2024 Women's Leadership Conference

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2024 Women's Leadership Conference

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Description

Join us for an inspiring day of connection, empowerment, and leadership at the Women’s Leadership Conference, themed "Rise Together." This event is designed for women in leadership roles who are passionate about building stronger teams, fostering inclusivity, and navigating challenges with resilience. Through engaging speakers, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities, you'll discover new strategies to grow as a leader and uplift others along the way. Whether you're an experienced executive or an emerging leader, this event offers valuable insights and tools to help you rise both personally and professionally.

At the heart of the conference is the belief that we are stronger when we support one another. "Rise Together" embodies the power of collective leadership, resilience, and diverse voices coming together to drive change. Hear from thought-provoking speakers who will share their experiences on overcoming adversity, building inclusive environments, and trusting their own voices. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with fellow leaders, exchange ideas, and leave feeling empowered to rise together as a force for positive impact in your organization and community.

Speakers:

Hannah Austin, MBA

CEO/Founder

SheShatters, LLC

Workshop: 9:45-10:45

Unshakable: Building Resilience to Thrive

This talk is designed to help you understand what resilience really means and how to build it in both your personal and professional life. Together, we’ll dive into some inspiring stories, work through interactive exercises, and discuss practical strategies that you can use right away to bounce back from setbacks, face challenges head-on, and thrive no matter what life throws at you.

Here’s what you’ll get from this session:

You’ll understand what resilience is and why it’s crucial in today’s fast-paced, unpredictable world.
I’ll share with you some easy, actionable techniques like mindfulness, setting boundaries, managing your emotions, and developing a growth mindset that you can start using to build resilience.
By the end of our time together, you’ll have created your own personal resilience toolkit and action plan to help you stay strong, adaptable, and focused—long after you leave this session.

This isn’t just about surviving tough times—this is about you learning how to thrive through them.

Rachael Spoon, Agent
State Farm Insurance

Title: “Betting on You”
Description: You can be your best mentor, best friend, best motivator, best constructive-criticism provider…the list goes on. Recognizing the times in your life that you squashed or “someone” else squashed your voice and learning how to turn her up will unlock great success and great peace within you. In my experience, the outside voices have been so much louder in my head than my own voice. But my voice has been the smartest and best positioned voice of anyone in my life – and so is YOURS.

Bio:
Rachael has lived her life by the rules, partially because that is who she is and the rest because that is what everyone told her she needed to do, and she is a people pleaser. Living by the rules has gotten her part of the way in this world, but the magic began happening when she started betting on and investing in herself. She has been a State Farm Agent since 2015 and has pursued many worthwhile endeavors in the Klamath Basin community from paid positions to volunteer activities in the last 30 years. She has been married to her best friend for over 23 years and is the proud momma of a 22-year-old daughter and a 20-year-old son. A passion of Rachael’s is empowering women to achieve their goals much faster than she was able to due to blinders, a list of well-intentioned people that help cultivate self-doubt and self-doubt itself in this very tough, but beautiful world. She looks forward to providing insights that will allow women to consistently bet on themselves.

Mary Hambleton, CEO - Trainer
Soul Canyon Training & Development

Creating Emotionally Intelligent Leaders
– What the world needs now more than ever are people capable of leading people. Ai will be able to replace many jobs in the future, but what a robot can’t do is be human. In this interactive workshop we will explore what is Emotional Intelligence(EI). Assess your own EI and what behaviors Emotionally Intelligent Leaders have. Learn the one thing that every study has shown people are looking for in their leaders.

Bio:
As a busy business owner, a mother of five and a grandmother of eight, Mary’s training style helps bring real life balance to those who are struggling with, “Doing it All”. Mary currently resides in Medford, Oregon with her husband and business partner, Rob Hambleton and their three beautiful Labrador Assistances, Miss Sunny, and Miss Winnie and Little Buddy. Since 2002, Soul Canyon Training & Development has been helping people navigate communication differences. “She loves bringing teams and individuals to higher levels of performance with improved communication”