The Success Summit

Reimagining Success on Your Terms

October 4-5, 2024
New York City

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The Success Summit is for women with a track record behind them and a BIG dream in front of them.

Does this sound familiar…

  • You’re so busy yet bored.

  • You keep asking, Is this it?

  • You’ve accomplished so much in your career but still want more.

  • You keep trying to outrun your work at the cost of your fulfillment and freedom.

It’s time to stop hitting the snooze button on your BIG dream.

Rise and shine to joy, impact, and impossible possibilities.

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This is NOT a retreat.

We don’t retreat - we expand.

The Success Summit IS NOT your typical, hype-you-up-in the-moment business conference that is totally forgotten the following Monday when the alarm wakes you for your default, rinse and repeat, survival mode.

The Success Summit IS a 2-day immersion unlike anything you’ve experienced in the personal and professional development track. (RESULTS below)

It’s real-world work with sustainable tools and breakthrough results, building your muscle around the quiet, next-level success you crave.

Do you hear the whispers of your big dream calling? 

Join us for an immersive, in-person development experience designed to teach what you need to create a life of success
on your terms. 

You deserve a life
that you don’t need a vacation from.
A life where you:

  • A woman writes in a jrounal with a coffee mug beside her

    Spend more time doing what you love

  • a woman stands in a jacket with a work bag slung over he shoulder and an ID badge around her neck

    No longer feel stuck or “meh”

  • woman runs away from the camera down dirt path with her dog next to her

    Stop grinding at the expense of happiness

  • Christina sits on front steps, facing sideways, eyes closed, meditating

    Let go of confusion and overwhelm

  • woman leans against a wall wearing an apron covered in paint next to her painting

    Feel joyful creating the life you want to live

  • woman sits in a chair with a pdocast mic in front of her, she's speaking into it

    Believe your impossible is actually possible

  • woman sticks head out of vehicle, her face soaking in the sun

    Get into and remain in forward motion

  • If that's YOU, join us at The Success Summit

A stack of Christina's book: For Success Sake: Simple steps for Extraordinary Possibilities in Leadership and Life

This is all inclusive- including REAL LIFE tools for your future self.

  • 2 days of workshopping, sharing, and supporting

  • Daily wellness experiences to get us in flow

  • Breakfast, Lunch, and Cocktails each day

  • Dinner on Friday evening at The Glass Ceiling

  • A signed copy of Christina’s Book, For Success Sake!

  • Your Success Summit Workbook

  • Access to Luminary

Give yourself permission to raise the bar for your dreams.

Spots are limited.

Note: Hotel not included

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We’ll escape to Luminary’s bespoke HQ in the heart of NYC for two days.

After hosting events from Maine to Texas, we intentionally designed The Success Summit for our metro NY community and expressed the desire for dedicated “me time” without the travel.

We are thrilled to partner with Luminary and its founder, Cate Luzio. Luminary has thousands of members and events focused on uplifting, upskilling, and propelling women forward through their professional journeys.

It’s the perfect location for us to gather with inspiring, like-minded women like you.

We are stronger together!

The Success Summit Agenda:

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Day 1: Your Awakening


You can’t create a personal vision for your success until you acknowledge what makes you YOU.

  • What holds you back

  • What lights you up

  • What gives you purpose

Say goodbye to the same old excuses and pesky roadblocks. 

Christina and Tonia sit on a bench, leaning in toward eachother and smiling at the camera

Day Two: Becoming


It's time to get ambitious: Making your impossible inevitable.

You’ll craft a plan for your big dreams and harness the mindset to make them a reality.

This becomes the roadmap for the life you want that’s fulfilling, meaningful, and impactful.

You’re not just setting goals–you’re aiming for extraordinary!

Ready to level up beyond the usual grind of money and titles?

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You’ll leave the SucCess Summit glowing with:


  • RENEWED energy (because burnout is so last season)

  • UNSHAKEABLE belief in yourself (you’re more than your LinkedIn Profile!)

  • A deep CONNECTION with your true self (no more settling!)

  • Knowing you DO deserve MORE (time to claim it!)

  • The TOOLS to silence that annoying inner critic (bye, bye doubts!)

  • A VISION of what SUCCESS truly means to you…

  • …And an achievable roadmap to get there!

Tonia speaking with members from the first Women's Salon

Now, it’s your turn to register and claim your spot.


No more hiding behind PERFECTION as your PROTECTiON.

TRUSTING yourself and your superpowers

QUIETING the negative self-talk and messy mind

ACCEPTING what you can & can’t control

Your past self

will thank you

This is an investment in YOU for life-changing, whole-life success.

Don’t just take our word for it; listen to how it’s changed others.

Meet your hosts

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  • CHRISTINA LANGDON is the author of For Success Sake! and the Co-Founder of The Kite, an organizational development and precision coaching platform focused on the human mindset and its transformative power for organizations and high performers. 

    Christina spent thirty years in leadership at major media brands, including Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she was a Publisher, and Fast Company as CRO. After a diagnosis of AML Leukemia in 2019, Christina decided to let go of the debilitating ‘should have, would have, could have’ mindset and start owning her success with her vision for living her extraordinary life.

    She is on a mission to help others reimagine their definition of success with more joy, ease, and impact.

    Christina has taken her tenets from her book and created immersive in-person experiences in Maine and Austin, and now she is coming to New York for The Success Summit.

Meet your wellness experts

  • TARA STILES is a wellness expert, bestselling author, and the founder of Strala Yoga. Tara revolutionized yoga for millions, transforming a practice so often seen as foreign, dogmatic, and guru-based, into an everyday movement that supports ease and wellbeing. Strala Yoga is practiced in more than 100 countries, thousands of Guides lead Strala classes around the globe, and Tara shares daily yoga with tens of thousands of people on the Strala Yoga app. The Strala approach combines yoga, tai chi, and Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine to help people release stress, heal, let go of negative habits, and move more easily through everyday challenges. Tara’s bestselling books, which have been translated and published in multiple languages, include Strala Yoga, Make Your Own Rules Diet, Yoga Cures, and Slim Calm Sexy Yoga, and she has been featured in The New York TimesVogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, Esquire, and Shape.

    Tara’s work has been used in a case study by Harvard University, she is a sought-after presenter on topics of entrepreneurship, health, and wellbeing, and she leads Softness Breaks at venues that include CERN, New York University, Wall Street Journal Conferences, and Fortune Magazine Conferences. Tara works with The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, an initiative that focuses on childhood, family and teacher’s wellbeing, to bring Strala classes and softness breaks to more than 60,000 schools around the United States. She lives in the Berkshire Mountains with her husband Mike Taylor and their daughter Daisy.

  • Favorite class to teach: Dance & Sculpt

    When not at DB: I’m teaching children's dance classes or hanging with my pup.

    Go-to playlist: When I'm in the zone, Pumped Pop; when I want to chill, Postmodern Jukebox.

    My tag-line is: Smile through the pain...I swear it helps.

    I’m known for my: Booty Mat Work! Hate me in the moment and love me later.

    I feel powerful when: I’m making a positive difference in someone's life and bringing out their greatest potential. Plus, I strive to make at least one person smile a day! 

    I give back by:Giving when I can to an organization called Social Tees. I absolutely love animals and rescued my pup from them. They place animals from high kill shelters into loving homes.

  • I'm the one who cheers for the underdog. With a winning mindset, unwavering focus, and meticulous preparation, I believe anything and everything is possible. Throughout my career, I've been drawn to roles that push the boundaries of my resilience, challenging me to uncover opportunities where others may not.



    What I've learned from the C-Suite, leading organizations like Univision and working for visionary leaders like Deepak Chopra, is that I thrive in the trenches alongside my team and fearlessly embrace challenges when everything is on the line. There's nothing more rewarding than inspiring individuals to unleash their superpowers operating at full potential. This empowerment gives us the confidence to conquer the greatest challenges.



    My journey includes building and overseeing multi-billion-dollar media businesses, managing a portfolio of premier multicultural brands, steering consumer companies in the health and wellness sector and supporting CEO’s and management teams in the boardroom. While navigating diverse company structures—public, private-equity, early stage, founder-led —a common theme has been mission-driven businesses and championing the underrepresented.



    I am a firm believer that companies and teams flourish in the presence of organizational equity and cultures prioritizing customer and employee well-being. The guiding principle of my career is that we do well by doing good. This philosophy has never failed me. In fact, it has expanded my professional horizons. Leading with purpose not only allows us to pursue big goals but also enables us to achieve great success. It is my formula for 10x’ing whole life fulfilment.

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  • Cate Luzio is the Founder and CEO of Luminary, a global professional education and networking platform  created to uplift, upskill, and propel women and allies through all phases of their professional journey - - from entrepreneurs to those navigating their career path, the Power Middle to the C-suite, those in  transition, and everyone in between.

    In March 2018, Cate left her two-decade banking career and self-funded the launch of Luminary, with the mission to build an ecosystem of high-touch engagement for both individual and enterprise members  to address and impact the systemic challenges faced by women and underrepresented communities  across all industries and sectors. Today, she continues to build a dynamic, gender-inclusive community  focused on creating connection, collaboration, and change through global expert-led programming and  services, activations, content, and culture.

    Cate has grown Luminary into a multimillion-dollar global B2C and B2B business with more than 15,000  members and over 100 enterprise Members. She made her second acquisition late in 2023, buying The  Cru to add to Luminary’s robust product offering. Luminary hosts more than 250 programs, events, and  activations annually with more than 70% Member-led.

    Before starting Luminary, Cate spent twenty years in financial services leading global multibillion-dollar  businesses. Previously, she was Global Head of Multinational Corporate Banking for HSBC and prior to  that, she served as Head of Multinational Corporate Banking at J.P. Morgan EMEA based in London. She  spent her early years in Latin America with Bank of America across both consumer and wholesale  banking. She started her career working in tech focused on China. 

    Cate is a graduate of the University of Maryland, where she was named its Entrepreneur of the Year in  2021 and joined its Board of Governors that same year. She holds a master’s degree in International  Relations from Georgetown University. She sits on the Boards of Girls Inc. New York City and Pomp and  Whimsy.

The Story of The Kite

We first crossed paths 15 years ago during our daily commute into NYC. As NJ Transit regulars, we didn’t just share a train; we formed a deep connection and an invaluable sisterhood during those 45+ minutes each day. Both of us were highly accomplished C-Suite executives with closets full of designer merchandise and platinum spending accounts, yet we bonded over a mutual longing for something more—something beyond labels or price tags.

Over the years, life took us in different directions—career pivots, relocations, a cancer diagnosis, raising children, and navigating a global pandemic. But a couple of years ago, we reunited with a renewed sense of purpose, determined to combine our passions and experiences to create something impactful. This led us to expand on the effective platform Christina had built as a high-performance coach and consultant, combined with Tonia’s valuable insights as a CEO in the health and wellness sector.

Our initial focus was on creating transformation experiences we call Women Salons. The powerful life-changing results from our attendees inspired us to double down. Today, we not only lead women’s empowerment summits, both in person and virtually, but we also work with enterprise clients, helping executives and leadership teams achieve organizational success.

At The Kite, we are obsessed with the human mindset and its transformative power. We believe that awareness and imagination are the keys to shaping a mindset for success. Our company is dedicated to unlocking the greatest potential in all of us. With our combined professional and life experiences, we are uniquely positioned to serve those in pursuit of growth, both personally and for their businesses. We’ve lived the marketplace challenges that impact all sectors and company profiles, and we understand what it takes to succeed.

Bottom line, we’ve been there—and we’re here to help you soar.

Warmly,

Tonia and Christina 🪁🪁

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a woman holding a bouquet of tulips in self appreciation

Remember, success is an inside job.

No more hitting the snooze button on your big dream. 💪🌟

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FAQs

  • The Success Summit includes:

    • 2 days of workshopping

    • A virtual pre-meeting one week before the event to meet your fellow Summiters and learn what you can expect.

    • Success Unleashed Curriculum

    • Daily wellness experiences

    • Breakfast, Lunch, Cocktails, Snacks

    • Dinner on Friday evening at The Glass Ceiling

    • A signed copy of Christina’s Book, For Success Sake!

    • Your Success Summit Workbook

    • Access to The Luminary

    Hotel accommodations are not included. We recommend The Aventi Hotel, which is two blocks from The Luminary.

  • You will receive an email that will include:

    • Event Timing and Location

    • A PDF of Christina’s book, For Success Sake! with a pre-event exercise to start your discovery process

    • Date and time for the Pre-Event Virtual Zoom (attendance not required) to meet your fellow Summiters

    • Requests for dietary restrictions

  • Luminary is a first-of-its-kind, gender-inclusive, global professional education and networking platform created to address the systemic challenges impacting women and our allies across all industries and sectors. 

    Their mission is to uplift, upskill, and propel our community forward through all phases of their professional journeys. Luminary is an ecosystem driven by women, for all. We are proud of our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

    The headquarters is located at 1204 Broadway, New York NY 10001.

    The amenities include charging stations, phone booths for private calls, a full kitchen, a changing room, showers, and more.

  • It’s fair to say everyone shares your concern. We intentionally are making this a small, intimate group. Participants will be asked to commit to the program's safe, confidential, no-judgment policy. That means no sharing with others or on social media without permission.

    Having worked with hundreds of high-achieving women, we know that we are all more alike than we are different. Our clients have shared with us that learning this on the first day made opening up easier and more rewarding.

  • Day 1
    8:30 am Breakfast
    Keynote: Cate Luzio
    Workshop & Breakout Discussions
    Wellness Experience
    5:00 pm cocktails
    6:30 Dinner

    Day 2
    9:00 am Breakfast
    Workshop & Breakout Discussions
    4:00 pm Closing Ceremony
    5:00pm Dance Detox
    6:00 pm Cocktails

  • No problem! Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be catered on Friday and Saturday. In your welcome email, we’ll ask that you respond with any dietary restrictions, and we will do our best to accommodate specific needs and preferences. No one will go hungry or without, we promise!

    We will be having dinner at The Glass Ceiling on Friday.

  • While the hotel is not included in this event, we recommend The Aventi if you want to stay in the city.

  • Come as you like! Be comfortable, be sassy, be casual. Wear whatever makes you feel your best.

  • Come as you are. The experiences require no skill but your mindfulness.

  • The name ‘the glass ceiling’  has a higher purpose. It is a metaphor that has long been used to represent the invisible barriers that prevent women and underrepresented communities from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy.

    The Glass Ceiling is a beautiful rooftop restaurant with a stunning glass ceiling sitting atop the city skyline in the heart of Nomad, Manhattan. The Glass Ceiling is a “secret garden” in the sky. Featuring indoor and outdoor seating, show-stopping views of the Empire State Building, and an escape from your everyday urban routine.