Speaking

Vellamo's Founder, Molly Gimmel, is a dynamic and engaging speaker who shares her leadership lessons learned from 25+ years of experience running her own multi-million dollar company as well as serving in leadership positions for multiple non-profit organizations, including Chairwoman of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and as a Delegate for the US on the W20. She brings insights from her book "Master Your Mindset: How Women Leaders Step Up" to audiences to help them become more effective leaders.

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Keynote Talks

Interactive sessions on leadership and mindset

No Filter Leadership: Leading Without Pretending

We’ve all been told to “show up as our best selves,” but somewhere along the way, that became code for polishing away our edges and faking perfection. In this energizing and unfiltered keynote, leadership expert and author Molly Gimmel calls out the myth that leaders have to pretend to be flawless in order to be effective.

Drawing from her acclaimed book Master Your Mindset: How Women Leaders Step Up, Molly introduces her signature CIA Leadership Framework: Confidence, Integrity, and Authenticity, as the antidote to performative leadership. With humor, candor, and real-world stories from more than two decades of leading teams and companies, she helps audiences rediscover what it means to lead from a place of truth rather than pretense.

“No Filter Leadership” invites professionals at every level to ditch the mask, own their voice, and lead with courage, clarity, and conviction. Because when you stop pretending, people start believing — and that’s where real influence begins.

What attendees will learn from this session:

How to replace perfectionism with presence by embracing imperfection as a leadership strength
Simple mindset shifts to lead with confidence instead of comparison, fear, or self-doubt
Why integrity and authenticity build lasting trust and how to practice both even under pressure
Practical strategies to inspire followership through transparency, empathy, and purpose-driven action

The Seven Lies Your Brain is Telling You

This talk helps women identify the subtle but powerful mental narratives that quietly undermine confidence, leadership, and momentum. Drawing from her work on mindset and mental chatter, Molly Gimmel exposes the most common lies that women internalize - beliefs that sound like truth but actually keep them stuck in overthinking, self-doubt, and playing small. With warmth, humor, and real-world examples, this talk helps women recognize these patterns without shame and see them for what they are: habits of thought, not facts.

This session goes beyond inspiration to give women practical tools to challenge their inner critic, reframe limiting beliefs in real time, and lead with greater clarity and self-trust. While the core message resonates with women across all roles, the talk can be customized for women business owners, corporate leaders, or women in specific industries to reflect the pressures and realities they face every day.

What attendees will learn from this session:

The seven most common mental lies that sabotage women's confidence and leadership
How to recognize when mental chatter - not reality - is driving decisions
Simple retraining tools to interrupt self-doubt and overthinking
Greater clarity, confidence, and permission to lead without waiting to feel ready

Breakout Sessions

In addition to or in conjunction with keynotes, Molly also provides interactive breakout sessions or workshops:

Implement the CIA Leadership Framework. This breakout is offered in conjunction with the "No Filter Leadership" keynote. Participants practice implementing the CIA Leadership Framework using real-world scenarios.
Mindset Malware Lab – Reprogramming the Lies Your Brain is Telling You. This breakout is offered in conjunction with the "Seven Lies" keynote. Participants will map their mental “operating system” to reveal key limiting beliefs, use the Reframe Protocol to rewrite old scripts into new empowering statements, and learn techniques to maintain their new mindset “firewall” against future self-doubt.
Master Your Mental Chatter: Turn the Voice in Your Head from Foe to Friend. In this breakout, participants learn the role of the voice in their head, why it says the things it does, and how they can reprogram it to stop being a critic and start being a cheerleader.
Dismantle Imposter Syndrome. Many people suffer from imposter syndrome at some point in their careers, but they don't have to let it derail them. In this breakout session, participants learn the reasons people feel like a fraud and discover strategies to gain self-confidence and defeat imposter syndrome.
Authentic Leaders = Connected Teams. Authentic leadership fosters trust, strengthens relationships, and creates a workplace where employees feel valued and motivated. In this workshop, we’ll explore how leading with authenticity builds deeper connections, enhances team engagement, and ultimately drives organizational success.
Feedback: The Leadership Superpower. The ability to give feedback effectively is a key leadership skill but so few people do it well. And even fewer are able to receive feedback without getting defensive. In this interactive session, participants will learn the keys to effective feedback, and practice giving and receiving feedback in small groups.
From 30% to Committed: Maximize Employee Engagement. Engaged employees have higher well-being, better retention, lower absenteeism and higher productivity. But studies show that only 30% of the workforce is actively engaged in their jobs. In this session, participants will discover why so many employees are disengaged and learn several strategies to maximize employee engagement.