Allison Schmidt
Starting Off Right: Three Financial Moves Every Young Woman Should Make Breakout Session
Allie is a Certified Financial Planner™ professional and CPA. She co-founded HD Wealth Strategies in 2010. Her firm specializes in a wide range of financial planning and investment management services.
Angie Fouts-Hyatt
Stop The Voices That Stop You From Being You Breakout Session
Angie Fouts-Hyatt is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Clinical Director for Revolution Counseling. Angie is passionate about walking with women on their journey to find healing and wholeness. She also operates a program called, Flowers in the Desert. This program provides four-day counseling intensives, free/reduced counseling, assistance with groceries and gift cards for women in need. Angie recently released her second book called, Nothing Compared: Moving Past the Past. 100% of the proceeds from the book go to help women in need. Angie's greatest desire is to see women attain the excellence they are meant to achieve! Angie lives in Parker with her husband, five amazing children and their dog and two cats.
Jen Huey
Perfecting Your Personal Brand Breakout Session
Combine an advertising degree from CU Boulder with 12 years of experience in leadership development, and this Shine Mom is super-interested in making sure that the girls of today are thinking about becoming the leaders of tomorrow – and that you’re managing your brand with that leadership in mind. Jen will share what she learned in her career in television advertising and the leadership principles she promotes at FranklinCovey to help you be sure you’re “beginning with the end in mind.”
Alyssa Huey
Perfecting Your Personal Brand Breakout Session
Alyssa Huey is a sophomore at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She is studying Accounting and Finance in the Heider College of Business. As well as being a student in the business school, Alyssa is an active member of the student body through the Creighton Students Union Program Board, in the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, as a part of the Freshman Leadership Program, and as a member of the Anna Tyler Waite Leadership Program. She graduated from Legend High School in the spring of 2018. The Shine conference is special to her since she was a member of the planning committee and has attended each year since her freshman year of high school.
Sarah Valaika
Breakout Session Leader
Sarah is a junior at Colorado State University, originally from Arvada, Colorado. She is a communications studies major, hoping to pursue a career in marketing, public relations, or event planning. Sarah was President of Gamma Phi Beta Tau Chapter in 2019, won the Sue Duncan Emerging Leader Award, and currently serves as an FSL Ambassador and as Vice President of Public Relations for the Panhellenic Council. Sarah’s love for her major, her sorority, her family, friends, travel, and tennis are endless, and she is excited to share her experiences as a college student, a leader, a sister, and a friend!
@Sarah.Valaika
Laurie LaComb
Yoga Breakout Session
Laurie LaComb is a Certified Teacher, Certified Yoga Teacher (200 hr), IIN Health Coach, extensively trained in all aspects of mindfulness through Mindful Life, CDE, and the Institute of Mindful Leadership, and mother of five. She has had the pleasure of teaching movement, mindfulness, and nutrition to over 2000 DCSD staff members and 7,000+ DCSD students throughout her tenure with Douglas County School District. She is driven by living a healthy, mindful, adventurous and happy life and her passion drives her to empower others to discover the same.
Twitter- DCSD Healthy Connections @HealthyDcsd
Shannon Kern
How to Create an Impact on Our Community Breakout Session
Shannon Kern is the Co-founder and President of the national non-profit public charity, UpLift US, working to uplift, empower, and nourish communities across the country. She also serves as a Senior Operations Engineer [Accreditation] for the National Committee for Quality Assurance, focusing on improving the quality, accessibility, and affordability of health care. Shannon has a decade of experience in human rights activism, animal rights advocacy, global philanthropy, and community organizing. She is an award-winning photographer and a published author who uses her voice for the betterment of all.
http://facebook.com/shannon.e.kern;
https://www.instagram.com/shayk4justice/;
http://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonekern/
Erin Jones
Interview and Application Tips and Tricks Breakout Session
Erin Jones is a senior at the University of Denver studying Business Information and Analytics as well as Marketing. Erin has worked for companies such as Goldman Sachs and Deloitte and she can't wait to share her knowledge and findings with you all!
@erinjonesy
Chelsea Husum
Self Care = Your Happiness Breakout Session
Chelsea Husum is the founder of This Green Grass and believes in empowering women to live their most fulfilled lives. Through workshops, retreats and social gatherings, she teaches women about self care and personal development in a fun and inspiring way while connecting with them in an authentic and vulnerable way.
https://www.facebook.com/thisgreengrass/, Instagram: chelseahusum and thisgreengrass
Danette Haag
Walking With Courage Breakout Session
Danette an inspirational speaker; a pediatric nurse and a pageant queen. As an inspirational speaker, Danette shares her valuable, personal experiences from living through and living with a severe childhood burn injury. Inspiring others to see their own greatness by sharing all that she has learned from walking with courage, healing her soul and redefining her beauty through all scars of life.
FB - @danettesoulonfire Soul on Fire - Beauty From Ashes IG - soulonfirebeautyfromashes
Deborah Conley
The Glowing Ember Breakout Session
Deborah Conley currently serves on the board of directors for the Center for People With Disabilities. She was the founder and president of Lending Sight. She has been honored with numerous awards including; 2012 Pacesetter Award in appreciation of contributions in the field of Quality of Life presented by Daily Camera, 2012 Boulder Chamber of Commerce Women Who Light the Community, and 2013 Sportswoman of Colorado Dorothy Mauk Pioneer Award in recognition for the developing the sport of running and training implements for those with visual impairments. Deborah continues to volunteer her talents and strengths in the community. You can also see her appearing on stage, acting in local theater productions.
Jenna Beals
How Social Media Can Help (or Hurt) Your Job Search Breakout Session
For as long as she can remember, Jenna has had a passion for creativity, which led her to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from the University of Georgia. Creativity can take many forms, but as a digital communications coordinator for PCL Construction, her creativity spans various social media platforms. At PCL, Jenna is responsible for creating and monitoring content and measuring the success of social posts. When she is not immersed in the digital world, she is hiking, skiing, and exploring Colorado’s vast mountains.
@jbeals4reals