Summits & Retreats
Native Women Lead provides in-person dynamic experiences for Native women entrepreneurs through our Native Women’s Business Summit, Native Women’s Business Retreat, and Native Women’s Capital Summit.
We convene our community to provide workshops, listening sessions, trainings and self-care sessions that focuses on providing support, restoration, resources, and a network for Native women business owners.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 NWL went virtual and provided our community with online programming and workshops to continue connecting and providing support. In 2022, with much anticipation we reconvened our community in-person at our inaugural Native Women’s Business Retreat.
2022 Native Women’s Business Retreat
In Fall of 2022, Native Women Lead hosted our inaugural Native Women’s Business Retreat at the Tamaya Resort & Spa in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM.
The NWBR was the first in-person gathering hosted by NWL since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and was designed to be responsive to the challenges and disruptions that Native women have met, this retreat was meant to prioritize care, reconnection in community, and reignite the movement of Native women leading.
Created for Native women entrepreneurs at all levels of business, the 2022 NWBR was led by Native women in keynotes and presentations that spoke on resilience, growth, and possibility.
Attendees of the NWBR also had access to restorative activities such as yoga, visioning sessions, dancing, horseback riding, painting, biking, and a Pueblo baking class.
“The natural storytelling and sharing that happened when we are in space together. The speakers were phenomenal, and so was the chance to just BE together. It inspired me to talk through experiences and remind myself I am not alone. I am on this journey too.”
-2022 NWBR Attendee
2023 Native Women’s Growth Capital Summit
In 2023, Native Women Lead hosted the inaugural growth capital summit focused on convening Indigenous women founders seeking financial and social capital investment and support. We brought together key stakeholders and supporters such as partners in philanthropy, social impact investors, and critical decision and policymakers to activate catalytic investment and commitment to Indigenous women founders.
“I felt the energy, vigor and vitality of successful women. We need more of these summits throughout Indian Country…”
-2019 NWBS Attendee
2018 Native Women’s Business Summit
In Spring of 2022, Native Women Lead hosted the largest gathering of Native American female entrepreneurs in history for the inaugural Native Women’s Business Summit at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in the Albuquerque, NM.
The sold-out two day event provided a platform for Native American women to share their collective experiences, grow social capital, and build a network reflective of their cultures.
Featuring technical training on developing business plans, accessing capital, financial literacy, branding and pitching to investors; 85% of our presenters and speakers were Native American business professionals.
View the 2018 NWBS report HERE.
“…thanks for planting seeds of encouragement, passion, respect, and compassion.”
-2018 NWBS Attendee