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women in business series
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Now or Never, Unleashing Your Power in the Present addresses the common challenge faced by ambitious, professional women who often prioritize investing in others over their own professional growth. Feeling restless throughout mid-career leads to turnover, burn[1]out, and compounding pay inequity. This session recognizes the importance of intentional career planning to achieve full actualization and fulfillment in mid-career. By setting boundaries, clarifying purpose, and understanding one's natural talents, the program empowers women and equips allies to accelerate career journeys and realize their full potential.
Unleash Your Potential: Strategies for Embracing the Journey to Your Next empowers participants to embark on their next journey with confidence, courage, and resilience. By overcoming self-limiting beliefs, embracing uncertainty, and creating flexible plans, participants will gain the tools and mindset needed to navigate the unknown and seize opportunities for growth and fulfillment. Whether pursuing a new career path or personal goal, participants will emerge from the program ready to spread their wings and unleash their full potential.
Forward Momentum: Navigating Your Future with Intention is a workshop designed to empower ambitious women to proactively navigate their career paths with intentionality. Recognizing the tendency for women to over-index on performance while men lean towards potential, this program emphasizes the importance of embracing natural talents, setting bold career aspirations, and implementing actionable plans to achieve them. By engaging in the support of others, investing in professional development, and ensuring the relevance of their unique strengths, participants will gain the tools and mindset needed to propel their careers forward. Participants will advance in their careers and experience greater fulfillment and peak performance, benefiting themselves and their organizations.
leadership series
accounting of human capital:
the missed balance sheet adjustment
What if your greatest competitive advantage is the one you’ve been managing like a liability?
In this eye-opening session, Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer challenges the outdated view of people as a cost to control and offers a transformative shift: human capital isn’t a sunk cost—it’s your most strategic investment. Through powerful real-world stories and data-backed frameworks, she equips leaders to assess their Human Capital Portfolio (HCP) with the same precision used for financial assets.
Attendees will learn how to:
✔ View talent as an appreciating asset
✔ Align human capital strategy with business outcomes
✔ Apply investment principles to workforce decisions
This session is for leaders ready to stop managing people by habit—and start investing in them by design.
Ideal for executive, leadership, and future-of-work conferences.
risk, return, and reallocation:
managing human capital like an investment portfolio
What if the greatest risk to your organization isn’t what you see—but what you’re afraid to look at?
In this bold and insightful session, Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer confronts the fear that keeps leaders from fully assessing their workforce—and reveals how that avoidance limits growth, weakens teams, and wastes potential. Drawing on real examples and investment strategy principles, she offers a practical roadmap for identifying hidden risks, reallocating leadership focus, and maximizing human capital returns.
Attendees will learn how to:
✔ Identify and address hidden human capital risks
✔ Allocate leadership time to the highest-return individuals
✔ Build depth on your bench to secure long-term performance
This session is for leaders ready to stop playing it safe—and start making strategic, high-impact talent decisions.
Ideal for leadership conferences focused on team and organizational excellence.
Raising the Value of your personal human capital
What if your most valuable investment… is you?
In a world of rapid change and rising expectations, waiting to be discovered is no longer a strategy. In this energizing and empowering session, Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer invites participants to stop thinking of their career as a path—and start managing it like a portfolio. Using principles from her Human Capital Investment Strategy (HCIS) framework, she equips individuals to recognize their most valuable strengths, invest with intention, and elevate their personal market value—regardless of role or title.
Attendees will learn how to:
✔ Think like an investor in their own human capital
✔ Identify and amplify high-return strengths
✔ Future-proof their careers through intentional growth
Ideal for forward-thinking conferences focused on individual excellence, leadership potential, and personal reinvention.