For too long, women have been taught to stay quiet, stay small, and stay “nice.”And still — a voice remains inside you. Steady. Alive. Ready.
Her Voice Rising is a one-day experience for women ready to stop shrinking and start leading with truth.
This event is about using your voice where it matters — in your work, your business, your community, and your life.
The Heart of the Experience: The Open Mic
At the heart of Her Voice Rising is the opportunity for you to step onto the stage. Throughout the day, participants will be invited to participate in optional open-mic moments — not to perform, but to reconnect with the truth that already lives inside them. In a safe, supportive container held by other women, you will have three minutes to speak from your heart and be fully witnessed. This is where inspiration becomes embodiment. Where courage becomes action. Where your voice rises — not alone, but through the strength and presence of a community standing beside you.
You will also come away with:
🔥 A stronger, embodied voiceSpeak with presence instead of fear or performance.
🎨 Creative tools to unlock your voiceUse intentional creativity practices to access clarity, courage, and expression.
🎤 Real practice using your voiceSupportive open mic experiences + guided exercises.
💡 Clarity around your messageFind the words for what you’re here to say.
🤝 Meaningful connectionBuild real relationships with powerful women leaders.
👑 Renewed personal authorityRemember that your voice is leadership.
🌱 A clear next step forwardLeave knowing exactly how you’ll show up and speak up next.
Leah Johnson is a TEDx speaker, best-selling author, and former politician turned creative leadership guide who helps women build sustainable success without burnout. Through her work, she teaches how boundaries, creativity, and joy are not extras—but essential strategies for clear decision-making, resilient leadership, and meaningful impact. Leah’s message invites women to stop performing, trust themselves, and rise into leadership that actually feels good to live.
Mikki Gates is a global People & Culture executive, TEDx speaker and organizer, and longtime champion for inclusive leadership and human-centered workplaces. With more than two decades of experience leading teams across the globe, she is known for helping organizations — and individuals — find clarity, courage, and connection in moments of change.
But Mikki’s passion for “finding your voice” is also deeply personal. Ten years ago, an undiagnosed tumor growing in her heart quite literally began to steal her voice — a season that reshaped her understanding of identity, resilience, and the power of being heard.
Today, she speaks at the intersection of leadership, storytelling, and survival, helping others reclaim their voice, their confidence, and their impact.
Katie Hoffner is President and Chief Creative Officer of YAYA ART LLC, and the niece, steward, and storyteller of visionary artist Lydia Ruyle, whose deeply researched and transformative collection of Goddess banners have helped reintroduce the Divine Feminine into global consciousness.
Building on Lydia’s fearless commitment to her creative calling, Katie has carried this legacy forward with clarity, courage, and strategic leadership—bringing these works into public spaces, educational settings, and cultural conversations worldwide.
As a tenured executive and speaker, she inspires others to embody authentic leadership and self-expression, drawing on lived experience, her aunt’s artistic legacy, and a bold vision for making the Divine Feminine accessible and influential in contemporary culture.
Natalie Davis is a National Speaker, Certified Executive Coach, and Consultant who helps professionals and organizations stop playing by someone else's rules and start leading from who they actually are. As the founder of Leadership That Shines, her work is rooted in a simple truth: the most powerful version of your leadership has always lived inside you.
A recognized 2026 RisMedia Newsmaker, Natalie brings both vision and credibility to every stage she steps on. In 2023, she stepped into the role of President of the Colorado Association of REALTORS®, leading with the same conviction and clarity she brings to every room she enters. From local boards to national platforms, Natalie has spent her career proving that the most powerful changes happen from the inside out.
Grounded in the values of impact, influence, and growth, she is committed to developing leaders who lead with purpose, speak with truth, and leave a lasting mark.
Dr. Ahriana Platten is an internationally recognized master teacher and transformational mentor. With over 30 years of experience, she’s taught world-changers and visionaries across six continents, weaving together ancient wisdom and modern insight in a way that is both mystical and deeply practical.
An ordained Unity Minister, Master Ceremonialist, and a 3rd-degree High Priestess in two esoteric traditions, Ahriana dedicates her life to spiritual leadership. She’s served as an Ambassador for the Parliament of the World’s Religions and sat in sacred circles with elders from more than 250 tribes and traditions, fostering interfaith dialogue and global understanding. She’s the best-selling author of Rites and Rituals – Harnessing the Power of Sacred Ceremony, and a featured wisdom-keeper in the renowned documentary Time of the Sixth Sun.
Rachael-Jayne is an international keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, and mentor who helps leaders and entrepreneurs master the energy behind inspiring leadership and influence. She bridges high performance and energetic intelligence, teaching Unshakable Presence®—the ability to stay centered, magnetic, and compelling under pressure.
As founder and CEO of The Awakened School®, an Inc. 5000 company, her work has impacted more than 15,000 people globally. A former professional performer who has spoken to audiences of over 40,000, she brings dynamic stage presence infused with authenticity, humor, and depth. Author of three bestselling books, Rachael-Jayne delivers proven tools for grounded leadership, personal mastery, and lasting impact.
Lucrecia Medrano is a first-generation Mexican woman who brings her full humanity into every space she enters. A wife, mother, and healing-centered leader, she shows up with clarity, courage, and compassion rooted in lived experience and deep personal transformation. Her work is grounded in culturally rooted practices, ceremony, and relationship to self, ancestry, and land. Lucrecia is intentionally breaking generational patterns while redefining what conscious leadership and parenting can look like. Through her presence, she creates brave, transformative spaces that center wholeness, connection, and liberation, supporting others in reclaiming their voice and reconnecting with their deepest truth.
Allison Seabeck is a seasoned private-sector executive, investor, and nonprofit board leader with a passion for helping visionary leaders and growing organizations make greater and more positive impacts in the world. She found her own leadership voice through curiosity and asking questions. Those same traits guide her passion for learning how things works, exploring the world and sharing life in community with fellow change-makers. Allison serves as the Executive Director of the Warehouse Business Accelerator, a nonprofit helping innovative tech and advanced manufacturing entrepreneurs bring their ground-breaking technology to life.
Rebecca is an imperfect human, just like you, with a passion for creating more human-friendly workplaces to drive effective organizations and a thriving world. After three decades of business experience in start-ups, mid-sized, and Fortune 100 organizations, Rebecca launched Regenerative Workplaces in 2023. As a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, an ICF Accredited Executive Coach (ACC), a trauma-informed yoga instructor, and a human behavior junkie with a master’s degree in organizational leadership, she brings a unique approach to speaking, coaching and consulting that blends mindfulness, authenticity, spirituality and science. Her mission is Trickle Down Humanity, and in times of rapid, complex change and uncertainty, Rebecca believes a leader’s superpower isn’t pushing harder - it's slowing down, breathing, and stepping into alignment. She is known for creating space for people to feel deeply seen, heard and valued and in helping companies do the same for their employees.
Meredith Masse is a career and executive coach who works with capable, high-achieving women who are done shrinking — even if they’re not always sure why they still do.
For nearly 20 years, Meredith has coached leaders who look successful on paper but quietly second-guess themselves in the moments that matter. Not because they lack skill. Not because they lack courage. But because something subtle happens internally — a tightening, an overthinking, a smoothing-over — and their voice gets edited before it ever lands.
Meredith’s work lives in that split second.
She helps women notice what’s happening underneath the hesitation, understand the energy driving it, and choose — consciously — how they want to show up instead. Not louder. Not performative. Just clear. Grounded. True.
Creator of the Success-to-Significance Career Roadmap and a TEDx Women speaker, Meredith blends practical tools with real talk and lived experience. She’s not interested in hype. She’s interested in helping women trust themselves again.
8:30 AM — Opening Ceremony - Dr. Ahriana Platten
8:45 AM — Unfurling the Feminine: Art, Voice and Sacred Authority -Katie HoffnerAccompanied by a collection of Lydia Ruyle Goddess Banners (Learn more HERE)
9:00 AM — Intentional Creativity Voice Activation ExerciseGrounding creative practice led by Leah Johnson to reconnect you with your voice and set a powerful intention for the day.
10:00 AM — Keynote Speaker Session: Mikki Gates On truth, finding your voice, and courageous visibility
10:30 AM — Break
10:45 AM — Open Mic: Courage Round- Courage Sponsor- Claire Havelda, Brownsteing Hyatt Farner Schreck, LLPSupportive, facilitated open mic experience focused on bravery, presence, and practice. (20 brave attendees get the opportunity to sign up and take the stage to share their voices- sign-ups are a first-come, first-served basis and will be sent out a month before the event)
12:00 PM — Lunch
12:30 PM — Panel Discussion: Women Leading Out LoudReal stories from women leaders in business, nonprofit, and community leadership + live audience Q&A.Allison Seabeck, The Warehouse Business Accelerator Lucrecia Medrano, CPFS, The Yarrow Collective: Peer of LarimerMeredith Mass, Meredith Mass CoachingRebecca Hawkins, Regenerative Workplaces
1:30 - Keynote Speaker Session: Natalie DavisStepping into leadership and influence
2:00 PM — Open Mic: Integration RoundA second opportunity to step forward — now grounded in clarity and courage. (Additional brave attendees get the opportunity to sign up and take the stage to share their voices)
3:15 PM — Ice Cream Break Sponsored by Ben and Jerry's
3:35 PM — Featured Speaker: Rachael Jayne
4:15 PM — Collective Commitment CeremonyParticipants publicly claim their next brave leadership step.
4:45 PM — Closing Activation & Send-OffFinal grounding and activation led by Leah to anchor the experience.
5:00-6:30 PM — Goddess Gathering Sponsored by The Mishawaka Initiative (extra ticketed event)
Full-Day Event Access
✔ All keynote talks + panel discussion✔ Intentional creativity activation session✔ Open mic participation✔ Group exercises + collective closing ceremony✔ Connection with powerful women leaders✔ Box Lunch
Post Event Mingling, Connecting, and Song
Join us for a post-event gathering where you can deepen the relationships you made during the day and unwind with a mocktail and some music.
Scholarship Tickets
Because we want Her Voice Rising to be accessible to all women, a limited number of scholarship tickets are available.
If you would like to be considered, please complete the scholarship application form.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2026Recipients Notified By: May 31, 2026
We encourage women who feel called to this experience to apply.
Scholarship Application Form
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Your support helps amplify women’s voices, expand opportunity through scholarship tickets, and create a high-impact experience for purpose-driven leaders.
This partnership offers meaningful brand alignment, direct connection with an engaged audience, and the opportunity to stand publicly for women-led change.
Let’s rise together.
Sponsorship Opportunities are outlined HERE
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