The ACTIVATE Summit is presented by Guts & Grace Leadership, a Certified B Corp whose mission is to empower extraordinary women leaders to create profound systemic change by integrating timeless wisdom with modern business innovation in a transformative co-learning environment.

The vision for ACTIVATE (formerly The MEM2E Project) was born in 2016, while coaching a young Director of Sustainability at a Fortune 500 food and beverage company.  While supporting her as she grappled with challenges like confidence, resilience and stakeholder management we thought: wouldn’t it be incredible to bring together a group of passionate changemakers from diverse industries and brands to explore the relationship between inner-work and external success?

I was reminded of an earlier conference experience that left me both impressed and inspired. In 2007 I volunteered at a “collaboration fest” organized by the Special Operations Pacific Command in Hawaii. The summit brought together stakeholders across sectors who were working to solve real-world problems on the ground in their geography. It should never have worked – the participants had too much at stake and too little in common. But the program included embodiment practice and mindset sessions that shifted relationships and sparked a groundswell of new collaborations that lasted long beyond the event.

I knew that if the US Army could create an event with that much magic, then so could a group of forward-thinking women leaders. In the height of the COVID pandemic the pieces came together, and the first live Summit was finally born. Part mindfulness + personal development, part relationship building and part innovation, this unique event is designed to fully align your presence with the change you are instigating in the world – and to prove that you don’t have to do it alone.