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Women and Business Leadership Events

Effective Leaders Transform Organizations

At Insight to Action, we believe that strong leaders are transformative, developing and honing growth strategies out of your organization’s biggest challenges. But effective leaders aren’t just born, and they aren’t developed in a vacuum, either. Connection with mentors and peers at business leadership events offers key opportunities for growth for the leaders of today, and tomorrow.

Discover the leadership qualities ready to be developed in yourself and your team, and find out just how far that investment can take you. Scroll to view our upcoming and past business leadership events.

Upcoming Leadership Events in 2025

Past Leadership Events

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Women Leaders LA Career Panel 2021

Sponsor Organization: Women Leaders Los Angeles

Date & Time: Wednesday September 22, 2021; 6:30pm-8:30pm PST

Location: PCT Towers, 222 North Pacific Coast Highway El Segundo, CA 90245

Moderator: Kimberly Freeman, Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Officer for the USC Dana and David Dornslife College of Letters
Panelist: Tara Hefter: President, Disguise
Panelist: Carrie Hernandez: CEO and Co-Founder Rebel Space Technologies
Panelist: Kimberly Kirksey: CEO/President, Kirksey and Co., Inc
Panelist: Andrea Servadio: CEO of Fitdog

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Vistage Executive Summit

Sponsor Organization: Vistage

Date & Time: Thursday, October 15, 2020; 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m

Location: Virtual

Speaker: Michael Bush, CEO, Great Places to Work
Speaker: Connor Lokar: Economist, ITR Economics, Economic Update
Speaker: Joe Galvin, Chief Research Officer, Vistage
Speaker: Adam Scully-Powell, Brighthouse Financial
Lead Chair: Michal Clements

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Women on Corporate and Nonprofit Boards: Lessons from their Experiences

Sponsor Organization: Trustees’ Council of Penn Women

Date & Time: Feb. 18, 2020

Location: Santa Monica Community College Santa Monica, CA

Panelist: Lynn Jerath, Wharton 1995 President of Citrine Investment Group.
Panelist: Julie Beren Platt, Penn 1979, Chair of the board of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
Panelist: Sonya Sepahaban, Cornell 1982, CEO of OurOffice Inc.
Panel Moderator: Robyn Bew, Penn 1992, the Director and Region Leader for Ernst & Young’s Center for Board Matters.
Event Producer: Michal Clements, Wharton 1984, Insight to Action Managing Principal

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Women Presidents and CEOs Career Panel

Sponsor Organization: Women Leaders Los Angeles

Date & Time: Feb 6, 2020

Location: PCT Towers, El Segundo, CA

Panelist: June Pai, General Manager, Asia Pacific of Manduka
Panelist: Kathryn E. Jeffery, Ph.D., Superintendent and President of Santa Monica College
Panelist: Jessica Kirchner Flores, CEO, Impact Sciences and President, National Association of Women Business Owners
Panelist: Jenny Darroch, Dean of Claremont Graduate University and Chair, Women’s Administrators Management Education
Panelist: Judy Hackett, Founding Partner of Bryant Stibel
Moderator: Kimberly Freeman, Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Officer for the USC Dana and David Dornslife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences guided the discussion.
Event Producer: Michal Clements, Wharton 1984, Insight to Action Managing Principal

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Women Presidents and CEOs Career Panel

Sponsor Organization: Women Leaders Los Angeles

Date & Time: June 20, 2019

Location: PCT Towers, El Segundo, CA

Panelist: Stacy Stubblefield, CoFounder, Telesign
Panelist: Julie Eckert, President, International Plastic Cards
Panelist: Laurie Porter, CEO, Smog City Brewing
Panelist: Elizabeth (Liz) Leung, Marketing Executive, Epson America
Panelist: Emerald Archer, Director, Center for Women’s Advancement, Mount Saint Mary’s University
Event Producer: Michal Clements, Wharton 1984, Insight to Action Managing Principal

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Los Angeles Penn Women in Tech

Sponsor Organization: Penn Club of Los Angeles

Date & Time: June 12, 2018

Location: Santa Monica, CA Headspace offices

Panelist: Stella Latscha, ENG13, SpaceX
Panelist: Diana Zhou, WG16, Hyperloop One
Panelist: Meesh Pierce, W93 WG98, AutoGravity
Moderator: Shari Wakiyama, WG’04, President of Wharton Club of Southern California, Fandango
Event Producer: Michal Clements, W84, Insight to Action
Host: Sean Breckner, WG03, Headspace

We Develop Leaders—
and Strategies

Insight to Action goes beyond organizing leadership events. Our team of consultants and advisors develops leaders and business strategies that result in measurable growth. We partner with global brands to increase profitability via actionable and data-driven marketing, positioning, and branding strategies.

Gone are the days when customers were confused by your product or service. We put market research and data analysis to work for you, determining the best next steps for your brand so that your company—like your leadership skills—never stops growing.