Presented by The Women Business Leaders Council
Organizations measure success through outcomes—stronger teams, greater collaboration, increased client and donor loyalty, higher retention, referrals, innovation, and sustainable growth. According to PwC’s 2024 Trust in Business Survey, 93% of business executives agree that building and maintaining trust improves the bottom line. Yet trust isn’t built through one defining moment. It’s built through the intentional interactions that shape every relationship.
- When your name appears on someone’s phone, what do they feel?
- When your email lands in their inbox, what’s their immediate reaction?
- When someone mentions your name in a meeting, what experience comes to mind?
Those seemingly small moments shape trust, influence, and ultimately the relationships that drive organizational success.
In this engaging and interactive session, Leadership & Connection Strategist Jodi Hope Grinwald introduces The Access Equation™, a practical framework that demonstrates how intentional human connection creates the conditions for measurable organizational outcomes. Intentional connection builds trust. Trust strengthens influence. And influence creates access—to conversations, opportunities, partnerships, referrals, and relationships that organizations can’t afford to leave to chance.
Through her signature CONNECT™ Methodology—Conscious Presence, Observation, Non-Judgment, No Assumptions, Empathy, Commitment, and Trust, participants will discover how small, intentional shifts in the way they lead, communicate, and build relationships can strengthen influence across teams, clients, customers, donors, and communities.
Participants will leave with practical strategies to intentionally create experiences that strengthen trust, deepen relationships, increase collaboration, improve retention and loyalty, generate referrals, and elevate leadership effectiveness.
Sometimes the greatest opportunities for growth aren’t found in doing more—they’re found in being more intentional about the moments we often overlook.
Meet Our Speaker
Jodi Hope Grinwald, CPC, ELI-MP
Leadership & Connection Strategist, Keynote Speaker, Certified Professional CoachJodi Hope Grinwald is a Leadership & Connection Strategist, keynote speaker, Certified Professional Coach, and founder of Today is the Day. She is the creator of Connection is the Work™, a leadership philosophy that helps organizations turn human connection into measurable organizational outcomes.
Most organizations optimize each function separately. Jodi helps create an ecosystem where every relationship strengthens every result.
Through Connection is the Work™, she helps organizations strengthen leadership, build collaborative teams, elevate workplace culture,
increase customer and donor loyalty, improve retention, drive innovation, and create sustainable growth through intentional connection.
