2023 Women's Leadership Summit

Having a supportive network of women in your career can be one of the most important ingredients to your success. Like many young women, Amy believed that she would have the same opportunities as men in the workplace, but as she moved up the corporate ladder, she noticed more and more women were not alongside her. During this session, Amy will share research and lessons learned from her own experience, and that from women she admires, on how to grow and learn at any stage of your career to achieve your goals. No matter if you’re advanced in your career or just starting out, you will learn why it’s important for women to bring each other along on their professional journeys, and how to be more mindful in supporting and aligning with women who inspire you. To further support you in your career journey, you will learn powerful tools on how to discover and align your authentic self and inner talents with the work you do to create a greater sense of work-life harmony.

Learning objectives:
* How to create and nurture a supportive women’s network;
* Why it’s important to manage up, not just down;
* The power of finding or being a sponsor, not just a mentor;
* The steps to create a greater sense of work-life harmony; and,
* How to discover and align your authentic self and inner talents with the work you do.

Come learn how to gain the courage to tell your story, develop your leadership purpose, and gain practical leadership principals that will change your perspective on leading yourself and others.

Being an accountant can be extraordinarily taxing and it is important to take moments to reflect and audit your life! Is it possible to have stress work for rather than against us? In this talk, we will dive into exactly how to reset the system, manage stress, work through burnout and find the kind balance that lasts. By equipping ourselves with an empowering perspective and practical steps, we can begin to move beyond burnout and live an energized life based on expansion and growth. Here, you will learn how to:

• Reset your system in the blink of an eye
• Move through distress and rework feelings such as overwhelm and burn out
• Tap into untapped reservoirs of energy 
• Utilize the power of mindfulness, meditation and journaling
• Support the system through mindset, diet, lifestyle and supplementation
• Tune in, connect and return to the present moment so that you can in turn, make choices that are in alignment with your health, desires and growth trajectory

Get life lessons from women who have found their voice, paved the way, and propelled their careers to the top along with balancing life and family. The Women’s Leadership Summit presents and engaging panel with inspiring discussion with the female leaders whose experiences will illustrate how creating their personal brand can help you advance and grow your career. They’ll share stories about how they built their brands and how they became successful leaders in their industries along with helping others rise to their potential.

You’re passionate about what you do, and that’s why you started or lead a client advisory practice. Combining your passion and business can be both exhilarating and a struggle.

Many accounting professionals stumble into starting an advisory practice because of what they love to do. But without the experience or a roadmap of how to build a new service line or practice that your clients can’t imagine living without for efficiency and scalability, it’s easy to hit pitfalls along the way. To become a “Cherished Advisor®”—a highly valued strategic partner whom your business clients rely on to grow and thrive—you need to have a solid business foundation yourself. It’s therefore essential to put into practice the same kind of advice you give your clients.

As a CPA, consultant, and entrepreneur, Amy will share insights and best practices from her own experience of starting and growing an advisory services practice independently and as a partner in accounting. She will also pull from her more than 10 years of advising thousands of firm leaders on growing and scaling their businesses. You will walk away with actionable tools, tips, and resources for creating and maintaining a solid, scalable
foundation for your business for years to come.

Learning Objectives:
? Identify your passion and purpose and determine how to align it with the focus of
your client advisory services practice;
? List the five stages of the Cherished Advisor® journey to building a solid foundation
that enables your practice to grow and thrive well into the future;
? Recognize how to select technology that will meet the needs of your practice and that
of the clients/vertical industries you choose to serve;
? Design an end-to-end customer experience that consistently provides the
high-quality level of service and engagement your clients rely on throughout the
entirety of your business relationship; and,
? Outline a B3 Innovation Plan with measurable