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PWN Certified Women's Empowerment Coaching Institute

Become a Certified Women's Empowerment Coach (CWEC) and lift the self-esteem of women. This powerful two-day certification will be conducted by Linda Ellis Eastman, CEO of PWN International, author, and International Life Coach who has touched the lives of over 100,000 women from fifteen countries. Based upon her best-selling book Starting Over: Learning to Love Yourself , you will become certified to teach women to overcome toxic relationships, leave the past behind, the importance of forgiveness and how to increase self-esteem.

Topics Include:

  • Living a New Life of Confidence
  • Overcoming Hurt and Shame
  • Lessons From Failure
  • Avoiding Toxic Relationships
  • How to Increase Self-Esteem
  • Releasing the Ball & Chain- Learning to Forgive
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Healing the Inner Child
  • How to Rebuild Your Life and Start Over
  • Living in the NOW
  • Setting Boundaries in Relationships
  • Self-Healing: Mind, Body & Spirit
  • Success in Spite of it All!
  • From Victim to Victory
  • Abuse No More
  • Overcoming Jealousy and Envy
  • How to Live a Joyful Life
  • Branding and marketing your coaching practice

Training dates: December 7-8, 2024

Location: The Seelbach Hotel Louisville, Kentucky

Times:

Saturday   9:00 - 4:00 pm
Sunday   9:00 - 4:00 pm

Registration $425  

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PWN Certified The International Life Coaching Certification

Become an internationally Certified Life Coach and learn to conduct seminars, workshops, keynotes, and coaching for women, youth and organizations. The certification features a holistic approach to life coaching with a focus on emotional, physical, and spiritual health, healing and relationships.

Become a Certified International Life Coach with special emphasis on wellness! This two-day certification will provide you with the tools to help others maximize their personal and professional potential! This certification will be conducted by Linda Ellis Eastman, CEO of The Professional Woman Network (PWN) who has certified over 4,000 individuals from 28 countries since 1982. Certification is limited to 10 attendees to guarantee the highest level of training and personal attention.

Topics to coach others:

  • Mind-Body Connection
  • Self-Discovery: Charting Personal and Professional Goals
  • 10 Relaxation Techniques that Work! Listening to the Silence
  • 5 Steps to Self-Energizing
  • Your Food Choices: Are Failing or Fueling You? Eating Well- Simple Steps to Better Health and Nutrition
  • Social-Emotional Awareness: How to Get Along With Others
  • The Art of Life Simplification: How to Stop Being Overwhelmed
  • Managing Your Career: Is Your Job Aligned with Your Values? Who are You and What do You Want? What is Your Personal Mission?
  • How to Manage Relationships: Recognizing and Understanding the Emotions of Others
  • Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: 15 Ways to Perceive, Evaluate, and Control Your Emotions
  • Personal Transformation: How to Transition Into Positive Changes and Overcome Long-Standing Issues
  • Anger Management and 10 Ways For Conflict Resolution
  • Breaking the Generational Curse: Thoughts, Beliefs, and Values Passed From Generation to Generation
  • How to Create Strategic Action Plans, Vision Board and Goals for a Healthy Future
  • Expanding Self-Awareness: A Toolkit to Understanding Yourself- Where You are Now and Your Goals for the Future: Mind, Body & Spirit
  • The Healthy Lifestyle Wheel and Toolkit
  • Releasing the Past and Living in the “Now”
  • Overcoming Self-Sabotage
  • You are What You Think!  Stepping Into the “New You”: Positive Attitude Development and Controlling Destructive Thinking
  • Healthy Life  Balance: Self, Family, Relationships, Work- Taking Time for Self With No Apologies or Guilt
  • Living Your “Bucket List” Now
  • Becoming Fit: 10 Steps for Becoming Physically Fit-No More Excuses!
  • Speaking with Confidence: Sharing Your Feelings and Thoughts Assertively
  • Handling Your Finances and Building Self-Worth: 10 Simple Steps to Overcome Financial Anxiety
  • Living Your Passion and Purpose: Step Into Your Calling
  • Creating a New Healthy Lifestyle: Eliminating Toxic Relationships and Creating a Healthy Environment
  • Living Your Spirituality: 5 Steps to Embrace Your Spiritual Journey and Bring Inner Peace Into Your Life
  • How to Increase Your Energy Level: 10 Dietary and Lifestyle Changes That Work!
  • Setting and Accomplishing Goals-Tools and Charts for Self-Empowerment and Achieving the Life of Your Dreams!
  • Creating a Vision Board (group activity)
  • And More!

Dates: April 13-14, 2025

Location: The Seelbach Hotel Louisville, Kentucky

Times:

Saturday   9:00 - 4:00 pm
Sunday   9:00 - 4:00 pm

Registration $425    

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PWN CertifiedWomens Issues & Leadership Certification

Are you ready to help tackle the problem women face with sexual harassment, bullying, gender discrimination, and low self-esteem? Attend the PWN Women's Issues Certification on April 6-7, 2025 at The Seelbach Hotel in Louisville. Become certified to conduct seminars and coach women to stand up to bullies and discrimination with confidence and self-empowerment!

During this two-day Train-the-Trainer certification, you will receive a powerful 12 hour training module which will also include step-by-step strategies for gaining speaking engagements and seminar contracts! This certification will be limited to ten attendees to guarantee the highest level of training and personal attention.

Topics covered:

  • What's the Difference? Hands-on role playing to understand diversity
  • Bullying in the Workplace
  • A toolkit for dealing with bullies in the workplace and in your personal life
  • Dealing with emotional, mental and sexual abuse/ Setting boundaries for toxic individuals
  • Understanding the bully—power and control
  • Leading with the Heart: Creating a Collaborative Team
  • The New Female CEO: Breaking the Glass Ceiling and Life in the C Suite
  • Strategies to Create a Personal Brand
  • Finding Your Voice: Assertive and Confident Communication
  • Staying Afloat While Swimming with Sharks
  • Overcoming the People-Pleaser Syndrome
  • No More Crab-in-the-Barrel Mentality! Women Supporting Women
  • How to Negotiate Your Worth in the Business Arena
  • The Ugly Side of Racism & Sexism: Strategies to Create a Compassionate Corporate Culture
  • Dealing with the ME TOO! Syndrome

Topics for your seminar and consulting practice:

  • Creating Your Brand and Defining Your Niche Market
  • Hosting Lucrative Women's Issues & Diversity Conferences Nationally
  • Designing State-of-the-Art Marketing Tools Including Powerful International Website, 1-Sheets, and Speaker's Media Kits: Stay Ahead of Competition
  • Building a Six-Figure Keynote Speaking Practice! How to Become Known as an Expert in Your Area of Expertise

Dates: April 6-7, 2025

Location: The Seelbach Hotel Louisville, Kentucky

Times:

Saturday   9:00 - 4:00 pm
Sunday   9:00 - 4:00 pm

Registration $425    

 

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PWN Certified The Marketing, Branding and Image Institute for Consultants, Speakers, Authors & Coaches

Are you spending time and money on marketing your services with limited results? Learn how to successfully market and brand your products and services, target your market, price your services, gain international exposure and profit! Increase your income by creating a marketing strategy that works! Know how to market and brand your coaching, consulting service, speaking engagements and books for a six-figure income!

You will also receive the t

ools, worksheets, guide and training module for The Marketing, Branding & Image Institute for your own business and to also coach others in business start-up and running a successful company! You will also become certified to conduct The Entrepreneur Seminar.

You will become a Certified Branding Coach (CBC) during this training! Learn how to get results for YOUR business but also be able to coach and train other new businesses to launch their marketing campaign with a Branding & Marketing Toolkit!

Certification will be conducted by Linda Ellis Eastman, CEO of The Professional Woman Network and Professional Woman Publishing, LLC, who has certified over 4,000 coaches, consultants, speakers and authors since 1982!

This dual certification is limited to 20 attendees to assure training excellence and personal attention. The following topics will be covered during this 2-day certification seminar with tools, worksheets, guides, and training modules:

  • What is personal branding?
  • The Brand called YOU! Positioning Yourself as a Marketable Product
  • Branding vs. Marketing vs. Image
  • Impression Management: Communication, Appearance & Personal Image Projection
  • You are on Stage! Personal vs. Professional Lives
  • Defining Your Unique Brand: What Sets You Apart From Your Competition?
  • Your Values, Purpose & Personality: 50 Guidelines to Determine Your Brand
  • Identifying Your Personal Strengths
  • Professional Image: Wardrobe, Grooming & Non-Verbal Image Communication
  • Etiquette & Manners With Clients and in the Workplace
  • It’s All About Packaging: Presenting You and Your Services to the World with IMPACT!
  • Creating a Branding Tool Kit: 10 Must-Haves for Personal Branding & Image Management
  • Positive Attitude Development & Self-Confidence Building
  • Creating a Professional Vision Statement
  • Aligning Your Passion & Purpose to Your Product and Service
  • Incorporating the “Why?” Statement Into Your Marketing Mix
  • 3 Critical Pitches to Market Your Product
  • Finding and Creating “Ambassadors” for your Product
  • Building Your “Dream Team”
  • Website Essentials! Winning Design, Getting Found, Getting Sales
  • Unveiling the Social Media Mystery
  • Putting the Networking Back Into Social Networking
  • Automation and Integration Tools to Save Time
  • 5 Tips for Marketing Online
  • How to Enter the International Market
  • Creating Product Videos & Blogs
  • The Impact of Bad Habits!
  • Web stores that Create High Income: Merchant Account, Store Design
  • Creating a Vision & Mission Statement
  • The Branding & Marketing Toolkit for Coaches, Speakers, Authors & Consultants
  • Know Your Competition!
  • Designing Award-Winning Marketing Tools/Brochures, 1-Sheets, Portfolios
  • What Color is Your Palette? The Importance of Color in Branding
  • Why Companies Fail — Pitfalls to Avoid
  • Professional Presentation Skills — Voice and Diction
  • Boost Your Credibility to Boost Your Sales!
  • PR/Television and Radio Interviews/Press Releases
  • You’re On-Camera! How to Prepare for Your Own Website Video!
    Powerful tips from Filmmakers, Make-up Artists, and Web Designers
  • In-Person: Selling Your Business & Your Services
  • Needs Analysis and Niche/Target Marketing: Why Do They Need You?
  • Ways to Find Free Media and Publicity Opportunities Missed By 95% of Consultants, Coaches, Speakers and Authors!
  • Specialist or Generalist? Narrowing Your Target Market for Greater Credibility
  • Can your Clients Afford You? Pricing Your Services With Optional Payment Plans
  • E-Mail Newsletters with Focus on Your Niche
  • 5 Ways to Give Away Your Expertise that Will Lead to an Abundance of Clients
  • How to Start a Company on a Part-Time or Full-Time Basis
  • Creating a Vision/Dream Board
  • The Nuts and Bolts of Entrepreneurship
  • Grants Available for Women and Minority-Owned Businesses
  • Home Office Organization Systems
  • Self-Discipline and Time Management
  • Self-Confidence: Overcoming the Fear of Business Start-Up
  • Analyzing Competition and the Marketplace
  • Teaching Entrepreneurship to Youth
  • How to Communicate with Power!
  • The 10 Most Powerful Tips for Building a Profitable Seminar Business
  • and more!


Dates
: November 2-3, 2024

Location: The Seelbach Hotel Louisville, Kentucky

Times:

Saturday   9:00 - 4:00 pm
Sunday   9:00 - 4:00 pm

Registration $425  

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PWN Certified Women's Leadership Coaching Institute

Become a Certified Women's Leadership Coach. 2-day certification includes 2-volume training modules for self-leadership, women's empowerment, staying cool under fire, confidence-building and positioning for leadership in personal and professional lives. Facilitated by PWN CEO and Master International Women's Leadership Coach, Linda Ellis Eastman, this powerful training will provide the strategies to coach women in corporations, churches, organizations, and self-leadership.

Topics Include:

  • Living a life with passion, power and purpose
  • The importance of courage
  • Creating a personal and professional brand
  • Women as leaders: the new paradigm
  • Understanding and leveraging diversity
  • Who said women's can't do it? Success stories
  • Overcoming the I'm Not Good Enough Syndrome
  • Uncovering your true self
  • Personal power: where it comes from and how to use it!
  • Charting and manifesting your destiny
  • The assertive 'no' without guilt
  • Strengthen emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
  • Personal leadership skills and effectiveness
  • Handling personal transition and change
  • Tapping into internal resources
  • Feel the emotion but harness the behavior
  • The secrets of assertiveness without being pushy
  • Recognizing personal cues that signal weakness or non-assertiveness
  • Reducing stress and embracing wellness
  • Fostering collaboration in communication and interpersonal relationships
  • Becoming an inspiring manager and leader
  • Stepping into your potential and greatest success
  • Shifting through challenges and transition
  • Creating strategic vision goals
  • Increasing your self-worth and value
  • Dealing with the ME TOO! Syndrome

Dates: 2025

Location: The Seelbach Hotel Louisville, Kentucky

Times:

Saturday   9:00 - 4:00 pm
Sunday   9:00 - 4:00 pm

 

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PWN Certified PWN Teen Coaching Institute

Become a Certified Youth Trainer by attending the two-day Save Our Youth Training and Certification Seminar. You will receive a complete trainer's guide for this twelve (12) hour program, providing you with outstanding material to consult/train social service agencies, school systems, government agencies, churches, and youth groups. With violence escalating and anger building, young people need help. It is the mission of Save Our Youth Certification to train individuals who may reach out to families, clergy, school educators, and youth, and begin the healing process. The Teen Image training module will be contained within this specific certification seminar.

The following topics will be covered during the Save Our Youth Certification and Training Seminar:

  • Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse
  • Raising Healthy Children in an Unhealthy World
  • The Parent-The Role Model
  • Stress Management for Youth
  • Self-Esteem Skills for Children & Teenagers
  • Dealing with School Violence: A Look at Causes and Solutions
  • Developing a Positive Attitude in Children & Youth
  • Teaching Youth How to Handle Differences with Other's Race, Culture & Gender
  • Effective Parenting: Parent Responsibility Check-List
  • Dealing with Youth's Anger & Frustration
  • Interviewing Skills for Youth: Getting the Job & Keeping It
  • Social Etiquette: Behavior for Specific Situations
  • Developing a Healthy Home Life for Children
  • Setting Boundaries for Youth
  • How to Handle Situations When the Prejudice is Directed at YOU
  • What NOT to say to a Child: How Words Can Damage a Child's Self-Esteem
  • Developing Family Meetings: Communicating Feelings & Thoughts
  • 5 Ways to Diffuse Tension: A Teenager's Guide for Cooling Off
  • Dining and social etiquette
  • Self-confidence building for teens
  • Dealing with Bullying and Violent Behavior
  • How to Prevent the MeToo! among children, teens and women

Training dates: 2024

Location: The Seelbach Hotel Louisville, Kentucky

Times:

Saturday   9:00 - 4:00 pm
Sunday   9:00 - 4:00 pm

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PWN Certified International Speakers Academy

Become an International Certified Speaker (ICS) with special emphasis on presentation preparation, design and delivery! Learn how to be a powerful speaker that WOWS! audiences from 5 to 5,000. Gain the confidence and knowledge that will lead to you becoming a speaker in high demand! This certification is limited to 15 attendees to guarantee the highest level of training and personal attention to hone your presentation skills. You will be filmed by a professional videographer and provided with a copy of your 5-minute presentation with critiques as a learning tool. If you are an author, learn how to turn your book into a keynote, retreat, or seminar!

Training dates: 2024

Location: The Seelbach Hotel Louisville, Kentucky

Times:

Saturday   9:00 - 4:00 pm
Sunday   9:00 - 4:00 pm

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PWN International Conference 2025 

Attend this exciting three-day international conference on women's empowerment. Twenty internationally recognized speakers will provide you with powerful strategies to build self-confidence in women while providing the tools to increase self-esteem, overcome toxic relationships, develop leadership skills and innovative thinking to build confidence personally and professionally.

Registration includes all meals, beverages, conference material, reception buffet, author reception and Saturday evening book signing, dinner and dance at The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage. Special discounted room rates will be provided to PWN International Conference '25 guests at the elegant Seelbach Hotel.

Lori Hilson Cioromski

Lori Hilson Cioromski
KEYNOTE

Dr. Andrea Lee

Nicole Martin

Erica Gifford Mills

Erica Mills

Yolanda Brown

Yolanda Brown

Dr. Rhonda Owens

Dr. Rhonda Owens

Dr. Kristy Smith

Dr. Kristy Smith

Dr. Shade Kolade

Dr. Shade Kolade

Alli Onni

Alli Onni

Toni Carter

Toni Carter

Elly Malaxos

Elly Malaxos

Michele Gorman

Michele Gorman

Marianne Kaplan

Marianne Kaplan

Lita Abele

Lita Abele

Melanie Santostefano

Melanie Santostefano

Dr. Mike Coleman

Dr. Mike Coleman

Robin West Smith

Robin West Smith

 

 
Agenda  
Friday, August 1st    
4:00-5:00pm   PWN International Board meeting
7:00-8:00pm   Welcome Reception/Dinner
8:00-9:00pm   Keynote
Saturday, August 2nd    
7:30-8:15   Breakfast
8:30-12:00pm   Speakers
12:00-1:00pm   Lunch
1:00-3:00pm   Speakers
6:30-7:30pm   Book Signing/Author Reception
8:00-10:00pm   Dinner/Dancing
Sunday, August 3rd    
7:30-8:15am   Breakfast
8:30am-12:00pm   Speakers
12:00 noon   Conference adjourns


PWN International Conference '25

August 1-3, 2025 $495 
Guest Registration $250 

Seelbach Lobby

Sellbach Ballroom

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Linda Ellis Eastman, CEO, The Professional Woman Network
P.O.Box 333 Prospect, KY 40059 502-345-4139
lindaeastman@prodigy.net

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