THE AMPERSAND SUMMIT 2025
Have you ever felt like you live in two worlds?
Perhaps you’re leading teams at a tech company by day, but at night, you’re choreographing dance pieces. Or you’re a venture capitalist who’s also producing music, or a lawyer who also teaches yoga. Or – you have a secret dream to straddle multiple worlds and want to find a way to make this your reality.
You’re not alone.
It’s time to find your people, and to realize that managing multiple careers or passions is actually your superpower.
The Ampersand Summit 2025 will be more than a conference – it’s a catalyst for building your multi-passionate life, with the support and inspiration of a community cheering you on.
Through candid conversations, we’ll explore what it takes to navigate multiple callings, find the connection points between them, and redefine success on our own terms.
We’ll host a works-in-progress show for you to share what you’re working on. We know that not everyone has a built-in audience and that it’s so important to get your work in front of people – whether it’s an arts performance, a story or reading, or a short workshop idea / demo. You can choose whether you want to present or serve primarily as an audience member.
The program:
Gather, mingle, enjoy refreshments
Hosts welcome & kickoff activity
Community circles
Works-in-progress show
Our goals:
Bringing together multi-passionate humans at all stages of their journeys
Sharing the joys and struggles of juggling multiple callings
Sparking ideas that you can implement immediately into your life
Encouraging out of the box thinking
Filling your creative cups
We have one ask: will you join us?
It’s time to embrace your full self & to design a multi-passionate life you love.
Only 50 spots are available for this special event, so reserve your spot today.
– Jessica, Reichi, and Steph
This Summit is a live community event sparked by The Ampersand Manifesto podcast.
***
About us:
Jessica
Jessica Wan is an ICF-certified executive coach, venture partner, and former marketing executive with 20 years of leadership experience at Apple, Smule, Magoosh, and the SF Opera. A classically trained soprano, Jessica has led a dual career for the past two decades, performing opera, art song, and musical theatre with orgs like Pocket Opera, LIEDER ALIVE!, Goat Hall Productions, the Berkeley Fringe Festival, and Opera on Tap.
She is the creator and host of The Ampersand Manifesto podcast, where she interviews leaders who straddle corporate and creative worlds. The podcast recently made the Top 25 list of GoodPods podcasts in the Careers category.
Jessica holds an MBA from Berkeley-Haas and earned dual degrees in Music & Product Design from Stanford. Her 3rd Ampersand is mom to a 9-year-old.
Steph
Stephanie Wu is a triple M: musician, mom, and marketer who worked at tech companies like Google and Coursera. She recently left her corporate marketing job to dive fully into music. As the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Berkeley Symphony since 2009, she also teaches in Bay Area public schools and runs a private cello studio. Stephanie is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University with a B.A. in Social Studies and Music. She also holds a Master’s in Cello Performance from the Royal Northern College of Music and an MBA from Berkeley-Haas.
Reichi
Reichi has more roles than most people have tabs open. She’s a mom to two screenagers, a lawyer, tech policy leader, digital wellness educator, and certified fitness and yoga instructor. Inspired by the intersection of advocacy and health, she founded Healthfully—a consulting practice that helps families, schools, and kids build healthy tech habits in a fast-changing world. Reichi holds degrees in Economics and Political Science from UCLA and a JD from UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings—a name she proudly helped change once she found out what that name stood for). When she’s not working, you’ll find her raising good trouble in local politics.