We invites you to an inspiring and empowering evening with Michele Lando, acclaimed communications strategist, #1 Amazon best-selling author, and motivational speaker. Drawing on her extensive experience helping leaders navigate complexity and change, Michele will share practical insights and actionable strategies to help professionals create greater capacity, clarity, and calm, even in the midst of chaos.
Date & time:
Thursday, December 10. 2026
4:10pm Registration
4:30pm Conference
6:30pm Networking Reception
Conference Venue:
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
725 S. Figueroa Street, 36th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017
Admission:
$20 JASSC Member / $50 Non-members
Speaker
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Michele Lando
CEO & Founder, Skilset Communications, Inc.
Michele Lando is the CEO / Founder of Skilset Communications, Inc, and is a highly successful communications strategist. She is the best-selling author of Create Demand For Your Brand. Her TEDx talk, “How to Align Your Purpose, Passion and Profit”, was inspired by her book.
In support of companies achieving their goals and enhancing their cultures, Michele
authors and delivers keynotes, customized training, facilitated workshops and Master
Class Series'. She works with senior executives, emerging leaders and Fortune 500 teams,
guiding them to most effectively lead and communicate to drive consistent business
results.
To ensure a maximized return on investment, all of her consulting, training and coaching
is tailored to each client. Since launching in 1994, those clients have included American
Express, Bank of America, Cisco Systems, Kaiser Permanente, Metropolitan Water District,
Pacific Life, and Visa, to name a few.
Michele grew up in Los Angeles, is a graduate of UCLA, and continues to reside in
Southern California. As a sales strategist prior to establishing Skilset, she was amongst the
top 2% of female earners nationally by age 28.
SPONSORS
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SPONSORSHIP BENEFITS
The Women’s Leadership Counts (WLC) 2025 conference is an excellent opportunity for sponsors to provide a platform for a diverse audience of professional women and men to receive inspiration and empowerment to achieve their career and personal goals. Sponsorship benefits include:
Brand Differentiation – Strengthen your organization’s brand and build brand awareness
Corporate Culture – Enhance your organization’s global diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
Connections – Build a global professional network and gain access to influential leaders and decision-makers
About Women's Leadership Counts
In 2014, the Japan America Society of Southern California's Women's Leadership Counts (WLC) initiative was created as a first-of-its-kind initiative to provide a platform for women in business on both sides of the Pacific to engage in professional and leadership development.
Together with our partner organizations, business executives and community leaders, the WLC will create a network that inspires action and moves the needle on women's leadership.
WLC's Mission Statement
To provide an inclusive and diverse platform for women in business to engage in professional and global leadership development.
Who Should Attend
Current and future corporate, business, academic, non-profit and entrepreneurial women and men leaders who value the U.S-Japan collaboration and wish to expand their networks.
Why You Should Attend
LEARN from global leaders – Understanding the culture of the parent company, management, or client from Japan or overseas is key to having a successful career.
DISCOVER your potential – Build leadership and management skills and navigate through unique corporate culture in a professional environment.
INVEST in yourself – Exchange ideas as well as challenges you are facing with peers and mentors, and learn tactics to advance your career.
BUILD your professional network – Meet a diverse group of women and men representing a wide variety of industries.
