All Topics in Washington D.C.

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  Orphaned Young Adults in Haiti, A Forgotten Group

  Astrid de Vries, Founder / President, Kids Connection Haiti

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

  Imagine being 18 years old, ready to spread your wings, eager to go to college or find a job. An exciting time in your life, right? Now imagine being 18 years old, without a family, without a diploma, without any working experience and without a network. What would you do? Where would you go? MORE >

  Have you ever thought about the impact a stable family life has on your (professional and personal) development? With a 40% unemployment- and illiteracy rate countrywide, orphans in Haiti suffer the most.

  Kids Connection Haiti was founded to empower orphans in Haiti to become contributing, self-sufficient members within their communities through education, life skills training, community service, mentorship, and career development. We would love to share with you how Kids Connection Haiti has been successful in empowering these young men and women create financially independent futures.

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  The Role of Personal Peace in World Peace

  Ukpeme Okon, Charismatic Speaker, Creative Author, Ambassador for Peace

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

  A peaceful individual is likely to be an agent of peace in her or his family, neighborhood, workplace, community and the world. Peace is possible. This presentation will teach participants how to achieve peace, become ambassadors for peace, prevent conflicts, and resolve conflicts in non-violent ways.

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  The Authority Mirror for Building Better Teams

  Bob Graham, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, SpearPoint Ink

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Bob Graham helps participants hold up what he calls the "Authority Mirror" to help teams build cohesion, confidence and consistency across their organization.

  By learning how to align every message with shared purpose, teams find new clarity, opportunity and success. MORE >

  Rather than a lecture or PowerPoint presentation, Graham will ask participants will to use his framework and insights from one another to develop and test their own authority mirror.

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  Creating Success that Sticks: Aligning Your Core Values with Your Career

  Catherine A. Wood, Founder & Head Coach, Unbounded Potential

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  If you became famous tomorrow and your own definition of success became a maxim, what lesson would you impart? What wisdom would you share? For many, success is a fleeting sensation—the achievement of one goal and immediately on to the next. The joy and satisfaction flash in front of our eyes in the instant of success and then it eludes us once again. MORE >

  What could be possible for you in redefining your relationship to success from the inside out, and making that elusive success stick while producing even greater results? You will walk away with a model for aligning your core values with your goals as an access point to creating success that sticks from the inside out.

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  Simple Rules for Women Leaders

  Dr. Mallary Tytel, President, Healthy Workplaces

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Are YOU a woman who is ready to advance in leadership, but still find obstacles in your path while you diligently serve? Are YOU part of an organization committed to increasing opportunities for women, but haven’t hit on a strategy that works? Most importantly, are YOU ready to embrace power and opportunity with the intention of assuming leadership and being your best self? The ways that you think about and use your own power can be the difference that makes a difference in your career. MORE >

  This presentation offers Simple Rules and Simple Tools to help you hone your skills and move you forward to reach your goals. Embrace your own power with intention and confidence, while focusing on your presence and self-assurance. Now is the time to move forward to achieve success. Let's get started.

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  The Path to Prosperity: A Comprehensive Guide to Women’s Retirement Planning

  Jacqueline Schadeck, CFP ®, AWMA ®, Certified Financial Planner® Professional, Golden Wealth Strategies

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  This educational presentation will teach attendees the most important components to create a successful retirement. We will discuss strategies on how to create multiple income streams(including social security), how to pay the least amount of taxes on their hard earned money, and how to make sure their money lasts. Participants will leave this event with more clarity and confidence about retirement! MORE >

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  From Striving to Flow: How to Reconnect With Your Inner Wisdom and Live Aligned

  Tonya Hubbard, Transformational Life Coach, Awaken and Align with Tonya

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement

  There was a time in my life when I was doing all the "right" things, checking boxes, hustling hard, showing up for everyone, but inside, I was exhausted. I had lost touch with my voice, my peace, and my joy. Like so many others, I was striving to prove my worth in a world that never seemed satisfied, but everything changed when I finally got quiet enough to listen, not to the noise of expectations, but to the quiet wisdom within. MORE >

  In this powerful and soul-stirring talk, I share how I moved from burnout to balance, from anxiety to alignment, and how you can do the same. This is not about doing more or fixing yourself. It is about remembering who you are, reclaiming your energy, and trusting that what is meant for you flows with ease and not force. Perfect for professionals, caregivers, and seekers who feel spiritually or emotionally depleted, this talk offers practical tools, soulful insights, and an invitation to come home to yourself. Audiences leave not just inspired but empowered to stop striving and start living from a place of deep inner flow.

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  Using Belief to Drive Business

  Bob Graham, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, SpearPoint Ink

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  A powerful session based on Bob Graham’s Belief Ladder framework, he helps participants develop a clear and engaging story to better move clients from stakeholders from understanding, to love and to belief so they feel drawn toward them as customers and advocates. MORE >

  Participants can expect to be engaged in activities with others in the room as they climb the Belief Ladder with their story.

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  From Manager to Changemaker: Leading Change When You’re Not in Charge

  Adriano Pianesi, MBA, ACC, Founder and CEO, ParticipAction Consulting, Inc.

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Most managers are asked to deliver transformation—but without the authority, clarity, or control to make it happen. From Manager to Changemaker is a practical leadership experience designed to help them do exactly that. MORE >

  Developed and led by Adriano Pianesi, this program equips mid-level and emerging leaders with the mindset and tools to create impact from wherever they stand. Drawing on principles of adaptive leadership, Liberating Structures, and systems thinking, participants learn how to mobilize people, build trust, and move real work forward—without waiting for top-down approval.

  The program reframes leadership as an act of exploration rather than command. Through interactive workshops, peer coaching, and field-based experiments, managers learn how to:

  - Diagnose what’s really blocking progress in their teams or organizations.
  - Build influence across silos and engage stakeholders with different priorities.
  - Design small, low-risk experiments that demonstrate results and build credibility.
  - Shift from managing tasks to mobilizing energy—turning frustration into forward motion.

  Each participant leaves with a personalized 30-day action plan, ready to test in their own workplace, and a community of peers committed to supporting one another’s experiments.

  Whether you lead a team of five or influence a network of hundreds, From Manager to Changemaker offers a proven path to lead with courage, clarity, and creativity—even when you’re not in charge.

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  Frame for Change

  Shayanna Whitaker, CEO, The Institute for Dynamic Leaders

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Organizations are in a constant state of change, but employee competency and communication styles get in the way of the best experience of change. As a result of this talk, the audience are enabled to organically find common ground with teams and grow in conversations with clear intentions in favor of organizational change.

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