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NAWBO Virtual Leadership Academy – Winter 2021
February 3, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - February 5, 2021 @ 5:30 pm
$50 – $100
Our NAWBO members are busy women entrepreneurs who not only run their own businesses, but many are also in leadership positions in their local NAWBO chapters. They care who supports their community of women business owners through NAWBO. They want to do business with these businesses; and refer others to do the same. That’s why you won’t want to miss the opportunity to personally connect with these women business owners and leaders by sponsoring and participating in the NAWBO Virtual Leadership Academy in February.
NAWBO is offering a scholarship opportunity that will enable at least 20 women business owners, including members and non-members, to attend our 2021 Virtual Leadership Academy on February 4-5. Each scholarship is valued at $75-$100.
Event Sponsors
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Agenda
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5:00 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.
Chapter Leaders Happy Hour
CLICK HERE to choose one WVV Whole Cluster Pinot Noir or WVV 2019 Pinot Gris. It will be shipped to you to enjoy during this event for chapter leaders. Also, take advantage of a special offer to purchase two additional bottles (2017 Estate Pinot Noir and 2017 Estate Chardonnay) at 20% off plus tax and shipping.
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11:30 A.M. – 11:40 P.M.
Welcome
Presenters: Jen Earle, CEO and Cristina Heaney- Chair, National Board -
11:40 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Remarks from Karen Harrison – Bank of America
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12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Empathy and Compassion at Work: Leading from the Inside Out for Sustainable Success.
How cultures of compassion create safety, connection and belonging for business leaders, employees, clients, and communities.
Key Takeaways:
- How self-compassion creates organizational cultures that thrive
- The latest neuroscience to avoid burnout and enhance motivation
- Compassion as a critical contributor to competitive advantage
- How compassionate cultures foster the flourishing of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
- Simple everyday practices that quickly build safety, connection, and trust
- Tools for creating a roadmap for yourself and your company
Presented by: Laura Berland, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Compassionate Leadership
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1:00 P.M. – 1:10 P.M.
Break
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1:10 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Track 1 – Transitions & Succession- smoothing the road
Transition is the most vulnerable time for an organization. This session will provide ways to create continuity, avoid burnout and make leadership a team sport. Topics include recruitment, the nomination process, preparing for board transition and more. It will address way to address common challenges in preparing the board, the chapter and YOURSELF for change.
Presented by Katie Adams Farrell
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2:00 P.M. – 2:10 P.M.
Break
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2:10 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
Track 1 – Best Practice Roundtable Discussion (20 minutes each session rotating one time)
We will review the 5 Star Healthy Chapter Plan and focus our discussion on best practice for each Star.
Discussion Lead by Megan Paton, PASC Chair
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Track 2 – Roundtable Business Discussions (20-minute sessions rotating one time)
Topics to choose from include:
- Leadership
- Effective Feedback
- Strategic Planning
1:10 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
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2:00 P.M. – 2:10 P.M.
Break
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2:10 P.M – 3:10 P.M.
Track 2 – The Power of NO: How Saying No Will Make You More Successful, Happier, and More Respected
Women are notorious for taking on too much, never saying no, then being ineffective, stressed-out, resentful, and angry. We’ll explore WHY we do that and How and WHY we should be saying NO instead. One woman’s story of how the NO’s in her life defined her success.
Key Takeaways:
- Why we say Yes when we should say NO
- Dispelling the myths
- How to determine what to say NO to
- How to say no without burning bridges
Presented by Sherry Deutschmann, Founder and CEO of BrainTrust
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1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Membership Panel – NAWBO – Los Angeles, Orlando and Richmond
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2:00 P.M. – 2:10 P.M.
Break
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2:10 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Corporate Partner Panel – Moderator, Karen Harrison, Bank of America
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3:00 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
Break
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3:10 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Shift into Successful Self-Leadership
Personal Leadership Skills to Navigate the Ups and Downs of a Changing World
You can lead your team, you can lead your business strategy, but can you lead yourself when the going gets tough? Data shows that during these unprecedented times, 25% of women report experiencing physical symptoms of severe anxiety compared to only 11% of men – not to mention the stress of running a business.
Why? Women tend to operate inside three leadership styles that hinder their ability to navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.
Presented in a dynamic format to facilitate rapid transformation, Professional Certified Coach, Queirra Fenderson will share the three leadership styles that can burn you out quickly and how to shift into successful self-leadership.
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Understand the triggers and habits that weaken self-leadership
- Recalibrate how they approach leadership in all areas of life
- Commit to new habits that go beyond your standard coping mechanism
Presented by Queirra Fenderson, PC
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4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
We will have two groups that will take turns with the chocolate tasting. If our participants decide not to do the chocolate testing than they will stay in the breakout room for networking.
We will end the session together with the chocolate trivia game. The cost will be an add on of $30, which includes shipping. Register for this program at Yelibelly Chocolate,
This cost includes:
- Tasting kit curated with single origin chocolates from a variety of countries
- Samples of cacao beans and nibs
- Tasting journal for exploring single origin chocolate
- Samples of bonbons and truffles from
- Access to the class and live demo on Zoom
- Access to the trivia session with 2-3 rounds, including prizes that will be shipped to the winners
- Discount on future purchases with Yelibelly. Discount code provided during class.
Sherry Stewart Deutschmann
Founder, BrainTrust
Sherry Deutschmann is a serial entrepreneur, author, and passionate advocate for entrepreneurship. In 2019, Sherry founded BrainTrust, a company dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs grow their businesses to $1Million in annual revenue…and beyond. Prior to founding BrainTrust, Sherry was founder and CEO of LetterLogic, Inc., a company she grew to $40 Million and sold in 2016. LetterLogic was named an INC 5000 company (fastest growing privately held businesses in the US) for ten consecutive years. Sherry attributes the success of LetterLogic to its unique culture in which the needs of the employees came before those of the customer or shareholder. That culture led Sherry to be recognized by EY as one of their 2009 Entrepreneurial Winning Women and LetterLogic was featured in the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, Business Leaders, INC, and Fast Company. Sherry was honored by President Barack Obama as a White House Champion of Change in 2016. Sherry’s book, Lunch with Lucy – Maximize Profits by Investing in your People – will be released on March 20, 2020.
Katie Adams Farrell
Co-founder, Kerredyn Collaborative
Queirra Fenderson, PCC
Founder & CEO, The Ambition Studio
Karen Harrison
Senior Vice President, National SBA Executive, Bank of America
Megan Patton
PASC Chair and Founder, ODA Strategy
Cristina Morales Heaney
NAWBO National Board Chair
Laura Berland
Founder, Center for Compassionate Leadership