We are in the final month of the second quarter.
There is something about June that asks you to pause. The year is no longer new, and it is not yet old. We are standing at the halfway mark, close enough to remember the intentions we set in January, and far enough along to ask, honestly, how we have grown since then. For us at ETK Leadership Solutions, this June carries a particular weight. Because this is the month we fully stepped into the season we have been preparing for all year.
This is the month we announced ETK Leadership Weekend.
And not just any edition. This year, we gather under a theme that has shaped every conversation, every program, and every piece of content we have created in 2026: My Sister's Keeper.
I want to take you behind the announcement. To talk about what this theme actually means, why community has become the missing piece for so many women in leadership, and why this September in Geneva is shaping up to be a defining moment for the women in our world. Consider this your invitation. Not just to read, but to come.
Where We Are: The Halfway Point and the Turn Toward September
The first half of 2026 has been a season of building.
We spent the first quarter exploring personal branding on More with Dr. Elly, helping the women in our community understand how they show up, how they are perceived, and how to bring the two into alignment. We then moved into our second quarter business series, a body of work made for the women who are building something of their own. And underneath all of it, quietly and consistently, we have been laying the foundation for the moment the whole year points toward.
That moment is ETK Leadership Weekend, and it happens this September in Geneva, Switzerland.
If you have been following us across Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok, you will have felt the shift. The announcement is out. The three days are revealed. And the energy in our community has been something to witness. But if you are only now catching up, let me bring you fully into the picture.
What Is My Sister's Keeper, Really?
It would be easy to treat My Sister's Keeper as a nice phrase. A warm sentiment for a women's event. But it is far more deliberate than that. It is a leadership philosophy, and it sits at the very centre of how we think about what women in leadership owe to themselves and to one another.
At ETK, we hold to something we call the Keeper Ethic. It rests on a simple but demanding truth: we are not only responsible for our own growth and becoming. We are also responsible for intentionally supporting, nurturing, and participating in the becoming of one another.
You cannot be an effective keeper of other women if you are not being a keeper of yourself. And you cannot be a keeper of yourself in isolation. You need community.
This is the heart of it. My Sister's Keeper is not a call to self-sacrifice, where women pour into everyone else until there is nothing left. Nor is it the hollow individualism that tells women to look out only for themselves. It is a both/and. You keep yourself so that you have something to give. And you keep others, because no woman becomes who she is meant to be entirely alone.
From the woman in her first job to the founder and CEO closing her next round, each one walks her own path. That is something we believe deeply at ETK: your path recognises your feet. And yet, when those paths cross, when women actually share what they know, the result is often a kind of innovation none of them could have reached on their own. Sisterhood, it turns out, is not only good for the soul. It is good strategy.
In a culture that so often tells the story of women as rivals, as competitors for the single seat at the table, My Sister's Keeper is a quiet rebellion. It insists on a different story. One where each woman's success creates space for another. This is also why we launched our Dear KEEPER campaign this June, inviting the women in our community to tell the truth out loud about the sisters who have kept them. If you have a story like that, and most of us do, we would love for you to share it.
Why Women Leaders Need This Gathering Now
We live in a moment that is paradoxically rich in connection and starved of it.
Women in leadership are more visible and more networked than ever, and yet so many of the women I coach describe a particular kind of loneliness. The loneliness of being the only woman in the room. The loneliness of carrying responsibility for others while having no one to carry them.
And the challenges women leaders navigate are real and well documented. The structural barriers. The scarcity of sponsorship. The quiet exhaustion of leading in spaces that demand endless resilience without ever offering rest. We do not pretend these barriers away. We gather precisely so that women do not have to navigate them alone. Because resilience was never meant to be a solo act.
This is the missing piece. Not more hustle, not another productivity system, but community. A gathering like ETK Leadership Weekend exists to interrupt the isolation. Not with surface-level networking that leaves you holding a stack of business cards and no real connection, but with something deeper. A space where you can take the mask off at the door, where the conversations actually go somewhere, where you leave not just inspired but genuinely held.
When women are equipped and supported, systems change. That is not a slogan. It is the entire premise of the work we do. And it is the reason we gather.
Inside the Three Days: Speakers, Workshops, and Connection
ETK Leadership Weekend unfolds across three distinct days, each with its own purpose and its own energy. Across the weekend, our agenda brings together keynote moments, intimate workshops, and speakers whose own journeys reflect everything this gathering stands for. Together the three days form a complete arc, from connection, to learning, to celebration.
Day One: NEXUS, Networking Reimagined
On Thursday the 24th of September, we open the weekend with NEXUS - Networking Reimagined. This is networking as it should always have been. An intentionally curated experience that moves beyond the transactional and into the meaningful. Through facilitated rounds, storytelling, and genuine trust building, women meet not as competitors but as future collaborators, mentors, and friends. The relationships formed here often grow into real partnerships, a network of women who share strategy, opportunity, and support long after the weekend ends. Everyone belongs in this room.
Day Two: The Leadership in Color Conference
On Friday the 25th, we move into the heart of the weekend with the Leadership in Color Conference, themed Building a Leadership Culture That Lifts. This is a working conference. Through practical workshops and honest dialogue, women strengthen the skills that matter most in real leadership: strategic thinking, communication, boundary setting, emotional intelligence, and reciprocity. To build a leadership culture that lifts is to practise My Sister's Keeper as a daily ethic, not once a year, but as a way of leading.
Day Three: Brunch for Thought
On Saturday the 26th, we close with Brunch for Thought, our signature finale. This is where reflection meets joy. Woven through storytelling, intergenerational dialogue, live podcast conversations, and celebration, it is the day we honour the quiet, consistent acts of care that sustain women in leadership. We close not with an ending, but with an awakening. Because sisterhood is not seasonal. It is intentionally sustained.
Come for One Day, or All Three
One of the things we are proudest of this year is that the weekend is built to meet you where you are. You can join us for a single day, choosing the experience that speaks most directly to your season. Or you can step into the full three-day journey and let the entire arc do its work on you. Whatever stage you are at, this is a platform built to meet you there. However you come, you will not leave the same.
And here is my honest encouragement: do not come alone. Gather your sisters. The friend who always pours into you, the colleague who gets it, the woman in your life who needs this room as much as you do. My Sister's Keeper was never meant to be practised in isolation.
Keep Going Deeper With Us
If this reflection has stirred something in you, the conversation does not have to wait until September.
Our podcast, More with Dr. Elly, is where we go deeper every single week. Right now we are in the middle of our second quarter business series, made specifically for the women in our community who are building, growing, and sustaining something of their own. If you have ever wondered what it truly takes to turn a dream into a business that lasts, this series was made for you.
You will find the full business series along with everything else we have explored this year.
Prefer to watch the conversations unfold? Every episode lives there, including our first quarter personal branding series.
Press play, and let us keep you company between now and September.
This September, We Gather
June is the month we turned fully toward September. The announcement is out. The theme is set. The community is already in motion, sharing their stories, adding their songs, planning their journeys to Geneva.
What remains is your decision.
This is the gathering we have been building toward all year. It is not a performance of empowerment. It is a living practice of love, responsibility, and collective leadership. And there is a place in that room being prepared for you.
We would love nothing more than to see you in it. 💜
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