2026 Four Corners Professional Women's Summit Information
Our planning committee has curated a lineup of dynamic speakers who'll share their insight and expertise on leadership. Complete details are coming soon.
We look forward to seeing you at this year's event!
Come ready to learn, network, and grow.
We've added something new to this year's summit
Start your women's summit experience a day early with our new pre-summit workshop, designed to provide an interactive, hands-on learning experience before the main event.
PLEASE NOTE: The pre-summit workshop requires a separate ticket and is not included with women's summit registration. Only 50 tickets will be sold for this workshop.
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Cost: $75 per person
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Capacity: Limited to 50 attendees
Space is intentionally limited to create a more engaging, collaborative experience, so we encourage you to reserve your spot early. Once the workshop reaches capacity, registration will close.
Dates, Times & Ticket Prices
2026 Womens' Summit Schedule
Thursday, November 5
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Coffee & Muffin Networking
9:00 a.m.
Welcome: Farmington City Manager Shana Reeves
Opening Remarks: Jamie Church
9:15 - 10:00 a.m.
Keynote Presentation: Sarah Elkins
10:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Networking Break
10:15 - 11:15 a.m.
Professionals in Education Panel: Representatives from FMS, San Juan College, Navajo Prep & Rocinante High School
11:15 - 11:30
Youth Homeless Program: Traci Neff with San Juan Safe Communities Initiative
11:30 - 1:00
Lunch, Shopping, Networking & Headshots
1:00
Businesswoman & Nonprofit Professional of the Year Awards
1:30 - 2:15
Time Managment: Amber De Le Garza
2:15 - 2:30
Summit Peer Exchange: Rachel Judge
2:30 - 2:45
Networking Break & Door Prizes
2:45 - 3:30
Look Up, 10 Tips for Leadership Success: Jamie Church
Pre-summit Workshop with Sarah Elkins
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026 | 3-4:30 p.m.| Farminton Civic Center
***Requires a separate ticket. Limited to 50 attendees***
Tickets: $75
Storytelling is Your Most Powerful Professional Development Tool
We don’t blaze trails by ourselves. We need our posse, we need advocates, we need cheerleaders and co-conspirators. And the only way to influence people to enthusiastically join you on the journey is for them to know what matters to you - your values, your character, and your vision.
You can tell people you’re an expert, a team player, a caring leader, or a passionate advocate, but that doesn’t make these things true or compelling. But sharing the stories that demonstrate these things will be the most persuasive, inspiring, and memorable connection you can make with any audience.
In this session, you’ll experience storytelling as a powerful tool for developing and managing your personal brand, for leading teams, and as a professional woman building a stand-out career and life.
You'll be engaged in exercises to begin collecting your most meaningful personal stories, and you’ll practice sharing them after learning simple and approachable storytelling components. Together, we’ll uncover the biggest storytelling challenges and begin to gain confidence in knowing exactly which stories to share when opportunities arise.
Objectives
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Discover the power of sharing the right story for developing and managing your personal brand.
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Learn key components of story sharing: Body language/expression, setting intention, story listening
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Collect and practice at least 2 meaningful stories during the session
Speed Networking & VIP Reception
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026 | 5-7:30 p.m.| Farminton Civic Center
Included with your Women's Summit Ticket
Standalone tickets available for $50
Some of the most valuable opportunities at the Women's Summit happen between sessions, and this event is where those connections begin.
Our guided speed networking experience is designed to help you meet a wide variety of professionals in a fun, structured setting. Through a series of brief conversations, you'll have the chance to introduce yourself, exchange ideas, and connect with professionals from across the Four Corners region representing businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and community organizations.
After networking, continue the conversation at our VIP Reception, featuring live music, hors d'oeuvres from Clancy's, and a relaxed atmosphere where you can deepen the connections you've just made.
Be sure to bring plenty of business cards or other marketing materials to share.
Whether you're looking to grow your business, build professional relationships, discover new opportunities, or simply expand your network, this is an event you won't want to miss.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Morning Keynote with Sarah Elkins
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026
Using Story to Nurture and Inspire Your Community
This keynote reconnects you with the power of your own story—the story that builds strong relationships and trust, naturally and authentically, so you gain the champions and advocates you need to succeed.
You lead from wherever you stand, and when you’re clear about who you are as a leader, your entire community benefits. You’ll leave this session feeling more grounded in your voice, more intentional in your message, and more capable of serving your community by allowing and encouraging others to contribute, whether you're rallying a team, earning buy-in for a project, or in an interview, or stepping into bigger leadership moments.
About Sarah
Sarah is your guide to uncovering the right personal stories for the right audiences so executives, leaders, advocates, public speakers, and job seekers can clearly and effectively demonstrate their character, values, and vision. She is a storyteller, keynote speaker, Gallup certified workplace communication coach, author, and professional musician. Her podcast and book, Your Stories Don’t Define You, How You Tell Them Will, help listeners and readers understand that the stories they choose to tell, and how they choose to tell them, influence their internal messages and how they are experienced by others. Her workshops and coaching packages are known to address and reduce miscommunication – the most common cause of tension and stress in the workplace. Using results from the StrengthsFinder assessment, she guides conversations to ensure work relationships are based on knowing & valuing each other’s strengths, and connecting with each other on the most basic level through enhanced self-reflection, story sharing, and effective listening.
Morning Keynote with Amber De La Garza
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026
Time Maximizers for Success: Start Using Time to Slay Your Goals
Achieving your goals comes down to how intentionally you invest your time in the activities that actually move the needle. If you find yourself constantly saying "there's never enough time" or believing you’re just "not good at time management," you've likely developed a toxic relationship with time, probably unknowingly. Amber reveals how changing these limiting beliefs and viewing time as a strategic investment can swiftly transform your personal productivity and accelerate goal achievement.
About Amber
Amber De La Garza is a small business coach, speaker, trainer, and podcast host with over a decade of experience helping successful, busy business owners take back control of their time, team, business, and life. Using her signature Business by Design Methodology™, Amber helps her clients strengthen self-leadership, improve personal productivity, gain financial clarity, increase operational efficiency, lead their team confidently, and run their business strategically. She coaches the person behind the business and the business they have built, so they can maximize profits, reduce stress, and make time for what matters most. Amber hosts the long-running, top 1% podcast Small Business Straight Talk with 400+ episodes that give listeners the straight talk on self-leadership, personal productivity, financial clarity, operational efficiency, team leadership, and business strategy so they can get results and succeed in business. As The Productivity Specialist, Amber has been a speaker and trainer on productivity and time management for Pepsi, Cartier, Fritos, Caesars Entertainment, Marriott, MGM, and many other prestigious companies and organizations. She has also written for HuffPost, Fast Company, Bloomberg Tax, Architectural Digest PRO, and more notable publications. Outside of business, Amber is a wife, mom, off-road UTV adventurer, house plant enthusiast, lover of guacamole, and mom to two German Shepherds and two rescue desert tortoises.
Need a Professional Headshot?
Then come ready to have your picture taken!
This year's attendees will once again have an opportunity to get a complimentary professional headshot taken by
You'll receive 1 digital photo to use on:
-Social Media
-Your business website
-Email Signatures
-Business Cards
-Virtual Meetings
-Speaking Engagements
Anywhere you're showing up as your professional self!
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