Lead Like It Matters

ABOUT LEAD LIKE IT MATTERS

Lead Like It Matters is a series of leadership development programs for thoughtful, values-driven leaders navigating growth, change, pressure, and uncertainty. Through immersive leadership retreats, Wisdom Circles, workshops, coaching, and community, leaders strengthen the clarity, steadiness, self-awareness, and courage required to lead well.

This is not traditional management training. It is a space to step outside the pace of daily work, examine the patterns shaping how you lead, and reconnect with what matters most. Each experience combines guided reflection, meaningful dialogue, practical leadership tools, and the wisdom already present within the room.

Designed for executives, founders, managers, and emerging leaders, Lead Like It Matters helps you build trust, navigate conflict, practice accountability, make aligned decisions, and lead through complexity without losing yourself in the process.

Upcoming Events

Leadership Retreats

Confronting Our Freedom
Next Event
October 15, 2026

Wisdom Circles

Emerging Leadership Wisdom Circle
Next Event
September 10, 2026 - November 5, 2026

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Lead Like It Matters provides opportunities for executives, founders, managers, and emerging leaders to build trust, navigate conflict, practice accountability, make aligned decisions, and lead through complexity without losing yourself in the process.

Executives

Through practical reflection and meaningful dialogue, executives will build deeper trust with their teams, foster greater accountability, and lead in a way that sustains both organizational success and personal resilience.

Founders

Founders will gain tools through reflective exercises to lead their businesses with greater intention as they balance vision, growth, and the inevitable challenges of entrepreneurship.

Managers

Managers will develop hands-on practical strategies for leading with empathy, making thoughtful decisions, and confidently guiding others through change.

Emerging Leaders

Emerging leaders will develop sustainable, values-centered objectives in order to build the confidence and self-awareness needed to grow a leadership foundation rooted in authenticity, resilience, and intentional action.

Whether you attend a one-day event from our Retreat Series or weekly sessions as part of a Wisdom Circle, you will emerge with newfound reflections on what it means to lead with intention.

About Your Facilitators

Meghan Clarke

Meghan Clarke is the founder of M E Clarke Consulting and a trusted strategic partner to executives, founders, and leadership teams navigating growth, complexity, and consequential change. Working at the intersection of culture, strategy, and leadership, Meghan is known for seeing patterns quickly, asking the question that shifts the conversation, and creating the clarity and trust required for meaningful movement. Through Lead Like It Matters, she helps leaders step outside the urgency, reconnect with what they already know, and lead what comes next with greater coherence, capacity, and courage.

Kate McCracken

Kate McCracken is a senior organizational health practitioner, facilitator, and coach who brings strategic insight, relational intelligence, and a deeply grounded presence to the work of leadership. Kate has a gift for finding the right words at the right moment and holding a loving but firm mirror to the patterns, possibilities, and excellence already present. Through compassionate candor and thoughtful inquiry, she helps leaders move beyond performance and familiar answers, deepen trust in themselves, and turn awareness into clearer choices, stronger relationships, and intentional action.

Coaching

Ready to re-discover your best self and be re-minded of who you truly are?

The right coaching relationship can be transformative: it can change the dynamics of what is happening around us (the external reflects the internal); it can lead to deep and profound insights that can reshape the trajectory of a leader and a team. We are generally our own biggest obstacle, our own worst critic. We each hold the answers to what stands in our way; coaching simply offers a path to uncovering and overcoming these self-limiting beliefs. The path to our highest self almost always requires getting out of our own way. In coaching we will expand on what you are doing well, uncover your opportunities for growth while identifying the (small) pivots necessary to advance your goals.