Featured Speaker(s)

Dr. Teri Baydar is a Leadership Development Consultant and Peak Performance Coach. She trains and coaches high level executives and high performance individuals to find, understand and develop their core character strengths and leadership style in alignment with their higher purpose. Her intuitive and compassionate style creates an environment of trust that allows for deep transformative work to take place and brings forth exceptional behavioral changes beyond expectations.

Her clients become more calm, self aware, confident, authentic, impactful, powerful, emotionally intelligent leaders. Their ability to engage and lead others increases exponentially due to their ability to manage, and inspire new behaviors in their teams that foster employee engagement, passion, high performance, innovation, and creative solutions.

A member of WITI Boston Leadership team, she is also an inspirational speaker and delivers workshops on self development and the need for self actualization in business leadership today.

She has over 15 years' experience in behavior research and behavior modification, including 7 years with a research institute / Think Tank specializing in the study of the workings of the unconscious mind which enabled her to develop her specific high impact method of behavioral change. She also has a degree in the science of mind, teaches meditation, and occasionally walks on fire.

Coaching Topic: Your Individual Development is the Key to Creating Meaning in Your Career Development.

Ashley Paré is the CEO & Founder of Own Your Worth, an organization on a mission to break glass ceilings through career negotiation. Ashley is a leadership and negotiation coach and supports her clients to release self-limiting beliefs, feel confident and earn more. She leverages over 12 years of global corporate Human Resource experience, is a Tedx Speaker, and has been featured in The New York Times, Glamour and CNN Money. She lives with her husband in Boston, MA. You can learn more about her work at www.ownyourworth.com.

Coaching Topic: How to Confidently Self-Advocate & Negotiate at Work

Join Ashley Paré for an interactive coaching circle to learn how you can apply her proven negotiation formula to grow your career. Women will be inspired to own their worth and ask for what they want in order to bring value to their organizations and confidently communicate at work. In this circle you'll learn how to:

- feel confident making an ask
- be comfortable having tough conversations
- self-advocate without the fear of potential negative consequences

Kim Meninger

As a certified executive and leadership development coach, Kim Meninger empowers individuals and organizations to reach their full leadership potential. Kim has coached hundreds of clients and has presented on career advancement and leadership topics to corporate, non-profit and academic audiences, including Pfizer, Fidelity Investments, GE Healthcare, Harvard University Women in Technology and others.

Prior to formalizing her leadership coaching expertise, Kim held a variety of cross-functional leadership roles in the high-tech industry where she experienced first-hand the unique challenges and opportunities facing women in the workplace. She is passionate about helping women leaders to develop their confidence, visibility and influence in order to maximize their impact and advance their careers.

Kim has a BA in psychology and an MBA from Boston College. She is an ICF Associate Certified Coach and CCE Board Certified Coach with certifications in career, executive and leadership development coaching. Kim also holds a certificate in Executive Leadership from Cornell University. In addition to coaching, Kim serves as president of the Groton Business Association, Global Director of Client Relationships for WITI and Chair of Alumnae Initiatives for the Council for Women of Boston College. She lives in Groton, MA with her husband and two young boys.

Coaching Topic: Fight Impostor Syndrome to Boost Your Confidence & Career

Do you attribute your success to luck or timing?
Do you sometimes feel undeserving of your role?
Do you ever worry that you'll be exposed as a fraud?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be one of the many women who struggle with Impostor Syndrome. At one time or another, virtually every professional will experience challenges with confidence. You may doubt your ability to perform a specific role or function, question the value of an idea you'd like to share, or hesitate to connect with another colleague or leader.

While confidence dips are normal, if not managed effectively, they can prevent you from reaching your full potential. Confidence issues can also undermine an organization's ability to fully develop and leverage its women leaders. This coaching circle will empower you to address key confidence challenges and better manage Impostor Syndrome.

Nancy McCabe, CPPC©

The What's Next? Coach for business professionals, executives and entrepreneurs. Nancy is also the creator and champion for the New Language of Work©, a results-focused training and coaching program that empowers you to lead with your strengths and speak up with clarity, confidence and courage.

Discover how coaching works, for you, in a free 30-minute session by phone. Book your session online: www.calendly.com/NancyMcCabe. Call, email or text Nancy to learn more about the New Language of Work© coaching and training programs for you, your company and your professional organizations.

Coaching Topic: The New Language of Work - Speak up with clarity, confidence and courage

- Tap into your strengths, experience and personality for insights and clues for adapting to others
- Use professional goals to identify the people who can help you succeed or avoid failure
- Apply a simple 4-step process to connect with people, speak up and be heard