The Last Women In Sales Leadership Forum of 2023 starts on October, 13!
Now is the time to invest in yourself and your career, or in the professional development of the high-performing women on your team. We have a powerful line-up of instructors, coaches, and experts who are excited to share their knowledge and experience with Women in Sales leaders from around the globe.
Now is the time to invest in yourself and your career, or in the professional development of the high-performing women on your team. We have a powerful line-up of instructors, coaches, and experts who are excited to share their knowledge and experience with Women in Sales leaders from around the globe.
If you have any questions, please email Gina Stracuzzi, Forum Program Director at gstracuzzi@i4esbd.com
Giving Women in Sales the Skills & Insights They Need to Lead With Conviction!
REGISTER NOW for the last of the 2023 Forums.
The last 2023 Women in Sales Leadership Forum starts on October 13!
REGISTER NOW for the last of the 2023 Forums.
The last 2023 Women in Sales Leadership Forum starts on October 13!
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Program Details
2023 Program Sessions

Session 1:
Tamara Greenspan, Oracle Group Vice President & General Manager, Federal & Canadian Public Sector, North America presents Using Mentors and Sponsors to Build Influence and Credibility
In this session, Tamara will share her career story and how she got to the top of sales leadership on her own terms. She will also share her hard-learned lessons –the good, the bad, and the ugly, to help you appreciate how to choose the best approach for your situation and help you achieve the results you expect with maximum impact.

Session 2:
Kyla O’Connell, Founder and Lead Facilitator at WIN WIN – Empathy Driven Sales Training presents Leverage Active EQ Awareness Techniques for Personal Brand Management!
Success in sales leadership requires the skills needed to transfer the knowledge, habits and skills that made you a top performer in sales. Skills such as conducting effective one-on-one coaching sessions, training and coaching skills and running effective group sales meetings. This session will uniquely integrate emotional intelligence skill training with leadership skill training.

Session 3:
Gigi Schumm, SVP World Wide Sales at ThreatQuotient, Inc., presents The Importance of Leading with Courage and Conviction
Gigi will share her leadership stories to help illustrate how harnessing your strengths and professional purpose will help you lead with the courage and conviction you need to be truly successful.

Session 4:
Amanda Doyle, Certified Professional Coach presents Mastering the Art of Communication for Leading Women in Sales
Leaders are only as good as the messages they deliver to their teams. We’ve all been in lackluster meetings that inspired no one to act. Motivating teams, leading inspiring meetings requires communicating clearly and concisely. Research shows that there is a direct correlation between one’s speaking proficiency and both audience response and their sphere of influence. The same research also proves that to have influence, you must be believable, on-target, likable and daring. In this session, participants will learn how to use the full measure of their voice for maximum effectiveness, not through a major overhaul of their approach, but rather through micro-actions that generate macro impact.

Session 5:
Queirra Fenderson, Founder and CEO of the Ambition Studio, presents Lead with Decisiveness by Engaging Your Intuition
Intuition is our ability to size up a situation and make quick decisions based on what appears to be pure instinct. This is an important, and often overlooked skill, particularly in high-stress situations. Although women are hard-wired to be more intuitive, we are taught at an early age to trust in the wisdom of others instead of trusting our own instincts. This denying of a fundamental strength often leads to an inner battle of self-doubt. In this session, you will learn to tune into your innate intuitiveness and use it to be an empathetic, connected, and decisive leader.
Session 6:
Gina Stracuzzi, CoFounder & IES Women in Sales Leadership Forum What’s Next For You?
Gina Stracuzzi is a leader in the Women in Sales movement. Gina’s career in sales started very early in life when she would “pitch” her parents on important issues like her version of how grandma’s vase ended up on the floor in a million pieces. She would routinely beat out her “competition” (aka as her six siblings) for best story-telling in a dramatic role. Throughout her 20+ years in sales and marketing in the U.S., Europe and emerging economies, Gina has continued to employ those same story-telling skills to help women entrepreneurs and small businesses, navigate the waters between strategic communication and business development to bring about smart growth. She is the host of the Tuesday at noon IES Women in Sales webinar.

Program Dates
Investment
- *IES Members and Sponsors Receive a 50% discount. Please contact womeninsales@i4esbd.org to receive the PromoCode.
The Forum Gives Current & Emerging Sales Leaders the Tools for Continued Success!
One of the biggest challenges women face on the road to leadership is the opportunity to grow through professional development opportunities that address the issues that can hinder their success, such as a lack of mentorship or less than supportive environments. The Forum gives women the career tools, techniques and strategies to succeed in a no holes-barred, open, honest, and safe environment.
The IES is the Right Organization to Deliver the Women in Sales Leadership Forum
“People become leaders by internalizing a leadership identity and developing a sense of purpose. Internalizing a sense of oneself as a leader is an iterative process. A person asserts leadership by taking purposeful action—such as convening a meeting to revive a dormant project. Others affirm or resist the action, thus encouraging or discouraging subsequent assertions. These interactions inform the person’s sense of self as a leader and communicate how others view his or her fitness for the role.”
Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers. Herminia Ibarra, Robin J. Ely, Deborah M. Kolb, Harvard Business Review. September 2013.