From CHSAANow:

The Colorado High School Activities Association hosted its first-annual Women in Leadership Conference September 7, at the Stanley Marketplace, in Aurora, titled "The Many Faces of Leadership".
 
The day started with breakfast and a BINGO ice breaker designed to help the women meet and connect with other women. Yin Yoga with Lisa Vogt, the owner of Haute Yoga Colorado, helped center the attendess before Keynote Speaker Tracie Cormaney, the Principal at Pine Creek High School, took the stage to talk about how women can kick butt and not apologize.
 
“Whatever you do, do it big,” Cormaney told the attendees. “I don’t care what it is, just do it big, because then you don’t have any regrets. You’ll never regret anything that you’re all-in on. That would be my challenge to you; that when you decide to do something, you are all in.”
 
An Administrator Panel featuring Janay Bird, Sybil Booker, Sara Crawford, Autumn Sereno, Cass Tafoya and Terita Walker featured on Overcoming Barriers for Leadership. Booker, the principal of the most diverse school in the state - Overland High School, talked about how she was able to grow the confidence that it took to be a female principal at a large school. Sereno then talked about how she empowers herself and women around her, and later talked about how women can support other women in their roles and organizations.
 
“Being a part of things like this, being in front of you all, whether I’m an attendee or helping to present different topics – those are the things that make me feel really good and want to do more of,” Sereno said. “It also provides more opportunities to help pull some of our younger kids into that as well. It’s nice for them to see us in this role.”

During the panel with the National Federation of State High School Associations, Dana Pappas and Lindsey Atkinson talked about what it means to have a community of female leaders and they shared what the NFHS is currently doing to empower women leaders.
 
“This is what we hoped for – that these events would happen,” Atkinson said during her panel. “We can’t come to every state and run something that reaches coaches and officials and even students, who we really want to hear these messages from and empower, but we were hoping that we would empower the women in the state offices to do this. So this feels so good, that what we have done has trickled down to reaching those that we truly serve.”
 
“The whole point of why Women’s Leadership does what they do is to see stuff like this [event],” Pappas added.

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