You Didn’t Build This Business to Be Buried In It.
She Looks Like She Has It Together. She's Exhausted.
You built this business on your standards, your judgment, and your refusal to let things fall through the cracks. And it worked. The proof is that it’s still standing.
But somewhere along the way, exceptional became exhausting.
You’re the first one in and the last one out. Every decision still flows through you. Your team tries — and you redo it anyway, because it’s faster than explaining it again. You’ve hired help. It didn’t hold. So you took it back.
You don’t take breaks because you’re afraid of what slips when you do. You don’t say no because every opportunity might be the one that matters. You don’t stop because if you stop, you might not be able to start again.
You are holding everything down. And you have nothing left.
Here’s what nobody tells the woman who built all of this:
You didn’t end up here because you did something wrong. You ended up here because you did everything right. You built a business that runs on your excellence — and excellence doesn’t scale when it lives in one person.
The goal was never to find people who match your standard. The goal is to build a system where your standard lives — so you don’t have to carry it alone anymore.
That’s what The Apex Leaders Circle is built to do.
This Room Was Built for You.
The Apex Leaders Circle is not for every woman founder. It is for the woman who recognizes herself in every line below.
You have a business that runs — but only because you never stop running it.
You’ve tried delegating. You took it back. Because it was easier than explaining it twice.
You have a team, but the business still lives inside your head and runs through your hands.
You’ve hired family, friends, or virtual support — and walked away more frustrated than before.
You say yes to everything because you’re afraid that saying no means being forgotten.
You haven’t taken a real break in longer than you want to admit.
You know something has to change. You just haven’t found the right room to change it in.
If you read that list and felt seen — you’re in the right place.
A Room Unlike Anything You've Been In Before.
What This Is
A curated cohort of 10 women founders — selected by application, not open enrollment
90 days of structured work with real deliverables at the end of every phase
A room where you are seen, challenged, and held accountable by women who understand exactly what you’re carrying
Peer coaching that goes deeper than tactics — into the identity shift that makes delegation actually stick
A system you walk away with — documented, tested, and ready to hand to your team
The entry point to one-on-one Mastery coaching for women who want to go deeper
What This Isn't
A course you buy and never finish
A mastermind where you listen to someone else’s success story
An open community where anyone can join
A place for women who aren’t ready to do the work
A substitute for one-on-one coaching — it’s the structured step before it
Another thing on your to-do list — it’s the thing that takes things off it
What 90 Days Inside the Apex Leaders Circle Produces
Three phases. Twelve sessions. Ten tangible deliverables. One complete operational system you can hand to your team on day 91.
Phase 01: IDENTIFY
You built this ceiling
The shift:
You see — clearly and without defensiveness — that the way you’ve been operating isn’t strength. It’s a structural trap you built yourself.
The work:
Full time audit, hidden cost assessment, delegation blocker profile, and your five highest-leverage handoff targets.
Weeks 1–4 | Weekly sessions
Phase 02: BUILD
From your head to their hands
The shift:
You build enough trust in a system — and in other people — to hand things off and not take them back when the first imperfect result comes in.
The work:
Process extraction, handoff architecture, quality standards documentation, and real implementation with real feedback.
Weeks 5–8 | Bi-weekly sessions
Phase 03: LEAD
The architect, not the builder
The shift:
You stop being the one who does everything and start being the one who leads everything. This is the identity shift that makes everything else permanent.
The work:
Team operating rhythm, CEO role clarity document, operational resilience plan, and your final before-and-after presentation.
Weeks 9–12 | Bi-weekly sessions
Month 1 meets weekly. Months 2 and 3 meet bi-weekly. Every session runs 90 minutes — structured teaching, rotating hot seat, peer coaching, and a solo assignment you complete before the next session.
What You Walk Away With
Most programs give you insight. The Apex Leaders Circle gives you infrastructure. Every session produces something tangible — something you can hand to your team, point to as evidence, and build on after the cohort ends.
- Completed Time Audit — where your time actually goes
- Hidden Cost Assessment — what doing it all is costing you
- Personal Delegation Blocker Profile — your named pattern
- Delegation Opportunity List — your five highest-leverage targets
- Five SOPs — your top processes extracted and documented
- Five Handoff Architecture Documents — context, standard, feedback loop
- Quality Standards Document — benchmarks your team can execute to
- Team Operating Rhythm — the weekly cadence that runs without you
- CEO Role Clarity Document — who you are now versus 90 days ago
- Operational Resilience Plan — three vulnerabilities closed before crisis hits
The Investment
$2,000
For the full 90-day cohort experience — 12 sessions, all materials, peer community, and complete deliverable stack.
Payment is due upon acceptance. Seats are held for 72 hours after an offer is extended.
The Woman Who Built Her Way Through This — and Came Back to Show You the Door.
Trena V. Stubbs is the Co-Founder and CEO of Apex Virtual Solutions — an operational excellence and fractional COO firm she has been running since 2007.
In nearly two decades she has worked with 200+ leaders and organizations, helping them break free from operational chaos and step into true leadership.
She knows this room because she lived in it. She built a successful business, became the bottleneck in her own growth, and found her way through it — not by working harder, but by building the systems and leadership capacity that let her business run without her in every room.
The Apex Leaders Circle is built on the same framework she has used with clients for nearly 20 years: The Art of Delegation — a three-stage methodology that takes founders from doing everything to leading everything.
She is not here to teach you theory. She is here because she has sat in your chair — and she knows the way out.
This Room Is Small by Design.
Ten women. One cohort. One chance to be part of the founding group.
The Apex Leaders Circle is capped at 10 members because the peer dynamic only works when the room is small enough for every woman to be seen. We are not filling seats — we are curating a room.
Membership requires an application. Not everyone who applies will be accepted. Not because we want to be exclusive — because we want every woman in that room to be exactly who the woman next to her needs.
If you've been waiting for a room that was built for you, this is it.
Founding cohort — January 2027.
Waitlist members receive priority access when applications open.
Questions Women Ask Before They Apply.
Who is this program for?
Women founders who are the bottleneck in their own business — who have tried to delegate, taken things back, and are ready to build the operational system that finally lets them let go. You should have an active business, at least one other person on your team (even a contractor), and a genuine readiness to do 90 days of real work.
How much time does this require each week?
What if I can't make a session?
Is this the same as one-on-one coaching with Trena?
How do I know if I'm ready?
What happens after I join the waitlist?
What is the investment?
Get in Touch
(866) 874-3647
Open Hours
9am - 5pm Mon-Fri
Physical Address
3355 Lenox Rd NE
Suite 750
Atlanta, GA 30326
