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The national community for women in educational leadership

Summit & Soul

Rise · Lift · Lead

For principals, district leaders, superintendents — and every woman rising toward the role. Exceptional leadership and a healthy, happy life. You shouldn't have to choose.

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Why we exist

You carry the school.
Who carries you?

Women lead classrooms, campuses and districts across America — and too many do it alone, running on empty. Summit & Soul develops the leader and restores the woman, in equal measure.

Professional associations sharpen your resume. Wellness retreats ignore your career. We were built to do both, beautifully.

Leadership

Executive development, coaching, masterminds, and honest conversation about evaluation, strategy, AI, and the real work of leading schools.

Wellness

Burnout prevention, reflection, journaling, and permission to rest — because excellence without exhaustion is a leadership skill.

Adventure

Retreats and gatherings in America's most beautiful places. Mountains, lakes, campfires — nature is our methodology.

You will never lead alone again.

The Summit & Soul promise

Our story

Built by a woman who carried the school.

Twenty-five years inside American education. Summit & Soul was founded by a career educator — teacher, instructional coach, district leader, assistant superintendent, principal.

In every role she saw the same quiet pattern: the most gifted women leaders were carrying entire schools on their backs and keeping nothing for themselves. They could turn around a struggling campus but couldn't remember their last real vacation. They coached everyone and were coached by no one. They led hundreds of people and felt profoundly alone.

So she built the community she couldn't find.

Mission

To help women in educational leadership become exceptional leaders — and healthier, happier human beings — through community, coaching, wellness and adventure.

What we believe

Seven things we hold to.

Whole-Woman Leadership

The principal and the person are one woman. We develop both, always.

Women Lifting Women

We climb roped together — every member's rise creates a handhold for the next.

Excellence Without Exhaustion

Burnout is not a badge of honour; it's a leadership failure we help women reverse.

Nature Restores

Mountains, trails, water and campfires aren't scenery — they're the methodology.

Courageous Growth

Adventure is a leadership practice. We do hard, beautiful things.

Purpose Over Position

Titles change; purpose endures — aspiring, serving, transitioning or retired.

Innovation with Heart

We embrace what's next in education — including AI — with wisdom and humanity.

The community · free to join

A private table with an open chair.

Our flagship community lives on Facebook: a private, protected space for assistant principals, principals, instructional coaches, curriculum specialists, district leaders and superintendents. Real questions, real support, zero performance.

Grow your leadership

Weekly discussions on instructional leadership, teacher evaluation, difficult conversations, career moves, and AI in education.

Find your people

Networking that feels like friendship. Celebrate wins, process hard days, and meet the women who get it.

Protect your wellbeing

Wellness challenges, reflection prompts, book conversations, and honest talk about boundaries and burnout.

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Retreats

Go home stronger in both directions.

Executive development meets the great outdoors. Coaching and masterminds in the morning, trails and cold plunges — optional — in the afternoon, campfires and real conversation at night. Small rooms of remarkable women.

Mountain Leadership Retreats

Long weekends at elevation — leadership intensives, nature walks, and strategic thinking with a view.

Lakeside Wellness Escapes

Slow mornings, journaling, optional yoga, and the deep quiet that lets a leader hear herself think again.

Executive Masterminds

Small, curated circles for sitting and aspiring superintendents — fireside strategy with women at your level.

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You'll never lead alone again.

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