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January Donovan

Architect of Catholic Feminine Formation. Founder of The Woman School. Leading a grassroots movement to reclaim the feminine genius through human formation.

Forbes-Recognized 2x Bestselling Author 50+ Countries 25+ Years Training Women Wife & Mother of 8
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About January

Architect of Catholic Feminine Formation. Founder of The Woman School.

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January Donovan is the architect of Catholic Feminine Formation and the founder of The Woman School, a grassroots movement to reclaim the feminine genius through human formation.

She is leading a Feminine Formation School as a counter-movement to the mental health crisis and moral decay that have infiltrated the domestic church, causing faithful Catholic women to feel overwhelmed, uninspired, and unable to bring order and beauty into their marriages, family life, and work.

Faithful Catholic women are struggling today not because of a lack of faith, but because of a lack of human formation necessary to face the demands of a godless and genderless culture. Formation gives women a greater capacity to fight the spiritual battle around us.

Evil grows when good women are silent, comfortable, and overwhelmed.
January Donovan

The Sexual Revolution did not merely fracture the family. It robbed women of both their faith and their femininity. The fight for women today can no longer be reduced to external freedom, but must recover interior freedom: the freedom to choose the highest good.

Formation is the missing anchor in the pro-life battle. It is only when women have life within that they have the capacity to choose life. January is on a mission to form women to become whole and fully alive.

She is leading a feminine revival by bringing Catholic Feminine Formation into colleges, parishes, pregnancy centers, and organizations around the world. Through this work, she is introducing a new feminine archetype that makes Our Lady, the New Eve, a relevant model of womanhood in modern society.

2x Bestselling Author Forbes Top Self-Worth Strategist 50+ Countries 25 Years Training Women Wife of 20 Years Mother of Eight
In Her Words

January on formation, faith, and the future.

The Sexual Revolution robbed us of both our faith and our femininity. Let us dare to imagine evangelizing the world back to God through our femininity.
January Donovan
Go tell the world about Our Lady, and if necessary, use words. It is how we incarnate her in our daily lives that the world will come to know her as our universal mother.
January Donovan
Feminine Formation is how we raise the standard of culture for generations to come.
January Donovan
Formation is the missing anchor in the pro-life battle. It is only when women have life within that they have the capacity to choose life.
January Donovan
Bios for Programs & Print

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Short Bio ~50 words · for tight program slots

January Donovan is the architect of Catholic Feminine Formation and the founder of The Woman School, a grassroots movement to reclaim the feminine genius through human formation. A Forbes-recognized strategist and two-time bestselling author, she has trained thousands of Catholic women across 50+ countries. She is married for 20 years and a mother of eight.

Long Bio ~250 words · for programs, websites, press

January Donovan is the architect of Catholic Feminine Formation and the founder of The Woman School, a grassroots movement to reclaim the feminine genius through human formation.

She is leading a Feminine Formation School as a counter-movement to the mental health crisis and moral decay that have infiltrated the domestic church, causing faithful Catholic women to feel overwhelmed, uninspired, and unable to bring order and beauty into their marriages, family life, and work.

Faithful Catholic women are struggling today not because of a lack of faith, but because of a lack of human formation necessary to face the demands of a godless and genderless culture. Formation is the missing anchor in the pro-life battle. It is only when women have life within that they have the capacity to choose life.

January is leading a feminine revival by bringing Catholic Feminine Formation into colleges, parishes, pregnancy centers, and organizations around the world. Through this work, she is introducing a new feminine archetype that makes Our Lady, the New Eve, a relevant model of womanhood in modern society.

A Forbes-recognized Top Self-Worth Strategist and two-time bestselling author with 25 years of experience training women, January has been married for 20 years and is a mother of eight.

For the Host

Speaker introduction

To be read aloud at the start of January's keynote.

It is my great privilege to introduce our speaker for today.

January Donovan is the architect of Catholic Feminine Formation and the founder of The Woman School. She is leading a grassroots movement to reclaim the feminine genius through human formation, bringing this work into colleges, parishes, pregnancy centers, and organizations across more than fifty countries.

Forbes has recognized her as a Top Self-Worth Strategist. She is a two-time bestselling author. She has spent twenty-five years training women in the skills they need to flourish.

Her message for our time is this: faithful Catholic women are not struggling because of a lack of faith. They are struggling because of a lack of human formation. And formation, January believes, is the missing anchor in the pro-life battle. It is only when women have life within that they have the capacity to choose life.

If you ask January what fulfills her, she will tell you it is her faith, her family, and her work in feminine formation. She has been married for twenty years and is a mother of eight children. She speaks not from theory, but from the lived ground of marriage, motherhood, and Catholic faith.

Please join me in giving a very warm welcome to January Donovan.

At a Glance

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Architect of
Catholic Feminine Formation
Founder of
The Woman School
Recognition
Forbes Top Self-Worth Strategist
Author
2x bestselling author of Redefine Success for Women
Experience
25+ years training women
Reach
Thousands across 50+ countries
Family
Wife of 20 years, mother of 8 children
Signature Program
The New Woman Masterclass
Speaking Topics

What January speaks on.

A selection of January's most-requested keynote talks. Each can be delivered as a standalone keynote or shaped into a multi-session retreat.

01
Fulton Sheen Keynote
Did God Design Motherhood to Be Hard?
We have normalized the assumption that motherhood is hard and overwhelming. But why? Mothers spend decades blaming themselves for a life they were never taught to live. It is time we form mothers to become whole and fully alive.
02
Fulton Sheen Keynote
Formation Is the Future of the Pro-Life Movement
How can women choose life if there is no life from within? To create a cultural revival from death to life, we must expand our focus beyond anti-abortion to forming women to live out their feminine genius in a way that radiates peace, order, and interior strength.
03
Edith Stein Keynote
How to Be a Woman
Why women today don't know how to be a woman, and what it takes to recover the feminine genius St. Edith Stein and St. John Paul II called us to.
04
Edith Stein Keynote
The Crisis of the Untrained Mother
Why women are untrained for motherhood, and how feminine formation restores the inheritance once passed from grandmothers to mothers to daughters.
05
Edith Stein Keynote
Redefine Success for Women
Why achievements are insufficient metrics for a woman's success, and what wholeness actually looks like in marriage, motherhood, work, and interior life.
06
Edith Stein Keynote
Why Women's Failure Is Not Their Fault
Giving language to women's common enemy. How generational deformation, not personal failing, has left a generation of women feeling fragmented and alone.
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January Donovan at a Barnes & Noble book signing
Book signing for Redefine Success for Women
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Redefine Success for Women, #1 bestseller