2019 Summit Schedule

Arrival and registration for our main day of the Summit. Start meeting some of our amazing attendees over coffee and a light breakfast.

Welcome remarks from Million Dollar Women Founder Julia Pimsleur about this year’s summit and our theme: GO BIG NOW.

Hear from five women who have built multi-million dollar businesses from scratch: Angie Lalla, CEO and Co-Founder, RIM Sports. Products/fitness accessories — Emily Tryon, CEO, Esthetic Solutions. Wellness/medical spas — Dorie Golkin Smith, Co-Founder and CEO, Of Mercer. Clothing store in Soho/fashion company — Sarah Kugelman, CEO, Skyn Iceland. Beauty/stress reducing cosmetics — Megan O’Connor, CEO and Co-Founder, Hi Clark. Education/online platform for tutors — Moderated by Elaine Pofeldt, author of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business.    

Ari Meisel, founder of Less Doing and expert on outsourcing and delegating will help you turn overwhelm into efficiency with tips on effective decision making, planning a year’s worth of content in under an hour, and mastering the tech tools of today so you can stay sane while scaling up.

Verne Harnish, author of the classic book on growing your business, Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and CEO of Scaling Up, will teach the top ways that any business scales up quickly. He’ll share four practical ideas you can implement immediately to get your firm on it’s way to $1 million and beyond.

What is the GO BIG mindset and how do you get one? “Just do it” is only 10% of success. How can you master the other 90%? Success requires being able to sustain your vision over many months and years, overcoming obstacles and enlisting team members, advisors and partners to come with you. In this interactive workshop, Julia Pimsleur, author of Million Dollar Women and NLP Master Practitioner, teaches essential mindset strengthening tactics you can use right away and teach your team.  These moves will allow you to overcome limiting beliefs, avoid self-sabotage, and stay fired up as you climb the entrepreneurial

Geri Stengel, Activator at SheEO™ Inc pulls back the curtain on how to successfully raise capital from angels and VCs and increase your chances of getting the right investors to help you grow your business.

What does it take to get to $1M in revenues and how can more of us get to $1M and beyond? This is a general session.

Sign up for 30-minute 1:1 coaching with a successful female founder (first come, first served) or just grab a bite with friends at the Summit.

Meditate. Improve your diet. Get more sleep… or just drink more coffee? Our panel of women running successful companies in the health & wellness space share resources on how we can scale up while staying fit, happy and sane. Participants in the panel: Stacy Berman, CEO/Founder Stacy’s Bootcamp, Bootcamp and Nutrition Deb Valentin, CEO/Founder Sage Wellness, Holistic treatments to heal the whole you Alicia Thomas, CEO/Founder Dibs, Earn rewards for wellness Moderator: Katrina Anderson, CEO/Co-Founder, ClinicianNexus, Collaborative Clinical Education Management

Considering fundraising or looking to understand what kinds of capital you can get access to? Angel, VC, crowd-funding, bank loans… this workshop will cover them all. Journalist and expert on fundraising Geri Stengel, Activator at SheEO™ Inc, teams up with Maria Littlefield, CEO and Founder of Owlsbrew Tea to break it down and give you concrete tips for finding funds. Geri will map out all the options for raising whether you are making $50k or $900k, and Maria will  share her story of raising $4M, how she got Anheuser Busch to invest, and did it all with a pregnant co-founder and

Maisha Walker is a digital marketer and leader at NAWBO, our partner organization. She teaches  which digital marketing tools we should be using to reach our customers the most cost-effective way. Come with questions, she has answers!

Verne Harnish, author of the classic book on growing your business, Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and CEO of Scaling Up, will teach the top ways that any business scales up quickly. He’ll share four practical ideas you can implement immediately to get your firm on it’s way to $1 million and beyond.

Pia Silva, author of Badass Your Brand and branding specialist helps you make sure your brand stands out and you are marketing in a way that ensures you’ll attract high paying customers and clients so you can keep on scaling.

Closing remarks and how to keep scaling and connecting with other members of the Million Dollar Women community!