Fall 2026 Cohort · Dates announced soon
Intuitive Leadership
Intensive
A three-month practice for women ready to redefine leadership, remember their intuition, and make room for the version of themselves that is ready to emerge.
Facilitated by Sydney Blum
Nine live sessions · Eight to ten participants
There are times when we can feel ourselves changing before we know where the change is taking us.
We start imagining differently. An idea keeps returning. Something we have wanted for years suddenly feels closer. Or a misalignment we've been tolerating feels more pronounced than ever before. We notice ourselves responding differently to relationships, opportunities or ways of working that once felt completely normal.
Sometimes there is an obvious transition underway. Often there isn't.
What interests me is the intelligence underneath it.
Your facilitator
Hi, I'm Sydney.
I work with people navigating complexity, as a strategist, facilitator, mentor and increasingly as a writer. Much of my professional life has been spent alongside leaders, organizations and communities trying to create meaningful change inside systems that are rarely simple.
Alongside that work, intuitive sensing has been part of my lived experience for as long as I can remember. I've spent much of my adulthood developing my relationship with intuition, embodiment, intergenerational insight and what it means to truly trust ourselves.
For a long time, these parts of my life seemed incongruent: the strategy leader working inside complex systems and the woman learning to understand what she could sense beyond what was immediately visible.
Eventually, I became more interested in what becomes possible when we stop asking parts of ourselves to disappear depending on where we are or who needs us.
ILI grew from bringing these dimensions of my life and work together. I've now shared it with multiple cohorts, and it has become the piece of my practice I care most deeply about.
I create and facilitate ILI alongside my longtime collaborator Josh Litwin, who leads much of the systems, learning and evaluation behind the program and joins most of the live sessions. You can learn more about both of us below.
Why I created ILI
I wanted a space where we could practice this for real.
The more time I spend with people navigating complexity, the more convinced I am that we cannot separate who we are from how we lead.
Our patterns come with us. So do our histories, family legacies, the conditioning we've received, and our relationships with power, uncertainty and responsibility.
But so do our creativity, our imagination and our ability to sense possibilities that don't exist yet.
Knowing any of that intellectually is very different from practicing and learning to recognize it in ourselves, especially when we're in the middle of a decision, a transition, a relationship challenge, or something we can't quite see our way through yet.
ILI grew out of wanting somewhere we could show up as we are, a little messy at the edges, and practice this together. Not as an abstract conversation about intuitive leadership, but in the decisions, relationships and questions we're actually living.
Redefining leadership
We are doing leadership from the inside out.
For me, that means taking our own gifts, agency and inner knowing seriously, and bringing them into the core of how we participate in our lives, our communities and the systems we want to change.
So much of what we have been taught about leadership and success is organized around forward movement. We set goals, achieve them, take on more responsibility and keep going.
But our lives, and our leadership, are not a straight line.
I think of this work more as a circle. One that still has room for ambition, productivity, achievement and success, but holds them alongside our relationships, families and communities, our intuition, creativity and inner lives, and the responsibilities we carry to ourselves and others.
It also means remembering that leadership did not begin in boardrooms. Traditional and feminine ways of knowing, raising up life, stewarding what matters and caring for the collective have always been forms of leadership.
I have seen what becomes possible when women stop leaving themselves behind as they build a better future.
Women have come through ILI and grown businesses, scaled their impact, made decisions they had been circling for years and stepped more fully into expressions of their inner and outer leadership. Others have changed direction, allowed themselves to rest, or made room for a life they were reaching for but couldn't yet see when they arrived.
These aren't opposite outcomes.
Again and again, I have watched people go further precisely because they were willing to go deeper.
And while ILI puts you at the centre of your life and leadership, what you practice inevitably ripples out far beyond your individual life.
On intuition
I don't think intuition is the opposite of logic.
I think intuition is one of several forms of intelligence available to us.
There are things we know because we've studied them and things we know because we've lived them. Our bodies and emotions give us information. We recognize patterns, learn from other people's perspectives and understand more when we pay attention to the systems and relationships around us.
And sometimes we simply know something before we can explain it.
The practice is learning to notice how we know, and to discern what we trust.
Ultimately, this is less about whether you become "more intuitive" and more about whether you can cultivate a deeper capacity to hear and trust yourself.
Who this is for
ILI is for women already meaningfully engaged in their lives who feel ready for a deeper relationship with themselves.
You might be leading a team or organization, building a business, working in academia or public service, creating change in your community, or doing work that doesn't fit neatly into any of those. You may also be parenting or caregiving, engaged in your own creative pursuits, or wondering where your own dreaming fits alongside everything you already hold.
You may also sense that there are ways you know things that you haven't always had the language for, or permission to trust. Maybe intuition has been part of your life for years. Or maybe you're just beginning to wonder if there could be more here for you to explore.
You do not need to be at a crossroads. And you don't need to arrive knowing what you want to change in how you lead or live.
You may simply be curious about your own life again. Imagining things you haven't let yourself dream about in a while. Feeling drawn toward more creativity, impact, freedom or joy. Or there may be a specific question that has been asking for your attention.
What matters is a willingness to listen, experiment and participate.
We are here to plant something more alive.
A way of leading that has room for both your ambition and your intuition. Your work and your relationships. What you know and what you are still figuring out. Your individual agency and your responsibility to something larger than yourself.
That is the kind of leadership we practice in ILI.
The ILI Journey
Across nine live sessions, we begin by reconnecting with intuition, bring that practice into real questions in your life, and make space to notice and integrate what changes along the way.
I
Reconnecting with intuition
Meeting intuition as something you already have access to, and learning the particular way it speaks to you.
II
Applying it to a real question
A facilitated process built for inquiry rather than advice, across three sessions.
III
Integrating what has shifted
Naming what has changed, and the practices and ways of knowing you want to carry forward.
The container
We do this in community for a reason.
One of the biggest things I have learned running ILI is that the other participants are not simply part of the experience.
They are part of the practice.
There is something powerful about spending three months with a small group of experienced, thoughtful individuals who are holding their own questions and are willing to be honest that none of us has it all figured out.
You start recognizing yourself in other people's stories. Someone asks a question you would never have asked yourself. You notice a pattern because you can see it more easily in someone else. Someone makes a choice that expands your own sense of what is possible.
And you find out what it is like to be supported without someone trying to solve it for you.
The Peer Input Process
You bring a real question.
Each participant brings a question they are actually navigating.
Before your session, you and I meet one to one and spend time exploring what is underneath the question you think you are asking. Sometimes we find another question entirely. You have time to sit with it and make sure you feel good about where it's landing.
Then you bring it to the group.
The group listens. They ask reflective questions. They share what they notice. They do not tell you what to do.
And you do not have to respond.
You get to receive.
For women accustomed to facilitating, deciding, fixing, supporting and keeping everything moving, this is often a very different experience.
The process spans three sessions, and in previous cohorts it is where some of the most significant shifts have happened.
What participants have noticed
I gained confidence in surrendering and trusting the changes happening in my business. I heard my intuition that things can change and continue to be successful. I would be holding more fear if I had not had this experience.
Greer Kirshenbaum, PhDNeuroscientist, Author, and Educator Transforming How the World Understands Early DevelopmentIt's a non-linear path. I don't have all the answers yet of what will come next. What has changed is that I feel steadier in navigating this transition, and less alone.
Sophia FariaStrategic Advisor for Leaders & TeamsBeing aware of my intuition. Knowing what it looks, feels, sounds, tastes like. And not apologizing for having that power, or putting it in a 'witchy' category, but in a Feminine Power frame.
Jessica FlynnAward-Winning Educator, Best-Selling Author, TV Host, and EntrepreneurPeer input sessions were fantastic and supportive. I appreciate the witnessing and the questions posed in order to further root the question or decision. It felt so powerful and potent, both as the asker and as the questioner.
Danielle LewisFounder of Danielle Lewis Designs | Graphic Designer, Creative Director, Connector & Design CatalystI loved being in community with the other women, learning from them and diving into my own journey in this container.
Amanda HacheySystems Change and Social InnovationILI is a deeper realm of leadership that you may not even realize you are ready for. It will open your mind, heart and body to new ways of leading across all areas of your life — in a way that is insightful, supportive, fun and surprising.
Jen EliaAward-Winning Wellness & Benefits Leader | Background in Health & Psychology | Certified in Workplace Wellness & HR
What's included
- Nine live group sessions · 90 minutes eachIncluding a three-session Peer Input Process
- Two individual Clarity + Alignment sessions with Sydney · 50 minutes each
- Access to Sydney’s Monthly Intention Setting events throughout the program
- A private community space between sessions
- Curated resources and prompts to support your practice
An intentionally intimate cohort of eight to ten participants.
Investment
$1,847 CAD+ HST
or 3 monthly payments of $633 CAD + HST($1,899 CAD + HST in total)
Not sure yet? A free 30-minute conversation with Sydney is the easiest way to find out whether this is right for you. There is no pressure to decide on the call.
Q&A
Questions people usually ask
Life happens, and people do miss sessions. All nine group sessions will be recorded and available privately to participants, so if you can’t make one, you can watch the replay and do the practices on your own. You can also use the community space to share reflections or connect with the group about what you missed.
That said, ILI is a live experience, and your presence matters. There are a few sessions I especially encourage you to protect: our opening session, where we set our intentions and agreements for the three months; the Peer Input sessions; and our final closing session.
Neither. ILI is not therapy, a coaching group or a mastermind. It is a facilitated practice group. I teach and guide, but much of the experience happens through reflection, inquiry, guided practice, partner conversation and peer relationship, applied to real questions in your actual life.
ILI isn’t a substitute for therapy or clinical support, and sometimes something that emerges through this work may make you realize you’d like support beyond the group. If that happens, we can talk about what might be helpful. Individual intuitive mentorship with me may also be available separately.
No. Most people arrive having had some relationship with intuition without necessarily calling it that: the feeling of knowing something before you can fully explain how, or transformational experiences that may have shifted how you take in or lead in your own life.
What matters far more is a willingness to listen, experiment and participate. It is worth saying plainly that this work sits close to the intuitive and, at times, the spiritual. As one participant put it, what helps is coming open and with some connection to your inner world.
You don’t need one. Some people arrive with a decision, transition or relationship they want to explore. Others have come through a season, or even years, of significant change, loss or simply doing what life required of them, and feel ready to get curious about who they are now.
You might simply want more room to listen to yourself, explore what you’re drawn toward, or imagine things you haven’t let yourself imagine in a while.
ILI can be just as meaningful when you arrive with curiosity. Sometimes the question becomes clearer once you give yourself room to listen.
There are nine 90-minute group sessions, plus two 50-minute individual sessions with me.
Beyond that, the commitment is modest and largely yours to shape: reflection prompts between sessions, some preparation before your Peer Input session, and whatever time you choose to spend in the community space.
There is no homework and nothing is graded. ILI is meant to be practiced in the life you’re already living, not become another thing you need to keep up with.
Yes. Group sessions are recorded and shared privately with participants in the cohort. You can use the recordings to catch a session you’ve missed, revisit a guided practice or reflection, or return to something that was useful to you.
I may use recordings of my own teaching to develop future ILI resources, but participant contributions will never be shared or repurposed without explicit permission.
ILI is a small cohort, and your place is held specifically for you. For that reason, registration is non-refundable once the program begins.
This is also why I encourage anyone who isn’t sure whether ILI is right for them to have a conversation with me before enrolling. I want you to feel good about the commitment you’re making, and I want to feel confident that the group is a good fit for you too.
Of course, life can change in ways we can’t anticipate. If an exceptional circumstance significantly affects your ability to participate, please talk to me and we’ll figure out what is possible.
This Fall 2026 cohort is for women. Past participants have told me that being in a group of women wasn’t incidental to their experience. It became part of what made the experience meaningful.
Future cohorts may look different. If you’re drawn to ILI and aren’t sure whether this particular cohort is for you, you’re always welcome to reach out.
Absolutely. If ILI feels relevant to your leadership or professional development, your organization is very welcome to sponsor your participation.
And if you’re a leader reading this and thinking of someone on your team, I’m happy to talk with you too. Because this is a personal experience as much as a professional one, I would still want the person joining to choose it for themselves and connect with me before enrolling.
Our team
Who you will be working with.
Sydney Blum
Creator + Facilitator
she/her
Sydney created the Intuitive Leadership Intensive and facilitates every cohort. She works with people navigating complexity as a strategist, facilitator, mentor and writer, and has spent much of her professional life alongside leaders, organizations and communities trying to create meaningful change.
Josh Litwin
Systems + Learning Lead
he/him
Josh is ILI's Systems + Learning Lead and my longtime collaborator in building the program. He leads much of what happens behind the scenes, from the systems and participant experience to helping us understand and learn from what is happening within ILI. He brings a background in research, human-centred design, mindfulness, social work and systems thinking, and joins most live sessions.
Something in you is asking to be remembered.
I keep returning to the word remembering when I think about this work.
I don't mean that there is some untouched or more authentic version of yourself waiting underneath everything you've lived. We are always changing and becoming.
But I also think many of us have learned, for all kinds of reasons, to trust or reveal certain parts of ourselves more than others. We develop some capacities while leaving others relatively unexplored. We become incredibly good at responding to what is required of us, sometimes without noticing what else in us has been waiting for more room to be felt, expressed or developed.
ILI gives you a space to get curious about what else in you might be asking for more room.
For three months, we practice listening, experimenting, being witnessed and witnessing other women. We take intuition seriously enough to practice with it, while staying connected to the realities of our lives, relationships and work.
Maybe remembering who we are more deeply is actually a key to becoming the leaders we are here to be.
How we live is how we lead.
- Nine live group sessions
- A facilitated Peer Input Process woven across individual and group sessions
- Two individual sessions with Sydney
- A cohort of eight to ten participants
$1,847 CAD + HST
If you're reading this and thinking, this might be for me, I'd love to connect.
Not sure yet? A free 30-minute conversation with Sydney is the easiest way to find out whether this is right for you. There is no pressure to decide on the call.
I live and work in Collingwood, Ontario, within the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation.
The work of inner leadership and stepping into wholeness begins with remembering the lands, waters, and human histories that hold us. I honour the First Nations and Indigenous Peoples who have stewarded these lands since time immemorial. From this remembering, we are called to act with more humility, responsibility, care, and commitment to reconciliation and repair.