A SheFirst Workshop with Gretchen Hydo, MCC
Align who you are, how you show up, and how you're known.
A SheFirst Workshop with
Gretchen Hydo, MCC
Align who you are,
how you show up, and
how you're known.
A professional development intensive to enter 2027 known for who you are and what you bring.
Friday, November 6
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM PT
Investment: $149
Live on Zoom, Interactive Professional Development Workshop
Many participants are able to use professional development or learning and development funds to cover the cost. Details are included below.
A professional development intensive to enter 2027 known for who you are and what you bring.
Friday, November 6
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM PT
Investment: $149
Live on Zoom,
Interactive Professional Development Workshop
Many participants are able to use professional development or learning and development funds to cover the cost.
Details are included below.
A professional development intensive for women ready
to advance.
Friday, May 1
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM PT
Investment: $149
Live on Zoom, Interactive Professional Development Workshop
Many participants are able to use professional development or learning and development funds to cover the cost. Details are included below.
A professional development intensive for women ready
to advance
Friday, March 20
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT
Investment: $149
Live, Interactive Professional Development Workshop
Many participants are able to use professional development or learning and development funds to cover the cost. Details are included below.
OWN YOUR IMAGE
OWN YOUR IMAGE
That’s not a confidence problem. That’s a practice problem. And practice is something we can fix.
You already know your work.
You prepare. You deliver. Your results speak. But the moments that shape a leader’s reputation aren’t easy ones.
They’re the moments when a senior leader challenges your recommendation, you’re interrupted mid-sentence, compensation or scope is being negotiated, or someone pushes back on your idea.
And right there, something shifts inside of you.
You explain more than necessary. You soften your position. You manage your tone. You say yes because saying no doesn’t feel like an option.
Because authority under pressure requires a different kind of practice.
This workshop builds it.
Every December, I ask myself the same question: did I build the woman I wanted to become this year, or did I just survive being her?
Can I tell you something true? For years I lived inside a story that told me I didn't matter, that no one really considered me, that I wasn't valued or seen. People noticed what I did. They knew they could count on me, that I'd show up, help, and inspire them forward. But underneath that, I believed no one cared, not really, not about me.
So I made myself impossible to overlook. I said yes to everything, carried what nobody asked me to carry, and built a life that ran on being needed, because being needed felt like the closest thing I had to being loved. I know now that story was never true. I am valued. I do count. People do consider me, and when I started living inside that truth instead of the old one, everything shifted, not because anything around me changed, but because I stopped scanning every room for proof that I didn't matter and started noticing all the places I already did.
I'd guess some of this sounds familiar, maybe not the specifics, but the shape of it: the overdoing, the always-yes, the certainty that if you ever stopped being useful, you'd stop being wanted at all.
The true story lives beneath that, in the layers and the echoes of who you truly are. Live from the old image, and life keeps handing you evidence for it. Live from the true story instead, and the same room, the same conversation, the same year, starts giving you something entirely different back. Every experience is a reaction to life through the lens you're looking through, and 2027 is where you choose which lens you're living in.
The old image almost always forms for the same reason: to feel safe. Mine showed up as being overly responsible, doing for other people what they were fully capable of doing for themselves, and overextending myself past what I had to give. For some women it looks different: agreeable, easy, careful never to disrupt the room, because that is how safety was learned. The behaviors differ, but the root is the same, an old image built for protection, long before it was ever built for truth.
You might already know which one is yours. It's the yes you gave when every part of you wanted to say no. It's checking whether you've done enough today before you'll let yourself sit down. It's staying agreeable in the meeting or your marriage because raising the disagreement felt like more risk than it was worth. It's hearing "you're so dependable" for the tenth time and feeling something twist instead of flattered, because dependable was never the whole story.
What would it be like to live a life where you were unmistakably you? It's a hard question to sit with. Most of us couldn't tell you what it would mean, only that it would feel different from this.
Every December, I ask myself the same question: did I build the woman I wanted to become this year, or did I just survive being her?
Can I tell you something true? For years I lived inside a story that told me I didn't matter, that no one really considered me, that I wasn't valued or seen. People noticed what I did. They knew they could count on me, that I'd show up, help, and inspire them forward. But underneath that, I believed no one cared, not really, not about me.
So I made myself impossible to overlook. I said yes to everything, carried what nobody asked me to carry, and built a life that ran on being needed, because being needed felt like the closest thing I had to being loved. I know now that story was never true. I am valued. I do count. People do consider me, and when I started living inside that truth instead of the old one, everything shifted, not because anything around me changed, but because I stopped scanning every room for proof that I didn't matter and started noticing all the places I already did.
I'd guess some of this sounds familiar, maybe not the specifics, but the shape of it: the overdoing, the always-yes, the certainty that if you ever stopped being useful, you'd stop being wanted at all.
The true story lives beneath that, in the layers and the echoes of who you truly are. Live from the old image, and life keeps handing you evidence for it. Live from the true story instead, and the same room, the same conversation, the same year, starts giving you something entirely different back. Every experience is a reaction to life through the lens you're looking through, and 2027 is where you choose which lens you're living in.
The old image almost always forms for the same reason: to feel safe. Mine showed up as being overly responsible, doing for other people what they were fully capable of doing for themselves, and overextending myself past what I had to give. For some women it looks different: agreeable, easy, careful never to disrupt the room, because that is how safety was learned. The behaviors differ, but the root is the same, an old image built for protection, long before it was ever built for truth.
You might already know which one is yours. It's the yes you gave when every part of you wanted to say no. It's checking whether you've done enough today before you'll let yourself sit down. It's staying agreeable in the meeting or your marriage because raising the disagreement felt like more risk than it was worth. It's hearing "you're so dependable" for the tenth time and feeling something twist instead of flattered, because dependable was never the whole story.
What would it be like to live a life where you were unmistakably you? It's a hard question to sit with. Most of us couldn't tell you what it would mean, only that it would feel different from this.
THE SHIFT STARTS WITH YOU
THE SHIFT STARTS
WITH YOU
You are trusted, relied on, and often invited to take on more. You bring insight, consistency, and value to your work.
As roles expand, being excellent at your job is sometimes only part of the equation. Leadership advancement often depends on additional, unspoken criteria that are rarely explained.
Yet when promotion decisions are made, you wonder why your name isn’t coming up as often as it should.
As careers progress, leadership visibility, influence, and trust increasingly shape how opportunities unfold. Advancement is influenced not only by results, but by how leadership is recognized, understood, and experienced inside organizations.
Ready for the Room is a professional development intensive designed to help women gain clarity around how leadership visibility works and how to position their contribution, voice, and readiness in ways that are clearly recognized.
This workshop focuses on alignment, clarity, and intention. It supports women in strengthening how their leadership is experienced while staying grounded in who
they are.
Living as yourself starts with ownership: of your life, of who you are, what you like, your preferences, your strengths, the places you're still growing, and what you want, then building the life from there instead of around everyone else's expectations of it. That's the work of this workshop, and it moves through three shifts, in order.
Own it. Live it. Create it.
Own Your Image — OWN IT.
There are three parts to how you're known: the image you put forward, what people actually receive, and what's true underneath it all. You'll look at the signals you're sending through your communication, presence, and the way you show up, then identify where those three aren't matching. You'll leave knowing the image you're leading with now and what needs to shift so how you're seen begins to reflect who you really are.
Define Your Story — LIVE IT.
We live up to the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we're not. Those stories shape our choices, often without us realizing it. You'll name the story that's been writing your life and recognize where you've been reacting to it instead of choosing for yourself. Then you'll begin defining the story you actually want to live from, so your decisions reflect who you are now, not who you learned you had to be.
Be Seen and Chosen — CREATE IT.
Being seen and chosen starts when the image you present and the story underneath it finally match. You'll close the gap between who you are, how you show up, and what other people receive. Then you'll create a Power Statement that communicates your value with clarity, giving you language for who you are and what you bring. You'll walk into 2027 ready to be known and chosen for the person you actually are.
Own it. Live it. Create it. Together, these three shifts do one thing: they move you from performing an image to being fully known, walking into 2027 already seen and chosen, on your own terms.
Living as yourself starts with ownership: of your life, of who you are, what you like, your preferences, your strengths, the places you're still growing, and what you want, then building the life from there instead of around everyone else's expectations of it. That's the work of this workshop, and it moves through three shifts, in order.
Own it. Live it. Create it.
Own Your Image —
OWN IT.
There are three parts to how you're known: the image you put forward, what people actually receive, and what's true underneath it all. You'll look at the signals you're sending through your communication, presence, and the way you show up, then identify where those three aren't matching. You'll leave knowing the image you're leading with now and what needs to shift so how you're seen begins to reflect who you really are.
Define Your Story —
LIVE IT.
We live up to the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we're not. Those stories shape our choices, often without us realizing it. You'll name the story that's been writing your life and recognize where you've been reacting to it instead of choosing for yourself. Then you'll begin defining the story you actually want to live from, so your decisions reflect who you are now, not who you learned you had to be.
Be Seen and Chosen — CREATE IT.
Being seen and chosen starts when the image you present and the story underneath it finally match. You'll close the gap between who you are, how you show up, and what other people receive. Then you'll create a Power Statement that communicates your value with clarity, giving you language for who you are and what you bring. You'll walk into 2027 ready to be known and chosen for the person you actually are.
Own it. Live it. Create it. Together, these three shifts do one thing: they move you from performing an image to being fully known, walking into 2027 already seen and chosen, on your own terms.
The moments that shape advancement are the ones most women are never taught how to navigate.
For every 100 men
promoted to manager, only
The gap compounds at every level. McKinsey estimates parity is 22 years away for most women, and nearly 50 for women of color.
McKinsey & LeanIn.org,
Women in the Workplace 2024
Research from the Center for Talent Innovation found that executive presence accounts for 26% of promotion readiness.
Not performance along. How you show up when challenged.
The conversations that define your career often look like:
Negotiating compensation
Pushing back on unrealistic scope
Disagreeing with senior leadership
Standing behind your recommendation when challenged
SheFirst leadership is built in
those moments.
Why This
Matters Now
The Unspoken Criteria
That Shape
Leadership Visibility
As women move into mid-career and leadership stages, expectations expand. Influence, visibility, and trust increasingly shape who is invited into key conversations and advancement opportunities.
Research Highlight
According to McKinsey’s Women in the Workplace report, for every 100 men promoted from entry level to manager,
87 women are promoted.
Over time, this gap shapes leadership pathways and representation.
Understanding how leadership is evaluated and communicated allows women to navigate this stage with clarity, confidence, and strategic intention.
CHOOSE HOW YOU ENTER 2027
Employers are already deciding based on it. 44% say they've hired someone because of their personal brand, and 54% say they've rejected a candidate over a poor one. Harvard research shows women are still far more likely than men to fear being seen as self-promotional, and it shows up in the numbers: women are significantly less likely to actively promote their own accomplishments, even when they're outperforming their peers.
The gap sits in visibility, chosen or left to chance, far more than it sits in talent. And underneath visibility is the same thing we started with: which story you're letting the room see.
This shows up outside work too. A partner, kids, friends, they know the version of you that shows up to stay safe, dependable, easy, always there, but that isn't the same as knowing the full version of who you are.
Heading into 2027, the real question is what you've decided people should know about you, at work and at home, and whether you're building toward it on purpose.
If you are ready for a community and for more, SheFirst is where you belong.
CHOOSE HOW YOU ENTER 2027
Employers are already deciding based on it. 44% say they've hired someone because of their personal brand, and 54% say they've rejected a candidate over a poor one. Harvard research shows women are still far more likely than men to fear being seen as self-promotional, and it shows up in the numbers: women are significantly less likely to actively promote their own accomplishments, even when they're outperforming their peers.
The gap sits in visibility, chosen or left to chance, far more than it sits in talent. And underneath visibility is the same thing we started with: which story you're letting the room see.
This shows up outside work too. A partner, kids, friends, they know the version of you that shows up to stay safe, dependable, easy, always there, but that isn't the same as knowing the full version of who you are.
Heading into 2027, the real question is what you've decided people should know about you, at work and at home, and whether you're building toward it on purpose.
If you are ready for a community and for more, SheFirst is where you belong.
START BEFORE JANUARY
Most years start with a resolution, a list made in the first week of January, built from whatever felt most broken by New Year's Eve.
That's reacting to the year you just had, and it rarely holds past February, because it was never built from anything solid. It was built from pressure.
This workshop happens before 2027 starts for a reason. It's your jumpstart, groundwork you lay in advance, choosing now, on purpose, the story, the image, and the goals you're carrying into January, instead of scrambling to react once you're already in it.
That's the difference between a year that happens to you and a year you meet already knowing who you are and how you want to show up.
START BEFORE JANUARY
Most years start with a resolution, a list made in the first week of January, built from whatever felt most broken by New Year's Eve.
That's reacting to the year you just had, and it rarely holds past February, because it was never built from anything solid. It was built from pressure.
This workshop happens before 2027 starts for a reason. It's your jumpstart, groundwork you lay in advance, choosing now, on purpose, the story, the image, and the goals you're carrying into January, instead of scrambling to react once you're already in it.
That's the difference between a year that happens to you and a year you meet already knowing who you are and how you want to show up.
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE KNOWN
Knowing yourself is the foundation everything else stands on. How you're perceived, how you're received, how people describe you when you're not in the room, none of it holds if you don't know who you are underneath it first.
This isn't about a brand. It's about what people feel the moment your name comes up, at work, at home, in a room you're not in, and most of the time, that feeling is still running on the old image, the one built for safety rather than truth.
PRESENCE
How you land in a room before
you say a word.
VOICE
The tone and confidence behind what you say once you do.
VALUE
The outcomes, the care, and the perspective only you bring, at work and at home.
This is where the SheFirst framework carries the work forward. Presence and Power, two of the four elements you've been building all year, come together here through alignment: when what you present matches the true story underneath it, in your career and in your life, you move from credible and invisible to visible and valued, going into 2027.
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE KNOWN
Knowing yourself is the foundation everything else stands on. How you're perceived, how you're received, how people describe you when you're not in the room, none of it holds if you don't know who you are underneath it first.
This isn't about a brand. It's about what people feel the moment your name comes up, at work, at home, in a room you're not in, and most of the time, that feeling is still running on the old image, the one built for safety rather than truth.
PRESENCE
How you land in a room before
you say a word.
VOICE
The tone and confidence behind what you say once you do.
VALUE
The outcomes, the care, and the perspective only you bring, at work and at home.
This is where the SheFirst framework carries the work forward. Presence and Power, two of the four elements you've been building all year, come together here through alignment: when what you present matches the true story underneath it, in your career and in your life, you move from credible and invisible to visible and valued, going into 2027.
THE SHAPES THE OLD STORY TAKES
You know there’s more to life, but unsure of how to claim it for yourself.
Three stories show up in almost every accomplished woman Gretchen coaches, each one a different version of who she believed she had to be to stay safe.
The Rule Follower, who waits for permission that never comes, and applies for the promotion only once she meets every requirement on the list, while someone less qualified already asked for it.
The Invisible Expert, who solves the problem everyone else is stuck on, then says nothing when the credit goes to someone else in the room.
The Perfection Prover, who rewrites the same email four times before sending something that was right on the first draft.
None of these came from weakness. They came from a girl, and later a woman, doing whatever it took to feel secure in a world that didn't always make that easy. Own Your Image starts by naming which one has been running yours, so you can set it down and choose the story you're living by instead.
THE SHAPES THE OLD STORY TAKES
Three stories show up in almost every accomplished woman Gretchen coaches, each one a different version of who she believed she had to be to stay safe.
The Rule Follower, who waits for permission that never comes, and applies for the promotion only once she meets every requirement on the list, while someone less qualified already asked for it.
The Invisible Expert, who solves the problem everyone else is stuck on, then says nothing when the credit goes to someone else in the room.
The Perfection Prover, who rewrites the same email four times before sending something that was right on the first draft.
None of these came from weakness. They came from a girl, and later a woman, doing whatever it took to feel secure in a world that didn't always make that easy. Own Your Image starts by naming which one has been running yours, so you can set it down and choose the story you're living
by instead.
The Focus of
This Workshop
You know there’s more to life, but unsure of how to claim it for yourself.
Many high-performing women bring strong results, reliability, and commitment to their roles.
At more senior levels, leadership is often assessed through additional signals. These include how ideas are communicated, how presence is experienced in key moments, and how readiness for broader responsibility is expressed.
For example, how and when you contribute in meetings can influence how your thinking is remembered, even when your ideas are strong.
This workshop builds awareness of these dynamics and offers practical strategies that help women communicate their leadership clearly and effectively.
The session includes guided instruction, reflection, and practical application, with opportunities to engage and apply concepts in real time.
WHETHER YOU’VE BEEN HERE ALL YEAR
OR YOU’RE JUST JOINING US
WHETHER YOU’VE BEEN HERE ALL YEAR
OR YOU’RE JUST JOINING US
The SheFirst
Framework
Professionalism
How you show up as a leader, including boundaries,
regulation, and credibility.
Presence
How your leadership lands
before you speak, tone, pacing, steadiness, and silence.
Preparation
How you enter conversations with clarity, intention, and readiness for visibility.
Power
How you hold authority, stating recommendations clearly, attaching your name to outcomes, and holding your ground when challenged.
The Authority Method applies the SheFirst framework to the moments that define how leadership is evaluated under pressure, high-stakes conversations, pushback, negotiation, and the rooms where authority is either established
or lost.
This workshop puts the SheFirst framework into practice, with a focus on how each element shapes the way your leadership is experienced when the pressure rises.
The framework builds four elements that determine how authority is held and recognized.
These four elements are the foundation of both workshops in the SheFirst Leadership Pathway.
The SheFirst
Framework
Professionalism
How you show up as a leader, including boundaries, regulation, and credibility.
Presence
How your leadership lands before you speak, tone, pacing, steadiness, and silence.
Preparation
How you enter conversations with clarity, intention, and readiness for visibility.
Power
How you hold authority, stating recommendations clearly, attaching your name to outcomes, and holding your ground when challenged.
The Authority Intensive applies the SheFirst framework to the moments that define how leadership is evaluated under pressure, high-stakes conversations, pushback, negotiation, and the rooms where authority is either established
or lost.
This workshop puts the SheFirst framework into practice, with a focus on how each element shapes the way your leadership is experienced when the pressure rises.
The framework builds four elements that determine how authority is held and recognized:
These four elements are the foundation of both workshops in the SheFirst Leadership Pathway.
The SheEO
Framework
Professionalism
How you show up as a leader, including boundaries,
regulation, and credibility.
Presence
How you hold space,
communicate steadiness,
and engage in moments
that matter.
Preparation
How you enter conversations
with clarity, intention, and
readiness for visibility.
Power
How you influence outcomes, express ownership,
and communicate value
with confidence.
SheEO Foundations introduces the core principles of the SheEO framework and provides a practical starting point for applying these concepts in real professional settings.
This workshop introduces the SheEO framework, a practical model for understanding how leadership is perceived and evaluated in professional environments.
The framework focuses on four elements that shape leadership visibility and influence:
These elements work together to support leadership clarity and trust.
Participants will explore each element with real examples and immediate application during
the workshop.
YOU’VE BEEN HERE ALL YEAR
If you’ve spent this year with SheFirst, this closes the loop. Ready for the Room, The Authority Method, and Free to Lead all built toward this.
YOU’RE JUST JOINING US
If this is your first workshop with us, welcome. Everything here stands completely on its own.
YOU’VE BEEN HERE ALL YEAR
If you’ve spent this year with SheFirst, this closes the loop. Ready for the Room, The Authority Method, and Free to Lead all built toward this.
YOU’RE JUST JOINING US
If this is your first workshop with us, welcome. Everything here stands completely on its own.
Who This Workshop Is For
This workshop is for the woman who:
Left a meeting having said nothing, even though she disagreed with every word of the decision
Has heard "I don't know how you do it all" so many times it stopped feeling like a compliment
Has cried in the car before walking inside, because it felt safer than letting the people she loves see her tired
Wants the people who love her most to know her as more than the one who always shows up
Picture a Tuesday morning in January. You walk into the meeting and say the thing you think, the first time, not the third time you've rehearsed it in your head. That night, you walk in the door and let someone see you tired, instead of performing fine. Someone describes you to a person who's never met you, and the description sounds like you, not just what you do for everyone else. You've reacted less this year and chosen more, and that's the
true story, out loud.
This is the final SheFirst workshop of the year, the one that sets the foundation for everything 2027 holds. It only happens once.
Who This Workshop
Is For
This workshop is for the woman who:
Left a meeting having said nothing, even though she disagreed with every word of the decision
Has heard "I don't know how you do it all" so many times it stopped feeling like a compliment
Has cried in the car before walking inside, because it felt safer than letting the people she loves see her tired
Wants the people who love her most to know her as more than the one who always shows up
Picture a Tuesday morning in January. You walk into the meeting and say the thing you think, the first time, not the third time you've rehearsed it in your head. That night, you walk in the door and let someone see you tired, instead of performing fine. Someone describes you to a person who's never met you, and the description sounds like you, not just what you do for everyone else. You've reacted less this year and chosen more, and that's the
true story, out loud.
This is the final SheFirst workshop of the year, the one that sets the foundation for everything 2027 holds. It only happens once.
What Participants Say
“The work I’ve done through SheFirst this year has changed the way I show up. I’m beginning to trust myself instead of constantly trying to manage how other people see me. The confidence I’m feeling is coming from within, and I’m starting to see it show up on the outside too."
-Lydia C., SheFirst Community Member
“I feel so much more comfortable showing up as myself with my team. I trust that I don’t have to get everything right to be respected, and when I make a mistake, I can own it without spiraling. SheFirst has helped me recognize patterns I’ve carried for years and begin choosing something different.”
-Melissa F., Senior VP, People & Development
“I came for the work, but I didn’t expect how much the community would matter. There’s something powerful about being in a room with women who are willing to go deep, be honest, and grow together. SheFirst has made a meaningful difference in my life.”
-Alyssa A., SheFirst Community Member
What Participants Say
“The work I’ve done through SheFirst this year has changed the way I show up. I’m beginning to trust myself instead of constantly trying to manage how other people see me. The confidence I’m feeling is coming from within, and I’m starting to see it show up on the outside too."
-Lydia C., SheFirst Community Member
“I feel so much more comfortable showing up as myself with my team. I trust that I don’t have to get everything right to be respected, and when I make a mistake, I can own it without spiraling. SheFirst has helped me recognize patterns I’ve carried for years and begin choosing something different.”
-Melissa F., Senior VP, People & Development
“I came for the work, but I didn’t expect how much the community would matter. There’s something powerful about being in a room with women who are willing to go deep, be honest, and grow together. SheFirst has made a meaningful difference in my life.”
-Alyssa A., SheFirst Community Member
What Participants Say
“I learned how to enter rooms to move decisions forward instead of waiting for validation. The clarity and steadiness I developed changed how my leadership was experienced, opening the next level of opportunity.”
-Rachel M., Senior Professional
“Working with Gretchen helped me see the subtle ways I was diluting my authority in executive rooms. Once I strengthened my language and steadiness, my leadership was experienced differently and so were the opportunities.”
-Melissa K., Director
“Gretchen helped me recognize the subtle ways I was holding back in high-stakes conversations. As I shifted how I showed up, I moved from contributing to leading cross-functional work.”
-Angela T., Strategy Lead
What You
Will Walk
Away With
Participants leave with:
A clear understanding of how leadership visibility works
Practical tools that strengthen credibility and influence
Language that elevates professional communication
A framework that can be applied immediately
Participants will also receive a digital workbook and framework guide to reference after the session.
This intensive is designed to create clarity, confidence, and forward momentum.
Who This Workshop
Is For
This professional development intensive is for women who:
Are mid-career professionals or emerging leaders
Want to strengthen influence and visibility
Value thoughtful, practical development
Are ready to grow into the next phase of their career
If you are seeking clarity around how leadership is recognized and how to communicate your value with intention, this workshop is designed for you.
Workshop Details
Own Your Image
Friday, November 6th
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM PT
Live on Zoom, interactive professional development workshop
Investment: $149
A replay and supporting materials will be provided to all registered participants.
What you'll walk out with, a completed Power Statement, a defined 2027 vision, and the story you're choosing to live by, tends to outlast the price by years.
Workshop Details
Own Your Image
Friday, November 6th
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM PT
Live on Zoom,
interactive professional
development workshop
Investment: $149
A replay and supporting materials will be provided to all registered participants.
What you'll walk out with, a completed Power Statement, a defined 2027 vision, and the story you're choosing to live by, tends to outlast the price
by years.
Professional Development Support
Many participants are able to use professional development, learning and development, or continuing education funds to cover the cost of this workshop. You may wish to check with your manager, HR, or L&D team to explore available options.
We designed this session as a professional development intensive that may qualify under existing learning budgets. We also provide a professional development approval template you can submit to your manager or HR team. If you’d like access, click here.
ProfessionalDevelopment Support
Many participants are able to use professional development, learning and development, or continuing education funds to cover the cost of this workshop. You may wish to check with your manager, HR, or L&D team to explore available options.
We designed this session as a professional development intensive that may qualify under existing learning budgets. We also provide a professional development approval template you can submit to your manager or HR team. If you’d like access, click here.
Professional Development Support
Many participants are able to use professional development, learning and development, or continuing education funds to cover the cost of this workshop. You may wish to check with your manager, HR, or L&D team to explore available options.
We designed this session as a professional development intensive that may qualify under existing learning budgets. We also provide a professional development approval template you can submit to your manager or HR team. If you’d like access,
click here.
About
Gretchen Hydo
Gretchen Hydo is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) through the International Coaching Federation, award-winning author, speaker, and leadership strategist with nearly two decades of experience helping women and executives strengthen how they lead, communicate, and show up in the rooms that matter.
She works with women who want their presence, voice, and value to reflect who they actually are, not just who they learned they needed to be. Her work helps women recognize the internal stories shaping how they are seen, build confidence from the inside out, and create lives and careers that feel more aligned with who they are.
She is the creator of SheFirst, a leadership community and framework for women who are ready to live and lead with greater ownership, agency, and intention. Through SheFirst, Gretchen brings together professional development, personal reflection, and community so women can grow without separating who they are at work from who they are everywhere else.
Gretchen’s workshops are known for being direct, practical, and deeply reflective. Participants don’t leave with inspiration alone. They leave with language, tools, and a clearer understanding of themselves that they can carry into their work, relationships, and everyday lives.
About
Gretchen
Hydo
Gretchen Hydo is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) through the International Coaching Federation, award-winning author, speaker, and leadership strategist with nearly two decades of experience helping women and executives strengthen how their leadership is experienced in real rooms.
She works with women leaders who want their presence and performance to align so they can increase their influence, strengthen their impact, and move forward in their career on their own terms.
She is the creator of SheFirst, a women’s leadership framework built around one central idea: that how leadership is experienced determines who advances. Her work focuses on the real conversations, high-stakes moments, and internal patterns that shape credibility, visibility, and authority inside organizations.
Gretchen’s workshops are known for being direct, practical, and immediately applicable. Participants don’t leave with inspiration. They leave with language, tools, and a sharper sense of who they are in the room.
About
Gretchen Hydo
Gretchen Hydo is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) through the International Coaching Federation, award-winning author, speaker, and leadership strategist with nearly two decades of experience helping women and executives strengthen how they lead, communicate, and show up in the rooms that matter.
She works with women who want their presence, voice, and value to reflect who they actually are, not just who they learned they needed to be. Her work helps women recognize the internal stories shaping how they are seen, build confidence from the inside out, and create lives and careers that feel more aligned with who they are.
She is the creator of SheFirst, a leadership community and framework for women who are ready to live and lead with greater ownership, agency, and intention. Through SheFirst, Gretchen brings together professional development, personal reflection, and community so women can grow without separating who they are at work from who they are everywhere else.
Gretchen’s workshops are known for being direct, practical, and deeply reflective. Participants don’t leave with inspiration alone. They leave with language, tools, and a clearer understanding of themselves that they can carry into their work, relationships, and everyday lives.
Copyright 2026. Gretchen Hydo International.
Copyright 2026. Gretchen Hydo International.