Common Thread: Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Creators
Friday, November 7, 2025 8:30 - 12:00
Cedar Ridge Winery
Join us for a half-day experience at Cedar Ridge winery to open new possibilities for you and your organization/practice, and to give you tools to bring them to life! Our Common Thread for this event will be leaders, entrepreneurs, and creators.
Whether you already feel the nudge of a new idea, sense a question waiting to be uncovered, or feel called to rethink the foundation, this gathering offers space to spark fresh direction, pivots, or reconnect with intention. Together we’ll learn meaningful tools, strengthen our intuition, get an introduction to grounding and meditation practice, and connect with aspiring creators, change makers, and culture shapers, parting with actionable next steps.
Pursuing purpose with compassion and integrity creates results that feel like "magic" to those who can only see the metrics, This is the foundation of long-term success -- the kind that sparks innovation, builds resilience, and inspires deep loyalty. Customers, clients, and teams are drawn to truth, and that authentic bond creates lasting trust and enduring viability.
A big thank you to GreenState Credit Union as our Silver Sponsor for this event!
Agenda
8:30: Check In, join a table of 6-8 and enjoy a full breakfast and coffee catered by Cedar Ridge
Insight Workshop
Featuring Lindsay Leahy with The Restoration Project. How do we create a container for curiosity and trusted insight that yields meaningful, measurable results? In this session, you’ll learn practical techniques for tapping into clarity from within, distinguishing between curiosity-led questions and self-doubt, and quieting what holds you back and nurturing what is already nudging you forward.
Exploring Wisdom Within
Whether you bring an idea with you or one bubbles up through the workshop, we'll move right to some reflective questions to help you guide yourself inward and connect with your intuition and inner wisdom. We'll identify an idea to work with, and a path for bringing it to life.
Cultivating Clarity
Through a guided and beginner-friendly grounding practice in our seats, Renee Gullickson, of Gullickson Wellness will help us discover how meditation can integrate the ideas that have surfaced, and will help us distill action steps that bring us closer to our vision. Contemplative practices are growing in popularity because they cultivate self-awareness, grounding, and yield practical results.
Invitation to Self
We’ll close with a personal invitation: name the next meaningful step (or steps!) that brings you closer to the wisdom and clarity uncovered during the morning. You’ll also have time to connect with fellow participants and presenters, leaving inspired, restored, and ready to move forward with intention.
Making Connections Through Shared Wisdom
Make meaningful connections with others on the same journey. We'll offer time to connect with peers in authentic ways and create opportunities to share what's working and what isn't, and perhaps build relationships that can carry forward from the event.
We will close our time together by 12:00pm
In my career as an executive leader in education and the nonprofit sector, the most successful teams I have been part of foster strong financial success by pairing business acumen with curiosity and compassion. These ideas pair beautifully and I want to be part of creating opportunities to grow our wisdom around these ideas, and to connect to others who share this vision.
My toolbox (that I want to share with you!):
Curiosity and commitment to education and evolving tools
Intentional gathering with people who share my values and my "why"
Alongside my career, I have been cultivating a personal practice of meditation and presence that has offered me more creativity, empathy, clarity, and peace
Together we will create experiences for all three -- a place to gain knowledge and practical tools, practices for reflection, presence, and integration, and a community living and leading with compassion and curiosity.