Nothing will serve our precarious future better than bringing the aligned capacity of each of us to leadership in all its forms.

We therefore cultivate full-spectrum diversity, within ourselves and among each other, not for political correctness, but because it’s critical for resilience, adaptation and survival. Just as nature’s ecosystems that are diverse in species rebound to health faster after trauma, diverse human systems are also more resilient. Now, when old systems are dying as we’re birthing a new world, it's essential to reimagine leadership holistically, through a culture-informed, full-spectrum gender lens.

After more than twenty years of facilitating diverse women leading change, and informed by her award-winning book, Nature, Culture & the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, Nina Simons offers interactive, engaged classes that welcome people in any phase of life into a kind, transformative space. She invites you into conversations and practices designed to strengthen your inner awareness, relational intelligence and clarity of commitment – necessary abilities for navigating the realities of this time while cultivating our own agency and flourishing.

Together, we will investigate how to balance compassionate listening, open-mindedness and humility with owning our own authority, trusting our inner guidance, and the freedom to assert ourselves when and as needed.

We’ll consider some of the underpinnings of patriarchal culture and explore more deeply what has kept many women competing and held others back from embracing and embodying leadership. We’ll identify a new model of leading that eschews binaries of all kinds, and integrates merging the rational with the intuitive in relational, strategic and collaborative approaches.

Employing deep listening and authentic reflection while prioritizing self-care, we will delve into practices and rituals for composting the self-limiting biases and inner voices that can defeat our efforts. We’ll consider, sense into and review what unique talents, gifts and loves we each embody and feel called to offer, to help clarify and strengthen our particular personal purpose. Together, we’ll also review some of the virtues that rebalancing the archetypal feminine within us all can bring to leadership, which are proving necessary in addressing the existential crises we face.

Nina Simons is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.

She loves convening – both in-person and online - for mutual mentorship and shedding conditioning, and to explore methods and practices for reinventing leadership, reclaiming our whole selves, connecting across difference and co-creating communities of belonging.

Nina co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—released as a second edition in 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Nautilus awards in the categories of Women in the 21st Century and Social Change & Social Justice. Both are being used to ignite liberatory learning in individuals, circles and classrooms.