ALEXANDRIA, Va. & SILVER SPRING, Md. – ASIS Worldwide and the Safety Business Affiliation (SIA) closed out the inaugural Safety LeadHER convention this week, celebrating a profitable and groundbreaking first occasion held June 12-13 in Nashville, Tennessee. The occasion was devoted to advancing, connecting and empowering ladies within the safety occupation.
Roughly 300 present and future “LeadHERs” and attendees of all backgrounds and genders gathered for Safety LeadHER 2023. This 12 months’s Safety LeadHER program kicked off on June 12 with quite a lot of enjoyable and fascinating actions, together with a behind-the-scenes safety tour of Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium, a tour of the Nationwide Museum of African American Music and a ladies’s self-defense class, and wrapped up with a vigorous networking reception at Johnny Money’s Bar & BBQ.
On June 13, the Safety LeadHER convention programming started with a motivating keynote from writer, famend speaker and sought-after guide Eliza VanCort on tips on how to “Declare Your Success – Stand Tall, Elevate Your Voice and Be Heard.” On this dynamic presentation, VanCort shared her private journey from childhood kidnappings to a near-fatal head harm to turning into a No. 1 bestselling writer, addressed a few of right this moment’s most essential ladies’s management points and supply contributors invaluable communication and presentation steerage and concrete expertise to attain their objectives professionally and in each facet of their lives.
Further programming centered on two tracks – Management and Safety & Innovation – that includes displays from industry-leading material consultants. Monitor classes gave actionable steerage on subjects reminiscent of confidently saying no and setting boundaries, addressing digital threats and harassment, mitigating our unconscious biases towards ladies in safety, anonymizing your digital footprint, defending information within the cloud, main by affect and the science of intercourse and its affect on the {industry}.
The convention closed with a shifting keynote from range, fairness and inclusion practitioner, spoken phrase artist, emcee and poetry specialist Charity Blackwell. Attendees loved the immersive spoken phrase efficiency and keynote deal with exploring the which means of proudly owning your legacy via your work.
“The inaugural Safety LeadHER occasion is a wrap, and what a hit it was! My thoughts is stuffed with new concepts, my LinkedIn account is stuffed with new connections and my coronary heart is stuffed with gratitude for all of the exhausting work performed by the SIA and ASIS communities to make this occasion one thing to recollect,” stated Elaine Palome, director of human assets, Americas, at Axis Communications and occasion co-chair for Safety LeadHER. “It was so inspiring to see greater than 300 ladies and their allies gathered collectively to share tales, concepts and information. We’re already fascinated by subsequent 12 months’s occasion and hope you’ll be a part of us.”
“Our inaugural Safety LeadHER occasion was a smashing success. The power within the room was palpable,” stated Antoinette King, founding father of Credo Cyber Consulting LLC and occasion co-chair for Safety LeadHER. “Our opening keynote was delivered by Eliza VanCort. Eliza’s insights on communication have been extremely useful, and I walked away with many new communication instruments. The training classes have been tremendous insightful. Our closing keynote, Charity Blackwell, was merely masterful. I left the convention with a lot pleasure for the way forward for our {industry}!”
Safety LeadHER 2023 was made potential partly due to the beneficiant help of Featured Sponsor Apple; Premier Sponsors dormakaba, Intel and Wesco; Govt Sponsors Axis Communications and Securitas; and Associate Sponsors Allegion, Altronix, Boon Edam, Brivo, GSA Schedules, Inc., IDEMIA, Prosegur and SAGE Integration.
About ASIS Worldwide
Based in 1955, ASIS Worldwide is the world’s largest membership group for safety administration professionals. With 34,000 members tons of of chapters throughout the globe, ASIS is acknowledged because the premier supply for studying, networking, requirements, and analysis. By its board certifications, award-winning Safety Administration journal, and International Safety Change (GSX) – probably the most influential occasion within the occupation – ASIS ensures its members and the safety neighborhood have entry to the intelligence and assets crucial to guard their folks, property, and knowledge belongings.
In regards to the Safety Business Affiliation
SIA is the main commerce affiliation for world safety resolution suppliers, with over 1,400 modern member corporations representing 1000’s of safety leaders and consultants who form the way forward for the safety {industry}. SIA protects and advances its members’ pursuits by advocating pro-industry insurance policies and laws on the federal and state ranges, creating open {industry} requirements that allow integration, advancing {industry} professionalism via training and coaching, opening world market alternatives, and collaborating with different like-minded organizations. Because the premier sponsor of ISC Occasions expos and conferences, SIA ensures its members have entry to top-level consumers and influencers, in addition to unparalleled studying and community alternatives. SIA additionally enhances the place of its members within the safety market via SIA GovSummit, which brings collectively non-public {industry} with authorities determination makers, and Securing New Floor, the safety {industry}’s prime government convention for peer-to-peer networking.