The Power of WE (Women Entrepreneurs)

Schedule

Mon Sep 27 2021 at 08:00 am to 05:00 pm

Location

Salida SteamPlant Event Center | Salida, CO

Now available via an awe-inspiring In Person Conference or Hybrid Live Virtual experience! The Power of WE (Women Entrepreneurs) will offer thought provoking content, resources and tools to inspire women’s leadership development, creativity, and innovation. It will also share the many Federal, State and local funding opportunities that are available to women owned businesses and share tools and resources to access them. More details and register at https://centralsbdc.org/home/events-the-power-of-we/
WE will encourage and support local women owned businesses and entrepreneurs by setting alight self-awareness tools and practices and creating an environment to ignite positive change in women’s professional and personal development
WE will discuss the community scale challenges facing our rural area (i.e. housing, childcare, social inequities, environmental concerns etc.) and collaborate on methodologies to tap into entrepreneurial energy to address them.
WE will create opportunities at this conference to enable ongoing women inspired meetups, forums and other connectivity opportunities.
We are thrilled to bring you a diverse lineup of keynotes, guest speakers and panelists for this year’s Conference.
8:00 am – Check In Registration – Consociating
8:30 am – Welcome
8:40 am – “I am Enough” by Heather Barron – Founder of Luminous Life, Inc.
8:45 am – Keynote – “Beyond Gender: Embracing Feminine Leadership as a Contribution to this New Era for Humanity” by Lila Veronica, Founder
9:45 am – Break
10:00 am – “Building Your Own Unique Path to Become a Leader: Guided by your personal strengths, your values and personality.” Deborah J. Robinson, PhD and Cassidy A. Robinson, MBA Founders of T.R.U.E.™ Leadership.
10:45 am – “The Power of Your Purpose” Delaney Keating, Director of Startup Colorado.
11:30 am – “A Song to Manifest Love, Abundance and Equality.” Honoring all Women, past, present and future! By Erde & Sky
11:35 am – “Women Owned Purpose Driven Entrepreneurs”
“Our Mission to Revolutionize Food: My story of Why and How”
Kristy Lewis, Founder CEO Quinn Snacks
Watch our Be Better. Do Better.™ Short Film!
“Forget About Perfection – the World Needs Us to Show Up!”
Laurie Benson, Founder Inward Bound Leadership
“Purpose Vs. the Generalist“ Becca Williams, Principal Consultant + Owner of Thought Distillery and Founder of Like Hearts Lab
12:15 pm Lunch and Share your authentic and/or purpose driven story with your table.
1:00pm – “A message from our Platinum Sponsor” Collegiate Peaks Bank
1:15 pm – “Your Sexy Compass: What does it mean to lead with the feminine principle of intuition practically as a leader day to day, how to recognize it, use it and what gets in the way.” Mansi Kakkar, Founder of Regenerative Design & Innovation.
1:45 pm – Panel Presentation “Using Entrepreneurial Energy to Begin Solving Community Scale Challenges”
Becky Gray, Director, Chaffee County Housing
Andrea Carlstrom, MBA Director, Chaffee County Public Health
Lee Kreimer, Programs, Asian Community & Cultural Center, Workforce & Community Building
2:30 pm – Break
2:45 pm – “When Women Undervalue and Undercharge for Their Work” Nancy Murphy, Director, West Central SBDC
3:00 pm – “Our Gender Fund” Grace Oliva, Vice President, Colorado Impact Fund
3:20 pm – “Women Owned Business Support & Opportunities” Katharina Papenbrock, Office of Economic Development & International Trade & the Minority Business Office
3:35 pm ish – Overview of Trade Table Show and Thank You – new opportunities and networking sign ups
3:45 pm ish to 5:00 pm – Trade Show Tables with representative(s) to answer questions and offer support.
5:00 pm Open to Salida and Other Chosen Adventures . . .

Where is it happening?

Salida SteamPlant Event Center, 220 W Sackett Ave, Salida, United States

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

Host or Publisher Central Mountain Small Business Development Center

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