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Level Up
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Transform Your Leadership Style
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Increase Prodcutivity
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Build Employee Loyalty
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Learn to Have The Hard Conversations
✳︎ Level Up ✳︎ Transform Your Leadership Style ✳︎ Increase Prodcutivity ✳︎ Build Employee Loyalty ✳︎ Learn to Have The Hard Conversations
Founder to Leader:
A two-day, immersive experience for founders ready to define their own style of leadership, lead with integrity, communicate with confidence, and grow their business through their team and clients.
11-12 June 2026, Ovolo Hotel Sydney
What we’ll cover :
Founder to Leader is a deep dive into personal leadership and powerful, open communication—designed specifically for founders who’ve never been formally taught how to lead, manage, and communicate as they grow.
It’s a space to step out of the day-to-day and into meaningful, high-quality conversations—with yourself, with other founders, and with an expert facilitator who understands the nuance of leading in real businesses.
Through honest dialogue, practical frameworks, and real connection, you’ll refine how you show up, how you lead, and how you communicate when it matters most.
This is where you strengthen your voice. Build confidence in your decisions. And learn how to communicate with clarity and impact.
With your team.
Your clients.
Your customers.
And yourself.
Because the way you communicate shapes everything—your relationships, your decisions, and your growth.
When you lead with clarity, your business moves forward with you.
Is this for me?
Our Masterclass was created specifically for founders and leaders who want to communicate better — across every part of their business.
This is for you if you want to:
Step into stronger personal leadership
Stop second-guessing how you say things
Build trust, alignment, and accountability in your business
Lead your team with more clarity and confidence
Have difficult conversations without avoidance or emotion taking over
Communicate more effectively with clients and customers
This is for you - Whether you're:
Leading a team
Managing contractors
Selling to clients
Or navigating customer relationships
This is for you.
An opportunity to connect with your own style of leadership like never before—
and create a noticeable shift in how you lead, communicate, and grow your business and life.
What will I gain?
Two days of focused personal leadership work- and the ripple effect shows up everywhere.
You’ll leave feeling more connected to yourself, more (F)empowered and certain in how you lead,and backed by a powerful network of founders who get it.
In your business, that looks like:
Addressing difficult conversations early, with clarity
Hiring the right people—and keeping them
Closing better clients through stronger communication
Leading your team without burnout or constant friction
Navigating client and customer situations with confidence
Building trust, alignment, and real momentum
And in your life, it feels like:
A deeper sense of alignment with how you lead
Renewed energy and momentum
Confidence in your voice and your decisions
More clarity in how you show up
At the same time, you walk away with:
A clear, grounded leadership style that feels like your own
Practical tools and frameworks you can use immediately
Confidence in the conversations you’ve been avoiding
Stronger communication across every area of your business
A room of women who truly get it—your founder network
Because this isn’t just about what you take in—it’s about what shifts as a result.
In your business.
In your life.
In the way you lead.
This is where leadership changes.
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The Masterclass Agenda
Day One — You as the Leader
Before you lead others, you lead yourself.
Through expert facilitation & inspired by Founders around you, we’ll explore ;
Your own leadership style (built, not borrowed)
Your own values as decision-making containers
Fear, avoidance, and overthinking — and how they show up
Communicating clearly, calmly, and directly
Leading authentically (not performatively)
This are the real moments that count, who are you, how do you want to live and lead each day?
Day Two — Leading Through Communication
Now we apply it to real life.
We’ll work through:
Handling difficult conversations (applying the She Leads framework)
Giving feedback that avoids fall out and resentment
Setting expectations and guidelines that feel true to you and your business
Communicating masterfully with different personalities
Client, customer, and team conversations that actually land
This is practical, tailored, and real-time. This is the GAME CHANGER.
The Experience
Set inside Ovolo Woolloomooloo—a five-star boutique hotel on Sydney Harbour—this is an environment designed as intentionally as the work you’ll do inside it.
Think historic wool shed meets modern, award-winning design.
Harbour views, ambient lighting, and intimate spaces made for real conversation.
A setting that feels equal parts luxury and creativity.
This isn’t a corporate training room.
It’s a curated space—built to help you think differently, speak openly, and lead better.
As Vivid Sydney lights up the harbour outside…
we’ll be inside doing the work that actually matters.
And as the day unfolds, the experience continues with a private dining experience at Bar Woolloomooloo—a beautiful, intimate setting with a curated menu and bottomless drinks.
Because some of the best conversations—
and the biggest breakthroughs—
don’t happen in the room.
They happen over dinner.
YOUR INVESTMENT
What’s Included
✔ Two full days of expertly facilitated leadership & communication training
✔ An intimate, curated group of experienced founders (strictly capped)
✔ Real-time coaching, live problem solving, and personalised support
✔ All food and drinks across both days—including a premium private dinner experience
✔ Access to a luxury, private venue designed for connection and deep work
✔ A powerful network of like-minded women—your FemPowered circle
FIRST RELEASE 10 - Dinner & Drinks on us! [$1750] + gst
Standard: [$1995] + gst
Secure your place now
Limited to 24 founders only
FEMPOWERED FREE STUFF OFFER (FIRST 10 spots ONLY)
Book within the first 10 spots and FemPowered will treat you to your Dining Experience,
Complimentary three-course luxury dinner
Bottomless drinks experience
Valued at $250+ included for the first 10 spots only
First come, first served
Once those 10 spots are gone —
the dinner becomes an additional paid add-on. Don’t miss out!
About Laura
Laura Holderness works alongside founders across multiple industries, helping them navigate the real challenges that come with growth — people, performance, and the pressure of leading it all.
Often called in as a trusted advisor and “GM On Demand,” Laura partners closely with founders when things feel stretched, messy, or unclear. She brings an experienced, objective lens — quickly spotting blind spots, patterns, and opportunities that are hard to see from inside your own business.
Because she’s seen it. A lot of it.
Laura has worked with hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses — consulting, coaching, and guiding founders through every stage of growth. She’s managed teams of 700+ people and has hired, developed, led — and exited — employees across the full employee journey.
She understands founders deeply — the pressure, the pace, the constant decision-making, and the weight of getting it right.
And she has a particular passion for working with female founders — supporting women building ambitious businesses, while leading in a way that still feels like them.
With a background in psychology, combined with hands-on commercial and operational experience, Laura brings a practical, human approach to leadership. As an experienced facilitator, she creates spaces where honest conversations happen early, issues get addressed properly, and leaders move forward with clarity and confidence.
Her style is direct, energetic, and refreshingly honest — blending real-world insight with an ability to challenge, support, and guide founders in a way that actually lands.
She’s trusted not just for what she knows — but for how she shows up.
“You can feel how much Laura genuinely cares — and that’s what makes this experience so powerful.”
Come and spend a day with Laura — and experience it for yourself.
