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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How do you persuade 52 super-talented and super-busy women to spend two days advising a start-up? First, assemble a fascinating cross-section of smart women. Second, convene them in a gorgeous natural setting. Third, ask for their ideas on unlocking the potential women have to help solve global problems. This was the blueprint for three energizing Women’s...
December 13, 2023
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The invitation went out in the spring. “I want you in,” it began, “on the ground floor of a project extremely close to my heart—something that, in hindsight, I’ve been working toward my entire career.” The source of the invitation was Ann Drake, former CEO of DSC Logistics. The recipients were young women from across...
December 8, 2023
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“Planning,” so the saying goes, “is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” That was the mission given to 23 women who met on a July weekend at the site of the future Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay. Their task was to deeply imagine a time...
December 8, 2023
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