10:00 - 10:15 PT / 1:00 - 1:15 ET

Welcome

10:15 - 10:35 PT / 1:15 - 1:35 ET

How to make beautiful things | Nicole Leth, Artist, Writer, Founder of My Affirmation Project

10:35 - 11:05 PT / 1:35 - 2:05 ET

Our perceived barriers | Kate Isler, CEO & Co-Founder of TheWMarketplace

11:15 - 11:50 PT / 2:15 - 2:50 ET

Workshop: Stress management & self-care | Lestraundra Alfred, host of Balanced Black Girl podcast

11:50 - 12:20 PT / 2:50 - 3:20 ET

Workshop: Getting un-stuck | Kate Moore, Business owner & Co-Facilitator of the Duality Project

12:30 - 1:00 PT / 3:30 - 4:00 ET

Embracing your many identities | Jodi-Ann Burey, Speaker, Writer, Equity Advocate, host of the Black Cancer podcast

1:00 - 2:00 PT / 4:00 - 5:00 ET

The dark side of ambition | Gina Fresquez, Leadership & Success Coach, Keynote Speaker, Best Selling Author

Guest Speakers

Gina Fresquez

Leadership & Success Coach, International Keynote Speaker, Best Selling Author

Gina Fresquez, MS, best selling author, speaker, and clarity & success coach is committed to empowering ambitious female founders and corporate leaders to discover their unique gifts, strengths, and internal compass to help them make bold decisions with more confidence, ease, and grace. Gina provides the tools and mindset to overcome overwhelm and banish burnout allowing women to get out of their own way and fully step up as the leader they desire to be both in their life and career.

Gina is passionate about supporting women in male-dominated industries (STEM), female founders, and startup culture, as well as how personal growth and development, mindfulness, D&I, vulnerability, and whole self belonging is integrated into how we do business.

Learn more about Gina and her resources, retreats, and coaching on ginafresquez.com, and check out her book, Women Who Illuminate.

Jodi-Ann Burey

Speaker, Writer & Equity Advocate

Jodi-Ann Burey (she/her) has a mission to disrupt “business as usual” to achieve social change. Her work centers the experiences of historically underrepresented communities and is grounded in the systemic intersectional approaches needed to address inequities. Jodi-Ann is a speaker, writer, and equity advocate. She is also the creator and host of Black Cancer, a podcast about the cancer narratives of everyday people of color. Jodi-Ann holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan. She prides herself on being a cool auntie, a twist-out queen, cancer survivor, adventurer and reluctant dog owner. Jodi-Ann is currently working on her first book.

You can watch Jodi-Ann speak on the TEDxSeattle stage in November 2020.

Nicole Leth

Artist, Writer, Founder of My Affirmation Project

Nicole Leth is an artist, writer, and human being living in the midwest. She built a global clothing and art company at 18, found success, and then chose to leave success (and social media) at 26 to find happiness. She has spent the past decade researching the human healing process and creating public art works, writings, community events, speaking, and teaching to create soft spaces for real human beings to heal and face trauma with compassion. She was awarded a lifetime achievement award in advertising in June 2020 for her Affirmation Billboard project which she still is working diligently on. 

You can find out more at myaffirmationproject.com or follow the project’s Instagram @affirmationbillboards. 

Kate Isler

Co-Founder & CEO, TheWMarketplace

Kate has over 20 years of international executive leadership gained working for fortune 100 companies to startups and have now turned my passion for supporting gender parity into a thriving business. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of TheWMarketplace, an eCommerce platform built to support women-owned businesses, services providers and gender balanced companies. The site is the Economic Engine for Women and earned revenue from the launch day.

She is a change agent and thought leader. Her experience in high tech as a CEO of a digital health startup and as an Executive at Microsoft, where she spent many years living and working overseas, provides a powerful platform of real-world expertise and examples to draw from when addressing gender equity and balanced management practices.

Her memoir, Breaking Borders, is scheduled for release by HarperCollins Leadership in early 2021.

She is an active and committed mentor for the International Women’s Forum, and, serves on the global board of Girl Rising and several startup advisory boards. .

Les Alfred

Founder & Host, Balanced Black Girl

Les is the founder and host of Balanced Black Girl, an online wellness community and podcast focused on health, wellness, and self-care from the perspectives of Black women. She started her first blog The Balanced Berry in 2014 to share her love of fitness and nutrition with others. After years of feeling dissatisfied with the lack of diversity in wellness content shared on large platforms, she pivoted to create Balanced Black Girl in 2018. Balanced Black Girl provides content and experiences empowering millennial Black women to live their healthiest lives.

Check out the Balanced Black Girl community and podcast.

Kate Moore

Business owner, speaker, & co-facilitator of the Duality Project

Kate is the owner of getFIT615, a group fitness and personal training studio in the heart of Nashville, TN. She also is a co-facilitator of the Duality Project which includes retreats for women as well as leadership retreats and social justice workshops and lectures.

Kate believes in the power of movement - any kind of movement. Kate rejects diets and diet culture and the idea of exercising to burn calories. Kate rejects the idea of hating your body because of how it looks or for what it can or can’t do. Kate believes in being kind to your body and that we are not our bodies (she believes the same things about our fears, our heartaches, our anger, and our shame). She believes that our bodies are a magnificent vessel for who we actually are which is why Kate also believes in the practice of self-work and continuing growth so that we are able to show up with more and more presence in this world.

Join her via getFIT615 for a virtual class anytime!