Wellness Summit
Wellness Summit
Our Wellness Summit is your opportunity to pause, reflect, and invest in yourself—because thriving women lead thriving businesses.
At Funeral Women Lead, we embrace the strengths, potential, and leadership abilities of women, and we know in order to be of service to others, we must also tend to our own wellness.
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Come together
be transformed
The Time Has Come for
Funeral Women
to Lead
Join us for our three-day Wellness Summit in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. The Summit is a cornerstone event designed to recharge, inspire, and empower you as a woman in funeral service. This immersive experience gives attendees the chance to focus on mental, physical, and emotional well-being — essential for sustaining leadership and success in a demanding profession.
Monday, November 17 – Arrive & Connect
5:30 – 8:30 PM | Welcome Reception
Ease into the Summit with an evening of warm introductions, meaningful conversations, and a chance to connect with fellow participants in a relaxed setting. You’ll leave the night with new relationships, a sense of belonging, and excitement for the days ahead.
Tuesday, November 18 – Build Resilient Leadership
7:00 – 8:00 AM – Breakfast
Fuel up for a powerful day of learning.
8:15 – 8:30 AM | Welcome & Introductions
Get grounded, greet colleagues, and make new connections while we kick off the first-ever Wellness Summit. Reflect as we share the mission of Funeral Women Lead and set personal intentions for your experience.
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Leadership Retreat Workshop with Cate Collins
Get ready to be moved, motivated and confident in your leadership journey!
We’re honored to kick off our summit with Cate Collins, leadership speaker, trainer, customized retreat facilitator, author, and coach and CEO of Powerful Journey Consulting. Cate has crafted a session built for women balancing it all—especially those in funeral service. She will lead us through her Four Room Framework, a powerful, practical tool to help you reconnect with your courage, reset your inner dialogue, and rise with resilience. Through this powerful experience, will you build courage, resilience and confidence. You will learn:
- Tools for managing stress and self-doubt
- How to own your power and bring your best self forward
- Inner coaching strategies that work to transform your inner critic into your best inner coach
- Lead with greater resilience, courage, and confidence
Walk away with a personalized resilience plan you can apply immediately. You’ll be armed to make better decisions and be healthier.
The session includes a break to recharge and a closing book signing with Cate, who has been serving the real-life needs of organizational leaders for almost 25 years.
12:00 – 12:30 PM | Box Lunch Pickup & Book Signing
As you pick up your lunch, you’ll have the opportunity to mingle with fellow attendees, network and compare notes from Cate’s powerful session. In addition, CEO and founder of Funeral Women Lead, Lisa Baue, will host a book signing of new book, Wake Up Calls: A Journey of Learning to Lead and Succeed in the Funeral and Deathcare Profession.
1:00 – 6:00 PM | Free Time
This Summit is about restoring wellness and as women who work in the funeral and deathcare profession, you work incredibly hard at what you do. With the afternoon for you to plan, consider spending time reflecting on the morning’s powerful session with Cate. Or, enjoy the spa, pool, hiking, or shopping. This is also a great time to meet one-to-one with other attendees.
6:30 – 9:00 PM | Dinner
We will gather as a group to enjoy dinner. In this casual environment, we’ll continue the conversation about confidence, clarity in who you are and how you want to grow and develop. You’ll deepen connections, and share inspiration with new friends.
Wednesday, November 19 – Wellness & Integration
7:00 – 8:00 AM | Breakfast
After a good night’s rest and reflection on your framework for leadership and growth, fuel up for another day of learning.
8:30 – 10:00 AM | Keynote with Dr. Susan S. Wilder, MD, IFMCP, DABFM
Brilliant Health Breakthroughs: Empowering Strategies for Optimal Health and Longevity
Inspiring and empowering health transformation is Dr. Susan Wilder’s life mission. Why?
Unleashing our healing power has profound potential to heal the world.
Sadly, Americans endure the longest health gap, more than 12 years between health span (years lived without chronic disease) and lifespan. That means poorer life expectancy and more years in chronic disease, dementia, and disability than anywhere else. For those of us in the funeral and deathcare profession, we see this everyday – and we are the women who also live it at times.
This session will illuminate a different path. Our functional medicine, root-cause paradigm proves that chronic diseases are symptoms, not life sentences.
Dr. Wilder will share simple, evidence-proven, strategies that prevent our patients from developing type 2 diabetes, needing vascular surgery, amputations, or dialysis, or suffering heart attacks, strokes, or memory problems until well beyond typical life expectancy. You’ll take away:
- Proven nutrition and wellness practices to support longevity
- Practical ways to integrate mind, body, and spirit for true well-being
- Evidence-based strategies for lasting health and vitality.
10:00 – 10:15 AM | Break
Discuss your thoughts and reflections of Dr. Wilder’s keynote while enjoying refreshments.
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Closing Session with Marguerite Ham
Designing a Whole-Person Self-Care Plan
You’ve absorbed a lot of information and inspiration, now it’s time to have Marguerite Ham, leadership expert, mindfulness guide, and self-care strategist, help you create a plan for how to take care of yourself so the lessons truly sink in.
Her closing session will guide you to:
- Create a holistic self-care plan — that includes personal, professional, physical, and spiritual well-being
- Identify key takeaways from the Summit and translate them into actionable steps for a more balanced life
- Set clear, soul-aligned intentions for your (career and personal) path ahead
Maguerite’s session gives you the fuel you need to carry forward.
12:00 – 12:15 PM | Closing
We take a final moment to reflect on the summit experience, share lessons learned and cement new connections and relationships. At the end of the summit, you’ll leave inspired, refreshed, and equipped with tools to sustain your growth long after the summit ends.
Cancellation Policy: We understand that plans can change! Cancellations made on or before October 1 will receive a full refund. After October 1, we are unable to offer refunds, but you’re welcome to transfer your registration to another person.
Sessions that inspire
and motivate
We are privileged to be joined by Cate Collins, Resilient Leadership Speaker, and founder of Powerful Journey Consulting Inc. joining us to share her expertise on:
- Leading with greater resilience, courage, and confidence using her “Four Room Framework”
- Owning your power and bringing your best self forward
- Transforming your inner critic to become your best inner coach
- Health, Nutrition & Wellness: Evidence-based strategies for health and longevity
- Mind, Body, and Spirit Integration: Achieving well-being through holistic approaches
- A holistic self-care plan covering personal, professional, mental, physical, and spiritual well-being
- Identifying key takeaways to implement for a more integrated and balanced life
- Messages, facials, swimming, yoga and Pilates classes
- Hiking to Camelback Mountain
- Shopping opportunities
This unique experience will:
- Reignite your energy with expert-led sessions on mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
- Discover leadership strategies that harness the strengths of feminine leadership.
- Connect with like-minded professionals who understand the challenges and triumphs of this profession.
Our guest speakers and presentations on will center on goal-setting, mindfulness, accountability, relaxation and more.
Energize & restore
in the Arizona sun
The Wellness Summit will be held at The Scottsdale Resort and Spa, 7700 E McCormick Pkwy, Scottsdale, AZ 85258. The resort is close to all this desert oasis has to offer.
Outside of the sessions, attendees will have the chance to engage in:
- Massages, facials, swimming, yoga and Pilates
- Hiking nearby Camelback Mountain
- World-class shopping opportunities
Be inspired
We have incredible women leaders joining us to help us all unleash our greatness.
Cate Collins
Leadership Speaker, Trainer, Customized Retreat Facilitator, Author, and Coach
A professional speaker, coach and CEO of Powerful Journey Consulting, Cate Collins has been serving the real-life needs of organizational leaders for almost 25 years. With a background in behavioral science, and 17 years of experience as a counselor, Cate looks at leadership from the inside out.
As a recovered burned out leader, I wanted to unite all leaders who want to be more resilient, courageous and confident, so they make better decisions, own their power and experience more optimum health. It can get lonely at the top and overwhelm and the constant hustle has become normal resulting in more burned out leaders. To learn more about Cate Collins, visit her website.
Dr. Susan S. Wilder, MD, IFMCP, DABFM
Brilliant Health Breakthroughs: Empowering Strategies for Optimal Health and Longevity
Susan Wilder, MD, IFMCP, DABFM is the founder and CEO of LifeScape. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and her medical degree from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. She completed her specialty training in Family Medicine as a commissioned Air Force officer at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland and then remained there as a faculty member and Assistant Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Wilder deployed to Africa during the Somali conflict as part of UN-sanctioned peacekeeping forces.
Following her honorable discharge at the rank of major, Dr. Wilder relocated to Arizona where she joined the Mayo Clinic, founding its Family Medicine residency program and serving as its first Director of Clinical Genomics Education. In 2003, Dr. Wilder left the Mayo Clinic to launch LifeScape. To learn more about Susan Wilder, go here.
Marguerite Ham
Certified business coach, trainer, facilitator, memory expert and author of How to Remember Anything in 60 Minutes or Less, How to Remember What’s His Name and the audio series “Total Recall.” Her latest book, The 5 Languages of Leadership will be released soon.
Her training has improved the effectiveness and increased individual productivity for the last 30 years worldwide, in organizations and associations such as: Selected Independent Funeral Homes, Lucent Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Bell Canada, and many more. This training is the result of many years of innovative research and refining the training program to supercharge your mind and effectiveness!
Marguerite will lead you through a mindful moment to reflect on your time at the Funeral Women’s Lead Retreat. The way forward is through reflection and determining what you will take away and implement. You will create a self-care plan that will include professional, personal, mental, physical and spiritual plans to improve your wellbeing and create a more integrated life personally and professionally. To learn more about Marguerite Ham, go here.
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