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Immersive solo retreats with personalized executive coaching

Dynamic women, trans, and nonbinary leaders often look like they’re thriving but struggle internally with decision-fatigue and overwhelm. 

They want to increase their impact and improve their quality of life, but there’s just never enough time in the day.

Strategic Vacations disrupt mental and Emotional exhaustion with a powerful reset.

After your Strategic Vacation, you’ll return to work and your life:

  • Reconnected to your strengths and your purpose

  • Rejuvenated, with clarity, focus, and stronger boundaries

  • Ready to take action using a 90-Day Imperfect Action Plan: a practical roadmap that fits your real life and prioritizes progress over perfection

Strategic Vacations turn down the volume on the outside world, so you can hear your own voice the loudest.

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How Strategic Vacations Work

PART 1

VISIONING SESSION
Virtual coaching session

  • Identify the patterns you want to disrupt

  • Reconnect to your strengths and your purpose

  • Co-create a short-term plan of action, one that includes permission to prioritize yourself

PART 2

STRATEGIC VACATION
Ranges from a 1-day staycation to a 4-day vacation in New Orleans

  • Get unstuck and rejuvenated with fresh perspective and motivation

  • Develop your support team and healthy boundaries through activities like Relationship Mapping and Delegation Strategy

  • Incorporate these insights into existing projects and future actions during focused planning time

PART 3

IMPLEMENTATION COACHING
Virtual coaching session(s)

  • Create and implement your 90-Day Imperfect Action Plan to integrate retreat takeaways

  • Apply what you've learned and receive loving accountability to stay on track

  • Adapt and recalibrate to new challenges with ongoing support so you can continue your momentum

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Case Study with Captain (retired) Andrea Marcille

After she left her Strategic Vacation, Andrea wrote:

"I feel more grounded and focused than I have in years. My thanks. Truly.

More work to do but I'm leaving with much more clarity PLUS an action plan."

1 month after her Strategic Vacation, a colleague of Andrea's shared:

"Andrea came back a different person, with clarity and much stronger boundaries."

3 Months After her Strategic Vacation, Andrea Wrote:

"I have a renewed sense of purpose, of focus."

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Strategic Vacations are designed for women, trans, and nonbinary leaders who want to increase their impact and improve their quality of life. 

    While they may have achieved external markers of professional “success,” clients often struggle with burnout and have difficulty prioritizing their own needs and personal goals. They want more time and energy for what matters most to them. 

    The people who have the greatest success working with me are passionate about using their skills and strengths to help their communities, colleagues, and clients flourish. 

    Past clients have used their Strategic Vacations to:

    • Decide whether to stay or leave a job

    • Build programs to support women in male-dominated industries

    • Help physicians combat vaccine hesitancy. 


    If you’re unsure whether a Strategic Vacation is a fit for you, please reach out here. I’d love to hear from you and will respond with a recommendation.

  • We have two options!

    Strategic Staycations are a facilitated vacation you can enjoy in your home or a local spot you book for the occasion.

    Strategic Vacations occur in New Orleans, LA. I’m a 5th generation New Orleanian and love sharing my community’s joie de vivre (joy of life) with clients.

  • I have options at a variety of price points, depending on your goals.

  • ACCESSIBILITY

    Like many New Orleans homes, the Oasis is raised off the ground and has 4 stairs to access the main entrance. If this is inaccessible, please let me know, and we can identify alternative accommodations at no additional cost. The Oasis features a standing shower, central HVAC, and HEPA air purifier.

    To meet sensory needs, I offer fragrance-free options, fidget toys, and blackout curtains.

    INCLUSION

    I have experience working with BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and neurodiverse clients and am committed to being in active community and/or authentic solidarity with my clients.

    Since each person’s experience in the workplace and the world is affected by multiple, overlapping identities, I’ll share some of mine. I’m a White, queer, able-bodied, cisgender woman with a master’s degree and ADHD. I’m in my early 40s and the mom of a young kiddo.

    I strive to recognize my ample privilege and listen closely to the experiences of those who don’t share my identities. And it’s important to name the lens through which I experience the world each day.

    Strategic Vacations may not align with the budgets of potential clients who I’d love to support. I offer frequent free programs and the lower-cost option of the Mini Visioning Retreat.

 

"With a great balance between teaching and tools for self-reflection, I learned concrete skills to manage the anxieties I have related to my career.

Working with Lelia was a joy and positively enlightening."

- Veronica Brooks-Uy

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Q&A with a Recent Strategic Vacationer: Lindsay Cameron, MD

What prompted you to book your Strategic Vacation?

  • I booked my Strategic Vacation because I felt overwhelmed by the constant demands of work and home. I felt ready to make a change but didn’t have time to strategize.

How did you feel after?

  • My Strategic Vacation helped me find clarity and confidence.

  • It was also a true escape, which gave me the chance to relax away from the busy and the hustle but also brainstorm and implement some important changes at work.

  • The combination of structured time with integrated movement, down time to decompress, and creative time was exactly what I needed. The weekend helped me better articulate who I am and the impact I want to have.

How has it impacted you after?

  • Now I’m less anxious from my day-to-day. It’s been liberating to have a better idea of who I am and my direction. I’ve made a lot of changes since I was there, personally and professionally. 

  • I’m more relaxed and motivated, with a better sense of myself.

What would you like people to know about Strategic Vacations?

  • The world doesn’t know how to support working moms who want to have a career and make an impact. Lelia does.

  • Working with Lelia makes me a better physician, mother, wife and a better world citizen. 

Feedback from Merry Cherney

Before the retreat, I was dealing with a lot of professional uncertainty. I was unclear of my path and struggled to stay engaged and energized in my work.

The Strategic Vacation was transformative! The clarity I found at my retreat quelled my anxiety, and I left feeling empowered with an action plan and a new set of tools.

The Strategic Vacations format is entirely unique. It offered the meaningful down time of a vacation, the restorative nature of a retreat, and the self discovery of career coaching. The experience was both deeply relaxing and incredibly productive.

Lelia serves as a thought partner, mentor, and friend. What she offers is a rarity and exactly what I needed, at a moment when I didn’t even know what it was that I needed.

When I came home I had so many exciting ideas that I slept with a notebook next to my bed. That excitement of creating continued long after the retreat.

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