Why boxing?
Because the ring makes pressure visible.
In boxing, you can feel the difference between reacting and choosing. You learn where you waste energy, where you brace, where you overreach, and how quickly you can return to center. Focus, stamina, recovery, timing, and presence are not ideas in the ring. They are lived in real time.
Fight Co.Lab brings that same clarity to leadership.
For women operating at the highest levels, the work is visible, complex, and constant. The question is not simply how to keep going. It is how to get clear on what is truly worth fighting for — across their companies, careers, relationships, and lives.
How it started.
Fight Co.Lab began as a conversation between Shea O’Neil, a developmental leadership coach and facilitator working with executives and teams, and Erin Renzas, a tech executive turned entrepreneur and author.
At the time, Erin was training for her first amateur boxing match. What started as a physical outlet became something more revealing: a practice in pressure, instinct, discipline, recovery, and presence.
In the ring, the lessons were immediate. You could feel where you were wasting energy. Where you were bracing. Where you were overreaching. Where you were protecting something that no longer needed protecting. You could feel the difference between reacting and choosing.
Erin and Shea began to see how directly those patterns mirrored executive life.
Leadership, like boxing, is not only strategic. It is physical, emotional, relational, and deeply human. It asks you to read the room, manage your energy, recover quickly, choose your timing, and stay connected to what matters while the pressure is live.
That became the foundation of Fight Co.Lab.
Learning to fight your own fight.
In boxing, you cannot win a fight defined entirely by someone else’s terms.
You have to know what you are protecting. You have to understand the terrain. You have to conserve energy for the moments that matter. You have to know when to advance, when to yield, when to recover, and when to return to center.
The same is true in leadership.
Too often, leaders find themselves pulled into fights shaped by expectation, momentum, or noise — defending positions they did not choose, chasing definitions of success that no longer fit, or spending energy in places that do not move the work, the business, or the life they actually want.
Fight Co.Lab uses the boxing ring as a live practice ground for that work.
Not to become boxers. To make leadership visible in the body.
The ring reveals how you meet pressure. How you hold focus. How you recover after impact. How you make choices when the pace changes. How you protect what matters without tightening around everything.
That is where the work begins.
“I realized I’d been fighting for the next rung on the ladder. Every time I got there, there was another fight waiting — only this time the stakes were higher, the hits landed harder, and the exhaustion ran deeper.
The fighting never stopped; it just changed form. At some point, I lost sight of what I was fighting for. The fight became about fighting itself. I still knew how to fight, but the win felt increasingly out of reach — and I wasn’t even sure what winning meant anymore.”
Define. Construct. Embody.
Fight Co.Lab is built around a simple progression: define the fight, construct the practice, embody the way forward.
Through immersive gatherings, continued work, candid peer dialogue, and time in the ring, participants clarify what they are fighting for now — across their leadership, business, career, and life.
The experience is intentionally small and highly curated, bringing together women operating at the highest levels in a room designed for depth, honesty, and real connection.
This is not about fighting harder.
It is about fighting with more precision. More clarity. More stamina. More presence.
It is about understanding where your energy is going, what is asking to be protected, what is ready to move, and what kind of leader you want to be in the next round.