
Building Real Businesses: Breaking the Myths Around Female Leadership & Entrepreneurship
In this keynote, Dr. Stephanie Ann Wilson delivers a clear, bold, and deeply necessary message for today’s female leaders, entrepreneurs, and conscious leadership advocates. As the founder of She's In Business University, Dr. Stephanie shares why conventional approaches to female empowerment in business are often missing the mark — and how a new model is urgently needed.
She challenges the widespread “empowerment hype” that tends to focus on short-term motivation, personal development buzzwords, and surface-level confidence-building — without addressing the actual skills, systems, and strategies required to build real, scalable, sustainable businesses.
Her message is a call for a more grounded, structural, and system-based approach to support women not just as participants in business but as builders of true enterprises. She explains how many women go through cycles of empowerment events, feel temporarily uplifted, but often find themselves still lacking the tools and knowledge to grow beyond solopreneurship or limited growth models.
Key principles she addresses include:
- Moving beyond motivation to mastery — building real business acumen.
- Challenging the myths that women “just need more confidence” — when in reality, they need proper support structures, education, and sustainable models.
- Creating scalable, long-term businesses rather than depending solely on personal branding, hustle culture, or temporary trends.
- The difference between personal empowerment and business empowerment, and why both must be integrated consciously.
Through her pioneering university model, Dr. Stephanie offers a new paradigm for supporting women at every stage of leadership and business growth — one that focuses on both inner transformation and real-world business development.