Leveraging Your Personality

Hosted By: Michele Equale

Room:163

In Leveraging Your Personality, Michele Equale will help you recognize that in order to succeed, you have to grow on your strengths, target your weaknesses, feed on opportunities, and combat threats to your success. You will leave this workshop knowing that you can have it all, but not without building the proper tool kit and support systems, and knowing yourself first

Uncovering the Hidden Obstacles to Confidence: Body Image, Perfectionism, and Food Struggles

Hosted By: Tara Whitney

Room:168

Confidence. Something we all welcome more of and can’t have too much of.  We hear ways to build confidence, such as quiet our insecurities, take risks, ask for positive feedback, and surround ourselves with a supportive community. All great tactics, yet they don’t get at the underlying causes of why women are needing more confidence in the workplace to begin with. Consider some undeniable statistics around women’s health. 

  • From puberty to age 50, women are twice as likely as men to develop an anxiety disorder. 

  • 1 in 8 women experience depression in their lifetime. Twice the rate as men. 

  • Girls and women are 2.5 times more likely to develop an eating disorder. 

  • Women are more likely to experience burnout than men.

Happy thoughts and encouraging mentors aren’t enough to instill the confidence required to go after our dream job, speak in front of a large audience and share our creative ideas. Tara Whitney, CPA and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, will be sharing her personal struggles with body image, perfectionism and food as a college student and CPA to the trust and confidence she created for herself as she overcame these obstacles and created and grew several passion filled business. 

In this workshop, participants will gain an awareness of how these obstacles may be impacting their own confidence. They will also learn a practice of cultivating self trust so they have inner confidence no matter where they go. 

Discovering Your Inner Entrepreneur

Hosted By: Paula Gould

Room:162

This workshop will take a look at different types of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs and how each is needed to bring great ideas to life. You’ll gain a better sense of your entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial traits, how to leverage them and how they shift over time while remaining equally valuable to the success of a business or project’s growth. We’ll also cover how each contributes to go-to-market, fundraising and career path choices.

Transformational Leadership & Workplace Bias

Hosted By: Alaina Macaulay

Room:174

Bias training is a positive step towards addressing and recognizing the unconscious influences that alter the environment and the decisions that affect the workplace. In this workshop, attendees will learn to heighten their awareness and identify their own biases. Through discussion and role play exercises, attendees will harness their leadership skills and develop methods to empower themselves and others in their professional and personal lives.

Colorology & Business Etiquette

Hosted By: Melissa Baker

Room:165

Have you ever wanted to know how the clothes you wear and the colors you choose impact the message you convey to others about your personal brand? Do you want insight into making an excellent first impression and working the room for your professional development advantage?

In this workshop, attendees will also learn about the psychology of color and how to use colors to your advantage to make yourself more marketable to recruiters and professionals. As well as, gain insight into how confidence, body language, handshakes, have significant psychological influences on the impressions you make.