Confidence Lab is the ultimate experience designed to help you step into your most confident self. This half-day event is packed with actionable strategies, inspiring sessions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals who are ready to invest in their personal and professional growth. Whether you’re looking to advance in your career, deepen your self-belief, or simply embrace new challenges, Confidence Lab is your starting point.

Your Confidence Lab ticket includes:

• Engaging Speaker Sessions: Learn from experts about harnessing confidence in your career, relationships, and everyday life.
• Interactive Experiences: Participate in dynamic activities designed to help you step into your most confident self.
• In-Depth Audience Q&A: Get direct insights from speakers as they answer your most pressing questions about building confidence and stepping into leadership.
• Networking Opportunities: Connect with a supportive community of professionals and confidence enthusiasts.

2026 Speaker Sessions:

• Seeing Clearly
  Understand how you show up – and what’s been getting in the way.
• Confidence in Relationship
  Communicate, navigate conflict, and build trust more effectively.
• Sustainable Agency
  Learn how to lead without burning out. Your energy is part of the strategy.
• Confidence in Service
  Align how you show up with the impact you actually want to have.

This Is For You If…

• You’re ready to take up more space in your work or life
• You want to communicate with clarity and confidence
• You’re stepping into (or preparing for) leadership
• You’re done second-guessing yourself

Our Speakers

Lachandra Baker Founder of LBB Edutainment and the kind of person who makes you realize you’ve been confusing confidence with performance your whole life. Lachandra blends psychology, research, and radical humanity to help individuals and teams stop code-switching their way through the day and start showing up as someone they actually recognize. Expect to be challenged, affirmed, and genuinely seen – sometimes all in the same breath.

Annette Santiago Reyes Annette has a rare talent: she makes the way you communicate feel like a discovery, not a critique. A connection catalyst and culture strategist, she helps people understand why they show up the way they do, and how to bridge the gap between intention and impact. Whether you’re navigating change, life’s challenges, or simply trying to better understand yourself and others. Annette gives you the language and the lens to get there.

Elizabeth Wangugi Creator of The Nap Concert and the RESTOR™ framework, Elizabeth is here to tell you that rest is not a reward – it’s a strategy. Rooted in neuroscience and restorative practice, her work helps high-achievers stop running on fumes and start leading from a place of actual capacity. If your calendar is full and your tank is empty, Elizabeth might be the most important person you hear from at Confidence Lab.

Stephanie Andrews Founder of Social Black Butterfly Training & Consulting, Stephanie knows what it takes to lead through complexity because she’s done it across social services, healthcare, and operations. She specializes in succession strategy and leadership development, equipping leaders to build trust, navigate the hard moments, and leave something worth inheriting. Stephanie doesn’t just develop leaders. She develops the kind of leaders people actually want to follow.

Lillian Morales-Laster SVP Human Resources Director at United Midwest Savings Bank and Executive Director of the Empowering Latinas Leadership Academy (ELLA). Lillian has spent her career combining her passion for equity and inclusion with her experience in human resources to lead teams and organizations in the development of supportive work environments. She leads with a vision of ensuring Latinas’ voices are included in crucial decision-making processes, because for Lillian, ELLA is more than just a program. It’s a vibrant community of hermanas supporting and uplifting each other as they navigate their paths to leadership. A Columbus Business First Community Champion and Distinguished Hispanic Ohioan, her commitment to empowering others shows up everywhere she goes.

Rachyl Kershaw Founder of Greater Columbus Consulting and the architect behind the Confidence Lab Annual Summit, Rachyl has a gift for cutting through the noise, helping high-achievers stop performing success and start living it. She asks the questions most people are afraid to, creates space for honest reckoning, and somehow makes the hard work feel energizing. If you’ve ever wondered why doing everything right still feels like something’s missing, you’re in exactly the right room.