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Leadhership Network for Women | Empowering Female Leaders

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7:30 AM
  1. 240 mins
    Get ready to take your leadership beyond the school system and straight to the steps of Congress. As part of Leadhership Network for Women 2025, women leaders will head to Capitol Hill to advocate for ...
9:00 AM
  1. 90 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: This immersive workshop challenges participants to reimagine leadership beyond traditional binary constraints. Session Objectives: • Discover habits that promote continuous professio ...
  2. 90 mins
    • Harnessing Family Support
    Session Overview: At the end of a busy day do you find yourself wondering where the time went? Have you ever been at an important family function and caught yourself stressing out about work? Do you h ...
  3. 40 mins
    • Strategic Career Planning
    Session Overview: The role of women in education leadership is more demanding that ever, with time-consuming responsibilities, mental overload, and increasing pressure to be everything to everyone. Se ...
  4. 40 mins
    • Creating YOUR Personal Brand
    Session Overview: You’re already a leader—let your social presence reflect that. This session guides women on how to use digital storytelling to build community, share expertise, and grow authentic in ...
10:00 AM
  1. 90 mins
    • Overcoming Gender Bias and Gatekeepers
    Session Overview: Women leaders in K-12 education continue to encounter systemic barriers, gender biases, and persistent challenges that impede their advancement and undermine their confidence. Sessio ...
  2. 40 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: Do you ever feel like a fraud in your leadership role? You're not alone. Session Objectives: • Discover habits that promote continuous professional growth • Learn how to methods for ...
  3. 40 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: Join us for "Intentionality in Allyship,"a transformative workshop for leaders committed to empowering female leaders in their organizations. Session Objectives: • Discover approache ...
11:00 AM
  1. 40 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: Bold leadership starts within. This session helps you break through self-doubt and step into rooms with presence, power, and purpose. Learn how to own your leadership story and influ ...
  2. 40 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: Toxic culture doesn’t fix itself—it needs intentional leadership. This session explores how to recognize dysfunction, reset expectations, and rebuild trust for a workplace that works ...
  3. 40 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: "Manager as Coach"shifts leadership from command to collaboration. This session equips leaders with tools to foster trust, elevate performance, and engage teams with a coaching minds ...
  4. 40 mins
    • Creating YOUR Personal Brand
    Session Overview: You are more than just your job title! Your job title is simply the beginning of your professional identity. Session Objectives: • Discover approaches to maintaining team alignment • ...
12:30 PM
  1. Potomac Saloon 1-3
    90 mins
    • Creating YOUR Personal Brand
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    • General Session
    Perfectionism is one of the most pervasive confidence killers for women in the workplace—fueled by both societal expectations and internal pressures to excel in every role. This energizing and truth-t ...
2:30 PM
  1. 90 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: Leadership is demanding and navigating it during turbulent times can take a significant toll on your emotional well-being. Session Objectives: • Discover strategies for effective lea ...
  2. 40 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: "Manager as Coach"shifts leadership from command to collaboration. This session equips leaders with tools to foster trust, elevate performance, and engage teams with a coaching minds ...
  3. 40 mins
    • Overcoming Gender Bias and Gatekeepers
    Session Overview: This could be modified to become a gen or concurrent session, or a panel/round table discussion if there are other leaders in attendance who the conference organizers know other memb ...
3:30 PM
  1. 60 mins
    From bold outfits to body language that commands a room, this high-energy experience is all about showing up—and owning it. You'll see real women leaders walk the runway in confidence-boosting looks, ...
4:30 PM
  1. 90 mins
7:00 AM
  1. 40 mins
    Kickstart your day with high-energy movement, feel-good music, and serious confidence vibes. Led by coach Dina Scippa, this empowering session is all about joy, connection, and owning your space—no da ...
  2. 40 mins
8:00 AM
  1. 40 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: In today’s ever-evolving educational landscape, mentorship and networking are essential components of empowering the next generation of female leaders in K-12 education. Session Obje ...
  2. 40 mins
    • Strategic Career Planning
    Session Overview: "Everyone is a Project Manager: Applying PM Principles to Everyday Life and Work"is an empowering keynote by Tamara McLemore, PMP, designed to reveal how project management technique ...
  3. 40 mins
    • Overcoming Gender Bias and Gatekeepers
    Session Overview: Break free from limiting beliefs and behaviors to lead with clarity, connection, and confidence. Every great leader embarks on a journey—but the path to authentic connection and meas ...
  4. 40 mins
    • Harnessing Family Support
    Session Overview: At the end of a busy day do you find yourself wondering where the time went? Have you ever been at an important family function and caught yourself stressing out about work? Do you h ...
8:40 AM
  1. 20 mins
9:00 AM
  1. 50 mins
10:10 AM
  1. 90 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: Leadership brings with it a significant mental load—decision-making, emotional labor, and self-doubt can create obstacles that hinder confidence and connection. Session Objectives: • ...
  2. 90 mins
    • Creating YOUR Personal Brand
    Session Overview: You are more than just your job title! Your job title is simply the beginning of your professional identity. Session Objectives: • Discover approaches to maintaining team alignment • ...
  3. 40 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: All Heart: Graceful Grit Small Moves, Big Shifts, and The Secret Formula for Courageous Confidence Without vulnerability, there is no authentic leadership. Session Objectives: • Conv ...
  4. 40 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: When institutions prioritize mentorship, entire communities thrive. Session Objectives: • Explore roles of mentor and mentee in leadership • Create structures that support long-term ...
  5. 40 mins
    • Strategic Career Planning
    Session Overview: In leadership, staying in place isn’t always about standing still—it can be a choice made by default, not by design. This session challenges district leaders to examine the weight of ...
11:00 AM
  1. 40 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: In the garden of leadership, are you surrounded by marigolds or walnut trees? When you reflect on your leadership style, are you a marigold or a walnut tree? This interactive session ...
  2. 40 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: Technical and/or instructional skills will get you to the table, but it’s your brand and network that determine your reach as a leader. Session Objectives: • Define your leadership b ...
12:00 PM
  1. 110 mins
    • General Session
    What if the qualities women have long been told to downplay.empathy, integrity, emotional intelligence are actually the leadershipadvantage we need most in the age of AI? In a world being reshaped by ...
2:10 PM
  1. 90 mins
    • Overcoming Gender Bias and Gatekeepers
    Session Overview: Women leaders in K-12 education continue to encounter systemic barriers, gender biases, and persistent challenges that impede their advancement and undermine their confidence. Sessio ...
  2. 90 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: Mentorship isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s a leadership legacy. This session equips you with tools to intentionally support and empower the next wave of women leaders. You’ll discover ...
  3. 40 mins
    • Creating YOUR Personal Brand
    Session Overview: You’ve worked hard to get where you are in your career. Session Objectives: • Craft a vision for your leadership growth • Position yourself for advancement opportunities • Build your ...
  4. 40 mins
    • Strategic Career Planning
    Session Overview: You don’t need to wait for permission, burnout, or a job posting to take the next step in your leadership journey. Session Objectives: • Discover methods for setting bold leadership ...
  5. 40 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: Healing-Centered Leadership supports personal well-being while driving schoolwide impact. Learn how to lead with empathy, foster emotional safety, and model self-care for your team a ...
2:30 PM
  1. 90 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: Innovation doesn’t wait for perfection—it needs courage, trust, and vision. This session empowers women to lead boldly even when the path is uncertain. You’ll explore how to build a ...
3:10 PM
  1. 40 mins
    • Creating YOUR Personal Brand
    Session Overview: Your personal brand isn’t a tagline—it’s your leadership signature. This bold, energizing session is for women who are ready to define how they show up, stand out, and lead with inte ...
4:10 PM
  1. 50 mins
    Meet the Experts:  This is your moment to connect one-on-one with the powerhouse women behind the insights. Meet the Experts is an open-door experience where attendees can engage directly with speaker ...
8:00 AM
  1. 40 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: Fear holds back even the strongest leaders. This session offers strategies to shift from fear-based decisions to innovation-forward leadership. You’ll learn to navigate risk, unlock ...
  2. 40 mins
    • Strategic Career Planning
    Session Overview: Transformative storytelling strategies for leaders who want to connect authentically, inspire action, and drive measurable outcomes. Session Objectives: • Discover methods for settin ...
  3. 30 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: Participants will leave this session with enhanced skills in using their voices confidently and navigating career pathways in educational leadership. Session Objectives: • Craft a vi ...
  4. 40 mins
    • Harnessing Family Support
    Session Overview: Description:  This powerful, musically-infused, and emotionally resonant session invites women in leadership to pause, reflect, and reclaim their non-negotiables—the boundaries that ...
9:00 AM
  1. 90 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: This dynamic session introduces the transformative High 5 to Wellness Framework, empowering women leaders to harness emotional intelligence for professional excellence. Session Objec ...
  2. 90 mins
    • Harnessing Family Support
    Session Overview: Women leaders in K-12 education continue to encounter systemic barriers, gender biases, and persistent challenges that impede their advancement and undermine their confidence. Sessio ...
  3. 40 mins
    • Mastering Self-Talk & the Mental Load
    Session Overview: In our complex lives, many women leaders have consciously or unconsciously embraced the pressure of being a Superwoman. Session Objectives: • Discover habits that promote continuous ...
10:00 AM
  1. 40 mins
    • Overcoming Gender Bias and Gatekeepers
    Session Overview: There’s no waiting in line for the leadership you’re meant for. This powerful session helps women break free from hesitation and take bold steps toward the roles and influence they d ...
  2. 40 mins
    • Leveraging Mentorship and Networking
    Session Overview: Join us for "Intentionality in Allyship,"a transformative workshop for leaders committed to empowering female leaders in their organizations. Session Objectives: • Discover approache ...
  3. 40 mins
    • Strategic Career Planning
    Session Overview: The role of women in education leadership is more demanding that ever, with time-consuming responsibilities, mental overload, and increasing pressure to be everything to everyone. Se ...