WILD Courage: Get Seen. Get Heard. Get Ahead.
Gather your courage; overcome fear to achieve your biggest ambitions. Stand out to get what you want in life. Just don’t expect it to be easy.
What you’ll learn
- Uplevel your career and boost your motivation
- Communicate with conviction and influence stakeholders
- Reduce impostor syndrome and increase your confidence
- Strengthen leadership skills and be a better manager
- Curb people-pleasing and avoid burnout
- Be resilient and thrive in change
Keynote Speaker: Jenny Wood
Masterclass with the 2025 WISE Women of the Year
For more than 25 years, WISE has honored women who have broken barriers, acted as a voice for other women, and made a significant impact on the business of sports. In this signature session, this panel of extraordinary women will share their challenges, insights, and most memorable moments from their leadership journeys.
What you'll learn
- How to recognize moments of pivotal growth and change, and face them with grace and skill
- How to collect the right career experiences to position yourself for the leadership roles you really want
- The advice they'd share with their younger selves — so you can benefit from it now
Panelists: Li Li Leung, Patty Power, Sandra L. Richards
Moderator: Sarah Spain
PWHL: Skating to Success
Women’s sports are having an unprecedented run. In 2024, new leagues were launched, and none enjoyed a more successful inaugural season than the PWHL. We’ll take a look at their strategic approach starting with their CBA, to building the talent pipeline to their innovative business model.
What you’ll learn
- The strategy behind the single entity model vs local market investors
- How the PWHL approaches audience growth through content, community relations and social responsibility
- What’s next
Panelists: Amy Scheer, Jayne Bussman-Wise, Mandy Gutmann
Moderator: Sarah Spain
Power Presence: Own the Room, Command Your Voice and Nail Your Elevator Pitch
Owning the room involves both confident speaking and attentive listening. True influence comes from understanding what's needed to add value when you speak. Whether pitching an idea, negotiating or making a first impression, your words must be timely and impactful. This interactive session will teach you how to master presence, refine your elevator pitch and develop strategic awareness for purposeful communication. Through coaching and feedback, learn to own any space and conversation.
What you’ll learn
- A refined, high-impact elevator pitch
- Strategies to command a room with presence and purpose
- Greater confidence in knowing when, where and how to speak
- The ability to listen strategically and respond with value
Presenter: Dethra U. Giles
Plan to Thrive: Money Root
Presented by Ally
Money + Values: The spending, saving and investing decisions that you make today are influenced by your earliest experiences with money. Money Roots is a financial education program designed to help you uncover the "why" behind your money behaviors, so you can do better and live your best life. You can't rewrite history, but by understanding it, you can change your financial future for the better.
What you’ll learn
- Identify your core values and create financial goals to align with them
- A clearer sense of how your values and goals are connected to spending
- Actionable steps toward achieving your financial goals
- The tools to create a value-based spending plan
Presenter: Jack Howard
Professional Leagues: Global Sales and Media Strategy
The global appeal of sports is evident as the NBA and NFL continue their expansion into markets such as the UK, Africa, Australia and beyond. Conversely, MLS has focused inward to enhance its sales strategy. By capitalizing on their specific brand strengths and leveraging the collective reach of their sponsors and rightsholders, these organizations are utilizing storytelling, technology and innovative market strategies to increase reach, engagement and attract new, dedicated fans worldwide. Learn from three distinguished leaders about the latest partnership trends and the significant impact of new media partners like Apple, Netflix and Amazon in transforming how leagues acquire new fans and generate revenue.
Panelists: Ingrid Petri, Jennifer Cramer, Julie Morris
Moderator: Kathleen Francis
Agenda, timing, sessions and speakers are subject to change.