About the Summit

Stonyfield Farm®  StrongWomen™ Lead Summit is a rare opportunity for women to step back and reflect on ways to realize their full potential and recognize their strengths.  All this in a beautiful setting in the company of other extraordinary women and the LLuminari® health experts you know and love through their best-selling books and personal appearances on The Today Show, Good Morning America, PBS, and the Discovery Channel.  Speakers’ will discuss the correlation between your health and its effects on those you live and work with. Spend the weekend with experts learning how to unleash your leadership and entrepreneurial aspirations while increasing your knowledge of how physical activity and nutrition can help you live a healthier life.  

• Learn how to become healthier from best-selling author
  Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, director of the Complementary Medicine Program at Columbia University and co-author of You, The Owner's Manual - the book that knocked Harry Potter off the best-seller list. 

• Have a heart-to-heart conversation with the original Strong Woman and conference leader Dr. Miriam Nelson. A Tufts University researcher andauthor of the internationally best-selling Strong Women book series, she teaches women how to balance work and life by becoming stronger mentally and physically.    

• Interact with the founder and director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University, Dr. Marianne Legato, well-known academic physician, author, and lecturer on women’s health.  Dr. Legato is the author of a new book Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget.

• Hear from life coach Dr. Janet Taylor about what she has learned from her personal decision to practice psychiatry in an urban environment at Harlem Hospital.  A resident of Chappaqua, New York, Dr. Taylor will also discuss how to become a Strong Woman in the workplace and at home by applying her Seven Strategies.

• Laugh along with stress management consultant Loretta LaRoche, star of six award-winning specials on PBS, such as The Joy of Stress, and Life is Short – Wear Your Party Pants.  Her irreverent humor and innate sense of the absurd are a prescription for laughter to manage stress at work and at home.

• Discover how Gary Hirshberg, President and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm grew a 7-cow organic farming school into a company with more than $200 million in annual sales - making it the largest producer of organic yogurt in the world.

• Hear a personal story of re-invention at mid-life from entrepreneur Elizabeth A. Browning, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LLuminari, an innovative health education company co-founded with Susan Love, M.D., and Nancy Snyderman, M.D.  Learn about the LLuminari Landmark Study – The Impact of a Company’s Culture on Women and Men’s Health.

Be challenged, engaged and motivated toward a more energized stronger lifestyle.

Agenda
The weekend conference offers a full agenda, including one-on-one time with the LLuminari experts. Registration starts at 3:00 p.m. on Friday with an opening night reception beginning at 6:00 pm.  The summit starts early on Saturday with a variety of opportunities to exercise with the experts at 7:00 a.m. The general session will begin at 9:00 and a compelling and rich agenda will continue through dinner Saturday night. On Sunday, we offer additional exercise opportunities and a general session that finishes just after lunch at 1:00 p.m.  

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