2024 Keynotes, Panelists & Special Guests

Keynotes & Special Guests

2024 Panel Descriptions

PANEL TITLE:  From Stress to Success: Mastering Your Money with Intention and Confidence

DESCRIPTION:  Join us for an empowering conversation around money! Learn how to have better control over your money day-to-day, align your dollars with your values, and master the art of a healthy money mindset. This session will inspire you to make money decisions out of a sense of abundance, clarity and confidence.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  1. Gain clarity on your current financial situation.
  2. Learn how to create a healthy relationship with money so you can thrive personally and financially
  3. Align your investments with your values and create a framework for long term investing

PANELISTS:

 

PANEL COORDINATOR: Lisa Stornaielo

PANEL TITLE: Reproductive Hormones Unlocked: What is Happening to My Body?!

DESCRIPTION:  Understanding the crucial role your reproductive hormones play in your overall well-being is key to feeling and living your most energetic life. This panel is designed to empower you with practical health and nutrition strategies that not only help you manage your symptoms, but more importantly support your long-term health. Join us to explore how you can take proactive steps to thrive during every season of your life. Leave this panel with the knowledge and confidence to take control of your health, allowing you to embrace the best version of yourself!

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  1. Gain a deeper knowledge of how your reproductive hormones influence your physical and emotional health.
  2. Learn Sustainable Lifestyle Changes with practical advice on lifestyle adjustments that enhance your well-being now and set the foundation for a healthier future.
  3. Take Away Actionable Strategies with techniques to implement changes effectively, even when motivation is low, ensuring you stay on track with your health goals.

PANELISTS:

 

PANEL COORDINATOR: Lynn Laporte

PANEL TITLE: All In for Impact: Women Driving Change in Nonprofits

DESCRIPTION: Are you ready to harness your unique skills and passions to drive meaningful change? Join us for our panel, where you’ll discover how volunteering, board membership, and other forms of nonprofit involvement can enrich your personal and professional life. Our panel of inspiring women from diverse backgrounds—corporate, nonprofit, and independent—will share their journeys of integrating nonprofit work into their lives, offering valuable insights and practical advice.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  1. Authenticity in Action: Understand the power of bringing your authentic self to nonprofit work and how this can drive both personal fulfillment and career success.
  2. Career Integration: Discover how nonprofit engagement can serve as a strategic tool for career advancement, skill-building, and networking, whether you’re looking to advance in your current role, explore new opportunities, or simply give back.
  3. Actionable Steps: Learn the many ways you can contribute to causes that matter to you, no matter your current role or availability.

PANELISTS:

 

PANEL COORDINATOR: Kelly Golden

PANEL TITLE: Business Growth Essentials: Fueling Your Business with Cash Flow, Strategy, and Certifications

DESCRIPTION: Join us for an empowering panel designed to equip you with the tools to supercharge your business growth. We’ll dive deep into the critical aspects of sustaining and scaling your business: mastering cash flow, crafting effective strategies, and leveraging certifications. These elements might seem daunting, but with the right insights, they can become your secret weapons for success. Gain the knowledge you need to maintain financial health, steer your business with purpose, and unlock new opportunities with powerful certifications. Get ready to harness these dynamic forces and take your business to new heights!

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  1. Get Organized: Walk away with an operations plan template to optimize your weekly schedule, ensuring you’re investing time where it matters most.
  2. Cash Confidence: Learn a straightforward cash management system that guarantees consistent profitability, simplifies operations, and ensures you get paid what your business can sustain—eliminating financial guesswork and bringing clarity.
  3. Unlock Opportunities: Discover how certifications, especially diverse supplier certifications, can open doors to lucrative contracts with government and private sectors, access grants, and boost your company’s credibility, paving the way for growth.

PANELISTS:

 

PANEL COORDINATOR: Dulce Orozco

PANEL TITLE:  Speaking Up & Standing Out Online & In Person

DESCRIPTION: Personal branding is the biggest buzzword in business, whether you work for yourself or someone else. The general message is you need to find a way to differentiate yourself and share your unique opinions. But that doesn’t always come easily to everyone. And if you’re not a communications professional, it can be challenging to figure out what to say, where to say it, and how to say it.

In this panel, you’ll learn from a professional public speaking coach how to speak with confidence so that you are compelling, thoughtful, and memorable. Then, a LinkedIn expert will explain how to take the confidence and stand out online. The panel will conclude with tangible tips from a communications strategist on how to identify your voice, perfect your message, and thoughtfully engage your audience. You’ll leave ready to speak up and stand out whether you’re presenting to a room of colleagues or on social media.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  1. Building public speaking confidence centers around three core areas: content clarity, positive mindset and body and engaging in realistic rehearsal.
  2. The purpose of a platform like LinkedIn is to stand out, which means not being afraid to consistently show up as yourself and engage with your connections.
  3. When thinking about how to communicate, ask yourself: What’s your voice? Who’s your audience? What’s your message?

PANELISTS:

PANEL COORDINATOR: Sierra Gregoire

PANEL TITLE: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: How To Go All-In On Entrepreneurship

DESCRIPTION: Entrepreneurship is a journey filled with highs, lows, and everything in between. This panel will explore the realities of taking the leap from employee to entrepreneur, discussing the critical moments that define success, the challenges that test resilience, and the unexpected rewards that make it all worthwhile. Whether you’re contemplating starting your own business or are already navigating the entrepreneurial path, this discussion will provide valuable insights from seasoned entrepreneurs who have experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly of going all-in on their ventures.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  1. How to Make the Decision to Transition: Understanding the key factors that drive the shift from working for someone else to becoming your own boss.
  2. There’s No Set Path to Entrepreneurship: Embracing the unpredictable nature of entrepreneurship and learning to navigate the unique journey it presents.
  3. Facing the Ugly Truths: Identifying and overcoming the toughest challenges, from financial risks to emotional hurdles.

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PANEL TITLE: Redefining Success Through Intentional Self-Care

DESCRIPTION: Join us as we move beyond typical self-care practices like mani/pedis and spa days, and delve into the nuanced complexity of showing compassion and love to ourselves. We’ll explore profound ways to meet our needs through somatic release, intentional practice, and community support. Our discussion will feature personal anecdotes and effective strategies for mindfully prioritizing ourselves after years of focusing on everything and everyone else. Our incredible panelists will share how they’ve balanced demanding careers, child and parental caregiving, and life’s transitions, offering insights into integrating empowerment into everyday life, using dance and movement to release trauma, and embracing profound identity shifts. Join us for a candid discussion on how self-care forms the backbone of resilience and joy

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  1. Explore movement as a way of facilitating sustainable somatic healing and emotional release.
  2. Examine self-care as a powerful means of personal expression and authenticity.
  3. Embrace leveraging your your community for support in navigating life’s transitions with self-compassion.

PANELISTS:

 

PANEL COORDINATOR: Minessa Konecky

2024 Panelists