We are filling a room with people and experiences that can change the trajectory of your leadership. Business landscape is shifting. AI is reshaping every industry. Capital is moving. You are building your next chapter. Be in the room with the people who are a few steps ahead and can help you get where you want to go.
The Power of the Matriarch is a 3.5 day women's leadership conference in the heart of Chicago.
Brought to you by Joy of You! in partnership with Love, Lizzy.
Mon. April 20th
tues. April 21sT
Thresette Briggs has firsthand experience that not all PR is good PR. As a master communication strategist and Founder of Performance 3, her communication-centered workshop will change how you think about self promotion.
Before you can set boundaries externally, you have to know who you are internally. If you are navigating complexity in your business, your career, or your life right now, this one is for you.
1PM CST / The Discernement Panel
Tuesday is a full day of learning from people who have spent their careers solving the problems you are sitting with right now. You build your own schedule. Each workshop runs three times across the day so you can attend the sessions that matter most to you and move through at your own pace.
- Moderator Dr. Paul Slosar opens with a grounding framework on how capital allocation actually works and where the gaps are.
- Ariella Frank, Robin Noble, and Scott Becker go deeper. Women make the majority of healthcare decisions and hold a fraction of the capital. We will talk about how to change those statistics.
6PM CST / Deploying Capital to Invest in Women's Health
7PM CST / Keynote, The Hyatt Way: Celebrating Women as Changemakers
AI is already embedded in your workplace whether you have a strategy for it or not. Alberta Johnson, Founder and CEO of People Experts LLC, and Forbes Business Council Member, helps you understand how AI is influencing people decisions, cultural dynamics, and organizational trust.
Aimee Kandrac built WhatFriendsDo after organizing care for a close friend diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. She watched everyone want to help and no one know how.
Do you feel like you’re behind with AI? Everyone feels behind, which means that nobody is! Annie Rayhill, Founder & CEO of Athena Consultants, brings you a workshop that starts with the only question that actually matters: do I need AI, and if so, where do I start?
Communication-Powered Leadership: Sharing your Story & Leveraging your Voice with Impact
Empowering Executive Women to Make Smarter, Faster, and Safer Decisions in the Age of AI
A Beginners Guide to Agentic AI
Asking for Help is a Sign of Strength - The Love Letter Workshop
- This panel is a guided conversation about the discipline of discernment and learning to tell the difference between obligation and alignment, opportunity and distraction, performance and authenticity.
- Teresa Sabatine, Founder of Love, Lizzy moderates a discussion built around the guiding principles that anchor how you make decisions, where you draw lines, and how you lead in a way that is actually sustainable.
- Tyronne has spent over a decade working directly with senior leadership to embed inclusion into culture, talent development, and business impact across one of the world's largest companies.
- If you are managing a team, thinking about retention, or trying to build something that does not fall apart when you step back, pull up a chair.
- The evening opens with a plated dinner and a fireside chat between Sunny Lu Williams and Alejandra Castillo.
- Alejandra will help us examine how leadership must evolve to meet the realities of today’s workforce and tomorrow’s economy.
- She served under Presidents Biden, Obama, and Clinton, driving inclusive economic growth and workforce investment at the federal level.
5PM CST / Women Re-Engineering Policy, Care, and Economic Leadership
- This session helps bring you clarity on appropriate self-disclosure and boundary setting.
- What to share, when to share it, and how to use your voice with impact, intention, and influence in your leadership journey.
- Twenty years of coaching and high-performance leadership packed into one powerful session.
- She will explore how to lead through the current AI landscape without compromising your values or your people.
- You will examine real examples of AI in hiring, performance, communication, and workforce planning, and walk away with practical tools for evaluating AI outputs, setting ethical guardrails, and leading your team through change with transparency.
- Her workshop, Love Letter, is about building your own emergency plan before you need one. Who do you call? How do people show up for you? What does support actually look like in your life?
- You will leave with a real plan and the language to ask for help.
- Did you know we’ve arrived at the second generation of AI, called Agentic AI? Be one of the first to understand this new iteration of AI, how it works, and what it’s capable of.
- This workshop will de-mystify Agentic AI by looking under the hood and explaining how it works. We will then explore ways you can use it in your organization.
9AM - 5PM CST
5PM - 9PM CST
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LODGING
When you purchase the Mini Conference Pass your lodging is included in your ticket price.
We are excited to partner with The Hyatt Centric Magnificent Mile for Our CONFERENCE LODGING AND EVENT SPACE.
The Power of the Matriarch is designed for women who are running companies, leading organizations, and shaping what is possible in their industries. Women in their full stride who are thinking about sustainability, legacy, capital, and what the next chapter looks like when you build it on your own terms.
You will get a chance to network with your industry peers through our 20 person industry specific Vanguard Groups and engage deeply with your Core 5 Cohort. Our CORE 5 matchmaking is not random. It is curated with data science and care, designed to help you forge personal and professional relationships that you will cherish for years.
MISSION AND THEMES
The CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE is anchored with our FOUR pillars OF IMPACT:
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Because you cannot lead from empty. This track explores sustaining yourself physically and mentally while also examining the growing landscape of women's health innovation, investment, and the technology redefining what care looks like for us.
ECONoMIC SECURITY
Accessing capital, deploying it with intention, and building wealth that lasts beyond you. This track is about understanding financial systems and learning how to create real, lasting economic power.
strong community
Some of your most important collaborators, champions, and confidants are already in this room. Genuine peer connection and resource-sharing among women who are truly in it together.
LEADERSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Navigating and reshaping systems from a position of strength, experience, visibility, story, and designing what your boldest next chapter looks like when you are equipped with the tools you need to succeed.
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