Start the year with purpose, vision, and a community committed to elevating women’s leadership.
Agenda Overview
The Cobalt Women’s Conference delivers a high-impact program designed to inspire growth, strengthen leadership, and equip attendees with practical tools for the year ahead.
The one-day virtual agenda blends keynote sessions, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities curated to provide clarity, momentum, and meaningful learning.
Leadership Growth
Community & Connection
Action & Momentum
Accessibility & Flexibility
Explore the program highlights below to plan your experience and make the most of your day with us on January 8, 2026.
Radical Self-Compassion as a Leadership Superpower
Mistakes can feel like monumental setbacks. But what if our insecurities and flaws held the key to unlocking our true potential? In this empowering talk, Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth explores the transformative power of radical self-compassion in the workplace and beyond. By reframing our worst fears and foibles into opportunities to shine, she explores how we can find resilience and renewal in the face of life’s inevitable mishaps.
Themes: Self Compassion; Resilience
Communicate with More Clarity & Credibility
Influence is changing fast, and the old scripts aren’t cutting it. Join 2x TEDx Speaker and Workplace Performance Expert Henna Pryor, CSP for a fresh, candid conversation on what today’s leaders really need to communicate with more clarity, credibility, and pull-power in rooms where attention is scarce and expectations are sky-high.
Themes: Communication; Influence
Courage at Work: How to take more risks and own your brilliance
Candace Doby compels her audience to courageously own their brilliance, in both typical and transitional times. In this leadership development presentation, participants learn a process for how to manage fear, activate personal courage and take worthwhile risks — so they can unleash their potential and make a greater impact on their organization.
Themes: Courage; Career Advancement
Get Loud: Owning Your Story and Stepping Into Your Power
Jerry Won teaches a simple, story-driven approach to self-empowerment. Attendees learn how to recognize their strengths, quiet limiting narratives, and speak with more clarity and confidence. They leave with a practical framework they can use right away.
Themes: Self-Empowerment
Mid-day Break
Entertainment
Becoming Strong Enough to be Kind™: Why Real Kindness Requires a Backbone
Join bestselling author and workplace transformation expert Shola Richards for an unapologetic conversation about why kindness isn't weakness—it's your greatest competitive advantage. Drawing from his latest framework and book Civil Unity, Shola will shatter the myth that kindness means being nice, revealing instead how the strongest leaders use kindness as an antidote against toxicity, mediocrity, and the status quo. Discover the three-pillar framework that's helping Fortune 500 companies and healthcare systems build cultures worth fighting for, and discover why the kindest thing you can do might be the hardest thing you'll ever attempt.
Themes: Connection; Resilience
Collective Roundtables
Facilitated co-creation sessions for planning and networking
Creative Leadership in Action: A Reflective Close
In this closing session, Nina Meehan will bring the day’s themes--purpose, vision, community--into an opportunity for creative reflection and concrete takeaways. Through guided questions and interactive exercises, participants will reconnect with the insights they’ve gathered throughout the conference and translate them into meaningful next steps. This uplifting and imaginative close will support attendees in seeing the bigger picture of their leadership journey, deepen their sense of connection to one another, and leave with clarity, energy, and a renewed sense of possibility.
Themes: Communication; Culture; Creativity
Conference Ends
The Experience
The Cobalt Conference will utilize Mighty Networks to ensure a smooth and seamless event experience.
This online community platform will include virtual lounges, breakout rooms, and structured networking activities designed to help you connect with other attendees in real time.
