The Pathways
Find Your Constellation
Connect, reflect, and lead in good company.
Circles. Seasonal Experiences. Coaching.
CORE PATHWAYS
The Circles
Connection & Belonging
Curated groups for reflection across cultures.
Experiences
Presence & Insight
Online and in-person encounters for a different perspective.
Coaching
Clarity & Direction
One-to-one coaching for transitions and pivotal moments.
Connection & Belonging
The Circles
Curated groups of women whose lives span cultures.
Each Circle unfolds over time through carefully chosen questions, guided conversation, reflection, and insight drawn from lived experience.
Three formats: among peers, around a text, or across generations.
Where shared experience opens new ways of seeing.
AMONG PEERS
The Leading Circle
Brings together women navigating new responsibilities, transitions, and chapters still taking shape. Across one season, guided conversation and thoughtfully chosen questions create room to examine assumptions and exchange perspectives, designed to help you see familiar questions differently, clarify what matters now, and move forward with greater conviction.
A curated group · 6 gatherings · 1 season
Six 90-minute online sessions held every other week, scheduled across participants' time zones.
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Who It Is For
Women whose lives span cultures, navigating a new responsibility, transition, decision, or chapter still taking shape. No formal leadership title required.
What to Expect
● A thoughtfully curated group of women.
● Six guided 90-minute online gatherings held every other week.
● One carefully chosen question at the heart of each gathering.
● Candid conversation and perspectives shaped by different lives and cultures.
● Confidentiality throughout the Circle.
Designed to Support
● Seeing familiar questions differently.
● Clarifying what matters now.
● Moving forward with greater conviction.
Facilitated by Elyse Michaels-Berger, certified executive coach and HEC Paris Global Executive Coach.
The Circle is a facilitated peer experience, not group coaching. One-to-one coaching is available separately.
Dates
The Circle begins in November 2026. The six gatherings will be scheduled across participants' time zones before the Circle begins. Regular attendance is encouraged, with flexibility if a gathering needs to be missed.
How to Join
Complete a short form about your current chapter and what you hope to bring to the Circle. Applications are reviewed with the composition of the group in mind. Selected applicants will be invited to a brief conversation with Elyse before places are confirmed. Applications are open for a limited number of places.
FOR ORGanizations & NETWORKS
Bring the Circle Inside
Facilitated Circles bring women together across roles, cultures, and perspectives to reflect on the realities of leading across cultures, strengthening connection, perspective, and voice.
AROUND A TEXT
The Reading Circle
A shared text becomes the starting point for conversation about identity, culture, and leadership. The questions extend beyond the page.
Hosted online across time zones. The first cohort begins in January 2027.
ACROSS GENERATIONS
The Rising Circle
An intergenerational exchange between Emerging Voices and Guiding Voices whose lives and leadership span cultures.
Emerging Voices are women beginning a new chapter in life and leadership.
Guiding Voices bring perspective shaped by leadership and life across cultures.
Hosted online across time zones. The first Circle begins in February 2027.
Established Leaders
The Circle
A focused circle for established women navigating moments of transition — professional, personal, or both. A space to reflect alongside others who carry similar levels of responsibility and complexity.
Shared Reflection
The Reading Circle
A shared intellectual space where reading becomes a way to think together. Each cycle centers around a text — explored not for analysis alone, but as a way to reflect on identity, leadership, and life across cultures.
Emerging Leaders
The Rising Circle
A space where emerging global voices and Guiding Voices come together. Younger women navigating the early chapters of life across cultures, and senior women who have walked these paths.
The exchange runs both ways. Guiding Voices offer perspective. Emerging voices renew it.
Hosted online, across time zones. By application. Each cohort pairs emerging voices with Guiding Voices. The first cohort begins Fall 2026.
Presence & INSIGHT
Experiences
Encounters outside the daily pace.
Online and in-person experiences invite a different perspective on presence, communication, and leadership. Two formats are currently available: equine-facilitated fieldwork and seasonal gatherings.
Just Outside Paris
The Field
Equine-Facilitated Experience
Horses do not respond to titles, credentials, or passports. Only to your presence.
Working alongside a horse makes patterns visible in real time, offering feedback that conversation alone doesn't always surface. Equine-facilitated sessions bring presence, communication, and leadership into clearer view. Individual and small-group sessions are available just outside Paris by advance arrangement. No riding or previous experience with horses is required.
Seasonal Gatherings
Online, Across Geographies
Seasonal gatherings bring women across cultures together around a shared theme, in an environment that creates room to step outside the daily routine, return renewed, and support leadership across cultures.
A retreat from the everyday. Room for what matters.
CLARITY & DIRECTION
Coaching
For moments that matter, and the ones still taking shape.
One-to-one coaching for transitions, leadership decisions, and pivotal moments.
When you hear more than one world speaking, find the direction that is yours.
Structured time and space to focus on what matters. Together, we examine the assumptions shaping the situation and explore the choices available to you. The aim is not simply greater clarity in the moment, but stronger judgment, greater confidence in your decisions, and a clearer way forward.
Engagements typically entail one-hour weekly or biweekly sessions, spanning three to six months. A limited number of places are available each season.
What Women Are Saying
In Their Words
ON THE FIELD
"
Interacting with the horse felt like stepping into a mirror. Our coaching session offered me a profound encounter with presence and self-understanding that continues to resonate.
— Léa, Franco-American in London
ON COACHING
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I have turned to Elyse during transitions that required balancing different cultural expectations. She helped me find resonance between the culture I live in and the one I carry with me.
— Kate, Canadian in Paris
ON COACHING
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Elyse understands the need to stay steady while anchoring a vision for the future. Her counsel helped me recalibrate and hold my direction through change.
— Elizabeth, Franco-American in Chicago
READY TO BEGIN?
Where to Start
Prefer to begin with reflection?
A monthly reflection, theme, or quote inspired by women worldwide.
We have the answers
FAQ
Who is this for?
For women navigating transitions, responsibilities, leadership decisions, and new chapters across cultures.
What women here share: a life across cultures and a way of leading shaped by it. This may look like living outside your country of origin, belonging to a multicultural family, or carrying more than one culture into your work and life.
Do I need to hold a formal leadership title?
No. Leadership here includes the choices, responsibilities, influence, and transitions that shape how you move through the world.
What does it mean to have a life that spans cultures?
You may live outside your country of origin, belong to a multicultural family, have lived, studied or worked across countries, or carry more than one cultural perspective into your life and leadership.
What women here share is the experience of moving between worlds and the perspective that comes with it.
How do I know which pathway is right for me?
Circles offer ongoing connection and conversation. Seasonal Gatherings create room around a shared theme. Experiences invite learning through a different lens. Coaching offers focused one-to-one support. Begin with the pathway that speaks most to where you are now.
Are conversations confidential?
Yes. Confidentiality is an essential part of every Circle.
What happens after I express interest?
You will complete a short application about your current chapter and what you hope to bring to the Circle. Selected applicants will be invited to a brief conversation before places are confirmed.
Lead where you land.
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