- How to change your response to stress using the FIT™ Method
- Practical ways to build a stress-resilience plan that works for your lifestyle
- The ways in which community, recognition, and leadership impact personal and professional growth
Take the morning to invest in your well-being, your leadership, and the future of the accounting profession.
The MICPA Women to Watch event begins with The Stress Shield™ Workshop, led by keynote speaker Francesca Zampaglione, MBA. A CPA-turned-wellness expert, Francesca brings practical, energizing strategies to help you manage stress, build resilience, and lead with clarity and confidence.
After the session, we’ll turn our focus to the heart of the morning, celebrating the 2025 Women to Watch honorees. These Emerging and Experienced Leaders are making an impact in the profession, and their stories will leave you inspired and proud to be part of this community.
Whether you attend solo or bring your team, you’ll leave recharged and equipped with tools to thrive both personally and professionally.
Earn 1.8 CPE credits while connecting with peers and celebrating leadership in action.
To reserve a table of six for your team, contact Meaghan O’Hare at mohare@micpa.org or call 248.267.3739.
2025 Women to Watch Honorees
Emerging Leader
Brittani Shantel Jackson, PhD, CPA -
Assistant Professor of Accountancy, Western Michigan University
Experienced Leader
Marlene Beach, CPA – Principal, UHY
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The Stress Shield
Live 100% better by changing 1% of your life
By the end of a long workday, you are wiped out. Your unfinished tasks continue to plague you as your head hits the pillow and as tired as you are, you can’t sleep.
And that’s a “normal stress” day, exclusive of unexpected events like accidents and health emergencies.
What if you knew how to get ahead of stress? What if you could improve your life by 100% by making a daily 1% change?
It’s time to break up with stress and kick it to the curb, where it belongs.
Discover a set of tools, all backed by science, that create the foundation necessary to not only manage the daily stress in your life but get ahead of it so that you can beat it before it beats you.
In this transformative workshop, international speaker, Francesca Zampaglione shares ways on how to focus on that one non-negotiable that can change your life and protect you from the damage that stress causes.
Francesca will show you how to build a strong mind that an earthquake of stress can’t shatter.
Learn science-backed techniques that positively impact your well-being and skyrocket your productivity. You’ll understand how to favor micro-steps over giant leaps to strengthen your mind and body.
You’ll leave inspired and motivated for daily action that transforms the way you look at life.
Are you ready to live better?
Enjoy this amazing day!
Women CPAs and CPA Candidates
- Personal Development
- Francesca Zampaglione
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