How is the workshop different from the keynotes?

It is an applied working session. Participants practice describing their contribution, prepare for specific rooms and conversations, and use exercises, templates and small-group discussion rather than listening to a general session.

Who should be in the room?

Women's leadership programs and networks, ERG and BRG cohorts, and leadership-development or high-potential cohorts.

What formats are available?

A workshop or breakout session, a leadership-development cohort adaptation, and a virtual or hybrid adaptation where appropriate.

Can it follow a keynote at the same event?

Yes. It is frequently paired as the applied session after a keynote so the cohort practices the same frameworks and leaves with a committed visible action.

Workshop

Own Your Seat at the Table™: Why Waiting for Permission Is Keeping You Invisible

Own Your Seat at the Table™ is an interactive workshop for women's leadership programs, ERG/BRG audiences and leadership-development cohorts. Participants practice describing their contribution, preparing to speak in rooms that matter, and choosing a visible action instead of waiting for an invitation.

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The business challenge

What this program addresses

Waiting for permission is often mistaken for professionalism. The result is that valuable perspective stays out of the rooms where decisions are made.

The promise

An applied working session where participants practice claiming the contribution they have already earned.

Organizational outcomes

What changes after this program

Practice describing contribution clearly and without overstatement.
Prepare for the specific rooms and conversations that matter now.
Choose a visible action rather than waiting for an invitation.

Ideal audiences

Women's leadership programs and networks
ERG and BRG cohorts
Leadership-development and high-potential programs

Participant takeaways

A rehearsed, plain-language description of their contribution.
A short list of rooms and conversations to enter next.
One committed visible action.

Formats and interaction

Workshop or breakout session
Leadership-development cohort adaptation
Virtual or hybrid adaptation where appropriate

Exercises, templates, small-group discussion, and implementation planning.

Planner questions

Questions about Own Your Seat at the Table™

How is the workshop different from the keynotes?: It is an applied working session. Participants practice describing their contribution, prepare for specific rooms and conversations, and use exercises, templates and small-group discussion rather than listening to a general session.
Who should be in the room?: Women's leadership programs and networks, ERG and BRG cohorts, and leadership-development or high-potential cohorts.
What formats are available?: A workshop or breakout session, a leadership-development cohort adaptation, and a virtual or hybrid adaptation where appropriate.
Can it follow a keynote at the same event?: Yes. It is frequently paired as the applied session after a keynote so the cohort practices the same frameworks and leaves with a committed visible action.

Buyer paths

Women's leadership

Capable, accomplished women often wait to feel ready before they speak, apply, lead or contribute. The waiting reads as disinterest, and the organization loses perspective it needs in the rooms where decisions are made.

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Experienced-talent activation

Organizations invest for decades in the judgment, relationships and institutional knowledge of experienced people, then watch that capability go quiet. Contribution narrows, visibility fades, and knowledge that should be shared stays with individuals.