The Bold Pause

Every leader has a Vision Gap. The question: who pauses to see it?

Part 1 of a guided experience for founders, funders, and executives navigating high-stakes complexity. Step out of urgency and uncover your Vision Gap - the space where strategy meets possibility.

Vision Activation for Purpose-Led Leaders

Most leaders I work with don’t lack vision.

They’re intelligent.
Strategic.
Deeply committed.

They’re already moving capital, people, policy, systems.

And this time of year, many of them are already vision-casting for 2026.

Holding questions about what wants to grow, what needs to shift, what kind of future their leadership is actually shaping.

And still — there’s a gap.

I call this the Vision Gap.

Your Vision for 2026 won't come from urgency.

Insight comes when you create the conditions to receive it.

Most leaders stay inside the neural network of execution:
optimize, decide, respond, deliver.

That network is essential — but it’s not where vision lives.

Vision lives in a different state, one that allows for:
synthesis
pattern recognition
creativity
a felt sense of the future that’s already trying to emerge.

That’s why, this holiday season, I’m offering Part 1 of The Bold Pause as a gift.

Not as meditation, journaling or as a productivity reset but as a way to step out of urgency, ground in your internal resources, and see — clearly — the thriving future of the system your work is already shifting.

I want Part 1 of the Bold Pause for free!

What is the Bold Pause?

The Bold Pause is a recalibration.

It's a 4-module guided experience for seasoned, purpose-led leaders navigating high-stakes, high-speed complexity. You do at your own pace in about 2 hours total.

In Part 1 we’ll surface your Vision Gap — the space between your current leadership vision and the fuller, bolder possibility calling you forward

You’ll walk away with:

A clear insight you can trust — even in the noise
A felt sense of how the challenges and constraints you’re facing are also invitations
A sharper view of who — and what — to invite in
A guided workbook to make what’s emergent actionable

I need Part 1 of The Bold Pause!

The 4 Modules

Module 1: The Conditions to Receive (35 minutes)

Insight doesn't come from urgency. It comes when you create the conditions to receive it.

This isn't meditation. This isn't journaling. This is a different neural network— the one that allows for synthesis, creativity, and vision. You'll ground in your resources, lean into Donella Meadows' approach to visioning, and see the thriving future of the system your work is shifting.

"It's hard to slow down and when I do the wisdom and guidance is profound."—CEO of a Social Enterprise

Module 2: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (30 minutes)

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast." — The Queen, Alice in Wonderland

This is the game: If you could have it any way...

You'll speak your bold vision out loud — not to strategize, but to be surprised. To spark. To claim what you didn't know you were ready to name. And you'll listen to someone else do the same.

"The more I say it out loud, the easier it gets." — Technology Executive

Module 3: The Wall of Impossibility (15-25 minutes)

Right on the tail of dreaming, another voice shows up. Maybe I can't have all this. Some of these are too big. I'll have to choose.

This is the wall of impossibility. What we imagine as impossible often reflects not the limits of reality, but the limits of our beliefs.

You'll capture the voices — without judgment. These aren't blocks. They're fuel.

They show you exactly where expansion is asking to happen.

Module 4: Pop, Grow, Carve (30 minutes)

Not all constraints are the same.

Some pop the moment you see them — they were never true. "It can't happen until I have buy-in, but I know I can make an influence now."

Some reveal your growth edge — the pattern that shows up everywhere.

Some carve your path — design parameters shaping your strategy.

You'll sort your constraints, see which ones are fuel, and claim your thread forward.

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Real Leaders.

Real Breakthroughs

The Bold Pause is the space to meet your edge.

One client thought she needed to raise $1M to meet an urgent need. After The Bold Pause, she saw a bigger vision — expanded her leadership from team oversight to ecosystem orchestration — and mobilized $3.5M toward systemic change.

You don’t need another strategy sprint.

You need a pause. A bold one.

This is for you if...

You’ve scaled, stewarded, and led. You’ve moved millions — in capital, revenue, policy, and people – and this moment is asking for more.

You want a space where constraints don’t block the path — they shape it

You know your impact expands with your deep knowing and clarity becomes your catalyst.

Join The Bold Pause

The pace won’t slow on its own.

The pause you need? It won’t just show up on your calendar.

You have to claim it.

Your Bold Pause is the step most leaders skip and the one that shifts everything.

The B.O.L.D. Framework

B — Being & State Shift

Settle your nervous system, release urgency, and unlock the deeper intelligence that only comes from stillness.

O — Openness & Inquiry

Expand beyond old assumptions. Ask the questions that surface your new possibilities.

L — Listening & Limits

Name hidden desires and dissolve limiting stories — turning constraints into catalysts.

D — Discernment & Discovery

Crystallize what’s truly yours.

I'm ready for a BOLD PAUSE

The Real Shifts

This isn’t just theory. This is what change sounds like in motion.

Lea thought she needed to raise $1M to meet an urgent need. After one powerful pause, she expanded her lens —from team oversight to ecosystem orchestration — and mobilized $3.5M toward systemic change.

“When I came to Jeanine, I was in urgency — trying to secure $1M just to meet immediate needs. She helped me pause, step back, and ask a bigger question: not what’s feasible, but what’s needed. That one conversation expanded my vision. I invited in my team, engaged our policy and program partners, and the result? A $3.5M initiative — unanimously approved — that’s now resourcing grantees, supporting safety and security, and influencing other funders across the field. That shift still stays with me.”

— Lea Tienou-Gustofson, Senior Director, World Education Services Mariam Assefa Fund (Philanthropy)

Another client felt pressure to grow in a shifting market while holding her team, strategy, and family.
Together, we paused and uncovered a bolder desire: a seven-figure take-home, six weeks off, and a sharper strategic focus that could scale. The result? She delegated more, watched her team rise, and created the space to imagine — and build — what’s next.

When Kevin stepped into the biggest role of his career, the pressure was real and so were the stakes. His team had been operating in silos. But with each Bold Pause, something shifted.

“Our team has never executed with this much collaboration or care. During layoffs, other teams rallied behind us. That’s not normal. We did something good here — and it started with how I was showing up.”

He delegated more boldly. Trusted more deeply. Led with clarity and care — and watched his team rise. His calendar changed. His presence deepened. He created space for his young son, his team’s growth, and his own clarity. He didn’t just lead with strategy, he led with spark. The fire he brought? Calibrated — and contagious.

Strategic pauses. Each one clearing the fog and catalyzing clean, courageous action.

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Meet Your Guide: Jeanine Becker

For two decades, I've partnered with leaders at the intersection of vision, responsibility, and systems change.

My clients include:

CEO of a social enterprise and one of the 50 Most Influential People in SF
Founder of a social-impact network with a community spanning 190+ countries
SVP of Customer Support and Success, Slack & Trailhead, shaping how millions communicate
Foundations leaders distributing millions annually

I work with people whose decisions ripple through industries, cities, and global systems—leaders carrying both immense responsibility and immense possibility.

I taught negotiation and collaboration at Stanford for a decade. And I learned interdependence solo-parenting—learning to need and really receive support.

I catalyzed global impact networks and studied at the Donella Meadows Academy for Systems Change. And I learned to shift from leading through control to creating conditions for emergence during a six-year fertility journey.

I coach visionary leaders navigating unprecedented uncertainty. I’ve studied developmental psychology. But I learned to hold paradox, like the heartbreak and possibility of this moment, by witnessing my daughter's first breath and my father's last within two weeks—stretched by the miracle and the loss and watching my daughter go from full-body sobbing to pure delight at a feather in one breath. She taught me: you don't hold paradox. You let it move you.

What makes my work different is this: I see the pattern you're living before you name it. I ask the questions that stop you in your tracks and open entirely new ways of seeing. I midwife the vision you haven’t yet claimed because I know both your constraints and your desires are carving your path.

And I hold your impossible as possible—even in the moments when you can't.

I'm ready for the Bold Pause!

What Leaders Say

“Jeanine provided me something I could not have found elsewhere—a safe place to put forward my toughest work-related challenges with a skilled and empathic listener and facilitator whose business leadership background helps her ask the exact right questions I need to move forward.”

— Toby Rubin, Former CEO, Upstart Lab (Philanthropy/Nonprofit)

“Jeanine is able to address and easily traverse topics from personal empowerment to team collaboration and interpersonal communications, from business development to the operations logistics. Jeanine has helped me to pivot from addressing my business and my work reactively to moving forward proactively.”

—Laura Crescimano, Principal, SITELAB Urban Studio San Francisco

“I’ve had coaches before, but it always circled back to the same surface-level advice. Working with Jeanine was different. She asked questions that stopped me in my tracks — the kind of questions I hadn’t thought to ask myself. Questions that opened up entirely new ways of seeing. That level of engagement shaped how I coach my own team now. It changed how I show up as a leader — more grounded, more trusting, more clear.”

— Kevin Albers, SVP of Customer Support and Success, Slack/Salesforce

“I've never experienced a facilitator that can productively bring a collective together like Jeanine... She asks questions that cause a group to lean in with a common purpose... and uncovers jewels of collective intelligence that were previously unspoken or unrecognized. Suddenly, bigger dreams become possible and start to unfold.”