TEACH GIVE INSPIRE Fridays - June 5, 2026

Dear TGIF Family,

Kick off your summer with purpose, connection, and inspiration at TGIF on June 5th. Our theme, Step Into Your Power: Own Your Voice, Story & Purpose, sets the stage for a dynamic and uplifting morning designed to expand what feels possible—in all areas of your work and life.

Learn from three remarkable women: TEACH speaker, Hilary Fordwich, a leader in global business development, keynote speaker and leadership executive to Fortune 500 companies, who will empower you to unforgettably communicate and create likability; GIVE speaker, Zibby Owens, bestselling author, media innovator, and podcaster who gives meaningful voice to women’s stories across the globe; and INSPIRE speaker, Pam Sherman, a captivating storyteller, author, actress, and leadership expert who helps women step into the most powerful role of all—their own.

Surrounded by a vibrant community of accomplished, like-minded women, you’ll leave inspired, and equipped—with fresh perspective, renewed confidence, and meaningful connections that extend far beyond the room.

And because you asked for more…we listened! WE ARE EXCITED TO BRING YOU A NEW ADD ON EVENT: Post event Speaker Sessions + Curated lunch (Limited Availability)

Please stay and join us for an intimate hands-on workshop experience with two of our speakers. These concurrent sessions will take place from 12:30–1:30 PM and require advance registration at checkout.

• Dine and Thrive with Hilary Fordwich – “Be Wanted”
  Discover the powerful methodology behind what makes clients, colleagues, and communities want to work and be with you. Learn how authentic presence and resiliency, shape likeability, trust and respect from others—Hilary shares strategies and a user-friendly framework to ensure others are naturally drawn to you. Who doesn’t want to be wanted?

• Dine and Thrive with Pam Sherman – “Play You: The Role of a Lifetime”. Pam will lead an interactive workshop to help you develop and articulate the vision for your leadership. This program using Pam’s EDGE: Explore, Dream, Grow + Excite® model will focus on strategies to help women define and develop their vision story, find the voice to share it, and encourage others they lead to do the same.

These sessions are intentionally small to allow for meaningful interaction, personalized insight, and real transformation. Secure your seat now for both the main event and for our post event speaker sessions.

Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
Brunch will be served. Ample parking is available.

Brought to you with heart—and I can’t wait to see you,

Barbara Guterman

Fortune 500 Coach, Keynote Speaker, Media Commentator

Hilary Fordwich is a proven global business development leader, nationally top ranked speaker, and media correspondent with a career spanning more than 30 years of expertise building practices, client firms and her own successful consulting firm. Her extensive network of working with c-suite executives is a result of her community and service-oriented leadership, and board positions across a variety of industries. Hilary worked internationally as head of global business development and sales for KPMG for over 20 years and served as James Martin &Co.’s (now headstrong) Vice president of Global Marketing allowing her to combine her sales, media and business development background to impact change at the highest levels.

In addition to speaking and working with Fortune 1000 professional service firms, Hilary has presented at leadership, trade, and professional conferences for multiple global organizations across a broad variety of topics. Hilary is often featured extensively on national business media and is a National Golf Course Rater for GolfWeek, where she is an expert in the area of Business Golf, leveraging golf to gain and retain clients while empowering women to excel.

Born in England, she became a US citizen in 1982 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from UVA at Mary Washington College..

She is a member of the Economic Club of Washington DC and Congressional Country Club.

Author, Publisher, Podcaster

Zibby Owens is the award-winning host of the podcast Totally Booked with Zibby and the weekly TV show “Totally Booked” on JBS. Author of six books including two bestsellers, and she owns Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, and Zibby Publishing, a boutique publishing house, all part of Zibby Media. She runs an events and retreats series, Zibby’s Book Club, and the Z.I.P. membership program. Her essays have been published online in the New York Times, Vogue, Oprah.com and GMA where she was a contributor for three years, and many other outlets including The Los Angelas Times, the New York Post and Hadassah magazine.

She has been featured on "CBS" This Morning, "The Tamron Hall Show" and "Good Morning America, among others. Zibby has won 30+ podcast honors, and will receive the WIN (Women's Image Awards) Community Activist Honor for her response to the Palisades Fire, and is included in the"100 Women to KNOW in America" from KNOW Media.

A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby lives in New York (and sometimes L.A.) with her husband and four children ages 11 to 18.

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Author, Actor, Leadership Expert

Pam Sherman is coach, consultant, actor, writer, and recovering lawyer, whose story of ditching her day job as a lawyer to pursue her dream as an actress was featured in People Magazine. Today she combines her business background as an attorney along with her creative talents to conduct the EDGE: Explore, Dream, Grow and Excite: programs to help leaders and teams present themselves and their organizations with passion. www.thepamsherman.com

Sherman is a keynote speaker and facilitator providing group and individual development programs for a variety of organizations including professional organizations, advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies.

Pam wrote the nationally syndicated column, The Suburban Outlaw column for USA Today for 15 years, and stars in the one-woman show Erman Bombeck: At Wit's End , breaking box office records across the US. Her new book Play You, the Role of a Lifetime, helps people around the world bridge the believability gap, the gap between who we are and who we think we “should” be. Through humor, powerful stories, and psychological science, Play You, will help you step “onstage” with conviction and courage. Pam is a graduate of American University and Cardozo School of Law and lives in New York with her family, human and barky.

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Host or Publisher Barbara Guterman, Founder, TEACH GIVE INSPIRE Fridays, LLC