Join leaders who want to move beyond incremental thinking. Practical leadership ideas from Andrea Michalek, tested in real life before she asks you to try them.

As you become more established in your career, your network gets bigger. But the number of people you can comfortably say, “I have no idea what I’m doing here” to gets smaller. That’s why leaders don’t always need advice. Sometimes they need peers they can trust with an unfinished thought.

After a career spent learning how to succeed as one of the only women in the room, I started asking a different question: What if we built a different room?

An invitation-only community for women founders, executives, and innovators to build the peer relationships that get harder to find as you become more senior.

An invitation-only gathering for women innovators who build, lead, and create. September 25, 2026 · Philadelphia. Space is limited by design.

My book didn’t start with an outline. It started with fear. A talk I over-prepared for. And one drawing I couldn’t stop thinking about. That was the moment it became a book I had to write.

1. Work that Matters Is your team mission-driven? Can your team answer what the company is trying to achieve and how they get there? At my first startup, I had an offsite where I wrote questions about the company on index cards. I had my developers each pull an index card and respond as if

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