The Women of NAMM Leadership Summit Concludes

	The Summit offered intensive training and discussion, skills assessment, strategies for coaching and feedback, developing resilience, and more.

This week, the Women of NAMM (WoN) hosted the 3rd annual WoN Leadership Summit at NAMM Headquarters in Carlsbad, California. Over the course of October 17-19, 17 female industry professional took part in the intensive, three-day leadership immersion experience designed to support women working across the industry and their goals to connect, support, and grow their leadership and professional abilities.

The Summit, which Dr. Jen Hall facilitated, offered intensive traning and discussion, skills assessment, strategies for coaching and feedback, developing resilience, and more. In addition to the leadership and professional development program, each participant enjoyed a tour of NAMM's Museum of Making Music, lunch with The NAMM Foundation Board of Directors, and learning more about the history of the assocation and industry.

One participant, Catherine English of Bertrand's Music, said that as a result of the Summit, "I became even more aware of how many strong leading women there are in the music industry, and how we can be supportive of each other both mentally, emotionally, and with business and professional advice. As a result, I intend to take back an attitude of encouragment and boldness, to give beneficial feedback using the systems that we learned, and to continue to build up more women into leadership so that our music world can have a balance that is better reflective of who we are as a society.

"This Summit has profoundly impacted me. Previously, I would dismiss that these types of things were needed. Now, I see importance of having these spaces for women to learn and flourish. I hope that the skills I am learning and the self-discovery will carry over to my day-to-day life as an education rep," shares Kayla Davis of Music & Arts.

The 17 graduating participants of the program include Tonya Adams, West Music; Laura Clapp Davidson, Shure Incorporated; Kayla Davis, Music & Arts; Michele Dwiggins, Beacock Music; Catherine English, Bertrand's Music Enterprises; Jessica Ferrari, Menchey Music; Amanda Whiting Gerstle, Universal Audio; Jordan Gruver, Fender; Katie Helgeson, The Music Shoppe; Erin Kessler, Maple Leaf Strings; Kristin Masarik, Heid Music; Natalie Morrison, D'Addario & Company, Inc.; Thea Paraskevaidea, Beaumont Music; Amanda Rueter, Ernie Williamson Music; Gayle Stewart, High Strung Guitars; Stacey Swanson, Swanson Consulting Group; and Samantha Tranchida, Quinlan & Fabish.

The Summit's return was announced earlier this year at the Women of NAMM gathering at The 2022 NAMM Show. At the event, the council announced in tribute to the memory and lasting impact of industry philanthropist, business leader, wife, and mother, Diane Martin, donations made in her honor will help the group continue its outreach work. Funds made in Martin's honor were used to help accepted applications offset related travel costs to the WoN Summit.

Next up from Women of NAMM: On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at 12:00pm PT, WoN will host a virtual, Deep Dive webinar featuring Dr. Jen Hall. Dr. Hall will address the topic of "Mindsets and Mantras." All NAMM Members are welcome to join a discussion with their peers on challenges and successes across the industry.

Learn more and register here: www.namm.org/news/press-releases/women-namm-presents-deep-dive-mindsets-and-mantras-dr-jen-hall.

Check out the video: ww1.namm.org/women-of-namm