Women's Resilience Summit
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Speaker · Women's Resilience Summit 2026

Ekaterina Ward

Founder, Vivacity

Ekaterina Ward walked away from a decade in financial services, built two businesses from scratch while raising a daughter, and somewhere in the middle of it all discovered the thing that changed everything. The women who truly thrive are not the ones who push harder or endure the most. They are the ones who stop abandoning themselves.

She grew up in communist Bulgaria and arrived in the UK in her twenties with a hunger for a bigger, freer, more fully lived life. Now in her fifties, Ekaterina is the founder of Vivacity, a movement for women daring to lead, love and earn at the highest level without sacrifices or regrets.

As the creator of the Steady Framework for Sustainable Success™, her mission is to help women stop outsourcing their power and start leading themselves into the most fully lit version of who they came here to be. Because vivacity, that spirited life force energy, is not something you earn or find. It is something you choose.

The talk

Not Tougher. Lit From Within: A Talk on Resilience, Power and Zest for Life

Ekaterina draws on deeply personal stories to offer a perspective shift most women will instantly recognise as true: the most resilient woman in the room is the one who can return to her own aliveness, knowing and life force in the middle of everything that is trying to pull her away from it.

Saturday 28 November
1:30 – 6:30 PM · Kensington Central Library

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