Lessons in Leadership: From Big Idea to Billion-Dollar Agency
Sponsored by: Dechert LLP
Examine how a single idea can become a career, a company, and a legacy.
Mark 100 Women In Finance’s 25th anniversary with a fireside chat with Linda Kaplan Thaler, who helped build a small business into a billion-dollar agency. Discuss lessons from Linda’s new book, My Life in 30 Seconds, and consider how they can inform your own career and ambitions.
Key Topics:
Explore the rejection, setbacks, and unexpected opportunities that shaped Linda’s career.
Examine how relationships, creativity, and resilience can influence professional success.
Consider what it takes to build a business, and an influence that endures.
Please note: This is a hybrid program structured as a live webinar and an in-person gathering with networking to follow. Please RSVP for the webinar or in-person session below.
Examine how a single idea can become a career, a company, and a legacy.
Mark 100 Women In Finance’s 25th anniversary with a fireside chat with Linda Kaplan Thaler, who helped build a small business into a billion-dollar agency. Discuss lessons from Linda’s new book, My Life in 30 Seconds, and consider how they can inform your own career and ambitions.
Key Topics:
Explore the rejection, setbacks, and unexpected opportunities that shaped Linda’s career.
Examine how relationships, creativity, and resilience can influence professional success.
Consider what it takes to build a business, and an influence that endures.
Please note: This is a hybrid program structured as a live webinar and an in-person gathering with networking to follow. Please RSVP for the webinar or in-person session below.
DATE: Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
TIME: 5:30 PM Registration.
We will begin promptly at 6:00 PM; please arrive early.
HOST: Dechert LLP
LOCATION: Cira Centre, 2929 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
DIRECTIONS: Upon arrival, check in with lobby security and then proceed to the 21st Floor.
SPEAKERS:
Linda Kaplan Thaler, President, Kaplan Thaler Productions
Emily Turner, Moderator, Investment Advisor, Goldman Sachs
RSVP Required
RSVP HERE
If you have any questions about this event please contact Philadelphia (philadelphia@100women.org)
Limited spaces available, please register early.
This event is NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION. All 100WF events are private events and we require that no one reports publicly on any aspect of them.
Space is limited. No walk-ins will be permitted.