Rooted & Rising Leadership Program
Lead transformative sustainability in any field.
What if sustainability wasn't a constraint—but the very source of your vision, your energy, and your leadership?
Most sustainability work begins with reduction: do less harm, use less, emit less. It's necessary — but it's exhausting. It asks leaders to lead from obligation, not inspiration.
Rooted & Rising starts somewhere different. We begin with you — your values, your vision, your relationship to the living world — and build outward from there. The result isn't a sustainability strategy bolted onto your organisation. It's one that grows from it.
This program is a space created by and for women. Stella's women's empowerment work runs through every stage, because how we lead is inseparable from who we are, and this work asks you to bring all of that.
For women leaders ready to stop managing harm—and start building something beautiful.
Who This is For
Women in leadership who care deeply about the world they're helping shape — and are ready to lead from that care rather than around it. This includes:
Executives & senior leaders
Mid-level managers
Founders & entrepreneurs
Sustainability professionals
Nonprofit leaders
Three Stages
Reflect
Self-paced with virtual meetings
Week 1 - Values & vision
Clarify what you stand for and imagine the future you actually want to help build — connecting your leadership to something larger than the next quarter.
Week 2 - Worldviews & Environmental Values
Explore the assumptions beneath our economic and ecological thinking, and encounter real examples that make a different way of doing business feel not just possible, but natural.
Integrate
In-person and immersed in Nature
Week 3 - Into the redwoods
We gather in Northern California, among the redwoods, for an immersive week designed to let everything you've been exploring settle — not just in your mind, but in your body. Through guided sessions, time in nature, and Stella's deep relaxation work, you'll arrive at a clarity that's hard to find at a desk.
You leave with a concrete leadership artefact: the foundation of your sustainability strategy, shaped in your own hands and grounded in your own vision. You also leave with a cohort of women who've done this work alongside you.
Implement
Self-paced with virtual check-ins
Week 4 - Strategy from the Inside Out
Build on your leadership artefact to develop a sustainability strategy rooted in your values — one your organisation can genuinely inhabit, not just report on.
Week 5 - Integration & Momentum
Refine your plan, anchor your shifts, and step forward with clarity — supported by virtual check-ins, a peer community, and women who've walked this path alongside you.
Who Guides You
Tara A. Pierce
Founder of Restoring Sustainability, Tara works at the intersection of leadership and transformative sustainability — helping women align their values, shift their mindset, and build organisations that ask not just how to do less harm, but how to contribute something genuinely good.
Dagmar Gewiese
Dagmar brings decades of therapeutic experience and women's empowerment work to the heart of this program — including guided meditation with deep relaxation that allows new insights to settle not just intellectually, but in the body, making change faster and more lasting.
Together, Tara and Dagmar create a rare container: the rigour of executive coaching and sustainability strategy, held within a space of genuine safety, warmth, and transformative depth—designed for women, by women.
Program Details
5 Weeks, Hybrid
Self-paced workbook, virtual sessions, and one immersive in-person retreat week.
Cohort Size is Small & Intentional
Spaces are limited to 10 participants to maintain the depth and intimacy this work requires.
Dates
Tentative: 19 May - 23 June // Retreat Week: 2-8 June
Investment
$4,100 – $5,200: Full program and retreat included. Final pricing is confirmed once the venue is secured.
Ready to Explore this Further?
Inquiring early helps us confirm the venue and secure your space in this cohort. Express your interest below.