WALTER Events | WINnovation 2024

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 | The Umstead Hotel & Spa

The WALTER team is thrilled to return to The Umstead Hotel & Spa for our 10th annual WINnovation summit, celebrating women in innovation, leadership, diversity and the entrepreneurial spirit.

For a sample of what you’ll find at WINnovation, watch this video.

Purchase your WINnovation 2024 tickets here!

WINnovation 2024 Speakers

Francie Gottsegen | President, NC Football Club

Yvette Holmes | CEO, Southeast Raleigh Promise

Estella Patterson | Chief of Police, Raleigh

Precious Lovell | Visual Artist

Denise Young | Director, NC Museum of Natural Sciences

Learn more about the speakers here.

Schedule of Events

4:00 p.m. | Startup Workshops
Flex your strategic thinking and learn new tools for career growth.

5:30 p.m. | Cocktails & Networking
Meet and mingle with fellow innovators, entrepreneurs and business leaders

6:30 p.m. | Dinner & Program
Enjoy a delicious three-course meal with wine pairings as you listen to our WINnovation speakers + a fireside chat with Bank of America.

8:00 p.m. | Q&A with Speakers
Guests have an opportunity to ask their own questions of all four panelists.

2024 Workshops

The Formula of Becoming Fashionable
Led by Melissa de Leon, Personal + Fashion Stylist

With eight years of experience styling hundreds of women, de Leon has discovered the formula to attaining one’s most fashionable self. Through her styling process, she teaches how to break out of limiting ideas surrounding image and how to embrace confident self-expression through style.

Trusting Your V.O.I.C.E.
Led by Amy Gerhartz, Founder & CEO of A Higher Way Of Living

Gerhartz has designed an empowering experience to help silence self-doubt, crush imposter syndrome and embrace one’s true self with unwavering confidence. Through dynamic activities, insightful discussions and actionable strategies, learn to trust your inner voice and express your authentic self boldly and unapologetically.

What does it mean to be Ageless?
Led by Amanda Lamb, Broadcast Journalist, Podcaster, Public Speaker, Author

To be ageless means to be curious, to be open and to live for your purpose — not someone else’s. In this workshop, Lamb will talk about removing the obstacles that keep us from seeing our own strength, inner beauty and potential when we look in the mirror.

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