Women’s Leadership Forum 2022

Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s Women’s Leadership Forum.

October 24, 2022

Here’s to the Warriors. Women changing the world for good.

These are very challenging times for women working toward gender parity. Although it sometimes feels like we’re sliding backward, women have made remarkable strides coming together and demanding action throughout history, and this year is no different. Women are at the heart of things. Women have power. Their voices, their stories, their passion, and empathy can influence culture, policy, and laws for the good of all. This year we honor and celebrate women who elevate all women while driving positive change in the world.
We call them Warriors.

The Ad Club seeks to make all of its events accessible and inclusive. ASL translation will be available for guests with hearing impairment. Please email info@adclub.org if you would like to be seated with a clear view of the translator. If you require other kinds of accommodations, please email us in advance of the event. ASL translation brought to you by Eastern Bank

Speakers

Batouly Camara

Founder & CEO of W.A.K.E. , Former UConn basketball player
Andrea Campbell

Candidate for Massachusetts Attorney General
Jen Deaderick

Author, She The People
Sarah Fay

Managing Director, Glasswing Ventures
Yasmin Cruze Ferrine

Co-Founder, Visible Hands
Yvonne Garcia

Chief of Staff to CEO, State Street
Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Peabody Award-winning Journalist, NYT
Jennifer Haigh

Award-Winning Author, Mercy Street
Ruby Ibarra

Rapper & Scientist
Karen Kaplan

Chair & CEO, Hill Holliday
Kelsee Kimmell

Singer, appearing in Broadway in Boston’s SIX: The Musical
Nadia Nazar

Climate Change Activist
Sacha Pfeiffer

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
Veronica Robles

All-Female Mariachi
Eve Rodsky

NYT Bestselling Author of Fair Play & Find Your Unicorn Space
Tobi Russell

Chief People Officer, Public Consulting Group
Tia Thompson

Vice President & Chief of Staff, Visible Hands
Laurie Weingart

Professor of Organizational Behavior, Carnegie Mellon, Author of The No Club
Lily Joy Winder

Student & Native Activist
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Agenda

- 10:00am
  Pre Conference Breakout Sessions
  - C-Speak Live Podcast
    
    Live Podcast with Andrea Silbert, President, EOS Foundation
    
    Attend a live PNC C-Speak Podcast featuring frank and lively conversations on leadership and life. This episode features Andrea Silbert, President, EOS Foundation. Andrea is one of the BBJ’s 2022 Power 50 Movement Makers, a list of community leaders whose work and actions are helping to shape a more equitable Boston. Podcast followed by audience Q+A.
  - Your Network is Your Everything
    
    Speed-Style Networking Session
    
    Moderators:
    Kate Ardini, Chief Marketing Officer, John Hancock
    Ashley DePaolo, President, CommCreative
    Annissa Essaibi George, Incoming President, and CEO, Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
    Aisha Miller, Vice President, Related Beal
    Courteney Mitchell, Account Executive, Warner Bros. Discovery
    Kiran Smith, Chief Marketing Officer, ButcherBox
    Linda Champion, Asst. General Counsel, Workers Compensation Trust Fund
    
    Take an important step by attending this session and making some new connections. Join your fellow conference attendees, and a group of top executives who will moderate a speed-style networking session not solely focused on business, but instead on supporting you personally and professionally.
- 11-11:30am
  
  Registration
- 11:30am
  
  Seated Lunch
- 12:15pm
  
  Welcome Remarks by Kathy Kiely
  
  President | The Ad Club
- 12:30pm
  
  Commanding the Stage
  
  Ruby Ibarra | Rapper, Producer & Director
  Lulu Garcia-Navarro | Interviewer | Peabody Award-winning Journalist, New York Times
  
  Ruby Ibarra is a rapper, who until recently was also a scientist working on the development of COVID test kits. She is also an immigrant, and a passionate advocate for the Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Her music is evocative, telling the stories of he journey and her family’s journey. She will perform, and then be interviewed by award-winning New York Times jounalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
- 1:10pm
  
  The Good Fight
  
  Andrea Campbell | Democratic Nominee for Massachusetts Attorney General
  
  Andrea is a survivor. She grew up in Roxbury, lost her mother at eight months old, and met her father for the first time at eight years old, when he was released from prison. Her brothers were court-involved, and her twin brother Andre died in the custody of the Department of Corrections as a pre-trial detainee. But she persevered. She went from Boston Latin School to Princeton to UCLA Law School, and was elected to the Boston City Council in 2015. Now she is the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Massachusetts, who would be the first woman of color elected statewide if she wins. She’ll tell her remarkable story of resilience.
- 1:20pm
  
  Playing Fair: A Winning Strategy
  
  Eve Rodsky | NYT Bestselling Author of Fair Play and Find Your Unicorn Space
  Joanna Bittle | Q+A | Agency Partner, CommCreative
  
  Eve Rodsky is working to change society one partnership at a time by coming up with a new 21st-century solution to an age-old problem: women shouldering 2/3 or more of the unpaid domestic work and childcare for their homes and families. she will tell us about her gamified life-management system that helps partners rebalance their domestic workload and reimagine their relationship.
- 1:45pm
  
  You Say Yes, I Say No, No, No
  
  Laurie Weingart | Professor of Organizational Behavior, Carnegie Mellon, Author of The No Club
  
  The No Club started when four accomplished women, crushed by endless to-do lists, banded together to get their work lives under control. Running faster than ever, they still trailed behind male colleagues. And so, they vowed to say no to requests that pulled them away from the work that mattered most to their careers. Professor Laurie Weingart was one of the four women, and she and her colleagues came together to write a book that reveals how their journey and subsequent groundbreaking research shows that women everywhere are unfairly burdened with “non-promotable work,” a tremendous problem we can—and must—solve.
- 2:05pm
  
  Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.
  
  Kelsee Kimmell | Broadway Performer, SIX: The Musical
  
  In Broadway In Boston’s production of SIX: The Musical, which opens in Boston November 9th, Jane Seymour is one of King Henry VIII’s wives - #3 in fact. You will recall that Jane is the one who gave him an heir – Edward VI – died of complications from (not for) childbirth. Broadway performer Kelsee Kimmell will share Jane’s HERstory through the song “Heart of Stone.”
- 2:15pm
  
  COFFEE BREAK
  
  Book signing by Laurie Weingart in the Concourse
- 2:50pm
  
  The Next Generation of Warriors
  
  Lily Joy Winder | Student, Native Activist
  Batouly Camara | Founder of W.A.K.E., Former UCONN basketball player
  Nadia Nazar | Artist, Climate change Activist
  Jen Deaderick | Interviewer | Author of She The People
  
  The future is female, and we would like to introduce you to a few of the young leaders moving us forward. Lily Joy Winder is a Native activist working to end the use of offesnive mascots in high school sports. Batouly Camara was a UConn basketball player who founded a non-profit organization that empowers women and girls. And Nadia Nazar is a climate activist who uses her art to express the urgency with which we must act to heal the planet. They will speak individually and then together, have a guided conversation led by Jen Deaderick, author of She The People.
- 3:30pm
  
  Culture Wars on Mercy Street: Reproductive Rights
  
  Jennifer Haigh | Award-Winning Author, Mercy Street
  Sacha Pfeiffer | Interviewer | Pulitzer Prize, winning Journalist, NPR Correspondent
  
  Jennifer Haigh has written a remarkable work of fiction that seems very, very real. Weaving together the disparate perspectives of people on all sides of the reproductive justice culture wars, she paints a pciture of the intractible stalement that landed at the very moment Roe v. Wade was being dismantled. She will join in conversation with NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, who was part of the team that exposed the Catholic priest child sex abuse scandal.
- 4:00pm
  
  The Power of Age Diversity
  
  Tobi Russell | Introduction | Chief People Officer, Public Consulting Group
  Karen Kaplan | Moderator |Chair & CEO, Hill Holliday
  Yasmin Cruz Ferrine | Co-Founder, Visible Hands
  Sarah Fay | Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
  Yvonne Garcia | Chief of Staff to CEO, State Street
  Tia Thomson | VP & Chief of Staff, Visible Hands
  
  We all make assumptions about the way other generations think, feel, and behave. Media has amplified those differences for fun and profit, often negatively influencing the way we view each other. Our multigenerational panel will reach past the stereotypes to explore the power of age diversity and how we can help each other think differently and innovate to get to better ideas and outcomes.
  
  You, the audience, will get to weigh in, too. Connect on Kahoot! and get ready to share your opinion when prompted.
- 4:40pm
  
  Veronica Robles' All-Female Mariachi Band
  
  Veronica Robles is a Mexican-American mariachi performer who founded the Veronica Robles Cultural Center in East Boston. She believes in the power of arts and culture to build bridges between communities. She will be performing with her all-female mariachi band.
- 5:00pm
  
  Cocktail and Networking Reception
  
  Book signing by Jennifer Haigh in the Concourse.

Breakout Sessions

Announcing two interactive breakout sessions for attendees. If you are looking for a unique experience at the Woman’s Leadership Forum join us at 10:00 am for coffee and one of two special sessions. Attendance is limited.

Once registered for the Women’s Leadership Forum, you’ll receive a link to sign up for one of these special breakout sessions.

Podcast Session

Attend a live PNC C-Speak Podcast featuring frank and lively conversations on leadership and life. This episode features

Andrea Silbert, President, EOS Foundation. Andrea is one of the BBJ’s 2022 Power 50 Movement Makers, a list of community leaders whose work and actions are helping to shape a more equitable Boston. Podcast followed by audience Q+A.
Networking Session

Your network is your everything. Take an important step by attending this session and making some new connections. Join your fellow conference attendees, and a group of top executives who will moderate a speed-style networking session not solely focused on business, but instead on supporting you personally and professionally.

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Highlights from the Event

Event Videos

Recap Video

Agenda

Breakout Sessions

Podcast Session

Networking Session

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