Meet the Women Leading the Conversations
We are honored to welcome an extraordinary group of women
who will guide the conversations, insights, and experiences that shape the
NH Conference for Women on April 24th.
Through storytelling, shared wisdom, and real-life experience, these remarkable
voices help create the powerful moments that make this gathering
so meaningful — inviting reflection, connection, and grounded growth.
Visit the Conference Overview page for event details,
schedule highlights, and registration information…
Rooted growth doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from strengthening what you’re growing from.
This immersive experience invites you to pause, reflect, and examine the roots beneath your decisions, leadership, relationships, and sense of self. Because when the roots guiding your life are inherited, unclear, or misaligned, growth can feel forced and exhausting. When they are intentional and chosen, everything begins to feel steadier, clearer, and more aligned.
During this interactive session, you will:
- Uncover which “roots” you’ve been living from that were inherited, absorbed, or passively adopted — and decide which ones are truly yours.
- Identify where you may be growing out of alignment and why that misalignment can lead to stress and burnout.
- Learn a simple rooted decision filter to help you make choices from stability rather than pressure.
- Clarify your top core values and the roots you intentionally want to deepen in this next season.
- Craft a personal Rooted Statement to define how you want to show up moving forward.
Leave with a tangible Rooted Token — a physical symbol of the roots you are choosing to strengthen. Because this isn’t about adding more branches to your life. It’s about growing from stronger roots.
ABOUT GINA HATZIS
Gina Hatzis returns to the NH Conference for Women for the third time, bringing her powerful voice, humor, and wisdom back to a community that has embraced her message again and again. Her work invites women to trust themselves more deeply, own their voice, and step fully into who they are — a message that beautifully embodies this year’s theme, Rooted.
In this next chapter of her work, Gina is also introducing the idea of the “Relaxed Woman” — the powerful shift that happens when women lead from grounded self-trust rather than pressure and performance.
Celebrating three decades as an award-winning international speaker and educator, Gina’s mission is to empower women to celebrate their “too-muchness” and play bigger in life through soulful leadership, conscious communication, and epic self-trust. Her Too Much Woman talk has reached more than 50 million views, sparking a global movement, a bestselling book, and an international tour. Head over to YouTube to see it HERE.
Named Inspirational Woman of the Year in 2023, Top 10 Woman Disruptors by Disruptor Magazine 2023, Top Inspirational Speaker by Speaker Slam in 2023, Woman of the Year by Soulful Magazine in 2022, and was featured in an LA article as 1 of the 3 most important events to empower women in 2019 alongside the Women’s March and the #MeToo Movement. She has also shared the stage with Elizabeth Gilbert, Lisa Nichols, Glennon Doyle Dr. Christiane Northrup and Laverne Cox.
A new empty nester living in Toronto, Canada, Gina spends her mornings dancing in her kitchen while making coffee and continuing her work helping women trust their voice, own their presence and step more fully into their lives. Her first book Celebrating the Too Much Woman is available everywhere online. Visit her website HERE.
A candid, moderated dialogue exploring the evolving realities of being a woman — from hormones and body changes to relationships, communication, desire, confidence, and identity.
With warmth, humor, and zero sugarcoating, our Conversation Leaders will speak openly about the things women often wonder about but rarely hear discussed honestly. Together we’ll explore topics such as hormonal shifts, sex and desire, aging bodies, weight and body acceptance, communication, intimacy, nervous system stress, and the clarity that comes from understanding what’s actually happening within our bodies and lives.
Women across all stages of life will recognize themselves in this conversation and leave with insight, reassurance, and the powerful realization that they are not alone in what they’re experiencing.
Expect honesty, laughter, and more than a few “me too” moments — along with the reminder that this chapter of life holds far more vitality, freedom, and possibility than we were ever taught to expect.
Conversation Leaders 
Deborah Enegess, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology | Dartmouth Health
Dr. Deborah Enegess is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Dartmouth Health who is deeply committed to supporting women through every stage of life—from adolescence and pregnancy to perimenopause and beyond. She brings both clinical expertise and a compassionate, patient-centered approach to her work, ensuring that every woman feels heard, respected, and confident in her care.
At the heart of Dr. Enegess’s practice is a belief that listening is essential. She is known for her ability to explain complex medical topics in a clear, approachable way, helping patients better understand their bodies and the choices available to them. Through open communication and collaboration, she creates a space where women feel comfortable asking questions and actively participating in decisions about their health.
Her areas of focus include high-risk pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and menstrual health concerns. Dr. Enegess earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Passionate about connection, education, and trust, Dr. Enegess is dedicated to helping women feel empowered, informed, and supported in every phase of their health journey.
Susan Trotter, Ph.D.
Relationship Coach
Susan Trotter, PhD is a Relationship Coach specializing in dating, relationships, and divorce, helping people feel more empowered and fulfilled in their lives and the relationships they create. Her work emphasizes the power of mindset and communication in navigating life transitions and developing healthy, lasting connections. She works with individuals and couples to strengthen their relationships, navigate divorce with clarity and peace of mind, and date successfully to build joyful, healthy relationships that last.
Susan began her career as a Clinical Psychologist and practiced as a therapist for over twenty years before transitioning to coaching. With an extensive background in psychology, therapy, and coaching, and more than three decades of experience supporting people in their lives, Susan brings a thoughtful and grounded perspective to her work. She believes that every life transition holds the opportunity to create a more authentic and joyful next chapter and considers it a privilege to walk alongside clients as they move forward in their lives. To learn more about Susan, visit HERE. 
Tina Olson
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Tina Olson, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and past Hospice Social Worker who’s experienced personal loss, co-leads a grief group for parents who’ve lost children of any age. As a therapist at her private practice, Grounded Willow Counseling, in Concord, NH, she works with individuals aged 13 and above and couples, specializing in trauma recovery interventions, while also valuing her roles as a devoted mother, proud grandmother, and loving wife.
Also Joining the Conversation: Leslie Sturgeon
Host, Moderator & Conversation Leader
In addition to hosting the conference, Leslie will serve as the moderator and a voice within Rooted & Real: The Honest Conversation—bringing not only thoughtful questions, but her own lived, real-life experiences into the dialogue.
Leslie is not approaching this conversation as an expert with all the answers, but as a woman who has navigated many of the same realities being explored on stage—relationships, personal growth, confidence, identity shifts, and the ongoing process of becoming. Through both her personal journey and nearly two decades of leading Women Inspiring Women, she has created space for thousands of honest, unfiltered conversations about what it really means to live, grow, and evolve as a woman.
Known for her ability to connect deeply and keep things real, Leslie brings warmth, humor, and authenticity to the conversation—creating an environment where women feel seen, understood, and safe to reflect on their own experiences.
We close the day with a powerful story of becoming—one woman’s journey of courage, healing, and choosing the life she truly wanted to live.
After a life transition that required her to leave behind everything she once relied on for safety, Dr. Colleen Norris discovered a deeper truth: the life we want to grow is not built from external circumstances alone—it grows from the internal state of our nervous system.
Because the soil we grow from matters.
When our nervous system is rooted in survival—fear, pressure, control—growth can feel exhausting and uncertain. But when we cultivate safety within ourselves, we create the nourishing soil that allows our lives, leadership, and relationships to grow with greater clarity, resilience, and possibility.
Through storytelling, reflection, and a guided inner experience, Colleen will invite each woman to reconnect with the deeper foundation she wants to grow from as she steps into the next chapter of who she is becoming.
During this closing experience, participants will:
- Hear a powerful story of courage and becoming that illustrates what it means to rebuild safety from within
- Understand how the state of the nervous system influences our ability to grow, lead, and create the life we desire
- Reflect on the values, strengths, and intentions they are choosing to carry forward from the day
- Experience a guided inner journey to reconnect with the safety and wisdom within their own body
- Leave with a deeper sense of alignment, possibility, and clarity about who they are becoming
Together, we will close the day in a shared moment of reflection, courage, and possibility—reminding us that becoming who we are meant to be doesn’t begin by doing more.
It begins by cultivating the inner safety that allows us to grow.
ABOUT DR. COLLEEN NORRIS
Dr. Colleen Norris is a Network Spinal Chiropractor, Speaker, Intuitive healer, and founder of Colleen Norris Wellness. For more than 20 years, she has helped people unwind the hidden survival patterns held in the nervous system that keep them stuck in cycles of stress, overgiving, and self-doubt.
Her work focuses on helping individuals reconnect to safety within their own bodies so they can move out of survival mode and into greater clarity, vitality, and alignment with the life they truly want to live.
Drawing from both her clinical expertise and her own personal journey of transformation, Colleen guides others in releasing patterns that no longer serve them and cultivating the inner foundation needed to grow, lead, and create from a place of self-trust.
She works with clients both in person at her office in Newbury, Ma, and virtually, and is passionate about helping people realize that healing the nervous system is often the missing piece to becoming who they are meant to be.
To learn more about Colleen’s work, visit www.ColleenNorrisWellness.com or connect with her on Instagram @ColleenNorrisWellness.
MEET YOUR HOST:
Leslie Sturgeon
Leslie Sturgeon is the Founder and Visionary of Women Inspiring Women, New Hampshire’s largest community dedicated to women’s empowerment, personal growth, connection, and opportunity. What began as a simple idea in 2007—to create a space where women could support and inspire one another—has grown into a thriving statewide organization that brings hundreds of women together each year through events, programs, and the New Hampshire Conference for Women.
An entrepreneur since the age of 22, Leslie launched her first business in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire in 1989. Throughout her career she discovered the extraordinary power of women coming together to share ideas, encouragement, and real conversations about business, life, dreams, and personal growth. Women Inspiring Women was born from that experience and her belief that when women support one another, incredible things happen.
Known for her warmth, authenticity, and ability to create meaningful connections, Leslie designs each WIW event with intention, energy, and heart. Her passion is helping women recognize their strengths, take bold steps toward the lives they truly want, and feel supported along the way. Leslie has spent her own life stepping outside her comfort zone, learning, growing, and evolving—and she continues that journey right alongside the women in this community.
Leslie has been recognized as one of New Hampshire’s “200 Most Influential Business Leaders” and an “Outstanding Women in Business” by NH Business Review. She has also been honored as a Women in Business Champion by the NH Small Business Administration and received both Gubernatorial Citations and a New Hampshire Senatorial Commendation for her leadership and impact..
A proud New Hampshire native, Leslie loves the Granite State, great coffee, meaningful conversations, and laughing until she snorts. Most of all, she believes in keeping things real—and in creating spaces where women can do the same.
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