Setting Goals That Stick

2025 Women in Leadership Series

Setting Goals That Stick

With increasing complexity and competition, organizations require resilient leaders who can navigate change with ease. How do you develop a “believe and achieve” mindset in yourself and in your team?

As a leading expert on the science of grit and goal setting, Caroline Adams Miller will provide research-based, actionable strategies to help you cultivate more grit to achieve your most challenging personal and professional goals. Her powerful personal stories will show you how you can increase resilience, achieve success and lead with happiness.

Grit is now recognized as one of the key determinants for achievement and life satisfaction.

Featured Speakers

Caroline Adams Miller

Best Selling Author; Goals & Grit Expert

For over three decades, Harvard-trained psychologist Caroline Adams Miller has been a pioneer with her groundbreaking work in the areas of the science of goal setting, grit, happiness, and success. She is recognized as one of the world’s leading positive psychology experts on this research and how it can be applied to one’s life and work for maximum transformation.

In her new book, BIG GOALS (Wiley; Nov. 27), Caroline dismantles clichés like “visualize your success” and outlines the only scientifically-proven way to set and achieve goals. The Next Big Idea Club said Caroline’s book is a must-read, calling it “the new approach you need to more confidently and effectively move forward towards achieving your goals in your personal and professional life.”

Brigadier General (Ret.) Rebecca Halstead

CEO, Steadfast Leadership; Faculty, Thayer Leadership

Becky is a 1981 graduate of the United States Military Academy and achieved an historic milestone as the first female graduate of West Point to be promoted to General Officer. She was the senior Commanding General (equivalent to CEO) for logistics in Iraq, and was the first female in U.S. history to command in combat at the strategic level. In this capacity, she was responsible for leading over 200 multi‐disciplined units (20,000 military and 5,000 civilians) located across 55 different bases, providing supply, maintenance, transportation and distribution support to over 250,000 personnel serving in Iraq.

Agenda

11:00 am – Noon

Cultivate More Grit

Featuring Caroline Adams Miller

Through her BRIDGE methodology, she’ll help you avoid the three types of “bad grit” and learn how to cultivate a team of positive energizers who support and amplify each other’s successes. She’ll break down case study examples of high-profile business failures and successes to provide a rounded perspective on what needs to go right in order for goals to be realized.

Noon – 12:50 pm

The Discipline of Goal-Setting

Featuring Brigadier General (Ret.) Rebecca Halstead

While grit is the first ingredient to achieving your goals, having the discipline to set the right goals and lead with clarity is just as critical. Drawing from her groundbreaking military career—where she became the first female West Point graduate to reach the rank of General Officer—Becky Halstead will share hard-earned leadership lessons on how to set goals that not only stick but also drive meaningful results.

Becky will focus on accountability, resilience and purpose-driven leadership, offering a strategic approach to goal-setting that ensures follow-through in high-pressure environments. She’ll share practical tools for overcoming setbacks, staying focused in the face of challenges and leading with conviction—whether in the C-Suite, on the battlefield or in everyday life. Together with Caroline Miller’s insights on grit, this session will provide a full-spectrum roadmap to setting, pursuing and achieving big goals with confidence and impact.

12:50 – 1:30 pm

Concurrent Peer-to-Peer Roundtables

We’ll break into small groups in Zoom meeting rooms for facilitated discussions on the key takeaways from the sessions, share challenges with one another, and help each other create an action plan that benefits from one another’s experiences and lessons.

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$ 995 Per Year

$ 295 Per Session

Single Event Session
Membership not included

Individual event sessions are eligible for 2 CPE credits in Business Management.