PowerToFly proudly hosted our annual Empower Her: Advancing Women in the Workplace & Beyond, virtual summit & job fair highlighting women across tech, business and public policy alongside some amazing allies on March 18th & 19th 2026.
Featuring over six hours of workshops and fireside chats, our featured speakers shared insights on such topics as inclusive leadership, avoiding burn out, combatting imposter syndrome, navigating career breaks and so much more.
We wrapped up the event with a virtual job fair featuring thousands of open roles across all skill levels. Still looking for an open role? Check out our sponsors' pages on PowerToFly to apply directly for new opportunities.
For more resources including recordings of all of the summit talks, just check out the tools and links below.
Watch the summit recordings
Missed the event or want to relive the fireside chats & workshops? You can now watch the entire summit for free on demand.
Scroll down to the schedule and click on the talk you'd like to watch.
Check out our featured talk
What does it really look like to bring your whole self to work and still have energy left for the people and life you care about outside of it? In this conversation, Esri’s Jessi Echevarria and Diana Lavery share insights from their careers in GIS and technology about leading with authenticity while navigating the real demands of work and life as mothers and more.
Our sponsors
We want to thank our amazing sponsor Esri! Thanks to their generous support, the summit remains a free resource.
Esri is the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping. They take a geographic approach to problem-solving, brought to life by modern GIS technology. Since 1969, they have supported customers with geographic science and geospatial analytics, what they call The Science of Where®. By enabling customers to design more efficient cities, deliver clean water and electricity, fight crime, slow climate change, and stamp out disease, Esri is helping create the maps that run the world and make the world a better place.
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Esri is currently hiring for over 300 open roles. Start applying today.
Support our speakers & their organizations
We were thrilled to feature an amazing array of speakers from forward-thinking organizations as part of the summit.
We want to give a huge shout out to our community partners DevIT and Hearst Magazines' The Female Force for their valuable support.
Be sure to connect with & support our speakers and their organizations:
- Nora Fraser and The Multicultural Professional Network
- Dolores Hirschmann and Masters in Clarity
- Cristina Costa and Cristina Costa Coaching
- Kelley Biskupiak & Susan Rietano Davey and Prepare to Launch, LLC
- Sarah Federman, PhD
- Tami Forman and Women Back to Work
Author Corner
Corporate Reckoning: How Businesses Can Address Historical Wrongs by Sarah Federman
How corporations can address legacies of historical oppression in ways that are good for them and good for others.
Increasingly, corporate executives find themselves called upon to atone for their predecessors’ moral transgressions. While many are prepared to address inherited failed product lines or dysfunctional teams, few know how to handle demands that their enterprise address legacies of mass atrocity such as slavery, genocide, or colonialism. In Corporate Reckoning, Sarah Federman provides a corporate atonement model for corporate leaders and employees across industries around the world.
When survivors and descendants demand reckoning, many corporate leaders initially shirk the responsibilities that follow from these requests. They may claim that history belongs to the historians, that their company’s activities were legal at the time, or that too much time has passed. If it comes to it, courts will rule in their favor, they reassure themselves. Others avoid these issues simply because they have no idea how to address them.
Demands for reckoning ebb and flow, but these histories do not disappear. This book offers a way forward that serves companies and those affected by these historical harms. Taking responsibility for irreparable harm is not easy or comfortable. Despite the dilemmas and difficulties, the only way out is through.
More resources from our speakers & partners
- How We Do It: A newsletter and community for people looking to build great careers and great lives.
- Email Cristina: cristina@ccostacoaching.com
- Add me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-nicole-costa-/
- Take my LinkedIn Learning Course: How to Articulate your Value to your Boss
- Want to learn how to be a powerful communicator? Join the SpeakerGym Community and practice for FREE: https://www.speakergym.live/
- 4 Reasons Why You Should Apply for that Next-Level Job [7 min listen]
- 3 Things We Can All Do to Ensure Continued Progress for Women [9 min listen]
