Confidence Lab: Unlock the Power of You

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.

 

 

A Transformative Half-Day Event

Welcome to Confidence Lab, the ultimate experience designed to help you step into your most confident self. This half-day event is packed with actionable strategies, inspiring sessions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals who are ready to invest in their personal and professional growth. Whether you’re looking to advance in your career, deepen your self-belief, or simply embrace new challenges, Confidence Lab is your starting point.

What You’ll Experience

Your Confidence Lab ticket includes:

  • Engaging Speaker Sessions: Learn from experts about harnessing confidence in your career, relationships, and everyday life.
  • Interactive Experiences: Participate in dynamic activities designed to help you step into your most confident self.
  • In-Depth Audience Q&A: Get direct insights from speakers as they answer your most pressing questions about building confidence and stepping into leadership.
  • Networking Opportunities: Connect with a supportive community of professionals and confidence enthusiasts.

2026 Speaker Sessions:

  • Seeing Clearly
    Understand how you show up – and what’s been getting in the way.
  • Confidence in Relationship
    Communicate, navigate conflict, and build trust more effectively.
  • Sustainable Agency
    Learn how to lead without burning out. Your energy is part of the strategy.
  • Confidence in Service
    Align how you show up with the impact you actually want to have.

This Is For You If…

  • You’re ready to take up more space in your work or life
  • You want to communicate with clarity and confidence
  • You’re stepping into (or preparing for) leadership
  • You’re done second-guessing yourself

Our Speakers

Lachandra Baker Founder of LBB Edutainment and the kind of person who makes you realize you’ve been confusing confidence with performance your whole life. Lachandra blends psychology, research, and radical humanity to help individuals and teams stop code-switching their way through the day and start showing up as someone they actually recognize. Expect to be challenged, affirmed, and genuinely seen – sometimes all in the same breath.

Annette Reyes Annette has a rare talent: she makes the way you communicate feel like a discovery, not a critique. A connection catalyst and culture strategist, she helps people understand why they show up the way they do, and how to bridge the gap between intention and impact. Whether you’re navigating change, life’s challenges, or simply trying to better understand yourself and others. Annette gives you the language and the lens to get there.

Elizabeth Wangugi Creator of The Nap Concert and the RESTOR™ framework, Elizabeth is here to tell you that rest is not a reward – it’s a strategy. Rooted in neuroscience and restorative practice, her work helps high-achievers stop running on fumes and start leading from a place of actual capacity. If your calendar is full and your tank is empty, Elizabeth might be the most important person you hear from at Confidence Lab.

Stephanie Andrews Founder of Social Black Butterfly Training & Consulting, Stephanie knows what it takes to lead through complexity because she’s done it across social services, healthcare, and operations. She specializes in succession strategy and leadership development, equipping leaders to build trust, navigate the hard moments, and leave something worth inheriting. Stephanie doesn’t just develop leaders. She develops the kind of leaders people actually want to follow.

Lillian Morales-Laster SVP Human Resources Director at United Midwest Savings Bank and Executive Director of the Empowering Latinas Leadership Academy (ELLA). Lillian has spent her career combining her passion for equity and inclusion with her experience in human resources to lead teams and organizations in the development of supportive work environments. She leads with a vision of ensuring Latinas’ voices are included in crucial decision-making processes, because for Lillian, ELLA is more than just a program. It’s a vibrant community of hermanas supporting and uplifting each other as they navigate their paths to leadership. A Columbus Business First Community Champion and Distinguished Hispanic Ohioan, her commitment to empowering others shows up everywhere she goes.

Rachyl Kershaw Founder of Greater Columbus Consulting and the architect behind the Confidence Lab Annual Summit, Rachyl has a gift for cutting through the noise, helping high-achievers stop performing success and start living it. She asks the questions most people are afraid to, creates space for honest reckoning, and somehow makes the hard work feel energizing. If you’ve ever wondered why doing everything right still feels like something’s missing, you’re in exactly the right room.

Secure your spot today and take the first step toward a more confident YOU.

 

 

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

 

 

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.

Buy early for extra value – Early bird membership is only $199.

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.

hello@confidencelab.org

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