Girl Boss Leadership 2.0

This program will revisit the fundamentals of the Inner Leader - values, purpose, and passion, and build upon those concepts and skills to enable the participant to Lead from Inside Out.  New leadership capabilities such as goal setting, storytelling, creating vision, and inspiring and motivating others are introduced.  Find your inner voice and know that your voice and opinion matter.  Explore how to have difficult conversations to navigate complexities in friendships and life.  Get curious about what drives you from the inside and those around you.  Discover the art of delegating and how that empowers leaders and those they serve.  Examine the importance and power of mindset as a leader and how that helps you to transcend circumstances and situations.  This course also encourages risk-taking, grit, and courage and allows plenty of opportunities to strengthen your confidence muscle.  

This is an interactive 15 hour course consisting of daily 3 hour live video group work sessions.   These sessions will be held over one week on Zoom from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. EST.  The program allows participants to learn and practice leadership skills while bringing real world challenges and examples into the group discussion for enhanced learning from others.

Through fun and contemplative group work, individual exercises, restorative yoga, and breakout groups, girls will explore their inner leader and work on elevating their leadership skills. Each participant will be challenged to grow and stretch their leadership skills to make their unique impact on the world. By the end of the program, participants will develop skills to step into their inner leader, make choices based on their core values, lead with purpose and confidence, understand leadership techniques and practice these skills, and more effectively engage with others.  

This course is designed for both Middle School and High School girls who are interested in strengthening their overall leadership capabilities.  

Coaches/Instructors:

Joni Swedlund is the owner and founder of the Inner Rock Group. Joni has over 26 years of global business experience, including 18 years as a senior partner with Deloitte where she grew a $1B business over 10 years from the ground up serving global clients in the financial services industry. She held many executive positions including being the Chief Succession Officer and a Board Member for Deloitte Consulting, was an expat in Tokyo, Japan, and most recently decided to launch Inner Rock Group based on her desire to inspire and empower more women and girls to step into their leadership. Joni is a certified professional coach, a member of the National Speaker’s Association and a 2020 Speaker Academy graduate, and the author of a children’s book, Tootalina, and soon to be released business book, Lead from Inside Out . She is a mother to two girls, Kate (16) and Ava (13).

Blythe Conway is a MA LPC licensed child and adolescent psychotherapist and certified yoga instructor. Blythe brings a lifetime of experience as the oldest of ten children and over 12 years’ experience and clinical background in the child and adolescent field of clinical counseling. Her experience and work include individual and group counseling for grades K – 12, students with special needs, pregnant and parenting. Blythe discovered yoga in 2009 when living in San Antonio while her husband was stationed on active duty Army orders. In 2015 she became a certified children’s yoga instructor and began teaching weekly classes at a popular Alexandria yoga studio. From there, she also began teaching at her children’s preschool, private events (The State Department, Girl Scouts of America, HNC Cancer Fund) and monthly tween/teen yoga series. Blythe is also a certified group fitness instructor with Fit4Mom Arlington-Alexandria and teaches a weekly class to prenatal and postnatal moms and their babies. When not teaching she loves spending time with her boys, Jack (8) and Quinn (5), whether they are playing their own sports, or they are traveling to new adventurous destinations as a family.