LinkUnite VI Agenda – Fort Lauderdale

Welcome to the LinkUnite Opening Reception! We're so excited to kick off our time together with an evening of beautiful views, refreshing cocktails, and meaningful connections. Set in the heart of Fort Lauderdale, this is your chance to unwind, reconnect with familiar faces, and meet incredible women from across our community.

Enjoy coastal-inspired bites, soak in the warm South Florida atmosphere, and let the energy of the evening set the tone for the days ahead. Whether you're here to grow your network, exchange ideas, or simply enjoy the company of ambitious, supportive women, this reception is the perfect place to begin. Here's to new friendships, inspiring conversations, and an unforgettable LinkUnite experience!

Get ready to explore, connect and have a little fun!

During our Sunday Welcome Reception, every attendee will receive a LinkUnite Passport to Fort Lauderdale, filled with challenges, surprises and opportunities to experience the city with your fellow LinkUnite women.

Grab your passport, find your team and get ready to CONNECT, EXPLORE & ELEVATE your way through Fort Lauderdale!

Teams will be assigned in advance and announced during the event. Make sure you grab your LinkUnite Passport when you arrive — all the details you need will be inside!

10 Teams. 10 Challenges. One Fort Lauderdale Adventure.

Amy Taylor (Paskow) is an Oscar- and 2x BAFTA-winning VFX artist whose work has shaped the visual worlds of nearly 30 major films and TV Episodes, including The Jungle Book, Maleficent, Alien: Covenent, Poor Things and Tattooist of Auschwitz.

With a background as a Fine Art painter and over 2 decades in top-tier post-production studios across six global cities, Amy has spent her career mastering the language of color as a storytelling force.

From collaborating with visionary directors, production designers, and studios, to mentoring creative teams, her expertise has always centered on one truth: color is not fashion — it is story.

Now as Founder of New Wave Color, Amy brings this cinematic perspective to individuals, teams, and brands. She blends psychology, color science, and a highly trained eye to cut through the overwhelm of trends and infinite choices to deliver clarity, confidence, and authenticity to her clients.

Raise a glass with us. A champagne toast to the people, connections and possibilities that keep us moving forward, generously provided by Anura. Small bites will be passed, so plan your dinner accordingly.

We open the event with a heartfelt welcome, ground the group, and frame the day around connection, presence, and shared experience.

Address: 20 S Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Start the first day of LinkUnite VI with a warm Fort Lauderdale welcome and a fresh, coastal-inspired breakfast alongside your fellow tribe members at the Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club. Ease into the experience with great coffee, bright energy, and that relaxed, sun-soaked atmosphere that sets the tone for everything ahead — brought to you by Avanto Media, the crew behind transparent, traceable leads and payouts that pop. Their team has been in performance marketing since the beginning, and they'll tell you most of their partners end up good friends anyway. Consider this your first handshake of the week.

Refill, reset, and keep the momentum going. Coffee throughout LinkUnite VI is brought to you by What If Media Group, the award-winning performance marketing team that doesn't just buy media — they are the media. Grab a cup, find a tribe member you haven't met yet, and start the conversation that turns into the deal. Because the best partnerships usually begin the same way theirs do: someone asks, "What if?"

Phoenix Rising Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting survivors of sexual assault and abuse through access to therapy, housing assistance, job training, and advocacy services. Founded by Amie Lawson from personal family experience, the organization was built to close the gap between legal accountability and actual healing support — helping survivors move from surviving to rebuilding, with dignity and long-term stability.

Find out more here: https://thephoenixrisingfoundation.net/

Mary-Catherine Reinert is the Founder and Brand Experience Strategist behind Fortissima, a boutique firm redefining how brands connect through immersive, sensorial marketing. With over 17 years of experience, she specializes in elevating boutique hospitality and luxury lifestyle brands—transforming them from businesses into unforgettable, experience-driven identities that resonate deeply with their audiences.

Known for her bold, no-fluff approach, Mary-Catherine blends strategic clarity with creative direction, helping brands articulate who they truly are and scale without losing their essence. Her proprietary, multi-sensory methodology has empowered hundreds of brands to deepen customer connection, strengthen positioning, and drive meaningful growth across every touchpoint.

A dynamic speaker and thought leader, she challenges conventional marketing norms and invites founders and leaders to step into a more authentic, experiential way of building brands—one that is unapologetically distinct, emotionally engaging, and built to last.

Hyun is the Founder and CEO of Radiantly Rise Coaching, a mindset coaching company dedicated to helping overwhelmed professionals overcome burnout, restore their energy, and create deeply fulfilling lives.

Before launching her business, Hyun spent over 20 years in corporate, leading global client service teams and managing multi-million-dollar accounts — a pace that ultimately led to burnout. That experience pushed her to seek a more meaningful path and ultimately led her to mindset coaching. Now, she teaches others how to break free from burnout and reclaim a life aligned with purpose, energy, and intentional mindset growth.

In the past, Hyun has served the community as a member of the Board of Directors for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund for 4 years, as the Vice President of NAAAP Philadelphia, as the Vice President of Asian American Women's Coalition, and as a Board Member of Asian Arts Initiative and Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Do you find that you often give up on goals you set? Do you wonder why you can't seem to accomplish the goals you set out to achieve? This worship will teach you how to set various goals in your life with the right mindset. Discover your mindset, how it works and recognize what holds you back! You will be guided in how to set goals with intention and focus with the right mindset to support it.

Break midday for lunch with your tribe, courtesy of Avanto Media. It's the part of the agenda where the morning's conversations turn into real next steps — because around here, we're all about results, not just attempts. Refuel, compare notes, and find the partner who helps you turbocharge the back half of the year. Performance marketing, played clean — and deals done over key lime pie.

Every great connection starts with the right route. That’s TrackDrive’s specialty: it’s a call tracking, routing, and lead management platform built for the performance marketing and pay-per-call world. Today it’s routing you straight to the soda bar.

Dirty soda is soda with a twist: flavored syrups, creamy toppings, and a little extra sparkle. TrackDrive is serving it up green, made to order, and very sippable. Grab a cup, find a tribe member you haven’t met yet, and make the kind of connection worth tracking.

On the menu:

Hot Lead · Mountain Dew with green apple and vanilla cold foam or drizzle. Diet available.
Sweet Conversion · Sprite with vanilla and green apple, topped with whipped cream.
Glitter Payout · Mountain Dew with blue raspberry and pineapple, finished with green glitter.

Giselle Cheminand is the President and CEO of GCI Worldwide Corporation. She is an Award-Winning leader that has guided many companies and their leaders to accelerate their pace of success. She has proven that she walks the talk and get results. She has coached and consulted Executives from Fortune 50, 100, 500, and global companies, serving clients such as MassMutual, FedEx, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Cisco Systems, Walgreens, Embraer, Banco do Brasil, among many others. She has trained numerous blue-chip corporations nationally and internationally. She has carved a niche in the business world, working with corporations, executives and entrepreneurs, coaching them to enhance their leadership skills, make a difference, develop their talents, advance their careers and tap into their profit-earning potential.

Every Side of the Table: Performance Marketing From Every Seat

Jian Arceo brings more than 15 years of experience across partnerships, client services, and performance marketing, and has worked in just about every lane of the industry. She has generated calls, built pay-per-call and CPA programs, and managed partner portfolios worth more than $6 million annually. Today, she runs full affiliate programs for brands.

Calls, leads, agencies, publishers, networks, brands: Jian has worked with them all, and seen the ecosystem from nearly every angle.

What to expect

Jian will share what she’s seen change, what’s worked, and what’s still a work in progress. There’s no crystal ball and no one-size-fits-all playbook, just real-world experience and an open conversation about where the industry stands today.

The best conversations often happen when we compare notes, challenge our own assumptions, and look at things from a different angle. This session is built for exactly that.

Wrap up the day with an evening out at one of Fort Lauderdale's favorite local dining spots. Greek Islands Taverna is a family-owned Greek restaurant that has served South Florida since 1999, and it's just a short stroll from Fort Lauderdale Beach. Join us for great food, meaningful conversation, and the chance to keep building relationships in a relaxed, welcoming setting. Whether you're reconnecting with familiar faces or meeting someone new, it's a good way to unwind, share stories, and enjoy the company of the LinkUnite community.

GROUP PHOTO ON THE BEACH!
With the beach right next door, we'll take our group photo on the sand at sunset. Wear what you'd like to have on in the photo. Beach-friendly footwear is a good idea.

Ringlab Media earned its wings in flights, hotels, and car rentals, so it's only fitting they're the ones sending this toast skyward. Grab a glass of bubbly, find your favorite tribe member, and toast to the connections that took off this week in Fort Lauderdale.

Lisa Pumper is a Yoga Educator, Wellness Experience Designer, Community Activator, and Event Producer, holding E-RYT 500® and YACEP® certifications. For more than two decades, she has created thoughtfully curated wellness experiences designed to help people slow down, reconnect with themselves, and build meaningful connections.

Her path into meditation began in her teenage years in the mid-1980s, evolving into a lifelong practice of yoga, meditation, and the Eastern arts. In 1990 she deepened her Hatha Yoga studies through the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition, and a challenging pregnancy in 2000 led her to Bihar Yoga Nidra, mantra, and Nada Yoga — shaping her lasting focus on restorative practice.

Rooted in the Krishnamacharya lineage, her teaching integrates Ashtanga Vinyasa, Sivananda, Iyengar, Kundalini, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and yogic philosophy. She began teaching professionally in 2001, and since 2008 has directed Yoga Community of Florida's 200-hour and 300-hour teacher training programs. She is also a Usui Master Reiki Practitioner and Vedic Thai Yoga practitioner.

Drawing on a background in VIP hospitality and event production in New York City and Miami, Lisa is known for intentionally crafting every detail of an experience — environment, movement, breath, sound, and hospitality — so guests feel genuinely cared for. Since 2008 she has led Fort Lauderdale Beach Yoga & Wellness, where thousands have experienced sunrise beach yoga, full moon gatherings, and nature-inspired programs.

Grab your LinkUnite Passport and meet us at the Water Trolley to kick off your Fort Lauderdale adventure!

The LauderGO! Water Trolley offers 8 different stops along the New River, giving you the freedom to hop off and explore the sights, shops, restaurants and waterfront along the way.

Choose your own adventure! As you explore, don't forget to turn in your LinkUnite Passport to Sara to receive your LinkUnite Hoodie Voucher! Your hoodie will be mailed to you after the event.

View the LauderGo stops: https://www.fortlauderdale.gov/Government/Departments/Transportation-and-Mobility/Transportation-Division/LauderGO-Mobility-Services/LauderGO-Water-Trolley
Explore.

Connect. Enjoy Fort Lauderdale. And yes… you’re getting a hoodie! 😉