Evento emPower

Chicago EmPower Breakfast

March 13 at 9:00 AM

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25 years of bringing people together!

Why We Are Different

Focused on You: From Featured Speakers to table conversations, many people have a chance to speak at an emPower Breakfast. Experts, Sponsors, regular attendees ... and You! We try to give everyone a chance to share their stories...

An Intimate Event: We aren’t looking for hundreds to attend - our events feel like you could meet everyone if you tried.

Non-commercial: The emPower Breakfast does not promote any specific product, the presentations are not sales pitches. Our monthly event is non-membership and public; focused on fun and relationship building.

We finish on time: We pace our event quickly, so there’s never a dull moment!

Register now for the March emPower Breakfast! Featuring Sandhya Sudhakar - Leadership & Team Coaching

Featured Speaker

Featured Speaker

Sandhya Sudhakar

Happily Ever Evolving: Navigating Change To Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity Running a small business means navigating constant change—market shifts, client needs, and your own evolution as a leader. It’s no surprise change often feels overwhelming. In this energizing talk, we’ll explore why change feels so hard (you’re not imagining it!) and how you can turn uncertainty into your greatest source of creativity and momentum. Through relatable examples and reflective prompts, we’ll uncover how embracing transitions can open the door to unexpected ideas, more confidence, and powerful business breakthroughs. You’ll learn how to harness change as a strategic advantage—one that strengthens your vision, your resilience, and the future of your business.

Sandhya Sudhakar is a certified coach, Enneagram practitioner, speaker, facilitator, the founder of Self At Work, and the host of the Working Your Way podcast. She takes a trauma-informed, inclusive approach to leadership development and team building, focused on showing up authentically and cultivating a sense of belonging in the workplace. After 16 years in the corporate world, Sandhya started Self At Work to help leaders build meaningful connections with themselves and their work, so that they can achieve success in a more sustainable way. She's spoken on stages for organizations like T-Mobile, American Family Insurance, Wiley, CreativeMornings, DisruptHR, and The Moth.
Sandhya Sudhakar

Featured Sponsors

Katie Kastner Content & Marketing is where we take foundational small business marketing & turn up the "human"! Katie helps creative, service-based women entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses through connection focused content, confident messaging, and their own empowered voices.
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Uplifting Melodies is about building safer, stronger workplaces through language connection. We focus on: Convenience - We meet your teams where they work by joining virtually at times that fit your shifts. Curriculum - Practical, interactive lessons for safety, signage, tools and everyday communication. Confidence - Gain clarity with supervisors, co‑workers and clients, strengthening morale and retention.
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How does the military take regular people and create a specialized, expert team? How do professional sports teams do it? Answer - Intensive and extensive training. How do you do it? Business Builder Online offers a Learning Management System for your employees to widen their knowledge with business, life and technical skills. Training builds team expertise, morale and a sense of growth and value. Can you afford not to train your team?
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Sponsors

Chicago Area Director

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Heather Vickery

Area Director of the Chicago EmPower Breakfast

Heather Vickery is a transformational success coach and public speaker with 20+ years of entrepreneurial and leadership experience. She works with conscious leaders and executives to lead from a place of joy and self-awareness. Heather's coaching focuses on mastering the "Trifecta of Self"—self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and self-trust—to inspire authentic action. As an author, Broadway producer, and global podcast host, Heather champions self-empowerment and joy as a set point worldwide. She is the executive producer and co-host of the award-nominated podcast "Was it Chance?", exploring intentional risk-taking for creative success. Heather helps clients integrate principles with practical business strategies, leading to more fulfilling lives and careers.

Venue

Warwick Allerton - Chicago

701 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60661
Chicago, IL

Breakfast Schedule

09:00 AM to 09:15 AM
Networking
09:15 AM to 09:30 AM
Featured Sponsors
09:30 AM to 09:45 AM
Lightning Talks
09:45 AM to 09:55 AM
Table Introductions
09:55 AM to 10:20 AM
Featured Speaker
10:20 AM to 10:30 AM
Door Prizes
10:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Networking

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emPower Breakfast

Your Local Small Business Networking Event

The emPower Breakfast is a down-to-earth, convenient way for small business owners and operators to network with each other and connect with larger businesses and agencies in the community.

Interested in being a sponsor?

SPONSOR

Sponsor your local emPower breakfast

Promote Your Business to a Wider Audience

Your business can benefit by becoming a sponsor. In return for your investment, your business will be promoted on this website, in emails, and at the breakfast itself. Plus, training for you and your team!

Benefits to You
  • Showcase presentation for your company at one breakfast per year
  • Multiple Marketing Impressions on our website, newsletter, Breakfast Day slider, Breakfast agenda handout, Shout Outs on Breakfast Day
  • Access to database of attendees
  • You have industry exclusivity for Sponsorships
  • Attendees are encouraged to call you first for services/products
  • Business Builder Online: Over 130 online training lessons in 30+ courses for you and your team
  • Monthly National Sponsor Webinars
  • Quarterly Local Sponsor Soirees

On the month you are assigned to showcase (present) your company:

  • You will meet each attendee as they check in
  • You can bring flyers, business cards, or advertising material
  • A representative from your company will have 5 minutes at the podium
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SPEAKER

Speak at the emPower breakfast

Promote Your Business to a Wider Audience

There are two options for speaking at an emPower Breakfast event:

Featured Speakers

Being a featured speaker provided the business or individual to shine for 15 minutes. You want to follow similar guidelines as a 3-minute speaker. You need to make sure you provide good information that is relevant to most attendees on a topic that you are a thought leader on. Here you can bring a presentation and use the A/V system.

NOTE: Filling out the form places you into the queue to be a speaker. You will be notified of the month and day when you will be assigned. Use the Message field to make any special requests: Month, AV, etc.

Share Your Business With a 3-Minute Presentation At No Cost

Each month, there are opportunities to tell the group a little more about yourself by doing a 3-minute presentation on you and your business.

This is more than just an elevator speech – it’s an opportunity to share more information about who you are, what you do, and how you can help any of the people attending the emPower Breakfast.

Be a speaker!

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