B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 10:15a

  1. Speaker 1


    1. 'Restore connection' is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead. - Arianna Huffington

    2. "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela

    3. “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.”  Beyoncé

  2. Speaker 2


    1. I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it. -Serena Williams

    2. "Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves." - Colin Powell

    3.  "Power is not given to you. You have to take it." Beyoncé

  3. Speaker 3


    1. Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes. -Margaret Wheatley

    2. "One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter." - James Earl Jones

    3.  “Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.” Taylor Swift

  4. Speaker 4


    1. If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. -Dolly Parton

    2. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. --George Patton

    3. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa

  5. Speaker 5


    1. The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first. -Iyanla Vanzant

    2. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou

    3. “Count your life by smiles, not tears” John Lennon

  6. Speaker 6


    1. Champions keep playing until they get it right. -Billie Jean King

    2. "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey

    3. Luck is being ready for the chance. --James Frank Dobie

Round 2 - 12:30p

  1. Speaker 1


    1. My best successes came on the heels of failures. -Barbara Corcoran

    2. "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." - Booker T. Washington

    3. "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - Martin Luther King Jr.

  2. Speaker 2


    1. Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them. -Assata Shakur

    2. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." - Desmond Tutu

    3. We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead. -Beyoncé

  3. Speaker 3


    1. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. -Rosa Parks

    2. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin

    3. “No worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.” Kanye West

  4. Speaker 4


    1. The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. -Ida B. Wells

    2. "Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable." - Kenyan Proverb

    3. "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

  5. Speaker 5


    1. Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. -J. K. Rowling

    2. "The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." - Maya Angelou

    3. “Know that, you aren’t alone. We all have doubts and fear.” Carole King

  6. Speaker 6


    1. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. - Marie Curie

    2. "The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less." - Eldridge Cleaver

    3. “Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.” B.B. King

Round 3 - 2:45p

  1. Speaker 1


    1. A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. -Eleanor Roosevelt

    2.  “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” John Cage

    3. “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”  — Mark Twain 

  2. Speaker 2


    1. A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -Rosalynn Carter

    2. “Every something is an echo of nothing” John Cage

    3. “Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”  — Mark Twain

  3. Speaker 3


    1. The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand

    2. “Dare to wear the foolish clown face.” Frank Sinatra

    3. “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” — Mark Twain

  4. Speaker 4


    1. “Walk into the room purse first.” - Bob the Drag Queen

    2. “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” John Lennon

    3. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” ― Charles M. Schulz

  5. Speaker 5


    1. Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. -Elizabeth Gilbert

    2. “I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.” Taylor Swift

    3. “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” ― Oscar Wilde

  6. Speaker 6


    1. Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. -Brené Brown

    2. Individualism is rather like innocence: there must be something unconscious about it. --Louis Kroenberger

    3. You can live only wholly with you or not at all. --Beethoven

All Finals - 3:45p

  1. Speaker 1


    1. "The time is always right to do what is right." - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

    2. Speaking up and participating can get you just as far as training and ‘book knowledge.’ –Parul Shorey

    3. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it. --Aretha Franklin

  2. Speaker 2


    1. "Have a vision. Be demanding." - Colin Powell

    2. The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

    3.  Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.” Lana del Rey

  3. Speaker 3


    1. "Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations." - Dr. Mae Jemison

    2. "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali

    3. "Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color." - Author Unknown

  4. Speaker 4


    1. "The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." - W.E.B. Du Bois

    2. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. --Henry David Thoreau

    3. Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that were the fruit is? --Frank Scully

  5. Speaker 5


    1. "God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed." - African Proverb

    2. Old and young, we are all on the last cruise. --Robert Louis Stevenson 

    3. "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks

  6. Speaker 6


    1. "Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face." - Carol Moseley-Braun

    2. The closer to the truth, the closer to the nerve. --John Shanahan

    3. You can’t knock on an opportunity's door and not be ready. --Bruno Mars