Event Registration - Washington City/County Management Association

Join us for the first of three summits that are open to everyone, with a focus on women and non-binary people, and those that support them. Our goals are to:

• Provide continuous development opportunities for NWWLA alum and others
• Create networking opportunities
• Learn about leadership for women
• Build confidence
• Focus on our mission of getting more women in the top seats and preparing the pipeline for opportunities
• To offer an opportunity for people to learn about NWWLA

The first summit will highlight our keynote speaker Dr. Julie Pham, of CuriosityBased, and author of 7 Forms of Respect, and Executive leadership coach Kellye Mazzoli.
 

 
Dr. Julie Pham
Dr. Julie Pham founded CuriosityBased to help people practice curiosity in the world, starting in the workplace. She wrote the #1 Amazon New Release and Bestseller, 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work, and gave a TEDx talk on "Curiosity as a practice." Dr. Pham is an award-winning leader who applies her community-building experience to strengthening teams. She worked as a journalist, historian, tech industry marketer, and nonprofit executive. She got her “real-life MBA” by running her family’s Vietnamese-language newspaper during the Great Recession. She earned her PhD in history at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley, where she studied history.

Kellye Mazzoli
We are pleased to announce that Kellye Mazzoli will also speak at our spring Women’s Leadership Conference. She will address The Likeable Leader Trap: Diagnosing Where Authority Gets Traded for Approval. Join us for this interactive, large-group session with live diagnostics, reflection, and facilitated discussion. Many capable leaders do not struggle because they lack competence or communication skills. They struggle because they have learned, often unconsciously, to trade authority for approval in order to remain likeable, agreeable, or low-friction.

Biography:
Kellye Mazzoli is an executive leadership coach who works with city managers and senior city leaders navigating the real pressures of public leadership. A former assistant city manager with nearly 20 years in local government, she founded City Boss Coaching in 2022 and has coached city executives full-time for more than four years. Her work focuses on strengthening leadership judgment so leaders can exercise authority, set boundaries, and make difficult decisions with clarity and confidence.
 

The first 50 people to register will receive a complimentary copy of keynote speaker Julie Pham’s book.