Join us for a transformative experience to reignite your vision, restore your joy, and lead with purpose.
The Lead With Joy Conference is a transformative experience designed for visionary leaders across every sphere of influence. In a world that often demands more than it gives, this dynamic gathering invites you to pause, recharge, and reignite the joy that fuels authentic, resilient, and purpose-driven leadership.
Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
Time: 1 pm - Doors Open | 1:30 pm - Conference Begins
Location: Chicago Marriott Naperville, 1801 N Naper Blvd, Naperville, IL 60563
About Lead With Joy
The Lead With Joy Conference is a transformative experience designed for visionary leaders across every sphere of influence. In a world that often demands more than it gives, this dynamic gathering invites you to pause, recharge, and reignite the joy that fuels authentic, resilient, and purpose-driven leadership.
You will be equipped and inspired by phenomenal leaders to:
- Cultivate joy in leadership, even through the most challenging seasons.
- Champion the mission of strengthening families and enriching lives with intentionality and heart.
- Embrace purpose-driven leadership that aligns with your deepest values and divine calling.
- Reignite your passion in your work, relationships, and community influence.
- Recharge your career with goals that carry purpose, passion, and power.
- Establish your personal standard of excellence, take bold leaps in your influence, prosperity, and generosity.
At Lead With Joy, you’ll be surrounded by leaders who understand that joy is not a luxury—it is a strategy. You will leave renewed in spirit, bold in vision, and unstoppable in your pursuit of impact and legacy. This is your season to lead with clarity. Lead with confidence. Lead with purpose. Lead with JOY.
Keynote Speaker
Gloria Mayfield Banks
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER, TRAINER, COACH,
ENTREPRENEUR & SUCCESS STRATEGIST
Gloria Mayfield Banks is a powerhouse Success Strategist, electrifying speaker, and author who specializes in building extraordinary leaders in sales. Known for her unstoppable energy and magnetic stage presence, she empowers women to elevate their Sales and Leadership from average to absolutely unstoppable through her high-voltage Super Bad All Day Long brand.
Gloria is a master at turning potential into peak performance. With a proven system built on clarity, consistency, and coaching, she’s helped thousands of entrepreneurs break through barriers and dominate their industries with bold, unapologetic success.
Her journey is one of grit, grace, and greatness. Diagnosed with dyslexia and a survivor of domestic violence, Gloria rose to become #1 out of 3.5 million women worldwide in Mary Kay. She shattered significant records during her three-decade career — leading teams across nine countries and scaling a $38 million U.S. business. Her impact inspired the book Quantum Leaps and continues to shape global conversations on women, wealth, and leadership.
A graduate of Howard University and Harvard Business School, she also holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. She’s been featured on CNN, ABC, CNBC, Fortune, and Ebony, and has shared stages with icons like Oprah Winfrey.
Gloria isn’t just a top performer — she’s a movement. Her mission is bold and clear: help women rise, lead, and win big.
She’s married to international businessman Ken Banks and is a proud mother of four and grandmother of five.
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