iCapital x LBS Women’s Luncheon | LATAM 2025
At CONNECT | LATAM 2025 in Tulum, iCapital invited Angie (founder of Life Beyond School) to help lead the Women’s Luncheon—and she turned it from “smart conversation” into a live leadership lab.
This wasn’t a feel-good session. It was a high-trust, high-utility workshop built for finance leaders across Latin America: real stakes, real pressure, real leadership moments—translated into behaviors people could actually use.
A fireside chat with Laura Raffo—then straight into action
The luncheon centered on a fireside chat with Laura Raffo, grounded in what modern leadership looks like when the environment is volatile and expectations are high.
Then came the part most events skip: practice. Angie guided the room through an interactive workshop designed to take the energy of the conversation and convert it into skills leaders can deploy immediately—on Monday morning, in a meeting, with a client, or in a hard internal conversation.
The format: cards that create conversation, clarity, and behavior change
Angie brought a signature Life Beyond School approach—tactile tools that move people from agreement to action—using the LBS Resilience, Creativity, and Speaking With Impact card decks.
The session ran like a leadership gym:
Resilience prompts to surface how leaders reset after disruption, manage internal narratives, and stay steady without becoming rigid
Creativity scenarios to break “default thinking” and generate better options under constraint
Speaking With Impact drills to sharpen message clarity, confidence, presence, and delivery—especially when it matters most
Participants worked in small groups with structured prompts, rapid reflection, and simple “take-it-back-to-work” behaviors—so the learning didn’t evaporate the second the session ended.
Why this landed with finance leaders
Finance leadership often demands a specific combination: composure + decisiveness + communication that holds up under scrutiny. What made this luncheon different was the deliberate shift from insight to execution—without turning it into therapy, fluff, or generic leadership clichés.
Angie’s approach is built for high performers who want:
a shared language for resilience and communication across teams
a repeatable ritual for better conversations (not a one-time high)
tools that are culturally adaptable and easy to facilitate across regions
a format that feels energizing, not exhausting
What corporates can replicate
This is the kind of experience that works extremely well for:
Women’s leadership programs
Executive offsites
Client leadership luncheons / relationship events
Culture accelerators during change (mergers, restructures, new strategy cycles)
Communication & presence training that doesn’t feel like “presentation class”
Angie can deliver this as:
a 60–90 minute keynote-workshop
a half-day leadership lab
a multi-session series (Resilience + Creativity + Speaking With Impact)
optional add-on: toolkits/cards for continued practice inside teams
Two questions for companies evaluating leadership programming
Are you paying for content… or for behavior change?
Do your leaders have a shared operating system for tough conversations—or are you hoping they improvise under pressure?
If your organization wants a high-impact, high-engagement session that builds real leadership capability (not just inspiration), this is exactly the format iCapital tested in Tulum—designed for executive audiences and built to travel across cultures.