This year’s San Diego Women’s Week Leadership Conference will feature five keynote speakers: speech coach and author Samara Bay, journalist and New York Times best-selling author Gretchen Carlson, attorney and financial expert Scarlett Cochran, founder and CEO of Rise Up For You Nada Lena Nasserdeen and 4S Ranch teen Joyce Orishaba, a recent winner of The New York Times’ 100-word Personal Narrative Contest.
But those who would like to attend the conference on March 2 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rancho Bernardo Inn will have to act fast.
As of this weekend, fewer than 70 of the 500 tickets remained, said Debra Rosen, president and CEO of the North San Diego Business Chamber, which organizes the event.
There will also be a virtual viewing option, which began a couple years ago. Last year the Women’s Week Leadership Conference had 500 attendees and 580 virtual attendees, Rosen said.
“We used this platform during COVID when we could not host in-person events. It proved to be successful and it attracted a lot of people from outside of San Diego,” she said. “Many of our partners are global and they engaged their colleagues from around the world. Several partners have already bought an additional 50 to 100 virtual tickets for their colleagues to enjoy the event.”
Bay’s presentation will be “Permission to speak: How to change what power sounds like, starting with you.” She will provide practical tips and inspiring tales of how people can use their voice to get what they want.
Samara Bay will talk at San Diego Women’s Week about how to effectively use one’s voice.
(Courtesy – North San Diego Business Chamber)
Bay’s presentation will be “Permission to speak: How to change what power sounds like, starting with you.” She will provide practical tips and inspiring tales of how people can use their voice to get what they want.
Carlson will talk about ways to speak out and make workplaces safer. She is a women’s rights advocate who took actions against Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, her former employer, which paved the way for the global #MeToo movement. Carlson has been named by Time Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” according to her bio.
Scarlett Cochran will explain how to build wealth according to one’s priorities during San Diego Women’s Week.
(Courtesy – One Big Happy Life)
Cochran’s presentation will be focused on the proven path to building wealth based on one’s priorities. This includes redefining wealth, changing one’s money story and defining a personal version of a rich life.
Nasserdeen, whose resume includes being a leadership and career confidence coach and a motivational speaker, will talk about how to be seen, heard and relevant as a professional in order to achieve personal success and elevate one’s organization.
Orishaba, a student at Poway to Palomar Middle College, will talk about her experiences as an orphan in Uganda as part of the indigenous Batwa tribe and being adopted and now living in the U.S. She shared some of that in her contest essay and is working on developing “Discover The Lost Tribe,” an ambassadorship program to connect American and Batwa teens.
There will also be three panels. Their topics will be working across the divide of opinions, negotiation strategies and communication styles between men and women.
All the keynote and panel speakers were selected based on topics relevant to attendees this year, Rosen said. While this is Women’s Week, because of an increasing number of men in attendance, their messages are also gender neutral, she said.
Nada Lena Nasserdeen, founder and CEO of Rise Up For You, is among 2023 San Diego Women’s Week keynote speakers.
(Scott Sapp)
The panel topics are based on comments from chamber members and previous leadership conferences, she said.
“Each year the speakers are always different, so we are looking forward to hearing all of them with no one speaker more interesting than another,” Rosen said.
Joyce Orishaba will talk about her efforts to help Batwa youths during San Diego Women’s Week.
(Wendee Nicole)
San Diego Women’s Week has evolved its format over the years.
“When we started this event 14 years ago we didn’t know what to expect,” Rosen said. “It was a challenge getting the Executive Committee in 2009 to recognize the value of hosting an event like this and only approved it with many conditions.
“At the time, they did not see how it tied into business,” Rosen said. “Each year Women’s Week has grown exponentially and it is more important than ever with the world changing as quickly as it is. The topics are developed each year around the issues and relevance of the world we are living in today.”
The leadership conference has something for everyone — the topics, discussions, activities and networking opportunities are developed around leadership and empowerment, she said.
“Each year the attendees share with us how much they learned and the impact the conference has had on them,” Rosen said.
San Diego Women’s Week has typically featured three events with the chamber’s Women and Wine Regional Connect event held to coincide with it. But in the aftermath of the pandemic the week was scaled down to just the leadership conference.
Due to scheduling this year, the Regional Connect event at Bernardo Winery was set for a different time, from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, something Rosen said she anticipates not happening again in 2024.
“There may also be a kick-off event next year now that we are post-pandemic,” she added.
Tickets to the Leadership Conference are $219 to attend in-person and $99 to attend virtually.
The in-person ticket includes the keynote speakers and panel discussions, in-person and virtual networking opportunities, a vendor village, swag bag and speaker books (while supplies last), morning coffee bar, lunch, and ability to watch the presentations on-demand for three months.
The virtual ticket includes virtual access to the keynote speakers and panel discussions, a networking opportunity with all attendees via a mobile app, a virtual vendor village and ability to watch the presentations on-demand for three months.
Tickets to the Regional Connect Networking event at Bernardo Winery on March 8 are $35.
To register for either event, visit sdwomensweek.com. For questions, call 858-487-1767.
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