2025 LeadHER Speaker Series - April 17 - Sage Event Space - Apr 17, 2025 - Events

Date and Time

Thursday Apr 17, 2025
10:30 AM - 1:30 PM CDT

Location

Sage Event Space

Fees/Admission

$60 both Members and Non-Members SOLD OUT
SOLD OUT $85 Exhibitor Tall Boy (Includes registration to LeadHER Speaker Series and 2.5-foot-round tall-boy vendor table.)
SOLD OUT $125 Exhibitor Table (Includes registration to LeadHER Speaker Series and space for 6-foot vendor table.)

Contact Information

Francis Lopez
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Description

LeadHER Speaker Series 2025 — Harnessing the Power of Influence: Empowering Women to Lead With Impact

The Aurora Regional Economic Alliance is proud to bring talented speakers to the Aurora area who educate, engage, and inspire women in business through LeadHER.

The Influence Edge: How Women Leaders Shape the Future

Join us on April 17 to hear from our guest speaker, Dr. Maria Malayter, Innovations in Change LLC, and learn how to revolutionize your leadership impact. Dr. Maria will explore your circle of influence, explain building psychological safety for innovation, and offer a model for leaders to understand how to make change happen.

About the Talk

Ready to revolutionize your leadership impact? “The Influence Edge: How Women Leaders Shape the Future” is your gateway to mastering the new currency of organizational influence. Learn to craft compelling narratives, build powerful coalitions, and create environments where innovation thrives. This transformative session equips you with strategic tools to expand your influence, navigate change with confidence, and build a lasting leadership legacy. Don’t just adapt to the future—shape it.

Meet the Speaker

Dr. Maria Malayter, Chief Change Agent, Innovations in Change LLC
Dr. Maria Malayter is a business psychologist, wellness coach, and author of “Navigating the R.I.D.E. of Change.” She helps people identify their barriers to success and create breakthroughs for higher productivity and happiness. She empowers individuals through mental fitness, personal development, and strengths-based leadership by using positive psychology and habit transformation.

Dr. Maria has been internationally interviewed for her leadership, change management, and encore career projects. Quoted by The Chicago Tribune, Engineering Today, and The Daily Herald, her thought leadership and inspiring speaking has "wowed" national and international audiences.

Beyond riding her bicycle almost every day, Dr. Maria serves on faculty for graduate level courses in business psychology, I/O psychology, organizational leadership and business administration at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Webster University and Concordia University - Portland. These experiences provide audiences the most cutting-edge topics for leading and surviving organizational and individual change.

Learn more about Dr. Maria here.