Wellness Summit 2025
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first-ever Funeral Women Lead Wellness Summit, held November 17–19 at The Scottsdale Resort and Spa!
Over three powerful days, women across funeral service and deathcare came together for renewal, learning, and connection.
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.
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Schedule of Events
What We Did
Attendees participated in transformational leadership training with Cate Collins, explored holistic health strategies with Dr. Susan S. Wilder, and enjoyed restorative experiences ranging from shared meals to spa time, outdoor activities, and meaningful conversations. Participants discovered ways to overcome life and work obstacles with Marguerite Ham and bring out the best in themselves and their teams! Attendees learned strategies for approaching life and work with positive, forward-thinking. Together, we created a space where women could step away from daily demands, reflect on what matters most, and return home and to their work with clarity and energy for the year ahead.
What It Meant
This Summit was more than just an event, it was a space to recharge, to reflect, and to rise. It reinforced our mission: to unleash the greatness in women of funeral service and deathcare. We were able to meet that mission by supporting, empowering, and elevating women in funeral service through our community, peer mentorship, and wellness support. The insights, stories, and connections forged during these days will continue shaping our shared journey.
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
In this closing session of the Women's Summit, Marguerite will weave together the key insights and inspirations from the event to help you define what truly matters for your next chapter. You'll identify the practices and commitments that align with your goals and design a personalized wellness plan that addresses your professional, personal, mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing-equipping you to build a more integrated and fulfilling life.
- Create a holististic wellness plan to take care 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 well being and create a more integrated life personally and
professionally. To learn more about Marguerite Ham, go here.
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Swag Bag
We are deeply grateful to all who attended and contributed to the experience. If you couldn’t join us this year, we hope to welcome you at the next Summit! Check back soon for updates!