Experience To Influence with Dr. Regina Lewis
EXPERIENCE TO INFLUENCE
Transforming Life Experiences into Leadership, Purpose, and Well-Being
Every person has a story. Some stories are filled with achievement. Others are shaped by adversity, uncertainty, loss, change, or challenge. Too often, people focus on what happened to them without recognizing what they demonstrated while navigating it.
Experience to Influence is a research-informed experience that helps participants identify the leadership qualities, strengths, and personal growth that emerged from their life experiences. Through guided reflection and communication exercises, participants learn how to transform their experiences into sources of confidence, connection, and influence.
Why It Matters
Mental health is not only about managing challenges. It is also about recognizing strengths. When individuals can identify the resilience, courage, adaptability, perseverance, empathy, and self-leadership they have already demonstrated, they begin to see themselves differently.
E2I helps participants shift from:
"This happened to me." To "This experience taught me something valuable about who I am."
The Experience to Influence Process
Experience
Identify a meaningful life experience, challenge, or defining moment.
Insight
Discover the skills, strengths, and leadership qualities demonstrated during that experience.
Influence
Transform those insights into a message that can inspire personal growth, connection, and positive action.
Participant Outcomes
Participants learn to:
✓ Recognize personal strengths often overlooked
✓ Identify leadership qualities developed through life experiences
✓ Increase self-awareness and self-reflection
✓ Build confidence through evidence of past success
✓ Develop greater empathy and connection with others
✓ Communicate their experiences with purpose and meaning
✓ Strengthen mental well-being through positive self-narrative
Mental Health Through Self-Leadership
Experience to Influence is grounded in a simple belief:
People are often stronger than they realize.
By helping individuals uncover evidence of their own resilience and leadership, E2I creates opportunities for greater self-understanding, self-worth, and emotional well-being. Because sometimes the most powerful mental health intervention is helping someone recognize the strength they have carried all along.
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Experience to Influence
Saturday and Sunday, August 8th – 9th, 2026
8:30 am – 4:30 pm each day
Cost $500
Light snacks will be provided
A two-day immersive experience designed to help participants transform life experiences into influential leadership keynotes, personal stories, and messages that matter.