Special to Iredell Free News
The Leading Ladies of The Greater Statesville Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday that hall of famer, SiriusXM Radio humorist, and best-selling author Jane Jenkins Herlong will be the keynote speaker at ROAR, the chamber’s inaugural women’s leadership symposium.
The daylong event, scheduled for Friday, March 31, at the Statesville Country Club, will feature dynamic female leaders, including Herlong, along with local and regional speakers Cheryl Banks-Barber, Amber Valentine, and Tracy Alston.
Tickets are $85 per person for chamber members and $110 for non-chamber members. Tickets can be purchased on the Greater Statesville Chamber of Commerce’s website.
“Attendees are sure to find experiences that resonate with their spirit as well as their personal and professional goals, as we hear from these dynamic, powerful, and phenomenal female speakers,” said Dana White, ROAR chair. “Our mission for this symposium is to give you a moment to pause and to find your voice. To learn how to outshine the competition, reach your greatest potential, and transform your life. I know that we’ll all walk away from the day, roaring with a deeper, enriched vision of who we are.”
The symposium, sponsored by Leading Ladies of the Greater Statesville Chamber of Commerce, focuses on empowering women in business and other entities through team building exercises and networking, and features four dynamic women speakers, each with her own take on what the empowerment of women means in today’s world.
About the Speakers
Jane Jenkins Herlong, Keynote Speaker
The courageous woman is like a giant. She revolutionizes her life in a fearless fashion; she roars like thunder and makes the earth shake. Every day she is determined to continue her journey to discover the best version of herself—to climb the highest mountains and fight falling into the valleys.
With wit and wisdom, Jane shares her personal journey of self-actualization that will encourage you to travel through life with strength, passion, perseverance… plus a healthy dose of humor!
Her journey begins on her father’s farm, where she worked in the tomato fields, and includes stops on a Miss America runway, and performing at Radio City Music Hall.
Cheryl Banks-Barber
Cheryl will speak about being a Truth Teller and Truth Seeker. When you Shout, the true Voice comes back around. A True Voice is real and doesn’t change: the Voice of integrity, honesty, courage, faith, love etc.
She will share her Truth based on her life experiences as a cancer survivor, a woman of color, a caregiver for her aging parents, and a woman of faith. She’s grown into her Truth. We all have our own journey and should speak our Truth to the world.
She is a retired federal law enforcement officer with extensive experience in both the federal and state courts. She served as a Court Services Specialist and Special Offender Specialist with the U.S. Pretrial Division (Western District of North Carolina) in Charlotte. She devoted 25 years of service to the
federal judiciary until her retirement in 2016.
Amber Valentine
Allow Amber to take you through the lessons she learned in business and life as she explains her 300-pound transformation, really magnifying the importance of authenticity in leadership so that the people who you attract are easy to lead. When you shine as the real you it gives everyone around you permission to do the same and you become contagious. Get ready to sparkle as you outshine the competition.
Amber is the CEO of Hotmess 2 Hotness LLC and W.I.N. Worth It Nutrition Program. She helps women transform internally, and externally, through her mindful weight loss program, bringing in her message that anyone can make a decision today to make tomorrow better than yesterday….especially in the right pair of heels.
Tracy Alston
Tracy will lead an interactive experience on learning how to quiet a busy mind, visualize your success and get the best out of your brain’s potential! See it. Feel it. Achieve it.
She s a mental fitness consultant, a licensed clinical mental health counselor, board certified in Biofeedback and neurofeedback by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA) and a podcaster of the Mental Fitness Matters show.
Tracy is an entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of two companies, New Mentality, located in Mooresville, and Mental Edge Fitness Solutions, located in Cornelius.
Her passion is creating innovative strategies and solutions for improving the mental health and mental fitness of her clients, companies and the world. Tracy draws on her extensive training as well as her own athletic experience to help her clients.
A graduate of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, Alston earned top academic honors and a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. She attended Wake Forest on a full athletic scholarship, playing four years in the Atlantic Coast Conference as a shooting guard and small forward on the Wake Forest women’s basketball team. She also holds a dual master’s degree in community agency counseling with school licensure from Lenoir-Rhyne University, where she also served as an assistant women’s basketball coach.
Sponsors
This event is made possible by the generosity of sponsors like KKPR Marketing & Public Relations, Piedmont Healthcare, Dominion Energy, Jon C. Packman, DDS, Energy United, American Family Care Urgent Care, Your Coffee Place Troutman, and Iredell Free News.
Tickets
For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Joni Stone at JStone@StatesvilleChamber.org or call 704-873-2892.