
Confidence to Dream: Defining Your Personal Narrative for Success

Saturday, Feb. 25
2 – 4 PM ET
virtual event; open to all mentees, mentee alum, and select invites
Do you have a goal so ambitious, you’re afraid to admit it even to yourself, let alone the people closest to you? Don’t worry…we won’t tell anyone. What we will tell you, is that our ability to be honest with ourselves and what we want in life comes from a single source: confidence.
In this workshop, participants will be guided through a series of writing exercises designed to help them assess how they show up in the world as different versions of themselves—aka, their various characters—and focus on developing themselves as one who has the confidence to dream big!
This event is designed for all mentees, mentors, program alum.
Meet the Teaching Artist

Deirdre Simmons
Deirdre has a BA in Organizational Communication with minors in Management and Supervision from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Human Resource Management from the UCONN School of Business. She has a varied background including volunteering in youth ministry, appearing in commercials, speaking on leadership and diversity panels and as a guest speaker for Disrupt HR delivering her session “HR Lessons from Cardi B”. In the past she has worked at Pepsi-Cola, Ford Motor Company, Department of Homeland Security and Bloomingdale’s. In addition to teaching, she is a GoCoach Coach, and volunteer leader of Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut (CONECT)—a social justice organization. Deidre is a published author of a Public Speaking textbook and is included in the NASA Astrophysics database of IDEA practitioners.
This event is open to:
all mentees, all mentors and program alum