Women’s Economic Development Network

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WEDN Learn and Lead 2024

Click here for the WEDN 2024 program.

Thursday, February 22nd – Friday, February 23rd

Scholarship Opportunities:

SC Power Team (25), NC’s Electric Cooperatives (8), Sanford Holshouser (4), and ECS Southeast (4) are offering scholarships that cover the cost of registration. For SC Power Team scholarships contact Angelyn Smith. For all others, click the button to fill out the application. You will be notified within a few business days if a scholarship is awarded and provided a link to register for the event. Do not purchase registration through Eventbrite if you will be applying for one of the scholarships.

Registration

Early Bird Registration $260 ends January 11, 2024
Regular Registration $340

Venue

Embassy Suites by Hilton Charlotte/Concord Golf Resort & Spa Address: 5400 John Q. Hammons Drive NW Concord, NC 28027. Room block closes Tuesday, January 23, 2024. Check-in time for rooms begins at 4:00 pm.

Donate

Every year WEDN participants have donated gently used career clothing items to the Dress for Success career closet in Winston-Salem, NC. We will be collecting donations this year. Please drop off your donations upon check in at the WEDN registration desk.


Program

Crisis Communications Workshop

We are excited to have Kat Saunders, Partner and Head of Strategy and Leadership at Economic Leadership LLC, to lead a workshop on Crisis Communications.

More details to be announced.

Burn Bright Workshop

Marin Burton will lead a workshop on burn out called Burn Bright. Attendees will learn how to identify burn out and gain tools to help get out, and stay out, of burn out.

More details to be announced.

High Performing Economic Development Organizations

Private Sector Fundraising Best Practices
  • Reagan Gural, President & CEO, Alamance Chamber
  • Rick Kiernan, Principal, Convergent Nonprofit Solutions
Advantages and Disadvantages of EDO Structures
  • Jenn Bosser, President & CEO, Iredell County Economic Development Corporation
  • Libby Lear, Director, Chesterfield County Economic Development
  • Victoria Hanson, Executive Director, Economic Development Authority, Amherst, Virginia

Product Development Case Studies  

Spec Building Development Models
  • Julie Pruet, Development Manager, Marlboro Development Team
  • Jennifer Lantz, Executive Director, Wilson Economic Development Council

Sustainability in Economic Development

  • Cynthia Davis, PhD, Senior Vice President, Sustain SC

Conference Book

The Women’s Economic Development Network and Leadership Forum was started in 2016. The forum is sponsored by Creative EDC as one of the nonprofit things we do to give back to the field of economic development. The Forum invites economic developers to come together to LEARN and return to the office prepared to LEAD. The Forum focuses on leadership development, professional and career development, current topics in economic development, and strategic networking.

Sponsors

Thanks to Brand Acceleration who has supported the marketing materials for WEDN since it started in 2016.

Creative Economic Development Consulting