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Women's Leadership Summit 2023 WEBCAST

Thursday, May 25
8:00am - 5:00pm PDT

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8.0 Credits

Member Price $399.00

Non-Member Price $499.00

Overview

Join the buzz at the Women's Leadership Summit! Even busy bees in the accounting world need to take a break and get reinvigorated with new leadership tools. This conference’s sweet lineup of inspiring keynote speakers, workshops, and sessions will equip you with fresh ideas and knowledge to help you be a more effective and empowered leader. By attending this conference, you'll benefit from expert insights on topics such as how to thrive in the hive and advocating for yourself. So, get ready to bee inspired at this buzzworthy event! Register now to secure your spot.

Highlights

This event is designed to equip you with new leadership tools and provide you with inspiration to lead and empower others.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

Current and future leaders.

Objectives

Empower women and others, give inspiration to current and future leaders and provide takeaways to apply to your career.

Preparation

None.

Thursday, May 25

General Session

7:00am - 8:00am PDT Log-in and Welcome Screen

General Session

8:00am - 8:10am PDT Welcome and Announcements

Breakout Session

8:10am - 9:10am PDT The Pyramid of Self Advocacy

Jennifer Cravens Technical Accounting Consultant, Central Washington University

9:00am - 9:10am PDT Break

General Session

9:10am - 10:00am PDT Beyond Burnout: How To Reset Your System, Manage Stress and Find Balance in the Workplace

Brooke Stuart

Brooke Stuart

Dr. Brooke Stuart is the founder and active president of Let Go & Grow® International and a holistic doctor in private practice, where she specializes in taking a holistic approach to mental health and high performance- assisting her patients in unlocking their own, intrinsic power to heal. Over the past twelve years, Dr. Stuart has worked with thousands of people through her online platform, speaking engagements and one on one in private practice. Holding degrees in medical anthropology, psychology, and integrative medicine, Dr. Stuart uses a unique combination of holistic counseling and functional medicine to personalize and tailor treatments for her patients locally in Orlando, FL and around the world through our simple to use, telemedicine platform. As a physician, she is deeply committed to her patient’s personal growth and development as she uses solution-oriented methods to clear issues, create health, and assist them in realizing and actualizing their true potential.

General Session

10:00am - 10:10am PDT Break

General Session

10:10am - 11:10am PDT Psychological Safety: Creating Safe Spaces for Employees to Thrive

Jeannine Brown

Jeannine Brown

Jeannine K Brown is the founder and Managing Director of Everyday Lead headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an award-winning leader and thought leader. Jeannine is a highly sought-after speaker and brings insightful perspective and laughter to challenging topics. She has an active role and voice to champion the importance of diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion among individuals, cultures and systems. Jeannine is an active advocate for increasing women and multicultural professionals to corporate executive leadership roles. She works closely with clients, delivering solutions to increase retention, decrease attrition cost, attract new talent, and create competitive advantages through the power of inclusion. Jeannine designs transformational leadership content and DEI content. She is called upon to design leadership and career accelerator programs for women and Black professionals.

General Session

11:10am - 12:10pm PDT Lunch Break

General Session

12:10pm - 1:40pm PDT Make the Most of Your 24 hours

Carmen Landrau

Carmen Landrau

Dr. Carmen W. Landrau, M.D., is a board-certified cardiologist, a highly regarded female empowerment Keynote Speaker, and Public Speaking Business Coach based in Houston, Texas.

As a women’s empowerment Keynote Speaker, Dr. Landrau has helped countless female professionals attract the recognition they deserve while achieving their optimum work-life balance. As an executive business coach, she provides strategies to female entrepreneurs to help propel their businesses forward and improve their professional industry visibility.

Dr. Landrau is a frequent guest on podcasts, such as Women Taking the Lead with Jodi Flynn (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/women-taking-the-lead-with-jodi-flynn/id976712321?i=1000498777511).

General Session

1:40pm - 1:50pm PDT Break

General Session

1:50pm - 2:40pm PDT Mind Your Money Story: Stop the Scarcity Spiral and Confidently Ask for More

Zovig Garboushian

Zovig Garboushian

Zovig Garboushian is an executive coach, speaker, facilitator, and writer with a primary focus on advancing women in leadership. She’s been called part coach, part thought-provoker, and is said to have “x-ray vision.”

With a 25-year career that spans brand marketing, management consulting, and organizational and leadership development, she was inspired to launch Boldness Ablaze because she was fed up with seeing ambitious women shut down and forced to change themselves to compensate for others.

Through her coaching, speaking, and workshops, she’s supported hundreds of women - from C-suite to founders to business owners - redefine themselves as leaders and expand their definitions of success. She’s a consultant, a thought partner, and a sounding board to her clients. She helps them cultivate deep self-trust and break through personal limitations so they can be more themselves in everything they do.

She is a leadership content contributor to Brainz and Strive Magazines, hosts Sparking Thoughts: LinkedIn Live, has appeared on podcasts such as Fix Yourself, Career Spotlight Podcast, Digital Connections, and Management Development Unplugged, is a board member of HR.com’s Coaches & Mentors, and the creator of Leadership Essence 2-day women’s leadership immersion.

Zovig has worked with leaders and teams at Accenture, CreditKarma, New York Life, Google, Microsoft, Planned Parenthood, Badassery-HQ, University of Delaware, Bungie Games, Chevron, NBC Universal, Samsung, Unify Consulting, among others in technology, finance, healthcare, retail, and startups.

General Session

2:40pm - 3:00pm PDT Break

General Session

3:00pm - 3:50pm PDT The Power of Supportive Women’s Networks

Amy Vetter

Amy Vetter

Amy Vetter, CPA, CITP, CGMA, MBA, is the CEO of The B³ Method Institute and B³ Yoga, which provide ongoing learning to help people in all industries and career levels to achieve their desired potential in work and life.

Amy is a transformative keynote speaker, consultant, board member, author, and host of the podcast, Breaking Beliefs. As the creator of the B³ Method® for Business, Balance & Bliss, Amy has inspired thousands of people at hundreds of events on the mindful use of technology, change management, connected leadership, mindfulness in the workplace, and work-life balance.

As a CPA, Amy is also a key influencer in the accounting and finance profession. She has been named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Accounting” by the AICPA and CPA Practice Advisor and a Top 100 Most Influential Person by Accounting Today multiple times. Amy also shares her accounting and business insights as a contributor to AICPA’s Journal of Accountancy, Accounting Today, CPA Practice Advisor as well as Inc.com and Entrepreneur.com.

Amy is a member of the AICPA Council, a Board Member for the Ohio Society of CPAs, and a member of the AICPA’s Engage Tech+ conference planning committee. Additionally, Amy has been a part of the AICPA’s key blockchain initiatives, including: AICPA’s Blockchain Symposium, technical reviewer and speaker for the AICPA’s Blockchain Fundamentals Program.

With an MBA and deep entrepreneurial roots, Amy is a skilled C-suite executive and corporate board member. She has deep experience in cloud technology and transformation, and creating go-to-market (GTM) strategies to scale businesses nationally and internationally. Amy has held leadership roles overseeing sales, education, marketing, and advisory services functions at accounting software companies, as a partner in a CPA firm, and when she owned and operated her own national accounting and advisory services practice.

As the creator of the B³ Method, Amy authored the book Business, Balance & Bliss: How the B³ Method Can Transform Your Career and Life. In her book, Amy created a methodology, backed by scientific research, on how to live a more authentic life and achieve work-life harmony. This book is based on her own career journey as a CPA, entrepreneur and corporate executive and those experiences of other successful business leaders.

General Session

3:50pm - 4:00pm PDT Break

General Session

4:10pm - 5:00pm PDT Confidence in Conversations

Jen Mueller

Jen Mueller

Jen Mueller, America’s Expert Talker is rarely at a loss for words. She pursued a career in sports broadcasting after repeated comments of “talks too much” from teachers and family members. A 15-year sports broadcasting veteran, Jen currently serves as the Seattle Seahawks sideline radio reporter. She is also part of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast team on ROOT Sports. In addition to her work on the sidelines, Jen launched Talk Sporty to Me in 2009 and teaches business professionals how to improve communication and leverage fandom in business. Jen published her second book Talk Sporty to Me: Thinking Outside the Box Scores in January 2015. She is also the author of Game Time: Learn to Talk Sports in 5 Minutes a Day for Business. Jen graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2000 with degrees in Broadcasting Journalism and Public Policy.

General Session

5:00pm - 5:10pm PDT Adjourn

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Amy Vetter

Amy Vetter, CPA, CITP, CGMA, MBA, is the CEO of The B³ Method Institute and B³ Yoga, which provide ongoing learning to help people in all industries and career levels to achieve their desired potential in work and life.

Amy is a transformative keynote speaker, consultant, board member, author, and host of the podcast, Breaking Beliefs. As the creator of the B³ Method® for Business, Balance & Bliss, Amy has inspired thousands of people at hundreds of events on the mindful use of technology, change management, connected leadership, mindfulness in the workplace, and work-life balance.

As a CPA, Amy is also a key influencer in the accounting and finance profession. She has been named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Accounting” by the AICPA and CPA Practice Advisor and a Top 100 Most Influential Person by Accounting Today multiple times. Amy also shares her accounting and business insights as a contributor to AICPA’s Journal of Accountancy, Accounting Today, CPA Practice Advisor as well as Inc.com and Entrepreneur.com.

Amy is a member of the AICPA Council, a Board Member for the Ohio Society of CPAs, and a member of the AICPA’s Engage Tech+ conference planning committee. Additionally, Amy has been a part of the AICPA’s key blockchain initiatives, including: AICPA’s Blockchain Symposium, technical reviewer and speaker for the AICPA’s Blockchain Fundamentals Program.

With an MBA and deep entrepreneurial roots, Amy is a skilled C-suite executive and corporate board member. She has deep experience in cloud technology and transformation, and creating go-to-market (GTM) strategies to scale businesses nationally and internationally. Amy has held leadership roles overseeing sales, education, marketing, and advisory services functions at accounting software companies, as a partner in a CPA firm, and when she owned and operated her own national accounting and advisory services practice.

As the creator of the B³ Method, Amy authored the book Business, Balance & Bliss: How the B³ Method Can Transform Your Career and Life. In her book, Amy created a methodology, backed by scientific research, on how to live a more authentic life and achieve work-life harmony. This book is based on her own career journey as a CPA, entrepreneur and corporate executive and those experiences of other successful business leaders.

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Brooke Stuart

Dr. Brooke Stuart is the founder and active president of Let Go & Grow® International and a holistic doctor in private practice, where she specializes in taking a holistic approach to mental health and high performance- assisting her patients in unlocking their own, intrinsic power to heal. Over the past twelve years, Dr. Stuart has worked with thousands of people through her online platform, speaking engagements and one on one in private practice. Holding degrees in medical anthropology, psychology, and integrative medicine, Dr. Stuart uses a unique combination of holistic counseling and functional medicine to personalize and tailor treatments for her patients locally in Orlando, FL and around the world through our simple to use, telemedicine platform. As a physician, she is deeply committed to her patient’s personal growth and development as she uses solution-oriented methods to clear issues, create health, and assist them in realizing and actualizing their true potential.

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Carmen Landrau

Dr. Carmen W. Landrau, M.D., is a board-certified cardiologist, a highly regarded female empowerment Keynote Speaker, and Public Speaking Business Coach based in Houston, Texas.

As a women’s empowerment Keynote Speaker, Dr. Landrau has helped countless female professionals attract the recognition they deserve while achieving their optimum work-life balance. As an executive business coach, she provides strategies to female entrepreneurs to help propel their businesses forward and improve their professional industry visibility.

Dr. Landrau is a frequent guest on podcasts, such as Women Taking the Lead with Jodi Flynn (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/women-taking-the-lead-with-jodi-flynn/id976712321?i=1000498777511).

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Jeannine Brown

Jeannine K Brown is the founder and Managing Director of Everyday Lead headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an award-winning leader and thought leader. Jeannine is a highly sought-after speaker and brings insightful perspective and laughter to challenging topics. She has an active role and voice to champion the importance of diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion among individuals, cultures and systems. Jeannine is an active advocate for increasing women and multicultural professionals to corporate executive leadership roles. She works closely with clients, delivering solutions to increase retention, decrease attrition cost, attract new talent, and create competitive advantages through the power of inclusion. Jeannine designs transformational leadership content and DEI content. She is called upon to design leadership and career accelerator programs for women and Black professionals.

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Jen Mueller

Jen Mueller, America’s Expert Talker is rarely at a loss for words. She pursued a career in sports broadcasting after repeated comments of “talks too much” from teachers and family members. A 15-year sports broadcasting veteran, Jen currently serves as the Seattle Seahawks sideline radio reporter. She is also part of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast team on ROOT Sports. In addition to her work on the sidelines, Jen launched Talk Sporty to Me in 2009 and teaches business professionals how to improve communication and leverage fandom in business. Jen published her second book Talk Sporty to Me: Thinking Outside the Box Scores in January 2015. She is also the author of Game Time: Learn to Talk Sports in 5 Minutes a Day for Business. Jen graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2000 with degrees in Broadcasting Journalism and Public Policy.

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Zovig Garboushian

Zovig Garboushian is an executive coach, speaker, facilitator, and writer with a primary focus on advancing women in leadership. She’s been called part coach, part thought-provoker, and is said to have “x-ray vision.”

With a 25-year career that spans brand marketing, management consulting, and organizational and leadership development, she was inspired to launch Boldness Ablaze because she was fed up with seeing ambitious women shut down and forced to change themselves to compensate for others.

Through her coaching, speaking, and workshops, she’s supported hundreds of women - from C-suite to founders to business owners - redefine themselves as leaders and expand their definitions of success. She’s a consultant, a thought partner, and a sounding board to her clients. She helps them cultivate deep self-trust and break through personal limitations so they can be more themselves in everything they do.

She is a leadership content contributor to Brainz and Strive Magazines, hosts Sparking Thoughts: LinkedIn Live, has appeared on podcasts such as Fix Yourself, Career Spotlight Podcast, Digital Connections, and Management Development Unplugged, is a board member of HR.com’s Coaches & Mentors, and the creator of Leadership Essence 2-day women’s leadership immersion.

Zovig has worked with leaders and teams at Accenture, CreditKarma, New York Life, Google, Microsoft, Planned Parenthood, Badassery-HQ, University of Delaware, Bungie Games, Chevron, NBC Universal, Samsung, Unify Consulting, among others in technology, finance, healthcare, retail, and startups.

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Non-Member Price $499.00

Member Price $399.00