6th Annual · Women's Month 2027

Light My Fire 2027

Women Who Lead · 2027 theme to be announced

Coming in August 2027 · Cape Town & Gauteng

"I walked through the fire and became the flame."

A Women's Month leadership experience for organisations investing in the women who lead, influence and shape the future of their business. An immersive evening of courage, connection, reflection and transformation.

DateTo be announcedAugust 2027
TimeTo be announced
WhereCape Town & GautengVenues to be announced
Women who lead — guests at Light My Fire
More Than a Women's Month Event

Many organisations celebrate Women's Month. Fewer use it to invest in the women who work for them — all of whom can influence and shape the future of the business.

A Leadership Experience

Light My Fire isn't another breakfast, lunch or team-building celebration. It's a meaningful leadership experience that recognises the contribution of women while reinforcing your commitment to their continued growth.

Send groups of women to attend together and turn Women's Month into a visible, lasting investment in female leadership.

Why Organisations Invest

Invest in the Women Who Move Your Business Forward

Women's Month is a chance to do more than host a celebration — it's a chance to make a visible investment in the women who lead, influence and shape the future of the organisation.

01

Visible investment in female leadership

Demonstrate a tangible commitment to the women who lead, beyond a single day of celebration.

02

Recognise contribution

Honour and celebrate the contribution of women across your teams and functions.

03

Strengthen connection

Build connection amongst women leaders across teams, levels and divisions.

04

Support leadership growth

Develop leadership in an engaging, immersive and genuinely memorable way.

05

Reinforce your culture

Signal a culture that values learning, development and inclusion at every level.

06

A shared experience that lasts

Create something that continues to resonate well beyond Women's Month.

Looking Back · The 2026 Experience

Battlescars & Breakthroughs

Leadership is not only shaped in moments of clarity, confidence and control. It is shaped in pressure — in the battles we never expected to fight.

In uncertainty.

In the moments that tested our voice, our courage and our sense of self.

Where armour gives way to authenticity. Where survival becomes intentional leadership.

An immersive journey of reflection and transformation. Women explore how pressure can sharpen us, how uncertainty can reveal courage, and how the scars we carry become evidence of resilience, wisdom and growth — reminded that some of the most powerful breakthroughs are born from the fire.

Insight 01

Reframing pressure as transformation

Women leave recognising that pressure doesn't only challenge us — it shapes us, sharpens us, and reveals strengths we didn't know we possessed.

Insight 02

Leading through uncertainty with courage

A deeper understanding of how they respond under pressure, navigate chaos and keep leading even when clarity is absent.

Insight 03

From survival to intentional leadership

Renewed confidence, authenticity and agency — understanding that scars are not weakness, but evidence of resilience and breakthrough.

From the Fire

See It for Yourself

Five years of women walking through the fire — and becoming the flame. Watch the highlights from previous Light My Fire experiences, and browse the photo galleries.

Video: Light My Fire 2025 highlights
2025Light My Fire 2025 · Highlights — Unmasking Your Magic
Video: Light My Fire 2024 highlights
2024Light My Fire 2024 · Highlights — A Woman's Journey
What's Included

Every Ticket Includes

The full Light My Fire experienceThe complete immersive learning journey, start to finish.
Guided leadership reflectionsReflections designed to land and stay with you.
Facilitated activitiesShared, facilitated experiences across the evening.
RefreshmentsRefreshments throughout the evening.
SBI branded itemsA keepsake to carry the experience beyond the evening.
A shared Women's Month experienceDesigned for connection, courage and growth — together.
2027 Waitlist

Light My Fire returns in 2027

In 2027, Light My Fire comes to both Cape Town and Gauteng. Dates, venues and the 2027 theme will be announced soon — join the waitlist to be first to hear.

Corporate Group Bookings

Sending a team next year? Join the waitlist and we will contact you first when the 2027 experiences open in Cape Town and Gauteng. Create a shared experience that continues beyond Women's Month — strengthening connection, confidence and leadership across teams.

Join the Waitlist

Waitlist enquiries are handled by the SBI team.

Who It's For

Built for the Teams Who Champion Women Who Lead

HR & People leaders

Meaningful Women's Month investment

Learning & Development

Engaging leadership growth

Talent leaders

Recognise and retain

People & Culture

Reinforce values & inclusion

Executive & business leaders

Visible investment in leadership

Individual women

Attend independently — you're welcome too

DateTo be announcedAugust 2027 · Women's Month
WhereCape Town & GautengVenues to be announced
ThemeTo be announced
Edition6th AnnualWomen Who Lead

Don't Celebrate. Invest.

Turn Women's Month into a lasting investment in the women who help move your business forward.