A community where ambitious, purpose-driven professionals reset, reconnect, and rise—together.
What Is Confidence Lab?
Confidence Lab organizes gatherings for people doing meaningful work – entrepreneurs, creatives, nonprofit leaders, corporate change-makers, and public servants who want to lead with clarity, courage, and authenticity.
Each session is focused on one powerful theme (like boundaries, financial clarity, self-trust, or voice) and features a guest speaker, guided reflection, and thoughtful discussion.
Each session blends personal reflection, professional insight, and community connection to help you build a more confident, grounded approach to your work and life.
These gatherings are key, because confidence isn’t just something you have, it’s something you practice. Expect guided exercises, powerful stories, practical tools, and real conversations. Leave feeling clearer, more capable, and more connected than ever.
An honest conversation about the lifelong practice of knowing yourself, and showing up as yourself.
Over the past three months, Confidence Lab has explored a simple but powerful idea: confidence begins with seeing ourselves clearly.
Self-awareness isn’t something we achieve once, it’s a lifelong practice. As we become more aware of our strengths, patterns, values, and blind spots, we gain the ability to make choices that are more intentional, more aligned, and more authentic.
Featuring
Jeannette Burchfield is a Columbus-based community builder, storyteller, and social media influencer known for celebrating creativity, connection, and local culture. https://www.instagram.com/jeannetteyconfettii/
2026 Summit, A Transformative Half-Day Event
Featuring:
- Lachandra Baker Founder, LBB Edutainment
- Annette Santiago Reyes SHRM-SCP
- Elizabeth Wangugi Creator of The Nap Concert and the RESTOR™ framework
- Stephanie Andrews Founder, Social Black Butterfly Training & Consulting
- Lillian Morales-Laster SVP Human Resources Director at United Midwest Savings Bank and Executive Director of the Empowering Latinas Leadership Academy (ELLA)
- Rachyl Kershaw Founder, Greater Columbus Consulting
Confidence & Connection: Using Your Authentic Truth to Find Your People
Featured Speaker: Lachandra Baker
Founder, LBB Edutainment
Confidence in Bloom: How Creativity Builds Confidence
Featured Speaker: Amanda Lorenzetti
Owner, Petals That Inspire
Self-Love: Confidence Through Expression
Featured Speaker: Mary Grace
Owner, MG Choreography & Boutique
Curating Confidence: Crafting Your Vision for the Year Ahead
Featured Partner: Columbus Collage Collective
Finding Your Civic Voice
Featured Speaker: Sophia Fifner
President and Chief Executive Officer, Columbus Metropolitan Club
High Awareness, High Performance: Stress combatting strategies for confident communicators
Featured Speaker: Acacia Duncan
Director of Training and Coaching, Articulation
The Confidence of Enough
Featured Speaker: Elizabeth Wangugi
Founder | Nap Concert Series & Exclusive Excursions
Rise Again: Confidence in the Comeback
Featured Speaker: Emily Quick Schriver
Matriots Chief Executive Officer
Confidence in the Pitch: Leading with Authenticity
Featured Speaker: Andrea Ewing
Director, Corporate Partnerships, Rev1 Ventures, Inc.
June Confidence Lab: Financial Confidence
Featured Speaker: Ashley Dick
Chief Retail and Community Officer, Fortuna Bank
2025 Confidence Lab Kickoff
Featuring:
- Deja Redman Co-Founder, Replenish W E L L
- Monique McCrystal Co-Founder, Replenish W E L L
- Lachandra Baker Founder, LBB Edutainment
- Varsey Laurelle Cultural Architect, Varsey Laurelle Consulting Firm
- Amee BellWanzo Founder, SparkCMO
- Vicki Bowen Hewes Co-Founder, Gordon-Hewes
- Sarah Moore Founder, Moore Soul Sessions
- Rachyl Kershaw Founder, Greater Columbus Consulting
Plus headshots from @glori_photography
The Confidence Lab Guided Journal is your personal companion for building bold self-trust and grounded leadership. With thought-provoking prompts, reflection exercises, and space to track your growth, this journal is designed to help you turn insight into action—whether you’re navigating change, claiming your voice, or deepening your impact. Use it daily, weekly, or whenever you need a reset.
Confidence Lab Membership
Bring Your Whole Self Into Your Work—Whatever That Work May Be
The work you do—whether it’s leading a team, running a business, advocating for change, or launching something new—demands confidence. But business as usual can chip away at our humanity, making it harder to show up fully, speak with clarity, and lead in alignment with our values.
Confidence Lab Membership is designed for entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, creatives, corporate professionals, social changemakers, and even those running for office—anyone who wants to lead with authenticity and impact in the spaces that matter most to them.
Who This is For
This membership is designed for people who:
- Want to bring their humanity into their work—whether that’s in boardrooms, campaign trails, community spaces, or creative projects.
- Want to be ready to step up, speak up, and take action when it matters most.
- Feel like business as usual can strip away our values—and are determined to resist that by showing up as their full, confident selves.
- Want practical, ongoing support to find their voice, take up space, and create meaningful change.
2026 Membership
2026 Membership includes tickets to all Confidence Lab events through April 2027, starting the day you purchase! Includes a ticket to the 2026 Summit on May 4th, 2026.
Confidence Lab is building a community. We are open to additional participation in many ways, for example:
- Volunteer during the annual half-day event
- Become a speaker at a future event
- Join the event organizing team.
If you are interested in any of the options listed above, or would like to propose another way you might be able to participate, please reach out by emailing us below.
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