Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor to the CEO, Constellation Energy
WILC Speakers and Workshops
Panels
Morning Panels I
Lift While You Climb: Why Mentorship Matters
Hear inspiring women leaders reflect on the mentorship moments that influenced their growth and leadership paths. This session explores how women can intentionally pay it forward through advocacy, sponsorship, and creating opportunities for others to thrive.
Power in the Crossover
Join cross-industry women leaders as they reflect on navigating identity, opportunity, and innovation in their work. This session highlights how diverse perspectives and crossover leadership shape Houston’s dynamic economic ecosystem.
Morning Panels I
The Unfiltered Resume
This live storytelling session pulls back the curtain on the career moments leaders don’t usually share. By unpacking failures, detours, and pivots, the conversation reframes imperfection as a catalyst for growth and leadership.
It Wasn’t a Straight Line: Nonlinear Career Stories
Women leaders reflect on the twists and turns that shaped their careers, from pauses to pivots to full reinventions. This session destigmatizes imperfect journeys and highlights how nonlinear paths build resilience, clarity, and confidence.
Be the Why: The Reason Leaders Believe They Can
A legacy-focused conversation on purpose, impact, and the personal motivations behind women’s leadership journeys. This panel highlights how leading with intention creates belief, momentum, and lasting influence.
Workshops
Block One
The Visual Resume: Branding and Personal Style for Impact
Make your first impression count whether on LinkedIn, Zoom, or in the room. This workshop will help you refine how others see you, with practical tools to align your online brand, physical presence, and personal style with your career goals.
AI, But Make It Work for You, Sponsored by HP Inc.
A practical conversation on navigating, leveraging, and leading in the age of AI. Experts highlight real-world tools, ethical implications, and strategies for staying future-ready as technology continues to evolve.
Own Your Impact: Using Strategic Storytelling to Build a High-Authority Professional Pitch, Sponsored by SheSpace
Often misperceived as a “soft skill,” storytelling is a critical leadership capability. This experience-based storytelling workshop shows participants how to translate their real-world work into a clear, confident professional pitch that builds authority, recognition, and respect.
Interactive Leadership Coaching
Designed as both a workshop and a live coaching experience, this session begins with leadership insights and tools from an experienced coach. Attendees then bring forward real challenges and receive personalized, real-time guidance in a supportive, high-impact setting.
Negotiate to Yes
Centered on real experiences, this conversation unpacks the moments when women had to advocate for themselves and others. Leaders share stories of negotiating pivotal career decisions and high-stakes conversations that shaped their confidence and sense of agency.
Panels and Workshop Speakers
Community Engagement Manager, Americas, S&P Global
Carbon Materials Venture Executive, Exxon Mobil
SVP, Global Commercial Operations, Phillips 66
Communications Senior Director, North America, Tenaris
Division President, David Weekley Homes
Associate Attorney, Littler Mendelson P.C.
Vice President, Chief Culture & Engagement Officer, Houston Methodist
Chief Information Officer, CannonDesign
President and Founding Principal, Horizon International Group, LLC
President Well Construction, SLB
Banker, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Vice President and General Manager, Corpus Christi Liquefaction, Cheniere
Co-Founder & CEO, Director of Digital and Impact, Goodspero
Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, NRG Energy
Founder & CEO, Motherhood Center
Partner, Clifford Chance
Senior Vice President, Vivint
President West Campus & South Region; The Woodlands & North Region, Texas Children’s Hospital
Director of Finance, Aramco Americas, Aramco
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communications and Chief of Staff to the President, UTHealth
Strategy and Planning Manager, Digital Impact Office, Cisco
Vice President of Farm Operations, Vital Farms
Chief Financial Officer, IKAV Energy
Executive Director, The H.E.A.R.T Program
Chief Operating Officer, Houston Airport System
Director of Communication Program
Senior Lecturer in Communication
Senior Lecturer in Communication
Senior Manager, AI Experiences, HP Inc.
Senior Manager of Commercial Quality and Customer Experience, HP Inc.
ARM Business Leader, Personal System, HP Inc.
VP of HP Design Engineering, HP Inc.
Head of HP Strategic Alliances, HP Inc.
Senior Director of Product Planning & AI Experiences, HP Inc.
Cofounder and CEO, SheSpace
Director of Coaching
Global Strategy & Business Development Director, Partnerships & Alliances, Baker Hughes
Senior Innovation Leader, Amazon Web Services
Partner, Sorrels Law
Deputy Managing Partner, Hunton
Chief Science Officer, NASA