Three takeaways from International Women’s Day

As a former manager with Accenture, I look forward to receiving invitations to their alumni events. It has been fifteen years now, but the relationships I forged with my fellow consultants are some I value the most. So needless to say, International Women’s Day, was filled with a lot of excited chatter and laughter as we reunited. But today’s event was much more than a reunion. #IWD2017 was a platform to discuss ways to promote awareness of issues impacting women in business.

Below are three key takeaways from today’s event:

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Dare to Win

What a great event! This year’s theme for the 2016 Central Exchange Leadership Lyceum, “Dare to Win,” drew a great line-up of speakers, each sharing their experience and advice to a packed ballroom at the KC Convention Center. I walked away with great insight into how each speaker dared to win, including Sarah Thomas, the first full-time female referee in the NFL, and Susan Packard, Co-founder and former chief operating officer of HGTV.

But as I look back on the day, two interwoven themes particularly resonated with me… “Dare to Act, Dare to Change.”

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