Ascend June Inspiring Across Generations
Leadership at Every Level: Elevate. Empower. Excel
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Event Details
Date: Friday, June 20, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM – 7:00 PM PT (Networking 5:15 PM - 6:45 PM)
Venue: Robert Half San Ramon 3001 Bishop Drive Suite 140 San Ramon, CA 94583
Admission:
IAG: Member: $150 I Non-Member: $200
Growth: Member: $200 | Non-Member: $275
Growth and IAG: Member: $250 | Non-Member: $325
Attire: Business Casual
Description
Join us at the Ascend NorCal June Inspiring Across Generations Conference—our only integrated event uniting the Ascend Level Up (Growth Program), AEN, and IAG communities in one powerful day of leadership development. Under the theme “Leadership at Every Level: Elevate. Empower. Excel.”, this full-day experience will feature a dynamic opening plenary, small group breakout sessions, and intentional networking across career stages. Whether you’re rising in your career or shaping strategy at the executive level, this conference is designed to move you forward.
Agenda
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM:
Registration, Networking, Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:40 PM:
Welcome & Opening Plenary
1:40 PM - 1:55 PM:
Networking Break / Transition
1:55 PM - 2:45 PM:
Breakout Session #1
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM:
Networking Break / Transition
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM:
Breakout Session #2
3:50 PM - 4:05 PM:
Networking Break / Transition
4:05 PM - 5:15 PM:
Closing Plenary & Wrap Up
5:15 PM - 6:45 PM:
Networking / Happy Hour
Speakers

Adora Lee
Leadership Coach & Facilitator
Adora Lee Coaching
Adora Lee is an executive coach, leadership strategist, and founder of Adora Lee Coaching. She brings experience as a daughter of immigrants, mother, and Fortune 500 executive - having seen firsthand that authentic leadership is rooted in self-awareness, self-acceptance, and the curiosity to engage beyond the immediate story. Starting as a part-time associate while putting herself through university, she rose to Managing Director of a global tech and data platform over a 25-year career with the same organization. Today, she works with ambitious leaders to align success with their values, building leadership lives that feel powerful and true - especially for those navigating career or leadership crossroads. Adora integrates Conscious Leadership and practices that connect mind and action to help Asian American and women executives lead with clarity and resilience. She also shares insights on leadership and bold self-trust in her Substack publication, Resilient You.

Jennifer Ouyang Altman
CEO + Chief Coaching Officer
Inner Radio
Jennifer Ouyang Altman founded Inner Radio after an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and 10 years in sales leadership. She believes what scares us about sales is the same thing that scares us about raising our hand in meetings, giving tough feedback, and asking for promotions. We fear sharing what we want most and getting judged by others. We fear asking for what we want most and hearing No. As a sales leader she learned to build trust quickly, influence without authority, and ask for what she wanted over and over again. She now helps leaders across industries find the confidence and clarity to do the same. Jennifer facilitates Interpersonal Dynamics, Stanford Graduate School of Business’ most popular elective on building effective professional relationships. She also facilitates courses on communication and storytelling with GSB’s executive program.
Our Corporate Partners

Safety of our guests is paramount to Ascend. Attendees are responsible for monitoring their own condition and agree to comply with the safety, hygiene and CDC identified pandemic level communicable illnesses (including COVID-19) guidelines established by relevant health authorities. We request that attendees not attend an event should they test positive or if they experience COVID symptoms prior to the event.