Global Motherhood Leadership Summit 2025

Happy Mother’s Day 2025

We are thrilled to announce that the 2nd Global Motherhood Leadership Summit (GMLS) will be held on Mother’s Day—Sunday, May 11, 2025—at the Harvard University.

📍 Harvard University, Boston, MA
🏛 Venue: 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

To celebrate Mother’s Day, we are offering free tickets to mothers around the world.

The Roots of GMLS

Created by Dr. Yanli He, Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, the Global Motherhood Leadership Summit (GMLS) highlights the unique traits, perspectives, and relationships that mothers bring to both their families and professional lives. At the same time, the leadership skills developed in the workplace empower mothers to effectively resolve family conflicts, foster healthy relationships, and raise their children with wisdom at home.

In 2024, Dr. He applied organizational leadership to motherhood by launching the inaugural GMLS, held from September 28–30 at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, Florida.

GMLS 2024 focused on four key themes:

Leadership Traits for Mothers
Motherhood Leadership Behaviors
Motherhood Leadership Dynamics in the AI-driven Era
Virtual Team Leadership for Mothers

Participants engaged in meaningful conversations, learned from one another’s experiences, and gained confidence in transforming motherhood into effective leadership.

GMLS 2024 celebrated the powerful intersection of leadership, motherhood, beauty, wisdom, and ethics, and fostered passion, unity, collaboration, innovation, and friendship among attendees.

The GMLS 2024 brought together diverse voices of Mothers from different countries, positions, ages, education levels, and fields of industry. Overall, mothers in leadership roles from the U.S., China, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, and Puerto Rico attended this summit. Impressively, Miss Worldwide 2024, Tetyana Didenko, and her daughter participated in the summit by sharing their inspiring stories. Participants ranged in age from 26 years old to 54 years old and held positions ranging from government directors to corporate presidents, CEOs, managers, administrators, graduate students, business founders, and owners. Their educational backgrounds varied from associate degrees to bachelor’s, master’s, and PhDs. Their fields of industry included government, education, consulting, finance, accounting, law, personal services, healthcare, design, real estate, and church.

The success of GMLS 2024 laid a strong foundation for future gatherings, inspiring us to host GMLS annually to continue empowering mothers and leading positive change in today’s dynamic, digital, and AI-driven era.

✔ Powerful storytelling & real-life lessons – Gain insights from successful leaders and learn how to overcome challenges.
✔ Negative storytelling approach – A unique method where participants learn from past challenges and avoid leadership pitfalls.
✔ Interactive sessions & networking – Engage in dynamic discussions and build connections with like-minded individuals.
✔ A global movement – Join an event that drives innovation, harmony, and sustainability in both family and leadership.
✔ Community storytelling – We encourage all attendees to share their leadership journeys, making this a truly collaborative and inspiring experience.

Topics of GMLS includes: “The Journey of a Mother in Leadership Since the Late 90s,” “The Impact of Unique Traits on Motherhood and Leadership Effectiveness,” “Mastering Time,” “The Power Pose,” “Mastering the Nonverbal Code,” “Financial Management,” “Overcoming Procrastination,” “Staying Motivated,” “A single business mom’s lessons learned in motherhood”, and “The Influence of Motherhood Leadership on Virtual Teams’ Longevity.” The presentations emphasize leadership traits (e.g. loyalty, care, empathy, and adaptability), communication, motivation, employee engagement, decision-making, conflict resolution, relationship building, ongoing learning, and lesson-learned and how those contribute to both their personal and professional lives.