Panel One

Be the Reason:

Leading Differently

What happens when women stop defining leadership by a title, a role, or a perfectly mapped-out plan? This conversation brings together three women whose experiences span healthcare, organizational strategy, sales, survivorship, motherhood, ministry, and entrepreneurship. Together, they’ll explore how purpose, resilience, strong relationships, and intentional systems can create lasting impact, especially when life and leadership do not go according to plan.

Panel Questions

  1. The theme of this year’s Summit is “Be the Reason.” What does that phrase mean to each of you personally, and how has it shaped the way you lead?

  2. Each of you has built a career around helping people or organizations thrive. What do you believe people need most from their leaders today?

  3. Leadership can sometimes feel like constantly responding to the next urgent need. How do you move from reacting to leading with greater clarity and intention?

  4. Christine, your experience with breast cancer changed your understanding of resilience and what truly matters. How did that season change the way you lead and live?

  5. April, your work brings together strategy, collaboration, healthcare, and ministry. How do you allow your faith and sense of purpose to guide your leadership while working in complex professional environments?

  6. Chianne, you help organizations build the systems, structure, and culture their people need to thrive. What is one sign that a leader’s current systems are no longer supporting the people they were designed to serve?

  7. All three of you have held multiple identities and responsibilities throughout your lives. How have motherhood, family, faith, health, or personal experiences influenced the leaders you have become?

  8. Christine writes about “dropping the potatoes” and releasing what weighs us down. What is something each of you had to let go of to step more fully into your purpose?

  9. How do you create meaningful change without taking responsibility for carrying everything yourself?

  10. For the woman in the audience who knows she wants to make a difference but is waiting for more confidence, clarity, or permission, what is one way she can begin to “be the reason” today?