Howard County Chamber's 2023 Women's Leadership Conference

Join the #HoCoChamber for our NINTH annual Women’s Leadership Conference! Get out of the office for the first Friday in Women’s History Month to hear from inspiring speakers, network with hundreds of other attendees, and take home specific tools and pieces of wisdom for your own professional advancement!

This year’s conference will be headlined by our three keynote speakers with vastly different backgrounds: Lakey Boyd, Mary Ann Scully, and Krish O’Mara Vignarajah. 

Lakey Boyd, Community Development Advocate and Change Agent, will open the conference with her keynote, “Change Takes Courage: Being a Changemaker in Your Community.” The lunch keynote, “Leadership Integrity in Times of Turmoil,” will be presented by Mary Ann Scully, Founder of Howard Bank and current Dean of Loyola University Maryland Sellinger School of Business and Management.

To close out the conference, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, current President & CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), will speak on “Leadership is: Be the First, Don’t Be the Last.” O’Mara Vignarajah came to the U.S. as a nine-month old refugee. She went on to become a  Senior Advisor at the State Department under Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, and Policy Director for First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let Girls Learn” initiative before taking her current position at LIRS.

The program will also include four different breakout sessions, an afternoon mini session, a morning mindfulness session, breakfast, lunch, and countless opportunities for networking and making new connections. Ava-joye Burnett of WJZ CBS Baltimore will emcee the conference.