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Keynote Speaker for Women’s Leadership Events

Updated July 2026

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Looking for a keynote speaker for a women's leadership event? Henna Pryor is a Certified Speaking Professional, 2x TEDx speaker, and author of The Signal Gap who gives women calibrated tools for uneven rooms - and gives the people who run those rooms the moves to read them fairly. Her frame: fix the room, not the woman.

Why has the standard women's empowerment keynote stopped landing?

Women in these rooms have heard lean in, be more confident, own it - and they are done being handed the problem. They want calibrated tools for the rooms they actually walk into. Henna's keynote equips allies and room-runners, not just women.

What does Henna Pryor speak about at women's events?

The double discount (verified before believed), the likability-competence bind and the Calibration Dial (precision, not force), Attribution Armor for credit that sticks, and converting mentors into sponsors. Research-grounded: women are about twice as likely to report having to prove their competence, and for every 100 men promoted to first-level manager, only 93 women are - 74 for women of color (McKinsey and LeanIn, Women in the Workplace 2025).

Who books this keynote?

WIL programs, ERG summits, women's leadership conferences, and DEI and L&D leaders at mid-to-large companies - plus mixed-audience events that want the room itself to change. 43% of women leaders report burnout versus 31% of men at their level (McKinsey and LeanIn, 2025); this keynote treats that as structural, not personal.

93:100

women promoted to manager per 100 men

McKinsey and LeanIn, 2025

2x

as likely: women reporting they must prove competence

authority-gap research

43%

of women leaders report burnout vs 31% of men

McKinsey and LeanIn, 2025

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