Empowering Women in Business Conference Sessions

According to recent research, women earn more advanced degrees than men and hold half of all middle management positions. Regardless of this finding, less than one in five women are advancing into senior roles and positions of leadership. One of the biggest challenges women face in advancing their careers involves communication skills. Discover how to overcome these challenges and advance in key roles of influence and leadership. In this interactive session, participants will identify areas where their personal communication skills may be preventing advancement and create and practice tiny communication habits that will enable them to achieve greater success.

In this presentation, we will explore the importance of developing a personal energetic awareness to cultivate sustainable success, especially when life gets tough. This presentation is designed to help you establish habits that will empower you to achieve your goals by ensuring you do not get energetically drained along the way. You will receive practical techniques to add to your energy levels, including creating daily practices that incorporate your authentic values. You will also learn how to identify your energy drains and you will be equipped with tools to “patch” your energetic leaks as they arise in the future.

The glass ceiling -- the invisible barrier that prevents women from ascending to the career of their dreams. Gratefully, more or more women are adding their crack to that ceiling, creating opportunities for the women who are coming after them. There's another ceiling, the self-imposed ‘drop ceiling’ that some of us erect with our own self-limiting habits and beliefs. It's as prickly and scratchy as the walls of our soft and cozy comfort zone. Women leaders need to stop focusing on external factors over which they have little control, and start examining their own internal barriers to success.

Let's dive deeper and CREATE the framework and source our habits. Our character & values determine our choices. Sticking by our values time and time again and making our choices that aligned with them (practice) = HabIT! 'IT' FACTOR! When we allow our core values to guide our choices we turn what started as intention and a habit into IT being who we are and how we show up. And now we get to OWN IT.

'I'm not good at Math so my financial life is a mess.' This is what I hear from so many women I speak to. The barriers we create for ourselves leaves us feeling confused and, secretly, ashamed of our financial situation, no matter how we stand. We get that icky feeling inside when we begin talking about anything that has to do with money. I talk about how to break some of those barriers, find your why, and baby step habits to get you to your goals faster. Financial Independence is the goal and it's not that far out of reach. I teach how to leverage your dollars to live a lifestyle you love.

You can't throw a proverbial stone these days without hitting an article that tells you how to prevent burnout or eliminate stress. The problem is that they all center on personal responsibility - but what if that's not enough? What if the reason you're exhausted has to do with people born four hundred years ago? This session will cover the source of cultural exhaustion from a sociohistorical perspective, and also give concrete responses to how to *actually* reduce burnout in your personal life and organization.

Vulnerability and authenticity are terms commonly used to describe personal branding. Don't let these descriptors steer you to believe you should sacrifice yourself to your brand. Building a strong personal brand is all about being true to who you are to include setting boundaries. Learn how to develop a personal brand that keeps you in your comfort zone while also building relationships with the potential clients you love.

In this presentation, we will explore the critical role that our choices play in shaping our journey towards personal growth. By examining the impact of our decisions on our past, present, and future, we can gain valuable insights into our ongoing process of self-exploration. We will discuss the importance of choosing ourselves, reframing our mindset, and pushing beyond our comfort zones to drive positive transformation and development. Moreover, we will explore effective strategies for making intentional choices that can help us cultivate self-awareness, self-improvement, and personal transformation, including identifying personal values, developing a growth mindset, practicing self-care and self-compassion, and stepping outside of our comfort zones. This presentation aims to inspire individuals to take ownership of their choices and to embrace the journey of personal growth and development, leaving with actionable steps to implement in their own lives.

In a world where attention is currency, thought leadership is a powerful strategy to stand out, build influence, and demonstrate authority. Women are uniquely positioned to make a meaningful impact in the world. Whether you are in business or climbing the corporate ladder, your unique perspective, your story, voice and perspective matters. Participants will: *Discover why thought leadership is essential to building a business or climbing a corporate ladder *Explore the the elements of building credibility and becoming impossible to ignore *Take a quiz to determine thought leadership starting point *Examine the skills needed to become an effective thought leader

It seems counterintuitive during these fast-paced days to suggest that people press pause, but knowing how to pause is a critical skill for leaders. Whether you are managing your own company, guiding a team, serving on an executive board, or striving for more fulfillment, it is important to strike a delicate balance between reflection and action. If you’re ready to quiet the noise, tap into your inner power, and navigate through the chaos of life and leadership by responding more, and reacting less, this workshop is for you.

One of the first rules in public relations is to always bring it back to positive. It is also a core value of Emily's marketing agency, Grace Communications. In this presentation she will show you how to take negative feedback, social media comments, and other less than ideal situations and spin them into something that can help further your initiatives. Emily will show you the way to change your mindset so you see opportunity when conflict arises.

Do you ever find yourself wishing for more hours in the day? What if I told you that you can free up time in your business by documenting the way you do business? It’s true. By investing the time to document how you do business, you’ll begin the process of teaching your employees/contractors to complete important tasks in your business. Do you know what that means? It means more time to focus on the things you actually want to do. Join us as we discuss how we create your business’s single source of truth – your Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

The 'Help, I work with people!' presentation will teach attendees how to become better leaders so they can equip the next generation of women to make lasting impact within their communities, articulate their value within the workplace and embrace their awesomeness. Our proprietary CELLS framework provides attendees with actionable steps that they can implement right away. Equipping them to create spaces where people feel seen, valued, and heard. It's time for our sisters to continue making IT happen!

Join this interactive discussion on living daily in your unique vision of what you want for your life! Do you know your why? Or the why beneath your why? Is it big enough? Do you know your why gets to be big enough so that you do what it takes to get there? Walk away with clear steps on how to live intuitively and authentically! This is outlined with Magic and it is supported with brief stories of personal experience through transformation. You will have tangible action items that you start right away and every day to achieve your why!

Ready to reconnect with your authentic self and, even better, learn to honor it in all areas of your life and business? In this presentation, Jamie will help you discover the most powerful tool you have to find peace in your decisions, strategies, and actions. By teaching her signature Alignment Process, Jamie will walk through 5 powerful strategies to develop deep self-awareness, release pressure, and feel more peace than ever before. You will immediately be able to start a practice of connecting to your authentic self, acknowledging pressure, strategizing an aligned plan, and reflecting in peace.

Get ready to dive into the world of office organization and experience the ultimate rush that comes with tidying up your space to create good habits once and for all. Say goodbye to the chaos of scattered papers and lost supplies, and hello to a clean workspace that energizes and motivates you every day. Have more productivity, take control of your life, build good habits, and achieve your goals. It all starts with an environment where everything has a place and a purpose. When you establish a system for organizing your time, space, and tasks, you create a sense of structure and routine that supports your success. Habits of decluttering, planning, and prioritizing, provide the discipline and focus you need to make progress in every area of your life. Shannon will inspire the audience to take on new challenges and achieve even greater success, once they have established a less chaotic environment…starting with one area at a time.