Thank you to all of the presenters, sponsors and attendees who made the 7th annual Womentum Leadership Summit, Getting Real: Choosing Authenticity, a success! The two-day Summit filled us with strength, courage and resilience (as promised!), and we hope it filled up your cup, too.
Missed it? Want to re-watch? You can catch up on all of the presentations linked below.
The Summit kicked- off with Ruth Rathblott’s Keynote presentation. Rathblott is an author of Singlehandedly: Learning to Unhide and Embrace Connection, TEDx speaker and DEI expert who helps organizations expand their definition of diversity so they can make it fully inclusive to include people with visible and invisible differences. Born with a limb difference and having over 25 years experience as a leader in the non-profit sector, Ruth is an expert on the issues of inclusion and diversity. For much of her life, she didn’t want to be seen as diverse. She strived to fit in. She wanted to be like everyone else. She was obsessed with hiding. She didn’t want to deal with total strangers asking, “Hey, what happened to your hand?” Hiding her hand was the real reason she didn’t do things. She was constantly worrying and forecasting her next steps so she wouldn’t be discovered. Ruth lived this way for 25 years. It was exhausting and lonely. Ruth now works with leaders to transform workplace culture so that their employees can unhide, thrive, and belong, as she has.
The following day, integral coaches Liz Hardwick and Lindsay Priefert of One Wild Life Coaching set the tone for The Womentum Leadership Summit. In their exercise “Getting Grounded in Your Unique Ways of Being” they ask the audience: “What is your way?”.
Bonnie Wan lead attendees through creating their own Life Briefs, based on her soon-to-be-released book The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living. Bonnie is a Partner and Head of Brand Strategy at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, one of Fast Company’s 2021 Most Innovative Companies In The World. As a career brand strategist she has been celebrated as an Ad Age Leading Woman for 2023 and 2022’s Chief Strategy Officer of the Year. She has spent the last three decades helping brand titans get clear about their essence so they can grow and innovate from that place of clarity and purpose. In 2010, during a crisis of meaning, she wrote a creative brief for her life and The Life Brief was born. Her resulting Life Brief not only saved her marriage but kicked off a decade of personal and professional adventure, paved with unexpected twists and unimaginable gifts. Today, Bonnie teaches others how to get clear, get creative, and get courageous about living without regret through her keynote talks, workshops, and retreats, including SXSW, Jane Goodall’s Global Hope Summit, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s “In Goop Health.” She continues to share The Life Brief with companies and communities such as Accenture, Apple, Bain Consulting, Change.org, Google, Omnicom, Weiden & Kennedy, Womentum, and more. When she’s not leading and teaching strategy, or declaring her next Life Brief, you’ll find her with her husband, four kids, and Charlie the dog, adventuring in nature and sleeping under the stars.
Bonnie’s workshop was separated into four sessions, through which you too can craft your own Life Brief:
- Part One – The Life Brief Practice Described
- Part Two – Getting Messy, Generating Ingredients
- Part Three – Write a Gut Brief
- Part Four – Finalize Your Life Brief & What’s Next
Thank you again to our presenters, for providing such wisdom! Until next year — Onward!
