Conference for Women Speakers
Our exceptional lineup at this year's Conference for Women includes several inspirational leaders who are poised to ignite your passion, empower your potential, and equip you with actionable insights for personal and professional growth. Our esteemed speakers are trailblazers in their respective fields, embodying resilience, innovation, and leadership.
Through their diverse experiences and expertise, they will inspire you with their compelling stories, ignite the flames of your ambition, and demonstrate that success knows no boundaries. Get ready to be inspired, empowered, and armed with actionable items for personal and professional growth!
LUNCHEON PANEL
You See the Leader.
You Don’t See the Journey.
Preeti Ghosh
Dr. Brenda Alton
Patty Seaman
The person you see today is only part of the story. In this candid panel conversation, women leaders will share the experiences, challenges, choices, setbacks, and lessons that shaped who they are today. As we celebrate Women Who Built the Fabric of America, this conversation looks beyond titles and accomplishments to the individual threads that helped shape each woman’s journey, leadership, and impact.
Moderated by Stacy Rhoads
Breakout Sessions
Breakout Session I 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Julie Shore
The Sustainable Success Blueprint: Work Smarter Without the Hustle
Kiki Ayers
From Surviving to Scaling: How to Build a Business When You Don’t Have a Blueprint
Kristen Campbell & Kristin Argento
Dressed in Five: The Threads Method for Getting Dressed with Confidence
BREAKOUT SESSIONS I
BREAKOUT SESSION I
The Sustainable Success Blueprint: Work Smarter Without the Hustle
with Julie Shore
Whether you’re a solopreneur, individual contributor or leading a team, this session will help you stop operating in survival mode and start showing up as your best self. You’ll walk away with three actionable strategies you can implement immediately to regain clarity, reclaim your energy, and build a schedule that finally works for this season of your business, life and career.
BREAKOUT SESSION I
From Surviving to Scaling: How to Build a Business When You Don’t Have a Blueprint
with Kiki Ayers
Entrepreneurship doesn’t come with a blueprint. Kiki Ayers shares the hard-earned lessons behind building a multimillion-dollar PR firm after experiencing homelessness, including how to recognize opportunity, build credibility without traditional resources, know your worth, create strategic visibility and make the decisions that allow a business to scale. Designed for entrepreneurs, executives and aspiring founders, this candid and actionable session gives women practical strategies to move from simply surviving in business to building something sustainable, profitable and impactful.
BREAKOUT SESSION I
Dressed in Five: The Threads Method for Getting Dressed with Confidence
with Kristen Campbell & Kristin Argento
Getting dressed shouldn't be the hardest decision of your morning. Style Coaches and authors Kristen Campbell and Kristin Argento introduce the Threads Method (Edit, Style, Shop) a practical approach to creating a wardrobe that reflects who you are, your lifestyle, and your professional goals. Participants will learn how to reduce decision fatigue, identify their personal style, create versatile outfits, and shop more strategically. Their goal is to give busy women the tools to get dressed with confidence and intention in five minutes or less.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS II
BREAKOUT SESSION II
Conquering Unforgiveness: The Leadership Superpower
with Dionne Nicholls-Germain
High-achieving women often carry silent resentment, self-doubt, and pressure that quietly impact confidence and leadership presence. In this transformative session, Dionne introduces her signature RESET Framework, a forgiveness-centered leadership approach that helps women release what is weighing them down, strengthen self-trust, and lead with resilience and clarity. Participants will gain practical tools to navigate conflict, overcome self-criticism, and cultivate psychologically safe, high-trust environments. Forgiveness is not weakness. It is power in action.
BREAKOUT SESSION II
The Hidden Cost of Perimenopause on Health & Weight… and How to Stop It
with Dr. Caissa Troutman
Midlife brings biological changes that can affect everything from energy and sleep to libido and confidence. Dr. Caissa Troutman, a quadruple board-certified physician, helps women understand what's happening in their bodies and what they can do about it. Through her science-backed approach to meals, movement, mindset, and medication, she shares practical strategies for navigating midlife with greater confidence, better health, and a renewed sense of control.
BREAKOUT SESSION II
Becoming the Woman of Your Dreams: Reinvention
with Shannon Claire
This workshop is designed for women 35+ who are navigating midlife and all that comes with it. Creating a vision for your future in midlife, letting go of what no longer serves you, and embodying the next version of yourself. Whether you're a business owner setting goals or reinventing yourself, or a woman in corporate America this powerful session designed around the theme of the conference, is for you!
BREAKOUT SESSIONS III
BREAKOUT SESSION III
Control What You Can. Release What You Can’t.
with Megan Weisheipl
How much time and energy do we spend worrying about other people’s opinions, decisions, reactions, outcomes, or situations we simply cannot change? In this practical and empowering session, I teach participants how to separate what is within their control from what isn’t and intentionally redirect their energy toward what they can actually influence. Participants will learn how to recognize when they’re carrying something that isn’t theirs, respond rather than react, and make intentional choices about where they put their time, attention, and energy.
BREAKOUT SESSION III
Kintsugi for the Soul: Honor What Shaped You. Choose What Comes Next.
with Marissa Lovene
You’re the woman everyone counts on. You anticipate needs, solve problems, and keep things moving. Yet asking for help feels uncomfortable, rest comes with guilt, and somewhere along the way, being capable became an obligation to carry it all. Inspired by kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold, this session will help you uncover the patterns and expectations you’ve inherited, honor the strength they gave you, and decide what you no longer need to carry. Lovene combines analytical problem-solving with body-based practices to help make invisible patterns visible. Discover your own “gold” whether it’s boundaries, courage, self-trust, or joy and begin choosing what you want to carry forward.
BREAKOUT SESSION III
How AI Can Help or Hurt Your Brand
with Janelle DelSignore
Artificial intelligence is changing the way businesses operate, but knowing how to use it strategically is what separates thriving companies from those that simply follow trends. This is a practical, research-backed session on how business owners can leverage AI to save time, make smarter decisions, and grow their business, without sacrificing their brand, credibility, or customer trust. This session will arm you with more insight into AI, how it is transforming the landscape of digital marketing for small to big businesses, and more direction on how to utilize AI where it helps while avoiding the use-cases that hurt your brand.