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Real-Time Leadership, Growth, and Reinvention in Business
Cost: $65
Buckle up! This day is for every woman in business who took off before the runway was finished and is building her business at full altitude. Our speakers will share how they kept climbing through the turbulence.
This is the finale of the 2026 She Means Business series, brought to you by vcfo. A high impact day on leading, growing, and reinventing your business in real time, with an opening fireside chat, an afternoon keynote, a hands-on EOS workshop, expert roundtables, a panel produced with the Austin Business Journal, and a Delta Air Lines travel grand prize awarded live.
The Flight Plan
- An opening fireside chat and an afternoon keynote
- A hands-on EOS workshop with a drafted operating rhythm to take home
- Ignite Essentials breakouts: choose the track your business needs right now
- Ask Me Anything roundtables with practitioners from the Ignite Expert Collective
- The Power of Better Business panel, produced with the Austin Business Journal
- A Delta Air Lines travel voucher drawing
- Networking luncheon
- Closing happy hour reception to follow
The Lineup
Opening Fireside: Janice Omadeke
The Company You Have Isn't the Company You're Building
Janice is an Austin entrepreneur, author, and TEDx speaker who built and exited a venture-backed technology company, The Mentor Method. Recognized as one of the first 100 Black women to raise more than $1M in seed funding and as Austin’s first Black woman to secure a venture-backed tech exit, she has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Inc., and is the author of Mentorship Unlocked. As the opening keynote she sets the theme for the entire day: the modern reinvention story of building in real time, knowing when to make the next move, and becoming the CEO of your own career.
Afternoon Keynote: Becky Taylor, KASAMA
Seeing Your Business From Multiple Sides of the Table
You are building the business and running it at the same time, with no pause to step back and see it clearly. Meanwhile the who can fund it, buy it, partner with it, or govern it are sizing it up from the outside, right now, while you fly. A buyer sees opportunity. A lender sees risk. A board sees long-term value. An investor sees return. Becky Taylor, Austin technology strategist, investor, entrepreneur, and Partner at KASAMA, has spent decades across technology, startups, venture investing, and corporate innovation. She closes the afternoon with a practical look at how sophisticated decision-makers read a business mid-flight, and what founders, owners, and corporate leaders learn by turning that lens on their own. She unpacks the signals that build confidence and the traits that create real strategic value, whether you are chasing growth, capital, partnerships, an exit, or simply a stronger company. Then she flips it, giving the many in the room who evaluate businesses themselves a framework for sizing up partners, vendors, and opportunities of their own. You will leave knowing how decision-makers see your business while you build it, where your greatest value sits, and what earns confidence across the relationships that shape your future.
