Built to Lead Conference

This one-day conference is built to connect women in the construction and adjacent industries. It’s a great day filled with growth, connection and leadership.

My breakout session: The Leadership Blueprint They Forgot to Give Women in Construction

Session description:

How do I build authority? How do I handle conflict without blowing everything up? How do I get tough personalities to actually respect me?

Maybe you’ve Googled these questions. Maybe you’ve just thought them. Either way, you’re not alone.

Here’s the truth nobody says out loud: most of us fall into management because we’re “good with people”, not because anyone actually trained us for it. There’s no playbook. No one warns you that the higher you climb, the lonelier it gets. So we figure it out in silence, making it up as we go and wondering why it feels so hard. Today, that changes.

Another reality is that most leadership training wasn’t designed with you in mind. It doesn’t account for directing a resistant crew, confronting the colleague who talks over you, or challenging a decision from above — all while navigating the unspoken double standard that rewards men for the same directness that gets women labeled difficult.

Using Radical Candor as our foundation, we’ll get brutally honest about the communication patterns keeping talented women from the authority, respect and influence they’ve already earned. You’ll discover exactly where you’re losing ground without realizing it, and replace people-pleasing, over-explaining and conflict-avoidance with something far more powerful: clarity and brevity, with a southern smile.

Through real talk and small-group discussion built around actual job-site scenarios, you’ll stop managing how you’re perceived and start leading in a way that’s undeniably, authentically yours.

You’ll leave equipped to:

• Pinpoint exactly where your communication is costing you respect and influence
• Use Radical Candor to handle tough personalities and conflict without burning bridges
• Build authority that works across generations, personalities and gender dynamics
• Say the hard thing — directly, professionally and without apology

Event begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 4:00 PM local time.