ELEVATE
A one day business retreat for ambitious women who are ready to take their business to the next level
Thursday 25 September
Down Hall Hotel
A day to work on your business, not just in it
When you're deep in the day-to-day, it's easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. This one-day retreat gives you the space, structure and expert support to get clear on your direction, focus on what matters and finish the year strong.
What to expect
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Confidence & Mindset
Strengthen your mindset, sharpen your vision to lead your business with more clarity and confidence.
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Strategy & Clarity
Walk away with a focused, strategic plan to take your business to the next level.
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Connection & Community
Surround yourself with women who share the drive and genuinely want to see you win.
Agenda
9:00 – 9:45am: Arrival & registration
10:00 – 10:45am – “Identity first: Think and lead like the future CEO now” by Sinem Yildirim
10:45 – 11:30am – “Stop being quietly brilliant” by Priscilla Pollara
11:45 – 12:30pm – “How to use strategy to elevate your business” by Jen Lister
12:30 – 1:30pm: Lunch (included) & networking
1:30 – 3:00pm: Implementation time
An interactive session to take action on what you’ve learned with hands-on support from the morning speakers
3:00 – 3:30pm Break
3:30 – 4:00pm: Panel Discussion: Stories of impact & growth
4:00 – 4:30pm: Closing & wrap up
Meet the speakers
Sinem Yildirim
Life & Leadership Coach
Embody the version of you who already has the business, confidence and presence you’re working towards so you can start showing up like her today.
Sinem helps ambitious women create businesses that feel right and work well. Through her signature coaching, she helps clients simplify their goals, build confidence in their expertise and take bold, imperfect action. She’s also the founder of The Rising Tide Collective, a fast-growing community for heart-led female business owners who value connection over transaction.
With 15+ years’ experience in education, leadership and transformational coaching, Sinem blends mindset and strategy to help women lead from the identity of who they’re becoming, not who they’ve outgrown. Her work centres on identity, because big goals and great strategy won’t get you far if you don’t believe you’re the woman who can make them happen.
Priscilla Pollara
Communications & Business Consultant
Find the inner confidence to start making lasting impressions on people, command attention in a room full of opportunity and get noticed.
Priscilla is a communications and business consultant and the founder of consultancy Top Trick, through which she specialises in raising profiles. Her expertise lies in getting people to find the confidence to talk to anyone, helping them learn how to be socially brave, teaching people to love shouting from the rooftops and most of all, getting people noticed by those whose attention they most need to hook. PR - ripped up and delivered differently.
An active journalist to this day, Priscilla's understanding of influencing people with compelling storytelling is second to none, always drawing on her thorough experience of the media to find solutions to problems in inimitable ways.
Jen Lister
Strategist
Get clear on what matters and build a strategy that moves you forward.
Jen helps business owners elevate their businesses with Strategy. She is passionate about taking business owners out of the day to day running and helping them get ON TOP of their business. By giving them headspace in their business they can really figure out what success means to them, and take the practical actions to achieve it.
Jen has over 15 years experience across London & Sydney advising clients on Strategy and Growth. She is also a wife to sports photographer Ben and mummy to her two young kids Mabel and Jake. She loves running, yoga, paddleboarding and mountain biking. Jen is also an advocate of the Smartphone Free Childhood Movement & on the Board of England Netball for the East Region.
Early bird tickets available until 31.07.25
RTC MEMBER £135
NON MEMBER £165
Includes full-day access, refreshments, lunch and workbook
Standard tickets (from 1st August 2025)
RTC member: £165 Non member: £195
FAQs
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This day is for ambitious women in business who are self-employed, running a company or growing a side hustle with big plans and want to step back, refocus and finish the year strong.
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Not at all. Members receive discounted tickets, but the event is open to all ambitious, heart-led women in business.
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The retreat will be held at the stunning Down Hall Hotel in Essex, just 15 minutes from Bishop’s Stortford train station with free on-site parking.
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Yes! There’s plenty of free parking available at Down Hall for all attendees.
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Yes, your ticket includes a delicious lunch, plus refreshments throughout the day. If you have any dietary requirements, you’ll be able to let us know after booking.
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Early bird tickets are available until 31st July: Rising Tide Collective Member: £135 | Non-member: £165
Standard tickets (from 1st August): Rising Tide Collective Member: £163 | Non-member: £195Your ticket includes all sessions, lunch, refreshments and a printed workbook.
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No prep needed. We’ll guide you through the day. Just bring yourself, your notebook and/or laptop and a willingness to show up for you and your business.
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All ticket sales are final and non-refundable. We know life happens, so if you're unable to attend, you're welcome to gift or resell your ticket to another woman in business. Just let us know so we can update the guest list.
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Drop us an email at info@therisingtidecollective.co.uk and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.