The eighth annual Women’s Leadership Conference taught women how to stay strong on the path to becoming successful business leaders.

The conference featured keynote speaker Patricia Riddlebarger, who spoke about women persevering through hardships. The conference featured breakout sessions that covered multiple topics to help women start and maintain their own businesses and ways to be leaders.

Hosted by the Women’s Leadership Collaborative and Women Business Leadership Center, the conference took place April 4 and was held in Centennial Hall.

“This conference gives women a chance to network, learn, receive encouragement and engage. It is important for employers to encourage their female employees to attend this empowering event,” said Patricia Johnston, executive director of the Women’s Business Leadership Center (WBLC).

The conference’s theme was strength. Johnston said the WBLC chose this theme because it represented the individual strengths of students, faculty and more. 

The first breakout sessions offered encouragement and ways for women to build their careers. These sessions consisted of topics on how to maintain stability in life, ways to be authentic in a career and how to build a team of leaders. 

The second breakout session provided tips for women to succeed in future careers, lead in the manufacturing business, lead in a supportive way, and how to lead through conflict.

“This conference is going to make people feel more confident in their life, and an announcement that we are here women and students at A-State,” said My Huynh, a junior graphic design major from Vietnam.

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