About Rêve PODS
Built by Women
Who Understand
Transformation
Rêve PODS was born from a simple truth: women at every stage of life deserve a curated, trusted community of peers who understand exactly what they're navigating. Our team brings together decades of experience in leadership development, global advocacy, and transformational coaching.
Our Mission
Nurturing women
through every
great transition
We believe that the moments between who you were and who you're becoming are sacred — and they should never be walked alone. Rêve PODS creates intentional spaces for women to be honest about where they are and bold about where they want to go.
Our community is curated by life stage so every conversation is relevant, every connection is meaningful, and every woman in the room gets you — because she's standing in the same chapter.
Curated Sisterhood
No algorithms. No noise. Each POD is thoughtfully assembled to ensure depth, relevance, and genuine connection at your specific stage of life and career.
Transformational Framework
Every POD is anchored in the BE-IT Framework©, a proprietary model that guides women through authentic transformation — not just change, but growth that sticks.
Radical Candor, Radical Safety
This is a space for the conversations you can't have elsewhere. We cultivate environments where honesty is welcomed and vulnerability is celebrated.
Global Perspective, Personal Impact
Our leadership team brings global expertise from G7 and G20 tables to entrepreneurial boardrooms — so the wisdom within Rêve PODS is both worldly and deeply personal.
Our Framework
The BE-IT Framework©
Created by Hazel-Ann McLean, the BE-IT Framework© is the transformational compass for every Rêve POD. Built on four powerful pillars — Build, Explore, Inspire, Trailblaze — it isn't a checklist but a living framework that meets each woman in her unique moment and provides a clear, courageous pathway forward. From the entrepreneur taking her first leap to the C-suite leader driving global change, BE-IT applies at every stage.
Step One
Build
The foundation of everything. Before you can lead others or leap into what's next, you must be grounded in who you truly are. Build means doing the honest work of owning your authenticity, establishing the boundaries that protect your energy, and recognizing — then gently stretching — the edges of your comfort zone.
Step Two
Explore
Curiosity is a leadership skill. Explore invites you to lean into possibility — to engage with new ideas and people, to learn without the pressure of immediate mastery, and to adapt with confidence as the landscape shifts. This is where potential begins to take shape.
Step Three
Inspire
Your growth was never just for you. Inspire is the gift that comes when you've done the inner work — the natural overflow into teaching what you've learned and finding joy, lightness, and laughter in the journey. Inspiration is both given and received. It is how transformation multiplies.
Step Four
Trailblaze
Trailblazers don't just break new ground — they build paths that last. This final stage is about leading change that endures: for yourself, your community, and the women who will follow behind you. Trailblaze is not a destination; it is how you move from now on.
The BE-IT Framework© applies to every Rêve POD stage
The Women Behind Rêve PODS
Leadership you can trust.
Learn from. Grow with.
Our team combines lived experience at every stage of the professional journey with deep expertise in transformation, global advocacy, and community building.
Founder & Creator, Rêve PODS
Hazel-Ann McLean, MBA, PMP
Creator of the BE-IT Framework© | Author | Leadership Strategist
Hazel-Ann McLean is a transformational leadership strategist, author, and the visionary founder of Rêve PODS. She doesn't just coach the corporate journey — she has lived every stage of it.
Her career began in the world's most demanding institutions: McKinsey & Company, Bank of New York Mellon (VP, overseeing $34B in regulatory assets), PNC Bank, and Highmark Health — leading enterprise transformations, and compliance programmes at the highest levels of complexity. She then made the leap into entrepreneurship as CEO of TriVerum, her strategic consulting firm serving Fortune 500 clients across banking, healthcare, and government. She has sat in the boardroom, led the transformation, and built the business from the ground up.
That full arc — corporate executive, entrepreneur, and C-suite strategist — is what she brings into every room at Rêve PODS. Her work sits at the intersection of authenticity, ambition, and transformation. She has guided women from their first tentative steps into entrepreneurship, through the disorienting middle of long careers that no longer fit, all the way to the rarefied air of the C-suite — where the conversations that matter most are the hardest to have. She has been in every one of those places herself.
Hazel-Ann is the creator of the BE-IT Framework©, a proprietary transformational model that has become the backbone of Rêve PODS and the compass for hundreds of women navigating life's most pivotal transitions. The Framework acknowledges that transformation is not a linear event — it is a living, breathing process that requires both courage and community.
On the BE-IT Framework©
"Build. Explore. Inspire. Trailblaze. Four words that hold the entire journey of becoming. I created BE-IT because brilliant women kept telling me they felt stuck — and I realized they didn't need more hustle, they needed a framework. BE-IT is that framework. It meets you where you are, and walks with you to where you're meant to be."
As the architect of Rêve PODS, Hazel-Ann designed four distinct communities — for entrepreneurs, emerging professionals, mid-career women at a crossroads, and C-suite leaders — each powered by BE-IT and held together by the irreplaceable power of sisterhood. Her vision is simple: no woman should have to transform alone.
Senior Contributors & Advisors
World-class expertise.
Personal commitment.
Founder & CEO, Viener & Partners | Brand Strategist | Marketing Leader
Hilarie Viener is a global C-suite leader, brand strategist, and philanthropist whose career spans the world's most influential organisations and causes. She began at top New York advertising agencies before founding Viener & Partners, a global branding, communications, and marketing consultancy that has contributed to the success of over 100 brands worldwide — including Bayer, Heineken, Tesla Motors, Unilever, and Hasbro.
In 2020, she stepped into the CEO role of a high-profile US non-profit inspired by Einstein's legacy, uniting Nobel Laureates, global leaders, and innovators around humanitarian and environmental impact worldwide. She serves on the Advisory Board of American University's School of Communication and as Strategic Advisor to DISCOVERED.tv, a global entertainment streaming platform. At Rêve PODS, Hilarie brings her rare combination of global brand authority, C-suite leadership, and purpose-driven impact to the executive cohort — guiding women who are ready to lead at the highest levels with both strategy and significance.
Head of Women's Programs, The Economist | Global Leader
Tatiana Der Avedissian is a communications and sustainability expert based in London. She is head of business development for the World Ocean Initiative at The Economist Group and leads her own consultancy, advising organisations on strategic communications, business development and sustainability strategy. Tatiana is the co-founder of Temis Fractal, an organisation helping female-led startups navigate and 'hack' the investment ecosystem. She has advised the G7 Women7 and G20 Women20 on climate and gender policy recommendations and continues to champion gender equality and environmental action globally.
Tatiana serves on several nonprofit boards in the UK and internationally, including as co-founder of The Armenia Project, co-president of the Harvard Kennedy School Women's Alumni Network, co-president of Alkionides UK, chair of trustees of the Armenian Institute and a board member of the UK-Cyprus Enterprise Council. She was recently invited to join the steering committee for the Cyprus Environment Foundation. She has also lectured on ethics and politics as a guest professor.
This is bigger than
a program.
It's a movement.
Rêve PODS exists to change what it means to be a woman in transition. We are building a legacy of women who lead themselves, support one another, and transform the spaces they occupy — at every stage.