Be Your Best Self Conference
Name:
Be Your Best Self Conference
Date:
August 27, 2026
Time:
8:15 AM - 3:15 PM EDT
Registration:
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Event Description:
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The Be Your Best Self Conference is back and celebrating five years of empowering professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders to grow, connect, and level up. What began as a bold idea has become one of the region’s most anticipated events, bringing together ambitious individuals for a day packed with powerful speakers, fresh ideas, and the kind of connections that spark real momentum.
Get ready for a high-energy experience designed to inspire action and help you step confidently into what’s next. From thought-provoking conversations to meaningful networking, the Be Your Best Self Conference is where motivation meets opportunity.
Between sessions, visit incredible local vendors and expand your network by forging new connections. Stay for the whole day for a chance to win fantastic raffle prizes!
Pricing Options:
- Early Bird Pricing: $99 per attendee (available through May 15)
- Regular Pricing: $125 per attendee (after May 15)
- Premier Sponsor: $5,000 (One per industry) - Includes 8 tickets to the event, a private table, logo placement on the website, podcast spotlight, 30-second event spotlight, program ad, social media & newsletter mentions.
- Branded Table Package: $1,400 - Includes 8 tickets to the event, a private table, and digital ad rotating throughout.
- Table Tower Ad (2 Sides): $1,000
- Table Tower Ad (One Side): $750
- Main Hall Exhibitor: $550 (SOLD OUT) - Includes 1 ticket to the event and a table for marketing your business in the Atrium.
- Scioto Room Exhibitor: $400 - Includes 1 ticket to the event and a table for marketing your business in the Scioto Room.
8:15AM: Doors Open (Light Bites & Networking)
9:00AM: Opening Keynote: Dr. Alexis Yamokoski: The Neuroscience of Flow and Sustainable High Performance
10:00AM: Networking & Visit Vendors
10:30AM: Keynote: Dr. Alaina Puff: Built to Hold it: A Nervous System Approach to Sustainability and Legacy
11:15AM: Networking & Visit Vendors
11:45AM: Lunch
12:30PM: Fireside Chat with Joe DeLoss, Moderated by La Baker
1:30PM: Networking & Visit Vendors
2:00PM: Keynote: Eric Pennington: Leveraging EQ in an Age of Uncertainty
3:00PM: Announce Raffle Winners
3:15PM: Adjourn
Opening Keynote: Dr. Alexis Yamokoski: The Neuroscience of Flow and Sustainable High Performance
Flow creates the mental conditions where focus, creativity, and performance naturally rise for individuals and teams. Alexis shares how the brain moves into flow, why it matters during change, and how leaders can shape environments that reduce burnout, strengthen momentum, and support peak performance across the organization.
Keynote: Dr. Alaina Puff: Built to Hold it: A Nervous System Approach to Sustainability and Legacy
Most entrepreneurs and leaders know how to build. But very few stop to ask the harder question: are you actually capable of sustaining what you're building toward? Not in your systems or strategy — in your body. In your identity. Because success doesn't just show up in your revenue, it lands in your nervous system. And if that system was never wired to hold wealth, visibility, or real responsibility at scale, it will quietly move the money and the momentum somewhere else.
Drawing on trauma-informed psychology and somatic work, this keynote argues that the ceiling on your impact isn't your strategy—it's your capacity to inhabit the identity of someone who builds for more than themselves. Attendees will leave with a framework for understanding why nervous system patterns cap most leaders' wealth and influence, and what shifting from accumulating success to building something lasting actually requires.
Fireside Chat with Joe DeLoss, Moderated by La Baker
Description coming soon!
Keynote: Eric Pennington: Leveraging EQ in an Age of Uncertainty
Uncertainty isn’t going away — but the leaders who thrive aren’t the ones who have all the answers. They’re the ones who have mastered themselves.
Fireside Chat with Joe DeLoss, Moderated by La Baker
Description coming soon!
Keynote: Eric Pennington: Leveraging EQ in an Age of Uncertainty
Uncertainty isn’t going away — but the leaders who thrive aren’t the ones who have all the answers. They’re the ones who have mastered themselves.
In this keynote, Eric Pennington makes a compelling case for emotional intelligence not as a soft skill, but as a foundational leadership capability — one that can be learned, developed, and applied in the most challenging of times. The good news? EQ is not fixed at birth. Every leader in the room has the capacity to grow it.
Drawing on years of work with leaders across industries, Eric shows how emotionally intelligent leaders don’t simply react to uncertainty — they rise above it. By developing greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, and relational acuity, leaders create an internal stability that external chaos simply cannot shake. EQ becomes the anchor that holds when the environment shifts.
Equally important, EQ is a direct pathway to mental clarity and sustainable health. When leaders understand their stress signatures, manage their emotional triggers, and lead from a grounded center, they think more clearly, decide more wisely, and show up more fully — for their teams, their organizations, and themselves.
Audiences will leave with
• A renewed confidence that EQ is a skill — not a trait — and growth is always available to them
• Practical tools to stay grounded, clear-headed, and effective when uncertainty intensifies
• A new understanding of how emotional intelligence protects and strengthens mental health over the long haul.
