About WLS 2024 

Together, we’re setting a new standard where women take the lead. 

WLS convenes the industry’s largest network of women who are breaking down barriers and manifesting the careers they want—while making a difference in the world. You’ll meet, network with, and learn from an extraordinary lineup of renowned speakers, trailblazing leaders, and industry experts who will share pathbreaking ideas to tackle challenges and lead change. It’s all powered by the AIA community, the largest, most influential network of architecture professionals and allies designing a better world. 

2024 Theme: Building Resilience

What does relevant leadership look like in 2024? 

Questions like this can be hard to ask and even harder to answer authentically when there’s so much instability in our workplaces and the world around us. In an environment like this, it’s hard not to be chronically stressed or feel safe. 

That’s why we’re designing this year’s Women’s Leadership Summit around the theme of building resilience—the ability to adapt to an ever-changing landscape, recover from setbacks, and persevere through difficult times.  

This theme asks: How do we protect the health, safety, and welfare of our society when we’re struggling individually? Where does our power reside? Are we challenging ourselves to find our own blind spots and biases in an all-female room? How do we create equity using our personal social capital? Is the concept of safe space a myth? How does the lens of intersectionality help us uncover the skills needed for impactful change?  

Women’s Leadership Summit has always been a conference that pushes boundaries, challenges traditional thinking, and explores new ways of thinking and doing to create change. Join us and lean in.

Don’t miss your chance to register yourself or your firm.