Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Time: 12:00-2:00 PM
Location: Virtual

Event Description: 

Join us for EWL's highly anticipated 6th Annual Virtual Masterclass, designed to equip Emerging Women Leaders with the tools, insights, and strategies needed to navigate today's rapidly evolving workplace. This comprehensive program will feature a keynote address, followed by specialized sessions led by distinguished TEMPO Member experts in their fields. During this virtual session, attendees will gain frameworks and techniques that can be immediately applied to enhance your professional effectiveness, while also building connections with like-minded professionals who share your commitment to growth and adaptability in today's rapidly changing workplace.

In this powerful and inspiring keynote, La’Ketta Caldwell challenges young professionals to silence self doubt, own their voice, and step confidently into the spaces they have worked hard to enter. Many emerging leaders walk into meetings and boardrooms carrying quiet questions: Do I belong here? Am I ready? Am I enough? This message confronts those internal narratives and replaces them with clarity, courage, and confidence.

Through transparent storytelling and practical leadership insights, La’Ketta reminds participants that they are not tokens, placeholders, or accidents. They are prepared, capable, and necessary. She shares strategies to navigate imposter syndrome, communicate with confidence, advocate for ideas, and lead with authenticity even when you are the youngest, the only, or the different one in the room.

This experience includes interactive discussion through live chat engagement and guided reflection prompts, allowing participants to process in real time and learn from one another. Attendees leave not only inspired but equipped with practical tools to strengthen their leadership presence.

“You Belong in the Room” transforms insecurity into impact and reminds every participant that their presence is not by chance. It has a purpose.

Emerging women leaders often carry high expectations to be composed, collaborative, and capable at all times. The internal work of regulating your own uncertainty while providing steadiness to others can create isolation and self-doubt if it goes unnamed. This session helps participants recognize that this tension is common, validates the difficulty of these roles, and offers practical strategies for leading with clarity and integrity without losing themselves. We’ll talk about the invisible labor of leadership in tumultuous times, including the emotional, relational, and interpretive work that middle managers often carry in uncertain or high-pressure environments. We’ll explore the burden of holding a team together, staying grounded, and making principled decisions while managing your own uncertainty. The focus is on validating the internal work of remaining steady for others when you do not feel steady yourself. Participants will walk away with: a simple method for separating internal reaction from external response.

In my work in organizational consulting, one of the most common challenges emerging leaders share is how to influence effectively in real-world situations. Often, they’ve prepared thoughtful presentations or ideas, only to face unexpected time cuts, executives stepping into meeting, or agendas that shift mid-conversation. Sometimes they know the content but struggle to insert their voice or perspective confidently. The Influence Code provides a framework to navigate these moments by helping leaders prepare in ways that align with their unique strengths and roles, so they can walk into any room with clarity, confidence, and credibility, ready to make impact, even when the circumstances aren’t perfect. Attendees will walk away with ideas and knowledge on preparing strategically in limited time, pivoting conversations and agendas with ease, and how to amplify their unique strengths, creating influence that feels natural, authentic, and immediately actionable. 

As new emerging women leaders step into greater visibility and higher-stakes roles, self-doubt, perfectionism, and overthinking can amplify. Derailing thoughts can lead to shrinking their voice, over-preparing, avoiding hard conversations, or over-performing to “prove” themselves. Learning to recognize and interrupt these mental loops builds steadiness under pressure, clearer decision-making, stronger presence, and healthier risk-taking. In this talk, you’ll learn how to set yourself up for success by managing the derailing thoughts that can quietly sabotage confidence, focus, and follow-through. We’ll explore why your mind spins into unhelpful loops, how to spot the early warning signs, and simple, practical tools to interrupt thought spirals before they take over. You’ll leave with a clear, repeatable approach to steady your mindset, make better decisions in the moment, and stay aligned with what matters most—especially when stress, uncertainty, or self-doubt shows up.

Many young women and especially women of diverse backgrounds lack the tools to navigate their authentic leadership voice.  The extroverted outspoken male model of leadership has shifted, and young leaders can lead with influence as they build ways to share with honest authority- quietly. In this world dominated by extroverted leaders (and being one myself) the introverted leader can build secret dance moves to honor their need for quiet to reflect and consider before contributing. 

The topic of Critical Feedback is critical for women leaders as they grow in their organizations, connect with other leaders, expand direct reports, and seek to improve themselves. We'll cover a new way to think about feedback - no longer "positive" or "negative" - and address both how to increase confidence giving feedback (including addressing what to do when someone disagrees) and how to not only navigate, but seek out, receiving feedback for yourself.

Job searching is one of the most emotionally demanding experiences a professional can face – and for emerging women leaders, the pressure to land the right role quickly can lead to exhaustion, self-doubt, and a strategy that slowly stops working. As someone who has spent years on both sides of the hiring table, in HR, talent acquisition, and now as an executive and career coach, I've seen firsthand what derails talented candidates and what actually works in their favor. In this session, we'll name what job search burnout really looks like, why traditional approaches often accelerate it, and how to recalibrate your strategy to your advantage.

There comes a time when we all start to question if we are in the right place professionally and if the next “logical” step is what we want. Many of us think that in order to get ahead and become well rounded professionals we have to work at several different organizations. And while that may be true for some, my experience has been different. Starting my 21^st year with one organization, I believe you can embrace, welcome and even create twists and turns throughout your career even if it is with one or two organizations, and it can be anything by boring or restricting. The secret being a deep hunger for what challenges and interests you and leveraging your professional credibility to make some big changes. Hear how a pretty big pitch, really paid off. 

Leaders are facing rapid organizational changes, evolving expectations, and career transitions such as promotions, role changes, new leadership, restructures, or shifting life priorities. While most change management approaches focus on strategy and communication plans, few address the inner journey of change. This session will help you navigate change with Intentional Courage™ and provide practical strategies and tools to manage transitions with more courage and less burnout.

Online registration is now closed. To register, please contact [email protected].

Current EWL Members – No Charge
Guests/Non-Members - $45
 If you are no longer able to attend, please reach out to [email protected] or take this form to cancel your registration. At this time, refunds are no longer available.