Women’s Leadership & Empowerment Conference
Resilient & Ready: Women Taking Charge
YWCA Mankato’s Pinnacle Women’s Leadership & Empowerment Conference
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Building a Financial Future Where Women Thrive
This fall, YWCA Mankato invites you to join us for Resilient & Ready: Women Taking Charge, our signature Women’s Leadership & Empowerment Conference.
Every year, this event brings together leaders, visionaries, and changemakers from across our region for a day of connection, inspiration, and action. In 2025, our theme Building a Financial Future Where Women Thrive calls us to confront a truth: the financial systems we live in were not built for women to succeed. For too long, outdated structures have reinforced barriers and inequities, keeping women at a disadvantage.
This year, keynote speaker **Janine Rogan, author of The Pink Tax** will help us examine how these systems continue to shape women’s lives, and what it takes to rewrite the narrative.
Because financial justice isn’t just about dollars and cents. It’s about dignity. It’s about opportunity. It’s about the freedom to live fully, without limits.
At this conference, we cast the net wide: whether you’re a seasoned leader, a feminist entrepreneur, or simply navigating the daily realities of making ends meet, this is your space. Together, we’ll explore bold ideas, collective action, and practical tools to dismantle exclusion and create systems rooted in equity, justice, and empowerment.
Why This Conference Matters
Collective Power: Financial justice isn’t an individual struggle; it’s a shared responsibility.
Transformational Vision: We’ll dream big, challenge the status quo, and commit to change.
Community Impact: When women thrive, families and communities thrive.
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November 12, 2025 | MNSU, Mankato JOIN US for the region’s most powerful gathering of women leaders and allies.
2025 Speakers
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We are beyond excited to welcome Janine Rogan, CPA to our community and stage…
Janine is a passionate keynote and TEDx speaker. She is the Founder and CEO of The Wealth Building Academy Inc. and an award winning CPA. Janine brings over a decade of experience in the personal finance field and an in-depth understanding of corporate tax policies, having spent time articling at KPMG and PWC accounting firms. Rogan also brings 5+ years of fin-tech consulting through her time at Workday, a cloud-based finance and HR solution across multiple industries. Now, Janine Rogan is on a mission to educate and empower women to confidently and profitably grow their wealth, through financial feminism – financial equality for all.
Janine Rogan has been featured internationally by a number of publications and has delivered keynotes to thousands of individuals and companies around the world. She has been featured on BNN, CTV, The Globe and Mail, and more. She currently sits on the CPA Alberta Education Foundation board, the board of FESA, and the planning committee of the AICPA Global Women’s Leadership Summit. Beginning as a blogger during her undergrad, Janine Rogan began writing about personal finance on her blog “My Pennies, My Thoughts”. Attracting attention from readers, she set her sights on a long time dream of presenting a Ted Talk, and in 2020 she did just that. During the global pandemic, Rogan found herself writing an untitled manuscript while pregnant with her first child. After partnering with Page Two Publishing out of Vancouver, her debut bestselling book “The Pink Tax: Dismantling A Financial System Designed To Keep Women Broke” was released in Spring 2023 and is available everywhere books are sold.
Janine Rogan is a University of Alberta alumni, completing her Bachelors of Commerce in 2015 in her hometown of Edmonton, Canada. She is currently based out of Calgary where she lives with her husband Andrew and son Theodore, and is currently pursuing her Masters in Economic Sustainability through the University of Torrens Australia. When she has spare time, Rogan enjoys cooking, travelling the world, and reading. Janine Rogan works tirelessly supporting various initiatives around Calgary that support new and under-privileged moms.
