Adorn Boss Presents: Women in Business Brunch & Learn

Maybe you're ready to start a business but still trying to figure out what to sell, how to market it, and how to actually make money.

Maybe you've already started, but you're tired of inconsistent sales and wondering where your next customer is coming from.

Or maybe your business is growing, and you know your next level will require better systems, stronger strategies, and relationships with other women who are serious about building too.

This is your room.

Join us for Adorn Boss Presents: Women in Business Brunch & Learn, an interactive business education, networking, and sisterhood experience created for ambitious women who want to start, market, grow, and build profitable businesses—without trying to figure everything out alone.

Come ready to learn. Come ready to connect. And come ready to meet women who could become your next customer, client, referral partner, collaborator—or business bestie.

This isn't just brunch.

We're building businesses AND relationships in the same room.

📅 Saturday, November 21, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM–2:00 PM CST

📍 Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center
Washington University in St. Louis
1194 Throop Drive
St. Louis, MO
Room 340

🎟️ EARLY BIRD: JUST $10
$20 beginning November 1st

Your ticket includes:

🥂 Upscale Brunch Experience
Enjoy brunch, champagne and light refreshments while connecting with other women entrepreneurs.

🤝 Meaningful Networking
We're not interested in collecting business cards that go nowhere. Build genuine relationships with women who may become clients, customers, collaborators, referral partners and friends.

🎓 Expert-Led Workshops
Bring your laptop, iPad or notebook because we're getting practical. Our experts are bringing strategies and tools you can actually use in your business and life.

📸 Complimentary Professional Headshots
Our sponsor, A Chance to Succeed (ACTS), will provide complimentary professional headshots for attendees.

🛍️ Women-Owned Vendor Marketplace
Discover, shop and support businesses created by women in our community.

💕 Sisterhood + Community
Entrepreneurship doesn't have to mean building alone. Meet women who understand the journey because they're building right alongside you.

This month's workshops are designed around something entrepreneurs can't afford to ignore:

Rachel Ligon, founder of Adorn Boss Business Academy and host of Adorn Boss Presents: Women in Business Brunch & Learn, is a digital marketing and sales strategist who has supported seven-, eight-, and nine-figure business owners.

She's bringing those same foundational marketing, sales, systems and process strategies into the Adorn Boss room—breaking them down into practical steps entrepreneurs can implement even in the beginning stages of business.

If you're asking:

How do I attract the right customers?
How do I turn my marketing into sales?
What systems do I actually need?
How do I stop guessing and start creating more consistent income?

Bring your notebook.

Rachel is committed to being the kind of business support she wishes she'd had while building—and helping women leave with more than inspiration. You'll understand what to do next.

Building a business is exciting—but let's be real: entrepreneurship can be stressful, especially when you're wearing every hat yourself.

Add the holiday season, family responsibilities and the transition from employee to entrepreneur, and it can become even harder to protect your own well-being while building your dream.

With 20+ years of nursing experience and her work in wellness coaching, Alison Tindall of Thriving Willow will introduce practical holistic techniques—including tapping—that you can use to help manage and reduce stress, even during your busiest seasons.

Because building a successful business shouldn't require sacrificing yourself to do it.

Have you ever thought:

“I'll start investing when I make more money.”
“I'm an entrepreneur now—what am I supposed to do about retirement?”
“I know how to make money, but what should I actually be doing with it?”

You're not alone.

Jill, a financial advisor with Dow Jones, will help you begin thinking beyond simply earning income and toward creating a personal financial health and wealth plan.

You'll learn about financial options and considerations available to entrepreneurs and how to begin making more intentional decisions around saving, investing, planning and building toward your family's financial future—wherever you're starting from today.

Because entrepreneurship isn't only about earning more.

It's about learning how to steward what you earn and build with it.

Once your order is received, we'll send important event information and instructions to the email address you used to register.

Please check your Primary inbox, Promotions, Spam and Junk folders so you don't miss important event-day updates.

We also offer a separate Virtual Attendee Experience for women who cannot join us in St. Louis.

Learn more about Adorn Boss and the Brunch & Learn at .

Info: Don't come late—this hour matters.
Check in, grab brunch, shop our featured women-owned businesses and start meeting the women in the room.
Introduce yourself. Talk about what you do. Tell people what kind of connections you're looking for.
Your next opportunity could begin with one conversation.

Info: Now we get to work.
Bring your laptop, notebook or iPad and come prepared to take notes. These aren't motivational talks designed to leave you excited for two days and then wondering what to do next.
We're focused on HOW.
Our goal is for you to leave with practical information you can actually take back into your life and business.

Info: Take another lap around the room.
Continue conversations, exchange information, shop with vendors, ask questions, take photos, capture memories and follow up with the women you want to stay connected with.
We'll then begin transitioning into our private Adorn Boss Community Members-Only Workshop.

Info: This is where we move from:
“I know what to do.” → “Now show me how to do it for MY business.”
During this private session, Rachel will go deeper into the marketing, sales, systems and strategies entrepreneurs can use to pursue more consistent sales, with an opportunity for members to ask questions and apply what they've learned to their specific businesses.
This final hour is exclusively for Adorn Boss Community members.
After purchasing your event ticket, you'll receive a special invitation to join the Adorn Boss Community so you can participate in the members-only workshop.
Community membership also gives you access to event replays, ongoing business workshops and training, implementation support, and a growing sisterhood of women building their businesses alongside you.

Event venue & nearby stays

The Knight Center at WashU, Throop Drive & Snow Way Drive |, St. Louis, United States

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