Scientista is a global non-profit that amplifies, empowers, and connects “women leading with science” – a mission deeply aligned with our own. The Scientista Podcast, hosted by behavioral scientist Dr. Sweta Chakraborty and former Assistant Secretary of State Monica Medina, spotlights candid conversations with changemakers and thought leaders from around the world. A new episode...
December 9, 2025
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Two influential organizations—Women Corporate Directors (WCD)-Chicago Chapter and the Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay (WLC)—collaborated to produce a groundbreaking new report: Confronting the Elephant in the Board(Room). The report debuted at the WCD Global Institute & Visionary Awards, held in Chicago on October 5–7, 2025, and is available for download here. Universally, Board leaders...
October 20, 2025
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Money has no gender. However, the world of investing money does. And it’s male. There are many paths to growing wealth via investing; one of those paths leads through venture capital. The task of the venture capitalist is to spot a startup with promise, then put together the financing to fund its growth. It’s a...
September 12, 2025
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Meet “The Women in the Trailer” who are guiding construction of the Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay. Hard hats. DayGlo vests. Blue jeans. Steel-toe boots. In a video recently released by Pepper Construction company, the people surveying progress at the site of the Women’s Leadership Center look like construction workers everywhere. But they aren’t...
May 7, 2025
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With a shared passion and commitment to advancing women leaders, we were delighted when Pepper Construction invited AWESOMELeaders CEO Michelle Dilley for a fireside chat highlighting lessons from her career journey during Women in Construction Week, which celebrates and promotes the role of women in the construction industry. Michelle is overseeing operations plans for the...
April 22, 2025
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Comparing it to work by Frank Lloyd Wright and anticipating it will draw visitors from around the country, the Women’s Leadership Center is being celebrated in a full-length feature article in the Spring 2025 issue of At The Lake, a quarterly publication highlighting the lifestyle, culture, people, and history of southeastern Wisconsin. “Leading by Example”...
March 18, 2025
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Many talented women have helped bring the Women’s Leadership Center to life. This month, we introduce you to the women who’ve been turning our stunning designs into wood and stone, floors and ceilings, pipes and wires. An engineer by training and graduate of the highly ranked Milwaukee School of Engineering, Kimberly Schober is a Project...
February 25, 2025
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In Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks about climbing onto a wooden motorboat bobbing on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin early one September morning. “We were all a little wobbly,” she admits. Some of the wobbles came from gobs of celebrating the day and night before...
February 4, 2025
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From left to right: Colleen Lyell and Aria Griffin
December 5, 2024
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The wood violet is the Wisconsin state flower. It’s sweet-smelling and grows everywhere, but it flourishes especially in rich, shady woodland — like the beautiful hill where our Women’s Leadership Center is rising. Now this unassuming-but-famous little flower is being honored in the architecture of the Women’s Leadership Center. Our Council building was designed to...
November 15, 2024
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There’s a simple but effective way to improve your physical and psychological wellbeing, and all you need are some woods and a little free time. In the 1980s, the Japanese pioneered a practice called “shinrin-yoku” or “forest bathing,” which entails going for a walk in woods without a phone or agenda. You can do it, too....
November 1, 2024
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When the last glaciers retreated from North America about 10,000 years ago, they left behind not only the cold, clear waters of Geneva Lake, but also beautiful terrain that had been deeply carved. The ravine on the west side of the WLC property is a remnant of that ancient process, and one of the most...
January 22, 2024
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