2025 Speakers

Meet our #SOTWA2025 speakers!

Expert Zone

Kathy Hood

Legacy Coach and Co-Founder, BestieFinder Network

How to Find the Right Table/Room/Audience for Your Gift

What you'll get:

Release the real you! It’s time to peel back the layers and find that incredible, one-of-a-kind, totally YOU. We’ll talk about how to stop playing small or blending in and how to start showing up where you’re celebrated, not just tolerated!

Learn how to use your unique gifts to light up every room you enter, and kick that people-pleasing mask to the curb. Expert Mode Activated!

Amber Owens

CEO, BrandFelt Activations

Be the EssenceFest of Your Industry: Activate Your Brand Through Events

What you'll get:

In this dynamic session, we’ll explore how to use events as a strategic tool to enhance and scale your brand. Learn how to create engaging and impactful brand activations that leave a lasting impression and drive conversions. We’ll cover the key elements of profitable event branding and provide practical tips for event success. Learn from real-world examples and gain actionable insights you can apply to your own business.

Treshelle Williams

Master Coach, Wealthy Women Conversations

Elevate Your Business: Streamline with Systems and Automation

What you'll get:

In this empowering session, I’ll share my journey to simplifying success through systems and automation.

Known for her calm confidence and practical wisdom, Coach Williams will guide the attendees in building workflows that reduce overwhelm and unlock time freedom. By implementing intentional systems, participants can turn their businesses into well-oiled, stress-free success machines, enabling them to focus on meaningful growth.

Bibi Williams

CEO, Organized Khaos Events

Everyday Tools for Effective Event Management

What you'll get:

Designed for those who find themselves in the midst of event planning for the first time or experienced planners seeking to enhance their strategic planning skills, this workshop will equip you with the essential skills and insights necessary to elevate your event management capabilities.

Embrace the fundamental tools at your disposal and transform your planning endeavors into a seamlessly executed process.

Chassidy Goggins

CEO, Servant’s Heart Services

Making Yourself Helpable: How to Drop the Superwoman Charade and Welcome the Support You Desperately Need in Business

What you'll get:

The number one remedy to dropping the superwoman routine in your business is securing the right kind of help to support your needs. Face hard truths about why your previous assistants haven’t worked out, evaluate burnout warning signs, and learn how to chart a new path with not just an executive assistant but an administrative partner to expand and undergird your business.

Nyala Allen

CEO, KEY Coaching & Consulting

A New Mission: Building Resilience Through Healthy Habits

What you'll get:

Embrace and cultivate a new level of resilience and mission by creating healthy habits that fuel your mind, body, and environment during your work-life transition.

Robbie Pemberton

VP, Cadence Bank

B.U.D.G.E.T. – Becoming Unapologetically Determined to Get Eternally Transformed

What you'll get:

We’re going to change the way we look at BUDGET and start to transform the manner in which we reprogram and rewire our thinking around finances. Take the journey with me to GPS your money!

Dr. Lisa Richardson

Co-Founder, BestieFinder Network

NOPE! How to Confidently Say No and Thrive When You Say Yes

What you'll get:

Endless bandwidth is a myth that no one believes in, yet women leaders keep piling things onto their plates until they drop the whole thing. We keep focusing on what we think we’re “supposed to do” while ignoring opportunities to perform in our strengths.

Learn the truth about procrastination, how to show up as your real self, and what to do to gain the confidence to look your self-imposed guilt in the face and say, NOPE!