2023 IWL WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

June 13, 2023

Conference 10:00 AM — 4:30 PM ET

Networking 4:30 PM — 6:00 PM ET

Three Ways to Experience the Conference

Virtual + On-Demand

Conference Mailer
Access to All Breakouts
Entire Conference On-Demand through June 30
Post-Conference Networking
All Printed Tools and Materials

IWL @ FLIX Watch Party

Watch Party in Carmel, IN
First 500 to Register
Parking Free at the Venue
Two Breakout Sessions
Lunch & Snacks Provided
Linq Networking Bracelet
After-Party Happy Hour
All Printed Tools and Materials

Host-Your-Own Watch Party

Available Outside of Indiana
Watch Parties for 25 / 50 / 100
Planning Kit, Games & Prizes
Two Breakout Sessions
Lunch and Snacks Provided
After-Party Happy Hour Ideas
All Printed Tools and Materials

The Journey Begins In…

Days

Hours

Minutes

Seconds

Send us your 60-Second Journey Vid – we’ll post submissions to our website and select 10 contributors to receive a complimentary admission to the 2023 IWL Women’s Leadership Conference.

Shoot the video in horizontal / landscape format.
Answer the 7 Journey questions below.
Have fun!

Celebrity, historical or fictional character, dead or alive, you’d choose to drive cross-country with?
You’re going on a journey… which do you choose: backpack, fanny pack or crossbody bag?
Favorite journey or trip destination?
The one item you would take on a journey around the world? Or to space?
Journey you dream about, but haven’t owned for yourself, yet?
If your life’s journey were a movie, tv show, or book, what would it be?
Journeyer you most admire?

Inspiration

Join IWL’s Conference Emcee Linda Clemons and Conference Commentator Tanya Gadsby, and hear uplifting keynote and spotlight speakers as they share personal and professional stories, and encourage all of us to OWN THE JOURNEY. To show up as our authentic selves. To let go of the behaviors holding us back. And to work together to create change.

LINDA CLEMONS

CEO, Sisterpreneur® Inc.

TANYA GADSBY

Founder, Fuselight Creative

Check Out This Year's Mainstage Lineup

OPENING KEYNOTE

Bevy Smith

Author, Actor, Award-Winning TV & Radio Host

Bevelations for Journeyers:

Ask tough questions. Do the work. Unearth your core. Dare to dream. And remember, it gets greater later.

Bevy Smith was living what seemed like a glamorous dream as a fashion advertising executive, so it came as quite a shock to her when one day, after arriving at her luxury hotel in Milan, she collapsed on the Frette bed sheets and sobbed. Years of rolling with the in-crowd had taken its toll. Her satisfaction with work and life had hit rock bottom. But Bevy could not be defeated, and within minutes (okay, days) she grabbed a notepad and started realizing a truer path.

In her signature lively and infectious voice, Bevy candidly shares how she reclaimed her life’s course, inviting us along on the journey of her personal transformation to reveal how each of us can OWN OUR OWN JOURNEY to live our best life with honesty and joy.

“Funny, wise, well-experienced, empathetic, colorful. Bevy brings the spirit of humanity wherever she goes.” – Pharrell Williams

Bevy's Bio

Quintessential Harlem girl, Gracie Award winner and life-long New Yorker, Bevy Smith is the host of Sirius XM’s Bevelations on Radio Andy. Once a wildly successful luxury fashion publishing exec, Bevy shifted her professional goals over a decade ago to pursue a life in front of the camera. A pop culture aficionado and fashion expert, Bevy served as moderator of Bravo TV’s revolutionary Fashion Queens, was a part of The Wendy Williams Show’s Style Squad and a former co-host on the nationally syndicated Page Six TV. Smith’s debut book Bevelations: Lessons from a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie which details her transition from a fashion advertising executive into a media personality was published through Henry Holt & Company’s Andy Cohen Books.

Bevy gave her first TED Talk in April of 2022 breaking down her greatest #Bevelation, It Gets Greater Later™, which has received over 3 million views and was the third most popular Ted Talk of the year (besting Bill Gates). Bevy has also added actor to her list of accomplishments having appeared in Amazon Prime’s original series Harlem (created by Tracy Oliver) as Aunt Tammy. Season 2 will premiere in 2023.

Awards and Honors include: Black Women in Media Pioneer Award; Gracie Award for National Radio; Harlem Eat Up! Luminary Award Winner; Harlem Fashion Row Style Awards-The Trailblazer; Harlem United-Community Champion; NYABJ Award’sHonoree; PowHERful Foundation Gala Honoree; Range Rover Evoque City Shaper

Trailblazing journeys

Practical Advice for Journeyers:

lessons learned along the way

Join OneAmerica CMO, NCAA Women’s Basketball Champion, and IWL Conference alum, Kelley Gay, in conversation with four other amazing and trailblazing women as they share their own journey stories – victories, defeats and lessons learned – and provide actionable advice for OWNING THE JOURNEY.

Meet the Trailblazers

Facilitated by Kelley Gay

SVP and CMO, OneAmerica

Dr. Talithia Williams

Television Host, Groundbreaking Professor, Popular TED Speaker, Inspiring Author, Passionate STEM/STEAM Advocate

Coach Dar Santore

Author, Speaker, Founder & CEO, Performance Meets Purpose Consulting

Steph Jagger

World-Record Setting Endurance Athlete, Speaker, Author of Two Bestselling Memoirs

Maggie Chan Jones

Author, Speaker, Marketing and Technology Thought Leader, Groundbreaking CMO

CLOSING KEYNOTE

Katty Kay

Anchor, BBC World News America, Author

The Power Code for Journeyers:

a new (and beneficial) model of power – for the workplace, the political arena, and the home

Katty Kay, author of the New York Times bestseller The Confidence Code and a top-rated IWL mainstage speaker, is back in 2023! And this year, she’s sharing insights from her new book, The Power Code.

We are living in a moment of unprecedented transformation for women. Despite recent setbacks, women continue to advance in almost every arena – politics, business, education.

If it’s all so great, and we’re moving in the direction of equity, why does it feel so hard? Studies show women improve profits, so why aren’t more of us CEOs? We’re doing better at school than boys, yet we can’t crack STEM? Do women use power differently and do we even want it?

Katty shares the latest research, interviews with high-powered women, and her own personal stories, presenting a new operating system to help women use our talents to become our most powerful selves and step into and OWN OUR JOURNEYS.

Katty's Bio

Katty Kay is an award-winning journalist and news anchor who brings an instinctively global perspective to her observations on American politics and global affairs. During her nearly 30-years with BBC News, she was a reporter and then news anchor, bringing important news from America and around the world to a huge global audience from her studio in Washington, D.C. Katty has reported on six U.S. presidential elections, Washington politics, financial crashes, world trouble spots, sex scandals, global affairs, and much more. She is a regular contributor and substitute host of Morning Joe on MSNBC.

Katty also writes on the art and science of self-assurance in women and girls. She is coauthor, with Claire Shipman, of four New York Times’ bestselling books: Womenomics, The Confidence Code, The Confidence Code for Girls, and Living the Confidence Code. Katty and Claire have co-authored their sixth book, The Power Code: More Joy. Less Ego. Maximum Impact for Women (and Everyone), scheduled for release on June 13, 2023.

On the fun side, Katty had the distinction of being immortalized in pop culture in 2018 when her name was the answer to a question on the Jeopardy game show. In the same week, she was portrayed in a skit on Saturday Night Live which satirized a moment from MSNBC’s Morning Joe program.

Katty Kay settled in Washington, DC in the mid-90s where she lives with her husband, two cats, and a dog. They have four grown children.

Activation

Choose from three interactive and actionable Journey Tracks focused on stepping into the personal, professional, and the organizational journey. Get twice the insight with two breakout sessions (morning and afternoon), and note reflections and key takeaways throughout the day in your journal and on Journey Track Canvases to create your post-event Action Plan.

Personal

Get Out of Your Own Way:

Stepping Into Your Personal Journey

Our personal and professional lives have never been more intertwined, and how each of us tackles life outside the workplace and workweek often affects how we show up in our careers. Join top life coaches and experts as they address the challenges many of us face today, and provide insights and actions to embrace the aspects of the personal journey most important to each of us – from health and wellness to purpose- and joy-seeking, and from our relationships with others to, ultimately, our relationship with ourselves.

Who’s it for? Attendees feeling overwhelmed, challenged, or stuck on their current path; those choosing to address the roles they play and paths they’ve chosen (or had imposed upon them) in their home and family lives; those who feel they’re at a fork in the road, or feel as if their journey is owning them (vs. the other way around).

Professional

On Track:

Owning Your Professional Journey

Approaching our careers as professional journeys allows us to both conceptualize our working life and take useful action to influence its trajectory and the overall experience. Learn from experienced career advisors as they share insights into owning our professional journeys, providing “roadmaps” to navigate journey stages, key decision-points, the paths available to us and those we create, the excursions, adventures and encounters we embark upon, and our own physical and emotional states.

Who’s it for? Individuals focused on their career track and advancement; those who value how their time at work is spent, and may even desire some level of professional adventure; and those who want their work to fit with who they are, and who recognize that professional wellbeing starts with us.

Organizational

Cultures of Success:

Leading Others on the Journey

A great leader is always evolving, taking cues from employees, themselves, and the world around them to improve and grow. Our experts will explore the role of the leader as journey architect and guide, and share best practices to help leaders like you create collaborative, authentic, and empowered cultures that both support your employees in reaching their potential as individuals, and your teams in achieving collective success.

Who’s it for? Senior leaders looking to create positive change for their employees and customers, set realistic yet aspirational paths for success and track progress, and leverage positions of authority to tackle systemic barriers to the advancement of women within their organizations.

Your Journey Track Speakers

Vitale Buford Hardin

Joy Fitzgerald

Dr. Hope Zoeller

Jennie Lopez-Reed

Tom Bratton

Michele Shelton

Connection

Join others for post-conference networking dedicated to sharing ideas and perspectives, and building upon conference programming takeaways. Seeking support to fully OWN THE JOURNEY? Connect with others to identify an accountability partner and share your progress throughout the year.

VIRTUAL NETWORKING

Join discussion rooms with fellow attendees in small groups to discuss conference topics and connect on impactful moments, or virtual speed networking, connecting with other attendees one-on-one.

WHOOPLA! HAPPY HOUR @ FLIX

Enjoy a glass of wine or a FLIX custom brew, pick up fun conference-inspired merchandise, and connect with others in a fun and relaxing setting.

JOIN US ON JUNE 13

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