women's workshop

Tips to Increase Attendance at Women’s Initiative Events

You reserve the room. You order the catering. You bring in the perfect speaker. You send the invites and track the responses.

You plan an event. And people don't show up.

If you are painfully nodding along, you are not alone. So many of our clients struggle with the challenge of simply getting people to show up for the events that they have spent time, money, and effort to plan. Of course, most people are respectful—they let you know they can no longer make it, they lament that their travel schedule puts them out of the office the day of the event, they promise to attend the next one. The interest and intention are there, which you know because you have asked the attendees what they want. So how can you get past the last-minute fire drills and get people to show up for your events and programs?

Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders: Campus Workshops

The pressures we feel in college and immediately after are exactly why we at Gild are so passionate about working with young women in college. Reaching these women before they enter the workplace and arming them with the tools needed to empower one another in and beyond school is essential to building the next generation of female leaders.

A Week in the Life: The Gild Collective Workshop Experience

We have never shown the real Gild Collective workshop experience here. Admittedly, Kelsey and I are often too busy preparing and facilitating the experiences to pause, reflect, and photograph our surroundings, but this week we tried to do just that.