IWLC Activities, Opportunities, and Services

Two-day professional leadership conference featuring internationally known speakers, workshops, networking opportunities, and access to women’s leadership resources (held every other April, odd-numbered years)

One-day leadership “luncheon plus” event featuring internationally known speakers, workshops, networking opportunities, and access to women’s leadership resources (held every other April, even-numbered years)

Annual Des Moines Leadership Luncheon, held each fall, featuring internationally known speakers, workshops, networking opportunities, and access to women’s leadership resources

Monthly IWLC E-blasts with timely, relevant, and useful news about women’s leadership, including links to books, articles, websites, and research reports; reflections from conference speakers and organizers; and news about coming events.

Listing on the IWLC website of the resources noted above, as well as links to other women’s leadership organizations in Iowa

Sponsorship of periodic IWLC luncheons, workshops, and other events across Iowa when leadership-focused opportunities arise

Promotion via the IWLC website of women’s leadership-building events and opportunities sponsored by other organizations in Iowa and adjoining states


We encourage Iowa women to exercise and expand their own leadership skills as IWLC volunteers; visit our Contact & Connect page for more information


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Words of Wisdom

“Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.”
Marian Wright Edelman (2009 Conference Speaker)