Abby Conway's Programs
Shine: Multiplying Women’s Empowerment, Friendship, and Collaboration
Shine is an inspiring and empowering keynote that challenges women to move beyond competition and instead amplify one another’s success. Abby Conway helps students explore how personal choices and supportive relationships can multiply confidence, leadership, and collective impact. Perfect for women’s empowerment events, this session equips audiences with a fresh, actionable framework rooted in Shine Theory to foster authentic collaboration and meaningful connection.
View More Program Details
Women are taught to compete; compete for opportunities, acknowledgement, and space. Many efforts at women’s empowerment stop only at the competition.
What’s beyond it, though?
Abby Conway has an answer—instead of focusing on competing with one another, we should focus on how brightly we can shine together. In this signature program, a fresh take on developing powerful relationships, she shares how we can nurture our own light while simultaneously multiplying that of other women. In our organizations, leadership positions, and life beyond campus, the path to the future will be illuminated by the light we will produce together.
In this interactive keynote, Mindy takes the “mandatory hazing program” to a more personal level and helps brothers and sisters dig deep. She helps them discover caring ways to honor people and traditions around new member education, without harmful hazing behaviors. She explores unseen damaging effects of hazing and teaches students how to confront and deal with those who would make uncaring choices.
Mindy has adapted the program to other campus audiences beyond Greek Life – athletics, religious groups, clubs, band, etc. Her nurturing voice challenges college men and women to work for something better, safer, honorable, heartfelt, and successful.
Audience members will…
Consider ways in which competition influences how we develop and foster meaningful relationships.
Explore how our personal choices can limit or multiply the shine of other women.
Develop a framework, based on Shine Theory, to influence how we interact and empower other women.
Ideal Audiences
- Women’s Empowerment
- Sorority
- Leadership Development
- Community Colleges
Beyond the Slogan: Why Saying “Women’s Empowerment” Isn’t Enough
Beyond the Slogan: Why Saying “Women’s Empowerment” Isn’t Enough is a challenging and transformative session that pushes students to reflect on how inclusive their version of empowerment really is. Abby Conway helps audiences examine how their choices—from recruitment to relationships—either uplift or exclude, and provides tools to ensure that “empowering women” becomes a lived practice, not just a catchphrase. This program is ideal for organizations ready to turn reflection into action and build communities where all women are supported.
View More Program Details
We’ve all heard it said that empowered women empower women…but is that true? Do we actually empower all women, or just those we like the most? In this new and thoughtful program from Abby Conway, she challenges what women’s empowerment looks like in practice.
From the way that we recruit to the way that we build and nurture relationships, to the way that we ensure that all have a seat at the table, this program is designed to equip women with the tools to reflect on how they are (or aren’t) empowering others around them. Most importantly, it equips them to turn that reflection into action to make their friendships and communities stronger to ensure everyone has a seat at the table.
Isn’t it time to ensure all means all?!
Audience members will…
Identify changes they can make to put empowering others at the forefront of their decision-making.
Explore how their personal choices impact their ability to engage in empowering other women around them.
Ideal Audiences
- Women’s Empowerment
- Fraternity/ Sorority Life
- Recruitment
Extend the Impact
Abby Conway can also serve as a consultant for your group on the topics of:
- Women’s Empowerment
- Recuitment
Let us know on the form below how we can best help achieve your goals.
Meet Abby Conway
Abby’s most important title is Mom. She spends her days learning new things and trying to keep up with her toddler and golden retriever, Joy. She is an avid Orangetheory goer, recently started running half marathons, loves talking all things Disney, and enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends!
Abby brings experience in leadership development, curriculum writing and design, and facilitation. Throughout her career thus far, she has delivered individualized content to clients through programming, overseen the development and implementation of continuous training for a team, and designed curriculum to enhance organizational experiences through consulting and workshop curriculum. In addition to her work as a speaker, Abby works for Eli Lilly and Company in Learning and Development.
Abby earned a B.S. in Education from Florida State University and a M.S. in Education from Indiana University–Bloomington.
Abby Conway's Impact
