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The Quorum Speaker Series is made up of remarkable women whose careers inspire us to take the next step.

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The Two AM Circle: Building Real Relationships in a Modern World

Dec 3, 2026 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET

Michelle Merritt
Senior Talent, People, & HR Executive; Author, Emergent Power

Who’s in your 2 a.m. Circle? Michelle Merritt on building real relationships in a disconnected world.

In a world of surface level networking and constant digital connection, most people still don’t have anyone they could call at 2 a.m. Drawing on her chapter “The Posse” from the bestselling book Emergent Power and her new podcast The 2 a.m. Circle, Michelle Merritt shares how to move past transactional relationships and build a real support system, the kind of people who show up, no matter the hour. Attendees will leave with practical ways to identify who belongs in their circle, deepen those relationships intentionally, and become that person for someone else.

Location: Virtual Session

Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: $25

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Accessing Your Creative Authority

Nov 19, 2026 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET

Joh Morris Benichou
Founder & CEO of Tirtha

Kim Beisner
Partner and Managing Director, VVA Project & Cost Managers
Founding Member of Tirtha

What does it really take for a woman to access her own Creative Authority?

It takes trust. Courage. And a willingness to listen deeply to what you know, sense, and are called to create.

Join us for an intimate conversation with Joh Morris Benichou, creator of Sensory Leadership™, a new approach to leadership that gives women access to their own creative authority.

Joh’s journey to this work is deeply personal. After decades as a global transformational leader, she reached a point of profound burnout and no longer wanted to lead. What followed was a complete transformation: a journey of rediscovering herself, leaving behind ways of living and leading that no longer served her, and learning to trust herself enough to create an entirely new expression of her life, leadership, and work.

Kim Beisner, Quorum member, one of Joh’s executive clients, and a founding member of Tirtha, will guide Joh through a candid conversation about that journey and what Joh has discovered about women, leadership, creativity, and personal authority along the way.

You’ll explore how to:

  • Trust Yourself
    Reconnect with your own creative authority and lead from what you know, sense, and want to create.
  • Connect with Others
    Create the conditions for leadership to emerge through co-creation.
  • Create with Life
    Move away from forcing outcomes and learn to create with what is present.

This conversation is an invitation to consider a different way of leading: one grounded not only in what you do, but in who you are, what you trust, and what you have the courage to create.

Location: Virtual Session

Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: $25

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What Has Your Life Been Trying to Tell You?

Nov 10, 2026 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET

Jamie Pennington
Director and Founder, Pennington Hennessy Founder, Lifework

Rebecca Cater
Head, Centre for Legal Leadership
UK Co-Chair, The Quorum Initiative

Many successful people can point to the next role, target or achievement, but find it harder to answer a more personal question: when have I felt most fulfilled, satisfied and alive?

In this interactive virtual session, discover the distinctive Lifework approach to understanding what comes next. Unlike a quick personality test or a narrow career exercise, Lifework begins with the evidence of a whole life, including early experiences we may have long forgotten. It looks for recurring conditions in which we have felt energised, useful, absorbed, fulfilled or simply most ourselves.

You will be invited to reflect privately on one early-life memory, a moment of enjoyment, satisfaction or fulfilment. We will explore what a single memory can begin to reveal, why Lifework works with 20 or more moments rather than one snapshot, and how those patterns are brought together through life-history reflection, carefully chosen psychometric lenses, a personalised report and a human coaching conversation.

This is not about being told which job to take. It is an opportunity to notice the clues your life has already left and consider what may need more attention in the chapter ahead.

You will leave with:

  • a fresh lens on one meaningful early-life experience;
  • a clear, brief understanding of the Lifework process; and
  • one thoughtful question about the conditions in which you are most likely to thrive

Location: Virtual Session

Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: $25

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The Rose Knox Playbook: Timeless Leadership Lessons from a Trailblazing Female Entrepreneur

Oct 29, 2026 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Rachel Greenfield, Author of Rose Knox: How One Woman Mixed Kitchen and Boardroom to Remold an American Business

Moderator: Carol Burns, President, St. Joseph Reads Board of Directors and Co-chair, Quorum St. Joseph Chapter

Location: Virtual

Member Price: Free
Non-Member Price: $25

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Past Events

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Maximizing Your Impact with LinkedIn’s New Algorithm

Sep 23, 2026

Beth Granger
Consulting: Intrepid Social

Julie Livingston
President, WantLeverage Communications

LinkedIn has changed, and so has the way professionals build visibility, credibility, and influence on the platform.

Join LinkedIn strategist Beth Granger and communications expert Julie Livingston for an engaging conversation on how the platform’s latest algorithm is reshaping what gets seen, shared, and remembered. Whether you’re building your personal brand, growing your business, advancing your career, or amplifying your organization’s message, you’ll leave with practical strategies you can put to work immediately.

Together, Beth and Julie will explore how to create content that resonates, increase meaningful engagement, and use LinkedIn more strategically to strengthen your professional presence.

During this session, you’ll learn how to:

  • Understand how LinkedIn’s new algorithm determines what gets visibility.
  • Create posts that spark engagement and expand your reach.
  • Position yourself as a trusted thought leader in your field.
  • Leverage new LinkedIn features to increase your impact.
  • Build authentic relationships that translate into professional opportunities.
  • Develop a sustainable LinkedIn strategy that works for your goals.

Whether you’re an occasional LinkedIn user or post regularly, this session will provide actionable insights to help you maximize your impact and make the platform work harder for you.

Join us to discover how small changes in your LinkedIn strategy can lead to significantly greater visibility, influence, and opportunity.

Virtual

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The Capacity Gap: Why So Many Brilliant Women Burn Out Before They Break Barriers

Jun 17, 2026

Dr. Autumn Swain
Founder & CEO | Aligned Living

Too often, the very women best positioned to lead and create change find themselves running at full capacity—yet still feeling stretched, depleted, and at risk of burnout.

In this Quorum Speaker Series session, Dr. Autumn explores The Capacity Gap: Why So Many Brilliant Women Burn Out Before They Break Barriers and introduces a powerful new lens for sustainable leadership.

This conversation reframes leadership not as doing more, but as building the internal capacity required to sustain meaningful impact over time.

Together, we’ll explore:

  • Why leadership success so often comes at the cost of personal well-being
  • The hidden “capacity gap” that limits even the most capable leaders
  • Why burnout is not a failure of resilience, but a flaw in how leadership is designed
  • A framework for Aligned Leadership that supports long-term impact, fulfillment, and influence
  • Practical shifts to move from overextension to intentional, sustainable leadership rhythms

This session is for women who are already leading—or on the path to—and want to expand their impact without sacrificing themselves in the process.

You’ll leave with a fresh perspective on leadership and actionable insights to increase your capacity to lead, influence, and create lasting change.

Join us for what promises to be a deeply relevant and energizing conversation.

Virtual

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