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Empowering Women for Board Leadership and Resilience - Part 2

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October 31, 2025 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT St. Davids, PA

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NACD Philadelphia
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Kristen Coscia
Executive Director
kristen@philadelphia.nacdonline.org

Elizabeth Parisoli
Administrator
elizabeth@philadelphia.nacdonline.org

NACD Philadelphia Chapter
P.O. Box 1
Wynnewood, PA 19096
programs@philadelphia.nacdonline.org
610-640-5454

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About The Event

Member Price: $40.00

Non Member Price: $40.00

Credits: 1 NACD Credit

This program is designed to equip board members with essential tools and insights to navigate today’s complex governance landscape. Featuring four distinguished panelists, each presenting their topic in a dynamic five-minute session, the event will cover enhancing boardroom influence, advanced financial oversight, and governance amid rapid change. Participants will also explore strategies for driving innovation, managing crises, and addressing evolving priorities in leadership and corporate responsibility. Each session provides actionable guidance to strengthen board effectiveness and foster resilience in times of uncertainty.

Each speaker will then take a seat at a lunch table with event guests invited to sit with speakers and further explore topics of greatest interest.

Ample time for networking has been built into the day's schedule.

Location

Triple Crown

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Speakers

Chair, NACD Philadelphia Chapter and Independent Director

Melissa Ludwig

Melissa Ludwig is an insightful, strategic board director with public consumer-products company board and executive experience. A nimble problem solver with an accomplished, long-standing business leadership career in retail having direct profit-and-loss accountability up to $600 million…

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Independent Director

Beth Albright, NACD.DC

Beth Albright is a seasoned Fortune 500 Board Director and former C-Suite Executive adept at driving global transformations both domestically and globally in multi-billion dollar companies. She has deep governance and transformation expertise honed by guiding a company through an IPO process of spinning into a public company, as well as M&A and turnaround events. She has served on public company, higher education, and non-profit boards... 

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Founder & CEO, FNB Holdings

Denise Devine

Denise L. Devine is an experienced independent board director and compensation committee and audit and risk committee chair under whose leadership an inaugural enterprise risk assessment was initiated and ongoing organization-wide monitoring processes established…

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Independent Board Director

Daria Torres

Daria Torres is a tech-savvy, proven strategist with over 20 years of global, cross-sector executive experience. As founder and managing partner of Walls Torres Group, Daria has led her firm in serving an extensive portfolio of esteemed clients, including blue chip Fortune 500 businesses, pioneering technology companies, multi-national philanthropic organizations, and leading academic institutions…

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Independent Board Director

Trish Wellenbach NACD.DC

With more than 25 years of experience in the executive and C-suites, Patricia D. Wellenbach has demonstrated experience in restructuring and building businesses to position them for future growth and opportunity. Appointed in 2016 as president and CEO of Please Touch Museum, she retired $60 million of debt…

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NACD Philadelphia
Contact Us

Kristen Coscia
Executive Director
kristen@philadelphia.nacdonline.org

Elizabeth Parisoli
Administrator
elizabeth@philadelphia.nacdonline.org

NACD Philadelphia Chapter
P.O. Box 1
Wynnewood, PA 19096
programs@philadelphia.nacdonline.org
610-640-5454

Find a Chapter

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NACD and the NACD Chapter Network organizations (NACD) are non-partisan, nonprofit organizations dedicated to providing directors with the opportunity to discuss timely governance oversight practices. The views of the speakers and audience are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of NACD.