Teens to hear leadership and coaching experts at Get Your Voice On! Women’s Conference, March 1- 2

Jan. 11, 2013 - PRLog -- NEW YORK, NY -- Teen girls, ages 16-19, are welcome to come on a special Mother/Daughter ticket combo to the celebrity-filled, Get Your Voice On! A Celebration of Women Conference, on Friday and Saturday, March 1-2, at the Hilton New York in Manhattan.

The teens will be inspired by powerful and successful keynote speakers MSNBC host, author and business woman JJ Ramberg, Lindsay Wagner, accomplished actress, author and business woman and Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies and CEO of a multi-million dollar business.

Leading the one-hour interactive teen break-out sessions are management consultant and leadership expert,  Holly Landau, CEO and founder of Landau Leadership and executive speech coach and media trainer/consultant Diane DiResta, President of DiResta Communications, Inc., a consulting and training firm serving national and international business leaders.

Landau is a former U.S. Army Officer who served as spokesperson for the Department of Defense and media relations officer for the Defense Logistics Agency in the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. as well as in other locations across the United States. She was awarded the prestigious Meritorious Service Medal for her accomplishments while serving in the Public Affairs Office of the Secretary of the Army.  In 2008 she decided to take all the great military leadership training and corporate training she learned and create a curriculum for corporate leadership. In doing so, she began to successfully attract premiere clients and was included in an American Express Small Business OPEN Book on Leadership where she was selected as the featured leadership expert. She was also interviewed and quoted as a leadership expert by journalists from the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. Landau has motivated thousands of corporate and non-profit employees and executives throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. She also teaches a program for teen girls called My Pink Pizza which provides a curriculum to encourage and grow their confidence and leadership skills.

Best-selling author DiResta is an award-winning speaker and past president of the NYC Chapter of the National Speakers Association and consults and speaks with employees and executives of high-level national and international corporations both in the U.S. and abroad.  She has authored two books, the best-selling Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message with Power, Punch, and Pizzazz and a widely-used college text book, Conversations on Success. She taught at both Cornell University and NYU. She also serves on the advisory board of Enterprising Women magazine and New York Center for Interpersonal Development, a Staten Island non-profit that provides community dispute resolution services and youth programs. She developed one such program for the organization – a confidence class for teen girls. She’s been featured on CNN, Fox News’ Good Day NY, and Bloomberg radio. She was also interviewed and quoted by journalists from the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Entrepreneur magazine and Investors Business Daily.

The limited mother/daughter combo packages are available for either a one-day event at $397 or $497 after the early bird discount has expired after Jan. 31, or the full one-and-a-half day event at $647 ($797 after Jan. 31). Meals for breakfast and lunch on Saturday are included with the tickets.

“We recognize that getting your voice on is a skill that needs to be embraced at a young age, and every age, and encouraged by parents and other authority figures influencing our young women today,” say Jennifer S. Wilkov and Michele Mattia, founders of the Get Your Voice On! Women’s Conference. “We are thrilled to have two dedicated and highly regarded experts in this area join us to educate, inspire and encourage young women to get their voices on. It is also important to us to foster the shared experience of this unique event between mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, or whatever adult guardian a young woman feels most connected to.”

For more detailed information about the tickets or to purchase tickets, go to:  http://www.getyourvoiceon.com/registration/

For group sales, call 1-855-917-GYVO.

Background on founders

Michele Mattia is a nationally recognized TV and radio personality, as well as an inspirational and empowerment speaker, best-selling author, columnist with her daily empowerment eZine Michele's Daily Dash, Life Design coach, new-thought leader and creative strategist. She is the founder of the Life Design Institute for Self-Discovery, Exploration and Transformation. Michele empowers women to "embrace the knowing that we deserve to live a life we love, one that supports who and what we are. We need to be willing to say, 'Yes! I choose me!'"

Jennifer S. Wilkov is a media personality, #1 radio show host on WomensRadio, best-selling award-winning author of “Dating Your Money: How to Build a Long-Lasting Relationship with Your Money in 8 Easy Steps” and co-author of “Boys Before Business: The Single Girl's Guide to Having It All!,”  international speaker, spokesperson, award-winning freelance writer, book business consultant in her well-respected practice Your Book Is Your Hook! and entrepreneurial mentor. Resonating with audiences everywhere is her "you can do it" message: "You have the right to remain fabulous - under any situation, circumstance or condition."

For more information about the event, go to www.GetYourVoiceOn.com.

For advertising and sponsorship inquiries, please contact Connect@GetYourVoiceOn.com or call 855-917-GYVO (4986).

Editors: Ms. Wilkov and Ms. Mattia are available by appointment for selected interviews, both live and electronic. Applications for regrettably limited press credentials are now being accepted for “Get Your Voice On: A Celebration of Women.


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