Summit Your Mind · Women's Leadership Expedition
Lead higher. Live wider.
An immersive leadership expedition for women ready to step away from the noise, challenge themselves in one of the world's most extraordinary places, and return with clarity, confidence and intention.
What this is
Not a retreat, not therapy, and not simply a mountain climb.
Her Summit is a deliberately designed leadership experience, where the journey becomes a catalyst for discovering what is already within you, and what becomes possible when you choose to lead from your strengths.
The mountains, the external one and the inner one, are the best possible place to change how you see yourself while facing a genuine challenge. The new perspective you generate out there is among the deepest and longest-lasting insight you can gain. You return leading higher, and living wider.
Who it is for
You may be an executive, a founder, an entrepreneur or an experienced professional. Perhaps you are considering a career transition, preparing for greater leadership responsibility, or facing a significant change in your personal life. Her Summit is a space to reconnect with what truly matters before your next move, and to let new questions emerge in a psychologically safe environment where new answers can be found.
This experience is for you if you want to:
Gain perspective before an important personal or professional decision.
Reconnect with your natural strengths and lead with greater authenticity.
Build the confidence to navigate uncertainty and embrace new challenges.
Step outside your comfort zone in a meaningful, supported environment.
Connect with an exceptional community of like-minded women.
Invest in yourself with the same intention you bring to your career and the people around you.
You don't need to be an experienced mountaineer. You simply need to be curious enough to discover what becomes possible when you give yourself the space, and the challenge, to grow.
The experience
Her Summit combines intentional preparation, the transformative challenge of climbing Kilimanjaro, and dedicated time for reflection and integration.
Your journey begins before Tanzania. Through guided preparation and individual reflection you'll clarify your intentions, identify the leadership questions you want to explore, and begin to understand the strengths that will carry you. You may also complete a strengths-based assessment to enrich the work.
The first days help you disconnect from the pace of everyday life and connect with the group. Through facilitated conversation, coaching exercises and shared experience, you build trust, psychological safety and a common purpose before you step onto the mountain.
For seven unforgettable days, Kilimanjaro becomes both the challenge and the classroom. Each stage opens a theme: courage, resilience, decision-making, self-leadership, energy management and authentic leadership, explored through coaching, guided reflection and experiential learning. The mountain, like good coaching, does not hand you the answers. It creates the conditions for you to find your own.
Once you have reached the summit, you'll have dedicated time to slow down, reflect and translate insight into action. Together we turn experience into intention, so you leave not only inspired, but equipped with practical commitments for the next chapter.
Our methodology
Her Summit combines rigorous leadership development with the transformative power of an immersive nature experience. The approach integrates:
Recognising and intentionally leveraging your natural talents.
Focusing on what enables people to thrive, perform and flourish.
Space for meaningful reflection, powerful conversation and intentional action.
Because the most lasting learning happens through lived experience, not theory.
Using the mountain to sharpen perspective, simplify complexity and reveal new possibility.
The wisdom, encouragement and diversity of the group as an essential part of every woman's journey.
Your leader
Her Summit is designed and led by Valeria Cardillo Piccolino, a Senior Principal Consultant with more than fifteen years advising enterprise clients on leadership, culture and coaching across EMEA and LATAM. An ICF-credentialed and Gallup CliftonStrengths-certified coach, she blends strengths-based development and positive psychology with the raw teacher that is the mountain, creating the psychological safety in which real leadership questions can finally be asked, and answered.
What you'll take home
Distance from everyday life creates the space to see your challenges, ambitions and opportunities with renewed clarity.
Not from motivation alone, but from having accomplished something genuinely demanding, and discovering what you're capable of along the way.
Practical insight into your unique talents, and how to use them more intentionally in your leadership, career and life.
Concrete commitments, coaching insight and a personal action plan to sustain your momentum long after the mountain.
A community of remarkable women who have shared an extraordinary challenge and held one another through it.
Returning home knowing that the limits you once believed in may never have been limits at all.
What is included
A fully held, five-star experience wrapped around a serious climb. One price covers the coaching, the comfort, the mountain and the care.
The investment
$14,995 per place
Travel insurance with cancellation cover is a condition of joining.
Held on the mountain
Her Summit is transformation through challenge and fellowship, not therapy. It is delivered on Vertical Sky's mountain operations, with fairly paid, wilderness-first-responder guides, supplementary oxygen and twice-daily health checks around every climber. You are challenged, and you are looked after. Both are the point.
Applications are read personally and answered within one working day. It begins with a conversation, never a transaction.