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Gearing Up Conference 2024 Closing with Participants

Gearing Up Conference 2025

Pathways to Power: Reimagining Gender and Leadership

Pathways to Power: Reimagining Gender and Leadership

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of this signature event, the Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women in Business is excited to launch registration for the 2025 Gearing Up conference. This transformational day aims to empower women+ by redefining leadership on their terms. We're focused on helping women+ navigate and dismantle systemic barriers in career advancement while leveraging the strength of our community to challenge and transform traditional gender dynamics. 

Gearing Up 20th Anniversary Conference

Enjoy Early Bird Pricing through Dec 13, 2024

Gearing Up 20th Annual Conference

June 11, 2025

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Gearing Up 2024

Skill Enhancement

✔ Workshops for enhancing leadership skills

✔ Focus on communication, negotiation, strategic thinking, and more

✔ Designed to equip participants with tangible skills

✔ Aimed at thriving in corporate settings

Networking and Mentorship

✔ Connect with like-minded individuals, potential mentors, and influential speakers

✔ Building a strong professional network emphasized

✔ Mentorship for career advancement

✔ Conference facilitates valuable connections

✔ The chance to collaborate with the CWB to host a corporate visit for graduate and undergraduate students. These visits provide students with the opportunity to learn about your organization while exposing them to different workplace environments within the corporate sector. 

Career Advancement Action Plan

✔ Learn actionable steps and best practices for career advancement 

✔ Panels and curated speakers provide real-world strategies

✔ Focus on breaking through barriers and advancing into C-suite positions

✔ Personalized action plans tailored to individual career goals

Learn more about Gearing Up

20

Years

4600+

Participants

105+

Workshops

194

Sponsorships

The Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women and Business aims to create a welcoming space that celebrates the diversity of our community at the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, and ability. We are committed to providing and promoting a bias free environment by addressing issues of equity and inclusion through our conference.

Accessibility

The Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women and Business at Bentley University is committed to ensuring all individuals have access to the Gearing Up Conference. We are committed to providing accommodations to conference attendees, and if you need accommodations, including but not limited to listening devices, quiet or prayer spaces, closed captioning, large print, wheelchair access, and lactation rooms, please let us know. In addition, if you have any questions about the venue, or workshops, please get in touch with us at cwb@bentley.edu.

A Transformational Day

CWB Gearing Up Collage
Dr. Tiffany Jana
It is through our relationships with other people that we become a better version of ourselves.
Dr. Tiffany Jana
Gearing Up 2021 Keynote Speaker, Founder, and Lead Consultant, TMI Consulting