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Thrive Up! Reclaiming Your POWER When the Microaggressions Just Won't Stop!

Join Philly Tech Sistas for our Thrive Up! series where we help you develop leadership skills necessary to grow and thrive in your career.

About this Event

Join us for our Thrive Up! speaker series where we help you develop leadership skills necessary to grow and thrive in your career. Leadership skills are essential to growing and thriving at work. If you are looking for ways to move up in your career by learning essential leadership skills and methodologies this series is for you.

Reclaiming Your POWER When the Microaggressions Just Won't Stop!

For women of color and others apart of marginalized groups, micro-aggressions may be an everyday occurrence. During this session learn when and how to leverage your own power when dealing with microaggressions. Join us as Toni Woodlon, Founder and CEO of EdAlly Consulting, breaks down the following:

Learn to recognize your own inner strength, harness it, and use it to positively shift your professional and personal life
Microaggressions and their impact are real - learn when and how to respond
Locate and expand your circles of power and influence and create opportunities for individual and collective resistance.
Learn to intentionally make time for self-care

About Our Speaker

Toni Woodlon is the Founder and CEO of EdAlly Consulting, where she partners with organizations to create more inclusive spaces and equitable outcomes. A trained facilitator and champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Toni leads training and workshops for individuals, government agencies, and organizations all over the world that build capacity for sustainable positive change. In her transformational work, Toni utilizes a framework that involves high levels of engagement, collaboration, and storytelling. These components, she believes, allow people to lean in and to recognize their common humanity, even while having difficult conversations and doing the hard work.

A dynamic and empowering leader, Toni has led learning around implicit bias and microaggressions, navigating workplace culture, minimizing the creating inclusive spaces in which people thrive, and strategies for showing up to advocate for yourself and others.

Toni enjoys using her voice to empower other women to walk in their purpose and passion. Her clothing line, Culturally Speaking, was designed for those “with something to say” and is another way Toni uses her voice to do good in the world and to spark conversations often left unspoken.