LEADING WELL CONFERENCE is an annual event created to inspire and equip women in leadership. This fast-paced conference offers the opportunity to grow through intentionally chosen presenters and well-timed topics centered on a relevant theme.
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Nurse Practitioner, Trauma Surgery Dept
Baystate Medical Center
Boston, MA
Jaines Andrades received national attention in 2020 when she made a Facebook post of the three different name badges she collected during the past 10 years of working at Baystate Medical Center: one as a custodian, one as a nurse, and finally, one as a nurse practitioner. When her post went viral, major media networks across the US covered her story and she was named Good Morning America’s Person-of-the-Week.
Jaines certainly did not expect the outpouring of support and attention, but she is happy her story is inspiring others. She says if she can provide motivation and encouragement, that in itself makes the challenges of her journey worth it.
Born to Puerto Rican parents in Buffalo, NY, Jaines moved to Springfield, MA, as a child. Nursing was not her original professional dream, but while in high school she had an impacting conversation with a nurse that drew her to pursue a profession in helping others. Nursing quickly became her passion.
She graduated from Our Lady of the Elms College in 2014 and began her nursing career as a correctional nurse at a local jail. From there she accepted a position as a registered nurse at Mason Square Neighborhood Health Clinic where she experienced noticeable success.
In 2016 Jaines returned to school to complete her doctorate in nursing and become a nurse practitioner. She graduated in 2020 and now works at Bay State Medical Center in the Trauma Surgery Department where she can be found doing what she has been doing for a decade—caring deeply about each patient’s care and recovery plan.
Jaines has acquired a wealth of information about medicine, but primarily she has learned how to cultivate humility while never giving up on her dream. She believes your life is what you make it and your path certainly does not need to be perfect.
Public Speaking Consultant |
Business Etiquette Specialist
Co-Founder, BOLD MOVE
Greenville, SC
Janiece Robinson has never met a stranger and she has never met someone she could not help with public speaking—from practicing presentation pauses in a corporate board room to preparing a best man speech for the guy sitting next to her on a flight. Janiece is a combustion of sparks that ignites others to come to life as confident presenters who communicate effectively.
For more than 25 years, Janiece has successfully worked with a wide variety of leaders to help them achieve stronger results both in their speaking and through their speaking. Her clients include everyone from Fortune 500 executives to international non-profit leaders to local political candidates. In each situation, Janiece’s goal remains constant: to see her clients represent the ideas and products of their organizations with clarity and passion.
Teaching is at the heart of Janiece’s work. She began her career as a professor and served on the speech faculties of two colleges after completing her graduate work in Rhetoric and Drama. She is a licensed Business Etiquette and Protocol Specialist through the Protocol School of Washington and a Certified Communications Professional through the Association for Women in Communications.
In 2014, Janiece and her husband Ross combined their skills to create Bold Move, a leadership skills coaching firm that strives to support a diversity of leaders as they create Stronger You, Stronger Results, Stronger World.
Janiece grew up in Detroit and has lived all of her adult life in Greenville, SC, which she loves to call home with her husband Ross. In her free moments, you will most likely find her creating crafts with her two granddaughters or curled up with a good book and a steaming cup of tea.
Executive Director, CHS Alliance
Geneva, Switzerland
Tanya Wood is the Executive Director of the CHS Alliance headquartered in Geneva with a second office in London. The CHS Alliance is a global membership of humanitarian and development organizations committed to making aid work better for people through the belief that organizations deliver higher quality and more effective aid when they are accountable to the people they serve.
CHS is a movement to put the people affected by crisis at the heart of aid efforts by implementing the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS). Under Tanya’s leadership, CHS advises, guides and trains aid organizations to be accountable to affected populations, protect against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, and provide better management of people resources.
With a heart for creating a better world, Tanya brings more than 20 years of successful leadership and management experience in the international humanitarian sector. Her work has encompassed roles both in international headquarters and on the field including more than a decade of postings in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Tanya has focused her career working with international membership organizations including the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA). She has also served as the CEO and Chair of two international health networks. She holds a masters degree in International Development as well as an MBA.
Originally from the UK, Tanya now lives in Geneva, Switzerland, where she is constantly entertained by her husband, three children and dog. When she is not working, she finds herself challenged by the next home renovation project.
Executive Coach
Founder & CEO | Mandala
Washington, DC
Chris Baer founded Mandala, an organizational development consultancy, to create better outcomes through conscious leadership. The firm provides executive coaching services to senior executives seeking greater connection of what they stand for with what they do.
Prior to founding Mandala, Chris served as Vice President of Global Leadership Development and Experience Design at Marriott International overseeing large-scale talent and customer experience initiatives encompassing brand development, digital product innovation and talent and executive development. Key contributions included brand creation (Moxy), brand revitalization (Marriott Hotels), and customer experience strategy and execution (the Ritz-Carlton), as well as the development of Marriott’s enterprise innovation framework. Prior to Marriott, Chris led a boutique international marketing firm, and consulted to Fortune 100’s on digital strategy, product management, and user experience.
Formally trained as an industrial designer, Chris employs design methodologies to business challenges and has brought design thinking to executives and their product teams globally. He is recognized for the early adoption of open innovation and crowdsourcing in large companies, and contributes to journals that forecast disruptive industry trends.
Chris holds a leadership coaching certification from Georgetown University (cohort 45), and coaches top executives seeking to drive transformation within themselves, their enterprises and beyond.
A graduate of RISD, Chris is a creative, life-long learner. In his free time, he is an accomplished artist working in oil paint, glass and other media.
Chris lives in Washington DC with his wife and two daughters.
Our stories shape our perspective of the world and our engagement with it. In light of this daily reality, how can we have better stories for better outcomes? This workshop introduces an approachable framework to get perspective on our internal stories for a richer array of potential outcomes in life and work as we endeavor to bring change. Have fun learning a simple approach to understanding how internal stories are made, and how they influence our choices and behaviors. With Chris’ insightful guidance, you will leave with one creative tool to help (re)author the stories that shape inner dialog, behavior, and ultimately your interactions with others.
Executive Coach & Coaching Educator
Founder & CEO | Mentor Agility
Jackson, WY
With a background in education and psychotherapy, Julie brings to her coaching an obvious passion for helping people learn deeply and holistically for the sake of advancement. In 2019 she founded Mentor Agility on the premise that successful coaches serve their clients best by drawing on the expertise and experience of other highly qualified coaches as well as therapists, educators and specialists in professional disciplines to best address their clients’ needs.
From its inception, Mentor Agility has called upon diverse professions, specifically storytellers, authorities in mythology, communications experts, and professionals steeped in nature as well as physicians and wellness practitioners to create lasting results. This diverse base of expertise and experience, combined with a steadfast commitment to the coaching profession, achieves Julie’s vision of providing a unique offering which translates into some of the most broad and relevant professional education programs in the coaching industry.
Julie is certified by several boards in professional coaching: The International Coach Federation’s PCC, the BCC from the Center for Credentialing and Education, the Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach from the National Board of Medical Examiners, and the certificate in Applied Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a recognized expert in the field of coaching, pioneering the areas of financial well-being, the Hero’s Journey Change Model, Nature coaching and storytelling to improve mental health. Her company Mentor Agility is a certified training program for coaches.
In addition to her coaching credentials, Julie is a licensed family therapist, an educator with her PhD in Education, an author and a recognized expert in creativity and organizational dynamics. She has coached in multiple disciplines for over 25 years and served on a variety of networks as an expert commentator. She has worked on education initiatives with Apple Education, Twentieth Century Fox, NOAA, BP and INEEL.
When she is not coaching, Julie enjoys long hikes in beautiful places, healthy and tasty cooking to bring together family and friends, and snowshoeing close to home in pursuit of new moments of awe in the Grand Tetons.
Financial well-being affects overall well-being more than any other single factor. What is financial well-being and how does it differ from financial stability? What ideas are lurking in the shadows of your sense of well-being that you have not previously identified? In this workshop, Julie sheds light on the invisible and often destructive financial narratives in your head and how you can take control of them for the sake of your financial future and your ability to effectively bring change. You will leave having identified your financial well-being saboteurs and set your vision for better beliefs and actions that support who you want to be.
Organizational Development Coach
Founder & Principal | McNicholl Coaching and Consulting
Seattle, WA
Investing in the development of others has always captivated Lis. From the time she was a girl in the mountains of Indonesia, she would watch the devotion of gifted teachers and then find something special in her parents’ fabric store to deliver as a gift of honor. Lis’ fascination with human potential has followed her from that island in Southeast Asia to every point in her career and today she enthusiastically offers her heart and skill in leadership development through her own coaching and consulting practice in the Seattle area.
All along that journey, people who have worked with Lis say she masterfully synthesizes concepts and connects them to people in powerful ways that bring lasting results. Lis loves clarity. She is always working for that simple explanation of complex intricacies that breeds a hopeful unified effort. Lis fosters innovation. She is always the one drawing out fresh and creative perspectives that generate new possibilities. And Lis exudes optimism. She is always marked by acceptance and peace and her spirit of welcome helps establish early trust and ensure deep wins.
Lis brings rigorous credentials to her work and she is committed to high standards of quality. She completed a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and went on to complete a master’s degree in Software Engineering. Later she completed a second master’s degree in Organizational Development & Leadership. She is a Certified Workplace Mindfulness Facilitator, a Certified CliftonStrengths Coach through Gallup and a Certified Narrative Coach.
Professionally, Lis’ experience includes developing an internal experiential training camp at Boeing that has expanded to touch thousands of employees around the globe. She has worked on the ground with county government officials to create and implement effective developmental programs for leaders at all levels, and most recently she has designed a five-year leadership academy which includes both 10 months of cohort-based training and one-on-one leadership growth coaching with an external client.
Even with her impressive track record of success, Lis meets each new client with acute curiosity and humble confidence no matter the challenge or complexity. She begins each coaching relationship with respect and commitment and she partners with every client to achieve stellar results.
Even with our best preparation and good intentions for bringing change, unexpected factors occur every day that throw us off center. Our reactions to these stressors happen at reflexively fast speed so we need recovery practices that meet the rate of reactivity. A prime resource that is always available is our physical body. In this workshop, Lis will lead you through techniques for better managing stress. Informed by principles of mindfulness and embodiment, these methods work by changing our attention, breathing and body posture to positively adjust our state of being. Come experiment with proven practices for opening access to more of you at your best and leave ready to utilize them over and over again.
Leadership & Life Coach
Founder & CEO | Shayna Renee |
Teach To Lead
Washington, DC
Shayna Renee Hammond is a leadership and life coach who has coached and developed thousands of school and executive leaders within the education and non-profit sectors for nearly 20 years.
She is the Founder and CEO of Teach To Lead, a leadership development organization dedicated to guiding organizations, school districts, teams, and communities to demystify and operationalize liberatory cultures. Through Teach To Lead’s support, schools and organizations across America have experienced unprecedented school growth and achievement outcomes, inclusive school and organizational cultures, and strengthened teacher, principal, and executive leader effectiveness and retention.
Inspired by the success of Teach To Lead in the education and non-profit sectors and her calling to raise global consciousness, Shayna recently founded Shayna Renee, a coaching practice dedicated to creating spaces, methods, and conditions for Black womxn in leadership to thrive. In this capacity, Shayna coaches individual and groups of Black womxn executive leaders and entrepreneurs from around the globe in a spiritually-inspired and research-based coaching methodology created by and for Black womxn. Shayna Renee’s methodologies and spaces inspire and equip Black womxn in leadership to rejuvenate their minds, bodies, and spirits so that they can lead more authentically, effectively, and sustainably.
Shayna extends the love and power she brings to her work beyond her role as an entrepreneur by serving as a faculty member and meta-coach at Goleman EI’s Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification Program and serving as a spiritual life coach and facilitator for Harriet’s Apothecary–a healer’s collective led by Black cis women, queer, and trans healers in partnership with ancestors and the earth itself. She also serves as a Board Trustee for a few organizations including Livelihood Trust, a community economic development organization as well as St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Washington, DC.
Prior to founding Teach To Lead and Shayna Renee, Shayna led the national development of teacher leaders at KIPP Foundation, supported principals within the Baltimore City School System, led the highest-performing middle school in Baltimore, Maryland, and was an award-winning teacher.
Shayna earned a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology with minors in Business and English from James Madison University, a Master’s degree in the Art of Teaching from Johns Hopkins University, and a Master’s of Education degree focusing on Administration and Supervision from National-Louis University. She completed the Certificate in Leadership Coaching Program at Georgetown University and is also a part-time faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education’s PENN Literacy Network.
When Shayna isn’t coaching, facilitating, or leading, she’s enjoying quality time with her two children, Judah and Joelle, learning a new sport, showing up for her Tribe, or exploring a new venue for spiritual growth and renewal.
Are you at a professional or personal crossroads due to a major life shift? In times like these, we ask ourselves the big questions like, “How do I know what my purpose is?” This workshop provides a framework for gaining clarity about what you’re uniquely positioned and called to do at this time in your life—a prerequisite to bringing change. You will discover a process for rebirthing yourself when you feel that nudge to be or do more. Shayna will share her story and give time and space for you to apply the same process to your life. You will leave this session with the inspiration and clarity needed to ignite what’s next for you!
Life & Career Coach
High Fashion Portrait Photographer
Moscow, Russia
Despite being color blind, Anton built a successful career in high-end photography with clients including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ, Chanel, Givenchy and Armani Beauty, and after 15 years, he began to realize something. He loves to create and more specifically, he loves to create with people. When the number of psychology books on his shelf outnumbered the number of photography books, Anton knew it was time to pursue coaching more formally and began the journey of becoming professionally skilled.
Today he is a Certified Professional CoActive Coach (CPCC) and holds a master’s degree in Psychoanalytical Executive Coaching from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He values every opportunity to partner with clients—diving into their past and untying knots that contribute to being reactive instead of creative with professional and personal life circumstances.
As a life and career coach, Anton thoroughly enjoys working with clients on aligning themselves with their values during transitional periods. As a former photographer, Anton brings these two gifts to his coaching: imagination and attention to detail. In every conversation, he imagines more fulfilling versions of life, and in every conversation, he pays attention to detail in what clients say and what they do not say. His clients express gratitude for his insight and his energy.
Anton has lived in Turkmenistan, USA, Australia, France and Russia. He has been walking the path of an independent freelancer since the age of 20.
Today, Anton’s hobbies include running, which he never thought he would say. He has emerged from struggling with two-mile jogs in Australia to completing a marathon in France and now calls running his trusted energizer and meditation teacher. He has completed weekly runs for more than two years now in settings that range from hot Bali to freezing Moscow.
How often do we work on improving ourselves by identifying weaknesses and trying to change them into strengths? This pattern makes sense. For example, being too sensitive can be unlearned to make room for stronger decision-making ability. This approach, however, has an inherent danger: in attempting to become the ‘better’ version of ourselves we can lose our essence. This workshop invites you to not exchange who you are for who you want to be. With Anton’s help, you will discover how to build upon what is already there. Working with a real situation in your life, you will leave with a commitment to see what impact you can have in bringing change when aligned with your natural way of being.
Fear is often the sidekick of change and most of us expend vital energy attempting to make the fear subside. What if there is a more productive path? This workshop presents a tested tool for tapping into something more powerful than your fear—your mission. You will discover a technique for cultivating confidence when fear is poised to stifle your power to bring change. As Ross (coach) delivers the process, Julio (client) will share his story of using the tool and the outcomes that followed. You will leave with fresh clarity and inspiration through applying the tool to a real-life situation and designing your own specific next step.
Executive Leadership Coach
Co-Founder & CEO | BOLD MOVE
Greenville, SC
A world traveler with small town roots, Ross is grounded and adventurous in everything he does, including coaching. He enters every coaching relationship with unshakable faith that clients absolutely can be who they want to be and accomplish beyond what they expected. He coaches the whole person with confidence that every client will experience substantial personal growth resulting in desired outcomes that genuinely make a difference.
Ross began his career in corporate accounting with KPMG. While he loved business school, once in the industry he found himself longing for more in his professional endeavors. He wanted to invest his life more directly in people. He transitioned into a role with a start-up church where he spent more than two decades creating vision, providing strategic planning and developing leaders for a variety of non-profit endeavors. During his leadership tenure, the organization saw growth in annual budget and staff size of more than 1000 percent.
This path organically led Ross to leadership coaching in 2010. Since that time, he has worked hard to grow his professional coaching skills and to accumulate relevant tools to help him serve others in becoming the best leaders they can be for causes bigger than themselves. In 2014, he and his wife Janiece combined their skills to create Bold Move, a leadership skills coaching firm that strives to support a diversity of leaders as they create Stronger You, Stronger Results, Stronger World.
In addition to his bachelor’s degree, Ross holds two master’s degrees. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership—Leadership Coaching Program and a PCC credentialed coach with the International Coach Federation. He is a certified StrengthsFinder Coach through Gallup, a certified 360 Leadership Circle Practitioner, an American Confidence Institute Certified Confidence Coach and a Licensed Coach Trainer. He has logged more than 3000 successful hours of coaching leaders and their teams toward measurable development and heightened impact.
Ross is a native of Upstate South Carolina where he and his wife Janiece live. Together they enjoy visiting new places and learning new things—both close to home and far away.
Assistant VP for Inclusive Excellence | Executive Director for Hispanic Outreach
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
Julio is a first-generation high school and college graduate who grew up in San Antonio, Texas. He has over 20 years of work experience in higher education with a background in admissions, recruiting, financial aid, marketing, public & community relations, student affairs and business operations. As an educator and community leader, Julio works towards building equitable bridges for success for all students, especially first-generation college students.
As Clemson University’s Assistant Vice President for Inclusive Excellence, Julio collaborates with University leadership, faculty, staff, students, shared governance groups and community members to provide guidance and support for all initiatives coming out from the Division of Inclusion and Equity. Julio also provides leadership & support in helping recruit, retain, advance, and foster a welcoming, inclusive environment for Hispanic/Latino students, staff, and faculty through researched-based best practices.
In addition to serving as Assistant VP for the Division of Inclusion & Equity, Julio serves as one of the co-chairs for Clemson University’s Men of Color National Summit, Clemson’s Brother-to-Brother Advisory Board, Global Leadership Institute Advisory Board, Clemson University Diversity & Inclusion Council, Clemson University Commission for Latino Affairs, President’s Social Justice & Equity Task Force, and Clemson’s CU Grow Program. Julio is a graduate of Leadership Greenville program (Class 45), Clemson University’s President Leadership Institute (Class 4), and Furman University’s Riley’s Institute Diversity Leadership Initiative (DLI).
Julio enjoys serving his community by currently volunteering time & resources as a board & committee member with various organizations throughout the State of South Carolina such as:
Hispanic Alliance of the Upstate, SC Minority Affairs Council, South Carolina Commission on Higher Education on the Scholarships Appeals Committee, Community Foundation of Greenville Grants Review Committee, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville Center for the Creative Arts, Greenville Theatre, Habitat for Humanity and Leadership Greenville Selection Committee. Julio also serves as a mentor to various K-12 & college students throughout the Upstate.
Julio holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business, with a minor in Pre-Law from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, and a Master’s Degree in Management & Leadership, with a minor in Human Resource Development from Webster University in Greenville.
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