Professional Development

​Women can be powerful allies in your career. Our volunteers build their leadership skills by organizing programs BY and FOR women and girls across Florida. These events bring women together for fun, educational activities that foster networking and professional advancement.

Professional Development Committee (PDC)

Our PDC PowHERful series of events bring women together for fun, educational activities that foster networking and professional advancement. This series aims to gather local women who want to lean into their careers together and help each other succeed.

To learn more about how you can volunteer or start this program in your county please email Takeata@womensfoundationfl.org.​

PDC Volunteer Leadership

Palm Beach County
Co-chairs: Fran Etienne and Cady Sandler. 

Committee members:
Tina Al-Fadel
Tricia Allahar
Rachel Bausch
Leontyne Brown
Jillian Benkendorf
Holly Goodman
Celina Kreidy
Holly Lichtenfeld

​Broward County
Co-chairs: Jonnell Robinson and Adora West-Anderson

​Committee members:
Sophia Allen Hendricks
Melissa Dunn
Judith Campbell-Brown
Alexis Collins
Michelle Fletcher
Mahala Saunders


To learn more about how you can volunteer or start this program in your county please email Takeata@womensfoundationfl.org.

Women Opening Doors For Women

Women can be powerful allies in your career. Join our Women Opening Doors For Women network and be part of a local movement empowering women to lean into their careers.

Are you contemplating your next big step and want to find a mentor? Maybe you're looking for a mentor, but haven't found the right one. Are you already a leader in your career field and willing to be a mentor? Or maybe you just want to network with women like you.

The Women's Foundation of Florida hosts intimate speed mentoring conversations with local women leaders, and you don't want to miss out.

At Women Opening Doors For Women events, you will network with women, who just like you, are seeking new ways to lean into their careers. The event includes a cocktail and networking session, and then you sit down for an intimate conversation with the speaker and leader of your choice. 

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Book Club

​The Book Club meets to discuss books written “By Women, For Women.”

The Book Club is currently reading How Remarkable Women Lead by Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston.  We are working through the book together and meet to discuss every other week on Thursdays at 8pm.  

Previous books include the Richest Woman in America: the story of Hetty Green in the Guidled Age by Janet Wallach, Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende, My Beloved World by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomeyor, The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sherly Sandberg,  Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingslover, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life by Eleanor Roosevelt, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way we Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brené Brown, In the Land of Invisible Women, A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta A Ahmed, MD and Playing Big by Tara Mohr and many others.