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12pm-1pm Southeast Region - How health leaders can transform women’s health experience

This session draws on EY research to reveal how today’s healthcare pathways, research investments, and support systems fall short in supporting women’s lifelong health needs. Participants will explore data‑driven insights and digital health innovations reshaping the experience, featuring leaders and entrepreneurs driving meaningful change. Learn more at https://www.ey.com/en_gl/industries/health

2pm-3pm Women in Science - Closing the Women’s Health Gap Has Major Economic Upside

Although women live longer than men, they spend about 25% more of their lives in “poor health”—most of it during their working years—highlighting long‑standing historical gaps in research, care, and system design (https://www.mckinsey.com/mhi/our-insights/closing-the-womens-health-gap-a-1-trillion-dollar-opportunity-to-improve-lives-and-economies). This session explores the roots of these disparities, the changes needed across research, healthcare, and workplaces to close the gap, and real examples of organizations improving women’s health while driving positive economic outcomes.

3pm-4pm Mid-Atlantic Region - The Arc of a Career: Progress and Perspective

With the workforce shifting from just 20.2% women in 1920 to 47.4% in 2023, and women holding 29% of C‑suite roles in 2025, this session reflects on how career pathways and leadership opportunities have evolved across generations. Through the career stories of three healthcare professionals at different stages, the conversation explores the environments they entered, the milestones and support that shaped their success, and how each is now giving back to lift future leaders. The Changing Landscape of the US Workforce Since 1920 | U.S. Department of Labor and Women in the Workplace 2025 report | McKinsey

4pm-5pm Midwest Region - The Courage to Ask: How Confident Help‑Seeking Strengthens Women’s Success

In healthcare leaders are often stretched thin and expected to “power through,” this session reframes asking for help as an essential act of leadership rather than a sign of weakness. Kathryn Mayer, author of The Productive Perfectionist, examines the barriers that make help‑seeking difficult and shares practical tools for making confident requests that strengthen relationships, increase capacity, and reduce burnout.

5pm-6pm Women in Healthcare Give Back - Transformational Leadership Through Care, Presence and Advocacy

Unpaid caregiving—performed overwhelmingly by women—shapes workforce participation, leadership pathways, and personal identity, making its influence even more significant as populations age and care needs grow. This session, aligned with the IWD 2026 Give to Gain theme, follows a personal‑to‑collective arc to show how caregiving builds transformational leadership competencies and how workplaces can better support, recognize, and develop caregiver‑leaders to drive meaningful impact across families, organizations, and communities. Unpaid Caregiving in the U.S. Valued at More Than $1.1 Trillion, Per New Analysis

6pm-7pm Mosaic Leadership Collective - Men as Partners in Progress-Sponsoring for Meaningful Change

This panel discussion highlights how men can support meaningful change through mentorship, sponsorship, and advocacy. We will explore practical ways to men across differences, strengthen leadership pipelines, and build more welcoming workplaces and communities. Attendees will leave with actionable insights and real examples of mentoring that drives progress for everyone.

7pm-8pm Pacific Region - Busy Is a Drug — Here’s How High Performers Quit 

Modern work doesn’t just get harder — it gets louder. In this practical, neuroscience-based session, Tanya Booke introduces The Execution Switch™, a framework for reducing cognitive overload so follow-through becomes easier (it’s not motivation, it’s overload).

8pm-9pm Southwest Region - Rhinestone Cowgirl: A Journey of Resilience, Leadership, and Finding a Place to Soar

Nicole Mowad‑Nassar, President of Global Allergan Aesthetics and Senior Vice President of AbbVie, shares her career journey of resilience and finding a place to soar, offering life lessons and leadership skills shaped through experience. As research shows women are 41% more likely than men to face toxic workplace cultures, her story underscores how supportive environments, clear advancement pathways, and leadership development enable women to thrive and become long‑term, high‑impact contributors. The Toxic Culture Gap Shows Companies Are Failing Women

9pm-10pm Peak Performance - Silent Sabotage: What’s Really Getting in the Way of Great Leadership

Identify critical life lessons and transferable skills that support personal and professional advancement, particularly for leaders navigating complex workplace environments.

3am-4am Brussels - Leading Beyond Yourself: How Developing Others Expands Your Leadership Impact

In today’s complex and fast-moving organizations, leadership impact no longer comes from holding knowledge, controlling access, or being indispensable. It comes from creating clarity, enabling others, and deliberately growing future leaders.

6am-7am Dublin - How Leaders Multiply Impact by Elevating Those Around Them

This session explores how giving patients a meaningful voice strengthens leadership effectiveness and improves the quality of care, as leaders gain deeper insight, stronger trust, and better decision‑making through active listening. By centering patient experiences, the discussion highlights how empathy and inclusive leadership drive impact, innovation, and better outcomes by fostering clarity, connection, and sustainable performance.

8am-9am Canada Region - Personal Branding as a Gift, Not a Performance: An Honest Conversation About Navigating the Careers We Want

Research shows that personal branding is strongly linked to career satisfaction and self‑efficacy, highlighting how identity, social dynamics, and key experiences shape professional growth. This session invites speakers to share candid stories about how generosity, partnership, and shared knowledge have shaped their authentic presence and influence, illustrating how giving time, insight, or support strengthens careers and benefits individuals, organizations, and the broader community. Frontiers | Get Noticed to Get Ahead: The Impact of Personal Branding on Career Success

10am-11am Puerto Rico - "The Multiplier Effect: Small Actions, Big Impact"

The Multiplier Effect: Small Actions, Big Impact explores how everyday micro‑acts of giving—such as championing colleagues, sharing visibility, skill‑sharing, and offering timely feedback—can compound over time to create meaningful individual, organizational, and community impact. Through executive‑level dialogue and real‑world examples, participants will reflect on what they’ve gained and learn how to intentionally give it forward, leaving with practical perspectives they can apply in their own leadership journeys.

11am-12pm NY Tri State Region - The Women’s Health Gap Remains Substantially Underfunded: addressing imbalance

This International Women’s Day, we spotlight a critical imbalance: globally, only ~5% of health research and development funding is directed toward closing the women’s health gap; leaving many conditions under-researched despite their significant disease burden. Closing the gap isn’t just better, it’s smart science and better medicine for all.Funding research on women’s health | Nature Reviews Bioengineering

Additional Event Information

• Please note: The content associated with this two-day event will be recorded and sent out to all registrants within two weeks of the live broadcast.
• Online registration deadline: 05 March 2026
• Event is open to: HBA Members and Non-members
• This event is not refundable.