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All Times CDT

June 2026
Security LeadHER
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Registration / Check-In

Stop by the registration desk to pick up your badge and event materials. Our team will be on hand to help you check in, answer questions, and get you ready for the day. Please arrive a few minutes early to ensure a smooth start to your Security LeadHER experience.
Monday, June 15, 2026
7:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Target
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Target Corporate Command Center Security Tour
(Preregistration Required)

Join us for an exclusive tour of the Target Corporate Command Center. The 24/7 hub designed to monitor potential business, safety, and security issues across their nearly 2,000 stores and 60+ supply chain facilities. The one-hour tour will include a tour of the command center, and a tech demo of Target’s recently launched AI program.
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am
$50.00
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Mall of America & Axis Experience Center
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Mall of America Security Tour & Axis Experience Center
(Preregistration Required)

Join us to an exclusive tour of the Mall of America Security Tour & Axis Experience Center. You will get a chance to see the inner workings of the day-to-day management of the largest mall in America, how they work each day to keep over 100k patrons safe, and the next gen technology they use
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:00 am - 11:30 am
$50.00
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Roundtable
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Executive Presence: Commanding the Room Without Apology

Women in security are experts at protecting others but often find themselves protecting their own credibility in leadership spaces. This keynote tackles executive presence head-on—not as something you fake until you make it, but as an authentic leadership skill you can develop and strengthen. Through real stories from three generations of security leadership, participants will
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Roundtable
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Chasing Purpose, Not Paychecks: A Non-Linear Path to Leadership in Security

Career growth in security consulting and protection is often framed as a straight climb toward higher titles and bigger paychecks. In reality, many professionals, especially women, navigate careers shaped by pivots, pay cuts, organizational misalignment, and life events beyond their control. This session offers a candid look at a non-linear career journey across local and
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Roundtable
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Leading From Within: Advancing as Women by Navigating Power, Expectations, and Influence in Male-Dominated Industries

Women pursuing leadership roles in male-dominated industries often receive advice focused on disruption: challenge the system, break the mold, demand change. While aspirational, that guidance frequently overlooks the reality many women face. Power structures already exist, change is slow, and success often requires working within imperfect systems. This session offers a pragmatic, experience-driven perspective on
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Roundtable
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Women In Executive Protection

This panel aims to move the conversation about women in Executive Protection beyond theory, optics, and inspiration, and into lived reality. Featuring women who are actively working in executive protection roles across corporate, private, and high-risk environments, this session will provide an unfiltered, experience driven look at what it truly takes to build and sustain
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Roundtable
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Think Like a Marketer: Personal Branding in the Security Industry for Career Growth

In a trust-driven, highly technical industry, how you tell your story matters. This panel brings together experienced security marketers to explore personal branding through a marketer’s lens, using strategy, creativity, and intention to stand out and grow your career through storytelling. What is your personal brand, and how does it show up in how you
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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SLH
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Sorry Not Sorry: Intentional Language for Confident Leadership in Security

Many women in security leadership roles instinctively apologize — for raising concerns, challenging assumptions, taking up time in meetings, or communicating risk. In high-stakes security environments, these over-apologies can unintentionally undermine authority, dilute critical messages, and impact how leadership decisions are received. In this session, we explore why women in security and technology are socialized
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Roundtable
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The LeadHER Roundtable: Real Conversations for Women Leaders

Women leaders today are no longer fighting for a seat at the table — they are shaping decisions, leading teams, and influencing the future of the security industry. With that progress comes a new leadership challenge: how women use their position, voice, and influence to navigate complexity, drive impact, and lead responsibly in rapidly evolving
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Roundtable
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Is Psychological Safety the Female Leadership Advantage in High Performance Security Teams?

Security leadership has a history of being command-driven with an emphasis on hierarchy, authority, and emotional restraint. But in this era of evolving threats, rapid technological change, and complex risk environments, a critical question emerges: Do traditional leadership styles still produce the highest-performing security teams, or does psychological safety offer a performance advantage? Structured as
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Roundtable
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Each ONE – Reach ONE

This presentation will discuss workforce development and college outreach efforts – (Recruiting Nextgen Women Leaders/ Retaining Talent ). Workforce development isn’t a buzzword—it’s a business priority. And the truth is, if we want more women in the security industry, we can’t keep waiting for them to “find us.” We have to be intentional about building
Monday, June 15, 2026
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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AI - Artificial intelligence
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Bridging Experience and Intelligence: Leading Across Generations in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how work gets done—often faster than organizations can adapt. For many seasoned leaders, AI can feel unfamiliar, overwhelming, or disconnected from how they built successful careers. At the same time, early-career professionals often arrive fluent in AI tools but hungry for context, judgment, and leadership wisdom. This panel brings together women
Monday, June 15, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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SLH
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Let Them, Then Decide: Strategic Career Navigation for Women in Security

Women in the security profession are often encouraged to demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and persistence as pathways to career advancement. Yet many operate in organizational environments where leadership support is inconsistent, psychological safety is limited, and speaking up carries professional risk. This session reframes the popular concept of “Let Them” as a strategic, evidence-informed framework for
Monday, June 15, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Breaking the Binary: Leading Powerfully Without Becoming Someone Else

Women in leadership are often asked to navigate impossible contradictions: be confident but not intimidating, collaborative but decisive, visible but not “too much.” These unspoken expectations create constant pressure to self-edit—especially for women of color, immigrants, and working parents—making leadership feel like a performance instead of a path. In this session, Breaking the Binary, I
Monday, June 15, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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SLH
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Stop Being the Best-Kept Secret: How Women in Security Get Seen

You’re excellent at your job. You know it. But the people making decisions don’t know your name. Someone with half your experience and twice your visibility just landed the promotion, the project, the seat at the table. You were taught to be humble. Let your work speak for itself. Don’t brag. So you did, and
Monday, June 15, 2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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SLH
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Girl, Go Say The Thing – The View From The Middle

We’re not the rookies anymore. But we haven’t quite gotten where we want to be yet. So, what’s a middle career gal have to offer to anyone else? It’s what we have to offer to each other. Middle-career professionals…we have a different fire in us. We bring something powerful to the table – experience, perspective,
Monday, June 15, 2026
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
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Strategic Calm: A Practical Model for Leading with Purpose and Clarity

In today’s complex, fast-moving environments, leaders are increasingly required to guide teams through uncertainty, disruption, and heightened scrutiny. Whether driven by operational challenges, reputational risk, or external events, these moments test not only decision-making, but also how leaders communicate, influence others, and sustain trust. Urgency can amplify noise, distort intent, and push leaders toward reactive
Monday, June 15, 2026
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
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Wait…Do I Really Have to Say That?” Mastering Hard Conversations for Women Security Leaders

Hard conversations are a critical leadership capability, yet women leaders in security often face unique challenges when delivering difficult messages. Navigating perceptions of being “too direct,” “not direct enough,” or responsible for maintaining team cohesion can complicate already high‑stakes interactions. This interactive workshop equips participants with practical tools to communicate challenging messages with clarity, confidence,
Monday, June 15, 2026
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
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Keynote: Likeable Badass: The Science of Winning the Status Game

Why do women struggle to be seen as both competent and likeable, get less credit than men for the same accomplishments, and remain underpaid and underrepresented? Because most people don’t understand status, they fail to manage theirs effectively, explains Alison Fragale, Ph.D., organizational psychologist, UNC Chapel Hill professor and expert on status, power and negotiation.
Monday, June 15, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Keynote: Your Voice Is Your Value

In today’s workplace, self-advocacy isn’t just about speaking up; it’s about trusting yourself enough to do so, especially when power dynamics, performance reviews, or conflict are at play. In this engaging keynote, Minda Harts blends her proven self-advocacy strategies with her Seven Trust Languages™ framework to help professionals strengthen self-trust, communicate their value with confidence,
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
8:30 am - 9:30 pm
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Elevating Women’s Careers in Security – From First Role to Leadership

Women are entering the security profession in greater numbers, yet the path from first role to leadership is rarely straightforward or transparent. This discussion will bring together a panel of entry, mid, and senior women security professionals, moderated by an early career practitioner, for a candid conversation about building and sustaining a career in security.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
10:00 am - 10:45 am
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The Objectivity Trap: Leading with Influence When “The Data Says No”

AI is often sold as the ultimate solution to human bias, but in high-stakes security environments, bias doesn’t disappear, it simply changes shape. In risk decision-making, we increasingly face the “”Objectivity Trap.”” Phrases like “the data says…,” “the model is objective…,” or “we’ll just automate it” are frequently used to shut down expertise and override
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
11:15 am - 12:00 pm
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SLH
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The Security of Sound: Mastering Public Speaking to Influence Leadership and Drive Change

In the security industry, technical brilliance is often the baseline, but effective communication is the ceiling. Many women in security struggle to have their voices heard in boardrooms or on global stages, not due to a lack of expertise, but a lack of “”vocal authority”” and storytelling tools. Led by a global security leader who
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
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SLH
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From Revenue Driver to CEO: Building Influence, Credibility, and Results in the Security Industry

The presentation centers on how sustained business results create influence, credibility, and opportunity—especially for women navigating leadership paths in the security industry. Using real-world leadership experiences, the session highlights the connection between revenue ownership, operational accountability, and executive advancement. The theme emphasizes leading with outcomes, building trust through performance, and using measurable impact to break
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
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SLH
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Power Is Not a Title: How Women Lead Before the Org Chart Catches Up

Women across the security sector are often already leading long before formal authority, recognition, or titles follow. Yet many leadership conversations still focus on “earning a seat” rather than understanding how power actually forms, circulates, and is exercised inside complex organizations. This session reframes leadership as a practice of influence, judgment, and credibility rather than
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
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THE NEW WORK IS IN YOUR NETWORK: Building a Global Security Career

The purpose of this workshop is to address a critical professional capability: strategic networking as a career accelerator in global security. Research supports this; over fifty percent of jobs are found through networking. In a field buffeted by complexity, change, and uncertainty, professionals must enlarge their sphere of influence for career advancement and seek more
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
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Navigating Workplace Weather: Becoming a Transition Tactician

Change is as constant as the weather, yet while we naturally adjust our clothing, plans, and mindset to shifting conditions outside, adapting to change in the workplace often feels far more daunting. Organizations evolve, roles expand, and technology advances at a rapid pace, making adaptability an essential professional capability rather than a nice to have
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
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Closing Keynote: Women in Security Leadership Panel: The Power of Sponsorship and Allyship

Women leaders in security share their candid career journeys, highlighting the pivotal role that sponsorship and allyship have played in their professional growth. This session explores the people who made a difference by actively advocating for their success—opening doors, amplifying voices, and challenging barriers along the way. Through real-world stories and practical insights, speakers will
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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