The Conferences for Women

Did you know that:

- Women own over 10 million businesses

- 40% of American moms are the primary breadwinners; and

- Women have consistently outperformed male investors over the last 20 years?

In this session, America’s leading financial expert David Bach will share seven concrete steps to help you achieve financial security so you can live rich and finish rich.

We will explore everything from debt to investing and retirement.

On the surface, investing can seem remarkably complex.

In reality, there are five things to know about your investment portfolio that will drive the vast majority of your financial success.

In this session, financial expert Manisha Thakor will guide you through this process and share a fun, easy and clear framework for how to get started (or continue) investing.

Making it relatable and using language we can all understand, she will explore financial behavior, asset allocation, diversification, fees/taxes and fiduciary standard. You will walk away armed with the tools to take action and start creating wealth right away!

What do we want from our money? Some of us look for independence and security, while others desire more choices and a better way of life. But all of us want to experience less stress around money.

In this session, TODAY's financial editor and best-selling author Jean Chatzky will present her three-part plan for understanding your life in relationship to your finances.

You will walk away armed with tactical solutions for getting paid what you deserve, making your money last, leaving a legacy—and, most importantly, feeling joyful while doing it.

Responsibilities at work and home often leave women without the bandwidth to succeed—and wondering if their career and personal goals are unachievable.

In this session, Conference for Women speaker Tiffany Dufu, one of Fast Company’s “League of Extraordinary Women” and once the poster child for doing it all, will offer a progressive approach to addressing the division of labor in your home.

She will give you the permission you need to drop the ball and help you reevaluate priorities, embrace imperfection and alter your expectations so that you can focus on the goals that truly matter to you!

TIFFANY DUFU is chief leadership officer of Levo and launch team member to Lean In. She was named in the Huffington Post as one of 19 women who are leading the way, among other luminaries such as Hillary Clinton and Diane Sawyer. She was honored by Mattel as one of their 10 Women to Watch and was named by the National Council for Research on Women as one of 30 women making change in the world. She was included in Fast Company’s League of Extraordinary Women and has been featured in The New York Times, The Seattle Times and on NPR and Bloomberg. She is also a widely sought-after speaker on women’s and Gen Y leadership and nonprofit fundraising and has presented at Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit and TEDxWomen. Dufu is a member of Women’s Forum New York, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and serves on the national board development committee for Girl Scouts U.S.A. In addition to being a part of TARA, a sister group of the Belizean Grove focusing on the next generation of global leaders, she serves on the board of Harlem 4 Kids and the board of Students First New York. Her new book, DROP THE BALL: Achieving More by Doing Less, was released February 2017. @tdufu

Stop feeling guilty about all you haven’t done, and start feeling glad for what you have yet to experience and achieve. In this session, Conference for Women speaker Mallika Chopra, daughter of spirituality guru Deepak Chopra, shares her messy journey to balance, serenity and joy.

Using a six-step process including daily meditations, she offers a clear road map to help you move from thought to action to outcome so you can achieve more balance and live life fully.

MALLIKA CHOPRA is a mom, media entrepreneur, public speaker and published author. She is the author of Just Breathe: Meditation, Mindfulness, Movement and More and Just Feel: How to be Stronger, Healthier, Happier and More – accessible, fun, how-to books filled with full-color illustrations written for 8-12 year olds. In Living With Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace and Joy, Chopra shares insights she gained while seeking meaning and balance as a mom and entrepreneur who felt she was overwhelmed by work, family and too many responsibilities. She has taught meditation to thousands of people, and enjoys speaking to audiences around the world about intention, balance and living a life of purpose. @mallikachopra

The research is clear: the state of our attention determines the state of our lives. Yet our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in-demand as it is today.

In this session, Conferences for Women speaker Chris Bailey shares actionable tips to help you reduce distractions; increase focus; and better prioritize—no matter what is going on in your life.

CHRIS BAILEY is a productivity expert, and the international best-selling author of Hyperfocus and The Productivity Project—which have been published in seventeen languages. Bailey also writes about productivity at alifeofproductivity.com, and speaks to organizations around the globe on how they can become more productive, without hating the process. To date, he has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity, and has garnered coverage in media as diverse as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, The Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, GQ, TED, Fortune, Fast Company, and Lifehacker. In a recent interview, the prestigious TED Talks organization said that he “might be the most productive man you’d ever hope to meet.” Recently, Fast Company called him a “productivity mastermind.” @chris_bailey

Everyone attends them, most people hate them, and few are done well. Whether you sit in an office or work from home, meetings are a part of your world. The ability to effectively lead and participate in meetings is a necessary and indispensable skill.

In this session, leadership and organizational development expert Mary Abbajay offers essential tools and techniques you can immediately put into practice to foster positive, engaging and efficient meetings that get results.