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The CWIL Executive Residency · Mauritius 2027

Reset & Realign — leading with clarity, influence and capacity.

An invitation-only leadership residency for fifteen senior women leaders — seven days of executive development, peer advisory and structured reflection, followed by six months of sustained support through the CWIL Executive Continuum.

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Sponsor a place

One nomination. Seven days. Six months of follow-through.

Places on the 2027 Residency are taken up by organisations sponsoring a senior woman leader, and by individuals nominated for a place. A single sponsorship covers the whole programme — there are no tiers, no add-ons and no on-site extras to budget for.

  • The full seven-day residency programme and all facilitation
  • Accommodation at Crystals Beach Resort and all meals
  • Return airport transfers from Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International (MRU)
  • Off-site leadership experiences, the Awards Gala and the wellness cruise
  • Six months of the CWIL Executive Continuum after the Residency
  • Sponsor recognition across Residency materials and the Residency page

Sponsorship — per delegate place

On application

The 2027 sponsorship figure is confirmed on enquiry. Write to retreat@cwil.org.uk and we will send the full sponsorship note by return.

Per sponsored delegate place, inclusive of programme, accommodation, transfers and the six-month Executive Continuum.

Early commitment
To be announced
Nominations close
To be announced
Register interest

Why a residency

Deliberately small. Deliberately deep.

The 2027 Residency is built around a curated cohort of fifteen. At this scale, every delegate presents her own 90-day leadership plan to the full cohort, sits in a standing peer advisory circle of five, and works directly with the programme's facilitators, psychologists and coaches. Nothing is delivered from a stage to the back of a room.

Fifteen leaders. Seven days. One question: what kind of leader do you intend to be — and what will you do about it in the next ninety days?

The programme is convened by Corporate Women in Leadership (CWIL) — a network that has reached over 25,000+ women leaders across 38 countries, through 9 summits, 60+ mentors and more than eight years of programming. The Residency is CWIL's most senior offering: designed for board members, C-suite executives, directors, entrepreneurs and high-potential women leaders, and structured to return them to their organisations with sharper judgement, renewed capacity and a plan their sponsors can hold them to.

2027 is the second edition. It grows from a cohort of ten to fifteen, and from six days to seven — the additional day given to power, voice and negotiation.

The programme

Seven days, one arc

Each day of the Residency carries a single theme, and each theme builds on the one before it — from trust, through decision quality, influence and negotiation, to legacy and action.

Day 1 · Monday 29 March · Arrive

Building Trust & Psychological Safety

Arrival, welcome and leadership intentions

  • Airport transfers, registration and welcome refreshments
  • Welcome dinner and leadership connections — delegate introductions and Residency overview
  • Residency agreements under the Chatham House Rule
  • Leadership Intentions exercise — the thread that runs through the entire week
Expected outcomeDelegates establish trust, define their leadership intentions, and begin building meaningful executive relationships.

Day 2 · Tuesday 30 March · Reset

Leadership & Decision Quality

Official opening, keynote and executive development

  • Official opening ceremony with distinguished Mauritian guests
  • Opening keynote — The Leadership Decisions That Define Your Legacy
  • Executive development session — Thriving at Work: the psychology of stress, coping, resilience and wellbeing, led by an occupational psychology practice
  • Executive Conversations at Sunset — facilitated circles on themes chosen by delegates
  • Leadership Intentions dinner — structured reflection and accountability partners paired
Expected outcomeParticipants strengthen decision-making, resilience and executive relationships while committing to one leadership intention.

Day 3 · Wednesday 31 March · Realign

Influence, Coaching & Executive Presence

Premium off-site leadership experience

  • Off-site leadership challenge and walk-and-talk coaching in small facilitated groups
  • Destination lunch in the Mauritian interior
  • Peer advisory circles — pressure-testing real leadership challenges, presented back to the full cohort
  • Bonfire leadership dinner — influence, sponsorship and global networks
Expected outcomeParticipants pressure-test real leadership challenges and strengthen executive influence through peer coaching.

Day 4 · Thursday 1 April · Amplify · New for 2027

Power, Voice & the Negotiated Table

The seventh day, new to the 2027 programme

  • Executive negotiation intensive — pay, scope, resource and remit, worked through live
  • Board-readiness clinic — reading a board pack, asking the question that changes the room
  • Media and platform lab — speaking with authority to press, panels and internal town halls
  • Sponsorship strategy session — building the advocates who speak for you when you are not there
  • Working dinner — each delegate names the one conversation she has been avoiding, and rehearses it
Expected outcomeDelegates leave with a rehearsed negotiation position, a board-readiness assessment and a named sponsorship strategy.

Day 5 · Friday 2 April · Expand

Leadership Beyond Self

Community legacy, storytelling and celebration

  • Sunrise wellness experience
  • Leadership Legacy experience with a Mauritian women's community initiative — delegates and CWIL contribute directly
  • Executive choice afternoon — storytelling studio recording, wellness, or executive connections
  • Corporate Women in Leadership Awards Gala — recognising outstanding Mauritian women leaders, including the He For She award
Expected outcomeParticipants reconnect with purpose, capture professional media assets and celebrate leadership excellence.

Day 6 · Saturday 3 April · Integrate

Turning Insight into Action

The Executive Boardroom and the Legacy Letter

  • Executive Boardroom working breakfast — every delegate presents her 90-Day Leadership Action Plan to the cohort
  • Executive wellness cruise to Île aux Cerfs
  • Legacy Dinner and Leadership Legacy Letter ceremony — a letter to your future self, delivered six months on
Expected outcomeDelegates leave with a practical action plan, accountability partners and renewed confidence.

Day 7 · Sunday 4 April · Depart

Continuing the Journey

Farewell — and the start of the Continuum

  • Farewell breakfast, cohort photograph and closing address
  • Airport transfers throughout the day
Expected outcomeTransition into the six-month CWIL Executive Continuum.

Deliverables, not souvenirs

What every delegate leaves with

The Residency is measured by what happens after it. Every delegate departs Mauritius with a concrete set of artefacts and commitments — visible to her sponsoring organisation.

A presented 90-Day Leadership Action Plan

Developed across the week and presented to the full cohort in the closing Executive Boardroom — a specific, dated plan her organisation can track.

A rehearsed negotiation position

New for 2027: a live-worked position on pay, scope, resource or remit, plus a board-readiness assessment and a named sponsorship strategy.

A named accountability partner

Paired at the Leadership Intentions dinner, with structured check-ins continuing through the six-month Continuum.

A leadership intention, in writing

Set on day two, exchanged with her accountability partner, and revisited in the Legacy Letter delivered six months after the Residency.

Professional media assets

A recorded storytelling studio session capturing her leadership story — produced assets she and her organisation can use.

Research participation

A contribution to an ongoing academic study on women in corporate leadership, in collaboration with research faculty at Sheffield Hallam University.

A global executive network

Membership of a cross-industry, cross-continental cohort — and of CWIL's alumni network spanning 38 countries.

After Mauritius

The CWIL Executive Continuum

Seven days on the island is the beginning, not the product. Every delegate continues her leadership journey through six months of structured support — which is where sponsored places return their value.

Monthly Executive Peer Advisory Circles

The Residency's peer advisory format continues online — real challenges, worked through with the same cohort.

Accountability Partner Check-ins

Structured follow-through on each delegate's 90-day plan and leadership intention.

Quarterly Executive Masterclasses

Facilitated sessions extending the Residency curriculum into the working year.

Digital Leadership Resource Library

Session materials, frameworks and recordings, available to delegates throughout.

Global Alumni Network

Ongoing connection to CWIL's community of 25,000+ women leaders across 38 countries — now including the 2026 Mauritius cohort.

The Leadership Legacy Letter

Written at the Legacy Dinner, delivered six months after the Residency — a personal audit of intention against action.

The Continuum runs from April 2027 to October 2027 for the 2027 cohort.

2026 in review

The inaugural cohort was sponsored by

Ten senior women leaders completed the first CWIL Executive Residency at Belle Mare in July 2026. Each attended with the sponsorship of an organisation that had chosen to invest in her leadership.

The 2026 Residency in full

Academic partnership

Grounded in research, not rhetoric

The Residency contributes to an ongoing study on women in corporate leadership, in collaboration with research faculty at Sheffield Hallam University. Delegate storytelling sessions and structured reflections are captured — with consent — as data for published academic work.

Why it matters

Delegates don't simply attend a programme informed by evidence — they help build the evidence base itself. Their experiences shape published findings on leadership, resilience and the realities facing senior women executives, and connect their organisations to a growing academic conversation.

The setting

Crystals Beach Resort, Belle Mare

A Radisson Individuals resort on the white-sand east coast of Mauritius — the venue the inaugural cohort chose to return to. Fifteen delegates, one resort, and a programme that moves easily between boardroom, beach, bonfire and the lagoon at Île aux Cerfs.

Location
Belle Mare, east coast Mauritius
Airport
SSR International (MRU) · transfers included
Programme spaces
Executive boardroom, beachfront & off-site experiences
Wellness
Spa, sunrise experiences & catamaran cruise
Crystals Beach Resort, Belle Mare, Mauritius
Belle Mare — where the lagoon meets the working week.

Mauritius 2027

Fifteen places.
Nominations are open.

If your organisation would like to sponsor a woman leader for the 2027 Residency — or you would like to be considered for a place yourself — register your interest and the Secretariat will be in touch with the full sponsorship note.

Register interest Corporate sponsorship enquiry

Residency Secretariat · retreat@cwil.org.uk