Leadership Coach Pam Sherman with Talia Bender Small
About this Event
Ignite your passion, expand your influence, and catapult your success—by being who you are, wherever you are.
In our fast-changing world, there’s often a chasm between who we are, who we think we “should” be, and how we show up for others. It can dim our confidence, connection, and—especially—our believability.
Pam Sherman is a leadership coach, actor, and recovering lawyer who helps people around the world bridge this gap. In Play You, the Role of a Lifetime, she’ll share her counterintuitive solution: The techniques great actors use to create genuine characters can help you
- Explore your own unique and powerful character
- Dream and share your inspiring story
- Grow beyond your believability derailers—unhelpful archetypes and scripts
- Excite the people you want to impact
Through humor, storytelling, and psychology, Play You, the Role of a Lifetime will help you step “onstage” with courage and conviction.
Pam Sherman, author of Play You, the Role if a Lifetime, is an actor, writer, leadership consultant and recovering lawyer who was profiled in People Magazine about her transition from lawyer to actor. Today, she speaks, facilitates, and coaches leaders all over the world about how to ignite their audiences with who they are and to find their EDGE: Explore, Dream, Grow, & Excite®. She works with Fortune 50 companies, law firms, advertising agencies, and is a highly rated global resource for the leadership organizations EO, Vistage, and YPO. Her nationally syndicated column, The Suburban Outlaw was published in the Democrat + Chronicle and on the USA Today Network for 15 years. Sherman also stars in the one-woman show Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End breaking box-office records around the United States. She is the new Chair of Jewish Women International and lives in Rochester, New York, with her family, human and barky. www.thepamsherman.com
Talia Bender Small is the President of The Female Quotient (The FQ), a leading media and events company with the largest community of women in business. The FQ produces premium events, editorial, and social content that connect the world’s top brands with influential women leaders around the world across 30 industries.
Joining The FQ at its inception, Talia rose from university intern to President in just seven years, driving the company’s transformation into a global media business. She oversees strategy, operations, and partnerships with more than 200 Fortune 500 companies, leading growth initiatives that have expanded The FQ’s reach to a highly influential audience.
Under her leadership, The FQ has built the first and largest community of women leaders at the world’s most influential gatherings - including the World Economic Forum in Davos, Cannes Lions, CES, the Super Bowl, Formula 1 races, and more. She has also spearheaded the company’s expansion into a robust media network, delivering measurable value for partners through integrated campaigns, branded content, thought leadership, and high-visibility activations.
Talia has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Marketing & Advertising, a Trailblazer Honoree by New York Women in Communications, and a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeeper. She serves on the NYU Steinhardt Dean's Alumni Advisory Board and in 2024, The Female Quotient was named one of Fast Company’s Brands That Matter.
Her passion lies in building community and networks for women, helping them rise into leadership, and supporting them in achieving their fullest potential.
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