International Women’s Day 2025: Accelerate Action
In today’s rapidly evolving technical fields landscape, gender equality isn’t just a moral imperative—it’s a business imperative. Organizations that fail to empower women are missing out on a wealth of talent, innovation, and market share. This dynamic and interactive International Women’s Day 2025 presentation, “Accelerating Action: It’s Time for Change,” provides a wake-up call and a roadmap for creating truly inclusive tech environments. Speaker Cassandra Moody, blends compelling data with actionable strategies, empowering women to reclaim their narratives, navigate male-dominated spaces with confidence, and amplify their voices. Participants will learn practical communication and negotiation skills, boundary-setting techniques, and strategies for building powerful alliances. Moreover, this talk goes beyond individual empowerment, fostering a collective force for change by equipping attendees with the tools to build true partnerships with male colleagues, advocate for inclusive policies, and create a shared vision for a more equitable future. Participants will walk away with a personal best life map worksheet, empowered with actionable next steps. This isn’t just another diversity training—it’s a catalyst for real transformation, igniting the spark for lasting change within your organization and driving tangible results.
Accelerating Action: It’s time for change- Empowering women in technical teams
I. Introduction: The Wake-Up Call (5 minutes)
II. The Urgency of Now (5 minutes)
Beyond the numbers
The cost of inaction
Why now is different
III. Individual Power: Reclaiming Your Narrative (10 minutes)
Own Your Narrative
Strategic Communication & Influence:
Beyond assertiveness: Teach specific communication strategies for navigating male-dominated environments.
Negotiation as empowerment
Boundary Setting as Self-Preservation: Your “no” protects your “yes”
IV. Time for Change: YOUR Vision for the Future (15 minutes)
Vision Brainstorm: Facilitate a brief interactive visioning activity. Ask participants to imagine their lives in five years if they are empowered to define their own “best life”.
From Vision to Action: Connect the vision to concrete action steps. Go beyond generic advice. Provide specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) actions that individuals and teams can take.
Accountability & Measurement: Discuss ways to track progress and hold individuals and organizations accountable for achieving their goals.
V. Collective Force: Amplifying Our Voices (10 minutes)
Beyond Allyship: Building True Partnerships: Challenge the traditional concept of allyship. Focus on how men can become active partners in driving change, not just passive supporters. Provide specific examples of actions men can take.
Mentorship & Sponsorship – The Power Duo: Differentiate between mentorship and sponsorship, emphasizing the critical role of sponsorship in opening doors and creating opportunities. Provide practical tips for finding and cultivating sponsors.
Creating a Culture of Courageous Conversations: Facilitate a brief interactive exercise (even virtually) where participants practice having difficult conversations about diversity, inclusion, and bias.
Amplifying Each Other’s Voices: Discuss strategies for amplifying the voices of other women in meetings, during presentations, and in other professional settings. Provide concrete examples of how to support and elevate each other.
VI. Q&A: Igniting the Spark (15 minutes)
Frame the Q&A as an opportunity to ignite the spark and empower participants to become agents of change.
Provide resources and further reading to continue the conversation beyond the event.
End with a powerful call to action, emphasizing the urgency of the moment and the potential for real transformation.
Author Biography
Mrs. Cassandra K. Moody, M.S., P.E. is a passionate professional engineer with over 15 years of oil and gas engineering experience encompassing Pipeline Asset Integrity Management Program (IMP) responsibilities while serving in regional operations engineering capacities during her tenure with a North American pipeline operator. Mrs. Moody leads technical teams and provides Subject Matter Expertise in program management, pipeline operations, safety management systems, oilfield safety legal matters, threat assessment, and change management through her Houston-based engineering consulting firm, Time For Change. Being a successful female in a predominately male, technical industry, Mrs. Moody is an advocate for women and young engineers. She maintains multiple Women’s Owned business certifications and provides professional coaching services. Cassandra is also a wife and momma who enjoys leading bible studies, encouraging others, reading, cooking, and spending time outdoors in her spare time.
Contact Cassandra today to plan your event’s 2025 International Women’s Day event to Accelerate Action!