lived experience + identity awareness
Adult learning principles

This isn’t theoretical. It’s lived. Practiced. Embodied.

Embodiment + grounded practice

Real-world leadership skills
A deeply human, culturally-informed approach

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Who This Program Is For

If you’re ready to grow, clarify, expand, and lead from a grounded, human place -
this program is for you.

This program is for leaders, emerging leaders, and values-driven professionals who:

Are feeling the effects of burnout or
cultural exhaustion
Want to thrive in hybrid or complex workplace environments
Are resisting profit-only, productivity-obsessed work cultures
Lead teams (formally or informally), or wants to
Struggle to feel at home in corporate spaces
Haven’t found their voice or footing at work
Want to integrate their identities, values, and lived experience into their leadership
Are navigating transition — new roles, new orgs, new industries
Want to embody sincerity, clarity, and authenticity in work and life
Want a modern, human approach to leadership — not outdated corporate tactics

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Walk through the program session themes below.
Each session uses The Liberated Leadership Method™,
a 5-pillar, human-centered, embodied leadership framework that helps you build clarity, confidence, presence, and real-world leadership skills.

What You’ll Learn

EDUCATION:
Learning, Unlearning, & Modern Leadership

Understand how leadership has evolved and unlearn outdated beliefs that keep you small, silent, or burnt out.

EXPANSION:
Identity, Values, & Leadership Vision

Clarify your values, leadership patterns, and future direction while creating a personalized leadership vision.

COMMUNITY: Relational Leadership & Navigating Difference

Strengthen your communication, conflict navigation, and relationship-building skills — especially across identity and difference.

PRACTICE: Embodiment, Skill-Building & Real-World Leadership

Practice real leadership through scenarios, drills, and team-based exercises that strengthen your presence and confidence.

CLAIMING: Leadership Identity, Strategy & Personal Voice

Claim your leadership identity, articulate your leadership brand, and build a strategy for your next role or transition.

INTEGRATION: Sustainability, Q&A, and Leadership Visioning

Integrate your learning, strengthen your long-term leadership practice, and refine your future leadership path.

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MEET YOUR TRAINER

Hi, I’m Veronique!
You can call me V.

I’m a People Development Specialist and founder of Ampersand Workspace, a boutique development agency that helps leaders and teams stay deeply human in the midst of change.

Through customized leadership programs, culture development, and facilitation, I help organizations and leaders transform disconnection, fatigue, and resistance into clarity, connection, and sustainable momentum.

My approach is high-touch and human-centered — blending strategy, intuition, and deep facilitation to create development that sticks. Every engagement is designed around the nuance of the organization I’m working with: its people, its purpose, and its moment.

Clients work with me when they’re ready to:

Move beyond surface-level training into real transformation.
Create cultures that value presence, not just productivity.
Develop leaders who bring humanity and high performance into balance.

My work sits at the intersection of leadership development, organizational culture, and facilitation, with a clear through-line: helping people reconnect to what makes them alive, clear, and capable of leading through complexity.

Because in the age of automation, being human is the ultimate competitive advantage.

The Liberated Leadership Method™

An Ampersand Workspace signature 5-pillar framework designed for leaders who want to lead with clarity, humanity, and embodied presence. This method integrates modern leadership research, identity awareness, adult learning principles, and grounded practice.

Pillar 1

EDUCATION

Learning, unlearning, and contextualizing leadership in today’s world.

Pillar 2

EXPANSION

Exploring identity, values, and perspective to widen your leadership capacity.

Pillar 3

COMMUNITY

Strengthening relational intelligence, communication, and trust.

Pillar 4

PRACTICE

Real-time leadership drills, embodiment, and applied skill-building.

Pillar 5

CLAIMING

Stepping fully into your leadership identity, voice, and strategy.

The Liberated Leadership Method™ is framework is practical, human, culturally grounded, and designed for real-world leadership.

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TESTIMONIALS

**Confidential and anonymous feedback is included from post-program surveys that participants complete. Surveys are mostly anonymous so participants can share their honest thoughts and experiences of programs/our work together.

" V is amazing! She is a great facilitator, and is able to push productive conversations forward while ensuring everyone has their voices heard (including virtual participants for hybrid conversations). She also made the actual meetings really easy - we didn't have to plan an agenda for her, just told her what we were looking for and she made it happen."

- Emily Fornof
"V is phenomenal!! So adept at connecting with people and providing robust content for us to immediately apply in small group sessions."

-Meg Litts
"Thank you! This was a great series and I learned a lot! I think you did really well with creating a “brave” and open space were people were willing to have real conversations and be vulnerable."

-Anonymous
"Veronique was my favorite part of the series. She was perfect. Wise. A teacher who guided appropriately and used just a bit of personal story. I couldn’t imagine someone better."

- Anonymous
"We had the best virtual participation rate we've ever plus the participation and engagement were fantastic! We usually have a 50% no show rate, and this workshop started with 80% present."

-Sarah Smith-Benanti
"V is a phenomenal practitioner who truly embodies her values and will be invested in a deep partnership. She will absolutely put the work and time into building the experience that is desired and she will be a communicative and thorough partner throughout. I emphasize that she is worth the money and to partner on opportunities that will have significant impact."

-Erin Duran

Program Structure

The Embodied Leadership Program is a 12 week virtual program, limited to 20 participants maximum for depth, intimacy, and personalized attention.

The program begins January 13, 2026, meeting every Tuesday every other week. Check out what’s included:

6 live, interactive leadership sessions

E-workbook and leadership exercises

Live Q&A/ hot seat opportunities