THE LEADERSHIP ESCAPE
Ristare combines thoughtful leadership coaching with a purposeful change of place—creating space to step outside the everyday, gain perspective, and return with intention.
Step away. See differently. Return with intention.
What is a Leadership Escape?
Most leadership development happens inside the same environments where leaders are already making decisions, solving problems, and carrying responsibility.
Ristare creates intentional distance from that environment.
Through personalized coaching, thoughtful destination design, meaningful experiences, and time deliberately left open, a Leadership Escape creates room to notice what can be difficult to see from inside the everyday.
This isn’t about escaping your life.
It’s about creating enough distance to see it differently.
Why place matters
Where you are changes what you notice.
A quiet café.
A city you’ve never walked before.
A morning without a meeting.
A table for one.
A path with nowhere you need to be.
Ristare designs the environment around what you need space to explore.
Travel is not an add-on to the coaching. It is part of the container that makes different thinking possible.
Three ways to experience Ristare
Sometimes a pause is enough. Sometimes you need to step farther away from the everyday. And sometimes what’s next deserves your full attention.
“I need some space.”
For one question, decision, or moment that needs some room.
From $1,000 + travel
Explore PauseSIGNATURE RISTARE EXPERIENCE
“I need to get away and think.”
For the leader who needs more than a pause—an intentionally designed change of environment with coaching, reflection, discovery, and integration woven throughout.
From $2,500 + travel
Explore Escape“Something significant is changing.”
A deeply personalized experience for a transition, decision, or possibility that deserves your full attention.
By proposal
Begin a ConversationRistare design and coaching fees are separate from the cost of travel. Every Leadership Escape is individually designed around you.
The Ristare way
The pause is not the destination. What matters is what becomes possible because of the pause.
The trip ends.
The work doesn’t.
Who it’s for
Meet Nicole
24+ Years in Healthcare Leadership · ICF Certified Professional Coach
“I know what it feels like to spend your days inside the work.
For more than 24 years, I’ve built my career in healthcare—an ever-changing, high-stakes, 24/7 environment where decisions matter, the pace rarely slows, and there is almost always something that needs your attention.
I’ve led teams, navigated change, developed leaders, and spent much of my career helping people find their way through complexity. And somewhere along the way, I began to notice something about myself.
My clearest thinking rarely happened when I was trying harder to find the answer.
It happened when I stepped away.
On a plane headed somewhere new. Walking through an unfamiliar city. Sitting over coffee with nowhere I needed to be next. Experiencing a different place, a different pace, and enough distance from the day-to-day to see things I couldn’t see while I was in the middle of it.
Those moments didn’t take me away from my work. They helped me return to it differently.
That realization became the idea behind Ristare.
Today, I bring together more than two decades of leadership experience, my training and credential as an ICF Certified Professional Coach, and a deep belief in the perspective that comes from changing our environment to create something I wish more leaders had access to:
Space to step away. Space to think. Space to see what’s next.
Step away. See differently. Return with intention.”
Meet NicoleYou don’t need to know where you want to go yet.
Start with the question, decision, transition, or possibility that is asking for your attention.
We’ll begin there.
Ristare Collective
Pause along the way.