BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260827T121500Z DTEND:20260827T191500Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Be Your Best Self Conference - Registration is Closed! DESCRIPTION:Registration is Closed! Join Us Next Year!\n\n\n\nClick Register Now for Sponsorship Purchases & Individual Tickets!\n\n\n\nThe Be Your Best Self Conference is back and celebrating five years of empowering professionals\, entrepreneurs\, and leaders to grow\, connect\, and level up. What began as a bold idea has become one of the region's most anticipated events\, bringing together ambitious individuals for a day packed with powerful speakers\, fresh ideas\, and the kind of connections that spark real momentum.\n\n\n\nGet ready for a high-energy experience designed to inspire action and help you step confidently into what's next. From thought-provoking conversations to meaningful networking\, the Be Your Best Self Conference is where motivation meets opportunity. \n\nMore information! https://bybsconference.com/\n\n \n\nBetween sessions\, visit incredible local vendors and expand your network by forging new connections. Stay for the whole day for a chance to win fantastic raffle prizes! \n\n\n\nPricing Options:\n\n\n Early Bird Pricing: $99 per attendee (available through May 15)\n Regular Pricing: $125 per attendee (after May 15)\n\n Sponsorship Opportunities:\n\n\n Premier Sponsor: $5\,000 (One per industry) - Includes 8 tickets to the event\, a private table\, logo placement on the website\, podcast spotlight\, 30-second event spotlight\, program ad\, social media & newsletter mentions.\n Branded Table Package: $1\,400 - Includes 8 tickets to the event\, a private table\, and digital ad rotating throughout.\n Table Tower Ad (2 Sides) (SOLD OUT): $1\,000\n Table Tower Ad (One Side) (SOLD OUT): $750\n Main Hall Exhibitor: $550 (SOLD OUT) - Includes 1 ticket to the event and a table for marketing your business in the Atrium. \n Scioto Room Exhibitor: $400 (SOLD OUT) - Includes 1 ticket to the event and a table for marketing your business in the Scioto Room. \n\n Schedule: \n\n8:15AM: Doors Open (Light Bites & Networking)\n\n9:00AM: Opening Keynote Eric Pennington: Leveraging EQ in an Age of Uncertainty\n\n10:00AM: Networking & Visit Vendors\n\n10:30AM: Keynote: Dr. Alaina Puff: Built to Hold it: A Nervous System Approach to Sustainability and Legacy\n\n11:15AM: Networking & Visit Vendors\n\n11:45AM: Lunch\n\n12:30PM: Fireside Chat with Joe DeLoss\, Moderated by La Baker \n\n1:30PM: Networking & Visit Vendors\n\n2:00PM: Keynote: Sean Olson\, From Fixer to Influencer: A Leader Others WANT to Follow\n\n3:00PM: Announce Raffle Winners\n\n3:15PM: Adjourn\n\n\n\nOpening Keynote: Eric Pennington: Leveraging EQ in an Age of Uncertainty\n\nUncertainty isn't going away but the leaders who thrive aren't the ones who have all the answers. They're the ones who have mastered themselves.\n\nIn this keynote\, Eric Pennington makes a compelling case for emotional intelligence not as a soft skill\, but as a foundational leadership capability one that can be learned\, developed\, and applied in the most challenging of times. The good news? EQ is not fixed at birth. Every leader in the room has the capacity to grow it.\n\nDrawing on years of work with leaders across industries\, Eric shows how emotionally intelligent leaders don't simply react to uncertainty they rise above it. By developing greater self-awareness\, emotional regulation\, and relational acuity\, leaders create an internal stability that external chaos simply cannot shake. EQ becomes the anchor that holds when the environment shifts.\n\nEqually important\, EQ is a direct pathway to mental clarity and sustainable health. When leaders understand their stress signatures\, manage their emotional triggers\, and lead from a grounded center\, they think more clearly\, decide more wisely\, and show up more fully for their teams\, their organizations\, and themselves.\n\nAudiences will leave with\n\n A renewed confidence that EQ is a skill not a trait and growth is always available to them\n\n Practical tools to stay grounded\, clear-headed\, and effective when uncertainty intensifies\n\n A new understanding of how emotional intelligence protects and strengthens mental health over the long haul.\nKeynote: Dr. Alaina Puff: Built to Hold it: A Nervous System Approach to Sustainability and Legacy\n\nMost entrepreneurs and leaders know how to build. But very few stop to ask the harder question: are you actually capable of sustaining what you're building toward? Not in your systems or strategy in your body. In your identity. Because success doesn't just show up in your revenue\, it lands in your nervous system. And if that system was never wired to hold wealth\, visibility\, or real responsibility at scale\, it will quietly move the money and the momentum somewhere else.\n\n \n\nDrawing on trauma-informed psychology and somatic work\, this keynote argues that the ceiling on your impact isn't your strategy it's your capacity to inhabit the identity of someone who builds for more than themselves. Attendees will leave with a framework for understanding why nervous system patterns cap most leaders' wealth and influence\, and what shifting from accumulating success to building something lasting actually requires.\n\n\n\nFireside Chat with Joe DeLoss\, Moderated by Lachandra Baker \n\nJoin moderator Lachandra Baker and entrepreneur Joe DeLoss for an engaging conversation about leadership\, identity\, and what it takes to evolve through life's transitions. Drawing from his experience building and selling Hot Chicken Takeover and launching Baker Road\, Joe will share lessons on purpose-driven leadership\, personal growth\, and redefining success. Attendees will leave inspired to embrace change\, lead authentically\, and build a life and business aligned with their values.\n\n\n\nKeynote: Sean Olson\, From Fixer to Influencer: A Leader Others Want to Follow\n\nIn this exclusive talk you will be entertained and energized as Sean Olson shares his secrets to being a truly influential leader. Most of us are stuck in fixer mode\, and we may not even know it. Fixers burn out\, lose employees\, and stifle momentum. Influencers elevate themselves and others to success. Look behind you\, if no one is following\, you are not a true leader. Do you want them lining up to follow you? Move from Fixer to Influencer.\n\n\n\nWe are Collecting Donations for Dress For Success!\n\nDress for Success Columbus provides women with a network of support\, professional attire\, and career development resources that help them thrive both at work and in life.\n\n\n\nYour donation of new or gently used professional clothing\, accessories\, or other requested items helps women walk into interviews with confidence\, succeed in the workplace\, and build brighter futures.\n\n\n\nImmediate Needs:\n\nPurses/wallets\n\nShoes\n\nToothpaste/Toothbrushes\n\nSoap\n\nTravel size shampoo/conditioner\n\nJewelry\n\nPads/Tampons X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Registration is Closed! Join Us Next Year!
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\nClick Register Now for Sponsorship Purchases &\; Individual Tickets!
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\nThe Be Your Best Self Conference is back and celebrating five years of empowering professionals\, entrepreneurs\, and leaders to grow\, connect\, and level up. What began as a bold idea has become one of the region&rsquo\;s most anticipated events\, bringing together ambitious individuals for a day packed with powerful speakers\, fresh ideas\, and the kind of connections that spark real momentum.
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\nGet ready for a high-energy experience designed to inspire action and help you step confidently into what&rsquo\;s next. From thought-provoking conversations to meaningful networking\, the Be Your Best Self Conference is where motivation meets opportunity. \;

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\nMore information! \;https://bybsconference.com/
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\nBetween sessions\, visit incredible local vendors and expand your network by forging new connections. Stay for the whole day for a chance to win fantastic raffle prizes! \;  \;
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\nPricing Options:\n\n\n Sponsorship Opportunities:\n\n\n Schedule: \;
\n8:15AM: Doors Open (Light Bites &\; Networking)
\n9:00AM: Opening Keynote \;Eric Pennington: Leveraging EQ in an Age of Uncertainty
\n10:00AM: Networking &\; Visit Vendors
\n10:30AM: Keynote: Dr. Alaina Puff: Built to Hold it: A Nervous System Approach to Sustainability and Legacy
\n11:15AM: Networking &\; Visit Vendors
\n11:45AM: Lunch
\n12:30PM: Fireside Chat with Joe DeLoss\, Moderated by La Baker \;
\n1:30PM: Networking &\; Visit Vendors
\n2:00PM: Keynote: \;Sean Olson\, From Fixer to Influencer: A Leader Others WANT to Follow
\n3:00PM: Announce Raffle Winners
\n3:15PM: Adjourn
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\nOpening Keynote: \;Eric Pennington: Leveraging EQ in an Age of Uncertainty
\nUncertainty isn&rsquo\;t going away &mdash\; but the leaders who thrive aren&rsquo\;t the ones who have all the answers. They&rsquo\;re the ones who have mastered themselves.\n\n
In this keynote\, Eric Pennington makes a compelling case for emotional intelligence not as a soft skill\, but as a foundational leadership capability &mdash\; one that can be learned\, developed\, and applied in the most challenging of times. The good news? EQ is not fixed at birth. Every leader in the room has the capacity to grow it.
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Drawing on years of work with leaders across industries\, Eric shows how emotionally intelligent leaders don&rsquo\;t simply react to uncertainty &mdash\; they rise above it. By developing greater self-awareness\, emotional regulation\, and relational acuity\, leaders create an internal stability that external chaos simply cannot shake. EQ becomes the anchor that holds when the environment shifts.
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Equally important\, EQ is a direct pathway to mental clarity and sustainable health. When leaders understand their stress signatures\, manage their emotional triggers\, and lead from a grounded center\, they think more clearly\, decide more wisely\, and show up more fully &mdash\; for their teams\, their organizations\, and themselves.
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Audiences will leave with
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&bull\; A renewed confidence that EQ is a skill &mdash\; not a trait &mdash\; and growth is always available to them
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&bull\; Practical tools to stay grounded\, clear-headed\, and effective when uncertainty intensifies
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&bull\; A new understanding of how emotional intelligence protects and strengthens mental health over the long haul.
\nKeynote: Dr. Alaina Puff: Built to Hold it: A Nervous System Approach to Sustainability and Legacy\n\n
Most entrepreneurs and leaders know how to build. But very few stop to ask the harder question: are you actually capable of sustaining what you'\;re building toward? Not in your systems or strategy &mdash\; in your body. In your identity. Because success doesn'\;t just show up in your revenue\, it lands in your nervous system. And if that system was never wired to hold wealth\, visibility\, or real responsibility at scale\, it will quietly move the money and the momentum somewhere else.
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Drawing on trauma-informed psychology and somatic work\, this keynote argues that the ceiling on your impact isn'\;t your strategy&mdash\;it'\;s your capacity to inhabit the identity of someone who builds for more than themselves. Attendees will leave with a framework for understanding why nervous system patterns cap most leaders'\; wealth and influence\, and what shifting from accumulating success to building something lasting actually requires.
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\nFireside Chat with Joe DeLoss\, Moderated by Lachandra Baker \;
\nJoin moderator Lachandra Baker and entrepreneur Joe DeLoss for an engaging conversation about leadership\, identity\, and what it takes to evolve through life&rsquo\;s transitions. Drawing from his experience building and selling Hot Chicken Takeover and launching Baker Road\, Joe will share lessons on purpose-driven leadership\, personal growth\, and redefining success. Attendees will leave inspired to embrace change\, lead authentically\, and build a life and business aligned with their values.
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\nKeynote: Sean Olson\, From Fixer to Influencer: A Leader Others Want to Follow
\nIn this exclusive talk you will be entertained and energized as Sean Olson shares his secrets to being a truly influential leader. \; Most of us are stuck in fixer mode\, and we may not even know it. \; Fixers burn out\, lose employees\, and stifle momentum. \; Influencers elevate themselves and others to success. \; Look behind you\, if no one is following\, you are not a true leader. \; Do you want them lining up to follow you? Move from Fixer to Influencer.
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\nWe are Collecting Donations for Dress For Success!
\nDress for Success Columbus provides women with a network of support\, professional attire\, and career development resources that help them thrive&mdash\;both at work and in life.
\n
\nYour donation of new or gently used professional clothing\, accessories\, or other requested items helps women walk into interviews with confidence\, succeed in the workplace\, and build brighter futures.
\n
\nImmediate Needs:
\nPurses/wallets
\nShoes
\nToothpaste/Toothbrushes
\nSoap
\nTravel size shampoo/conditioner
\nJewelry
\nPads/Tampons
\n LOCATION:The Grand Event Center 820 Goodale Blvd. Columbus\, OH 43212 UID:e.671.3956 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260821T213545Z URL:http://business.chamberpartnership.org/events/details/be-your-best-self-conference-registration-is-closed-08-27-2026-3956 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR