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Power Your Purpose Retreat
  • Home
  • About
    • Speakers
    • Getting There
  • About Marisa
  • Agenda
  • Retreat 2025
    • Gallery
    • Testimonials
  • FAQs
  • Sponsorship
  • REGISTER
  • Updates
Meet Your Retreat Host

Marisa Thomas

Connect with Marisa

 Marisa Thomas is the founder of DoorSeffect, a leadership development company dedicated to helping leaders navigate complexity with clarity, energy, and confidence. With more than 20 years of corporate leadership and coaching experience, she has guided executives, teams, and organizations toward sustainable growth and authentic impact.


As a leadership coach, author, and speaker, Marisa is passionate about helping leaders unlock their potential by focusing on one often-overlooked element: their energy.

Author of The Power to Lead

Marisa is the author of The Power to Lead: How to Optimize Your Energy to Thrive in Leadership, a book that reveals the hidden energy forces behind exceptional leadership. Her work encourages leaders to embrace imperfection, cultivate resilience, and step fully into their purpose.

Through her DoorS methodology and tools like the Mind Thrive Meditation practice, Marisa equips leaders to:

Build mental agility

Strengthen emotional resilience

Navigate change with clarity

Lead teams with presence and purpose

A Constructive Optimist

 Known as a constructive optimist, Marisa brings both practical business acumen and deep empathy to her work. She has a gift for creating safe, transformative spaces where leaders can step away from the noise, reconnect with themselves, and return renewed.

Her Approach Blends:

Coaching expertise

Personal growth practices

Helping executives and teams unlock performance

Personal growth practices

Personal growth practices

Focusing on mindfulness, purpose, and reflection

Real-world leadership insight

Real-world leadership insight

Grounded in two decades of corporate experience

Why She Created the Retreat

Marisa designed the Power Your Purpose Retreat because she believes that leadership requires more than strategies and goals. It requires clarity of mind, strength of spirit, and a deep connection to one’s worth.

Her vision is to unite women leaders and executives to:

Step back from constant demands

Gain practical strategies to elevate both their worth and their impact

Reflect on their leadership journey

Reflect on their leadership journey

Gain practical strategies to elevate both their worth and their impact

Reflect on their leadership journey

Gain practical strategies to elevate both their worth and their impact

Gain practical strategies to elevate both their worth and their impact

Gain practical strategies to elevate both their worth and their impact

Connect with Marisa

Learn more about her work at DoorSeffectExplore her book The Power to LeadJoin her weekly leadership newsletter, The Executive Edge
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