AN EXPERIENTIAL EVENT FOR THE EVOLUTION OF WOMEN LEADERS

Bridge to Brilliance offers an immersive soulful experience that allows women to feel seen and honored in celebration of International Women’s Day while making authentic connections to themselves and others. Bridge to Brilliance provides the space and soil to nurture personal growth and transformation through relaxation, education, and meaningful networking.

Women who attend will leave feeling authentically connected to others, connected to a deeper part of themselves, joyful, cared for, replenished, delightfully surprised, lighter, more free, and inspired. They will feel that they experienced something deeply meaningful that they didn’t expect. They will feel gratitude for giving themselves this gift and will think about their experience throughout the year following the event.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Dr. Emma Seppälä – Keynote Speaker

As a best-selling author, Yale lecturer, and international keynote speaker, Dr. Emma Seppälä teaches executives at the Yale School of Management and is faculty director of the Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program. A psychologist and research scientist by training, her expertise is the science of happiness, emotional intelligence, and social connection. Her best-selling book The Happiness Track has been translated into dozens of languages. Emma is also the Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.

Suzi Lula – Special Guest Speaker

Suzi Lula is passionate about your transformation, especially through the practice of SOUL CARE. She is here to ensure that you create your most thriving life, family, and business. Suzi is a pioneer in the field of spiritual psychology, bringing together experiential transformational practices on the emotional and spiritual levels of consciousness, as well as deeply healing the heart of the inner child. Suzi is an advocate for women everywhere to thrive because taking care of yourself first is the greatest gift you can give yourself, your family, and all those around you! Her book, “The Motherhood Evolution: How Thriving Mothers Raise Thriving Children,” is a guidebook for women everywhere to live their best lives.

Geno LaPlaca – Emcee

Geno La Placa is a mom, wife, executive coach, and transformational leader dedicated to empowering women by teaching them how to turn an unconscious mind into a conscious life. With over two decades of executive experience, she served as a C-level executive in the hedge fund industry and consulted for the world’s leading investors. The loss of her mother illuminated the struggle women face between career success, family life, and caring for themselves inspiring her journey of personal growth and integration.

Her background includes entrepreneurship, nonprofit leadership, an Executive Coaching certification from Berkeley University, and training with pioneers like Dr. Shefali, Dr. Gabor Maté, and Suzi Lula. She bridges executive strategy with soulful living, inspiring sustainable growth and meaningful transformation.

Ricci-Jane Adams

Dr Ricci-Jane Adams is the director of the global Institute for Intuitive Intelligence®. The Institute’s purpose is to mainstream the intuitive sciences and to teach people the tools of intuitive intelligence. This is our highest form of intelligence and, when practiced, can lead to an optimized reality in which we live with abundance, power and inevitable success. Ricci-Jane speaks about evidence-based, peer-reviewed intuitive science and quantum physics that, when applied through Intuitive Intelligence change lives and the world we live in for the better.

Ricci-Jane is an award-winning writer, and author of best sellers Spiritually Fierce and Superconscious Intuition. She has a doctorate from the University of Melbourne. She is a qualified Transpersonal Psychotherapist and has spent over twenty-five years devoted to her spiritual awakening.

Tracey Matisak

Tracey Matisak is an award-winning journalist, a dynamic speaker and trainer, and a seasoned program host. With many years of major market television and radio experience, Tracey has anchored numerous special projects for WHYY-TV/PBS in Philadelphia; she also served as a regular guest host on WHYY-FM/NPR’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, an hourlong current events talk show. In addition, Tracey serves as moderator for the Philadelphia Speakers Series, where she has shared the stage with the likes of former British Prime Minister Theresa May, Hollywood legend Jane Fonda, former FBI director James Comey, acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns and historian Jon Meacham.

Tracey is the host of WVIA-TV’s Mind Over Matter television series and podcast on mental health in the age of COVID, which features firsthand accounts from people who have struggled with mental health challenges as well as conversations with clinicians about treatment options.

Tracey has been a frequent interviewer for the Author Events series at the Free Library of Philadelphia, where she has facilitated conversations with Congressman Adam Schiff, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte and Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, among others.

In addition, Tracey has traveled worldwide in her capacity as host of Skillsoft’s Live Events – interactive executive leadership webcasts featuring some of the most widely respected authors and speakers in the business world, including Daniel Pink, Adam Grant, Seth Godin, John Maxwell and Angela Duckworth.

Throughout her career, Tracey has also done voiceover work, script writing and media training.

Tracey began her career in radio and television news, having worked for 12 years at FOX 29, Philadelphia. There, she anchored the live morning show Good Day Philadelphia and served as an anchor and reporter for FOX 29’s Ten O’Clock News. She was also a contributor to the HGTV show Design Basics, and has served as a news anchor for a number of Philadelphia radio stations, including KYW Newsradio.

 A graduate of Temple University, Tracey taught for several years there as an adjunct instructor in the Klein College of Media and Communication. A winner of several local Emmy and Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters awards, Tracey was among the first to be inducted into Temple University’s Klein College Alumni Hall of Fame. She has also won the Sarah Award for Excellence in Broadcasting from the Association for Women in Communications and was named Communicator of the Year by the National Black MBA Association.

SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES

PRESENTING: $12,000 SOLD

AGENDA

9:00AM – 10:00AM

Check-in, Wellness Garden

Breakfast offerings provided by The Four Seasons Philadelphia culinary team

*The Wellness Garden will feature a tranquil retreat designed to nurture your mind, body, and spirit. This thoughtfully curated space will blend sensory experiences to promote self reflections, relaxation, connection, and rejuvenation. Explore your holistic wellbeing through activities that include aura water color portraits, lymphatic drainage, oracle readings, mocktail tastings, massage and more.

10:00AM – 11:15AM

Welcome and Keynote with Emma Seppälä

11:15AM – 11:30AM

Break with refreshments provide by The Four Seasons Philadelphia Culinary Team

11:30AM – 12:20PM

Moderated Panel Discussion with Emma Seppälä, Suzi Lula, Geno LaPlaca, and Ashley Albrecht: Stepping Over the Bridge: Connecting Inner Strength and Resilience for Brilliance

12:20PM – 12:50PM

Collective Intention and the Power of Altruism with Ricci Jane

12:50PM – 2:15PM

Reception style lunch provided by The Four Seasons Philadelphia Culinary Team, Wellness Garden Experience

2:15PM – 3:20PM

Presentation by Suzi Lula with Guided Process

3:30PM – 4:30PM

Wellness Garden Experience

LOCATION

Four Seasons Philadelphia
One North 19th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

https://www.fourseasons.com/philadelphia/

The Four Seasons Philadelphia has generously offered a significantly discounted room rate of $375.00 for Sunday night March 9th for hotel accommodations. For those wishing to take advantage of this beautiful property and amenities, please make a room reservation by calling the Hotel directly at (215) 419-5000 and requesting the Reservations Department. Please reference Bridge to Brilliance to receive the discounted room rate up until March 3^rd, 2025.

CHARITY PARTNERS

A portion of the proceeds from this event will support our charity partners including Laurel House and Twist Out Cancer.

PRESENTING SPONSORS

EVENT SPONSORS

EVENT ACTIVATION SPONSORS

TESTIMONIALS

Absolutely a first class event! I felt like a VIP from the moment I arrived. The attention to detail with speakers, ambiance,  food location was evident in every aspect of the event. I felt like I had gone away on a retreat. I was very stimulated and entertained.