ADVANCE 2026

✨ HIGHLIGHTS ✨

It’s time to ADVANCE — spiritually, personally, and professionally.
Your next level starts here.

ADVANCE 2026 is a one-day transformational Women’s Leadership & Empowerment Conference designed to help women heal, grow, lead, and walk boldly in purpose.

Hosted by Dr. Luquanda Hawkins, this powerful experience brings together influential voices from ministry, business, entertainment, education, healthcare, leadership, and media to pour into women from every walk of life.

Whether you are a leader, entrepreneur, educator, creative, ministry worker, student, visionary, mother, survivor, or woman simply seeking clarity and renewal — ADVANCE 2026 was created with you in mind.

🎤 Dynamic keynote speakers & transformational teaching
🙌🏽 Powerful worship & spiritual renewal
📚 Leadership & empowerment masterclasses
💬 Authentic conversations & impactful panel discussions
🤝 Meaningful networking & divine connections
🛠️ Practical tools for real-life advancement
✨ Prophetic moments, healing & encouragement
🛍️ Vendor marketplace & community resources

🤍 We Are Our Sisters’ Keeper.

ADVANCE 2026 is committed to creating a safe, empowering, and transformational environment where women feel seen, valued, supported, equipped, and inspired.

A special part of our mission is helping provide opportunities for women from shelters and transitional environments to attend and experience hope, healing, encouragement, leadership development, and empowerment — regardless of financial limitations.

Throughout the day, attendees will experience:

• Powerful keynote speakers and transformational sessions
• Worship experiences and spiritual renewal
• Leadership and personal development teaching
• Breakout sessions focused on healing, purpose, wellness, business, trauma recovery, faith, and growth
• Interactive panels featuring influential women from diverse industries
• Networking opportunities with women from across the nation
• Live entertainment and special surprise moments
• Prayer, encouragement, and prophetic empowerment
• Practical wisdom to help women advance in every area of life

ADVANCE 2026 is more than a conference — it is a movement designed to help women rise beyond fear, trauma, limitations, and self-doubt into confidence, purpose, leadership, healing, and wholeness.

✨ Inspiration
💖 Healing
🔥 Breakthrough
🤝 Divine connections
📈 Leadership growth
🕊️ Spiritual renewal
💬 Authentic conversations
🌱 A renewed sense of purpose

Where faith meets leadership, healing meets purpose, and women are empowered to rise together.

Theme:
“Spiritually. Personally. Professionally.”

🤍 We Are Our Sisters’ Keeper!

Because your next level deserves intentional investment, authentic connection, and transformational empowerment.

Info: Begin your ADVANCE 2026 experience with a warm and elegant morning of connection, fellowship, and expectation during our Check-In, Registration & Continental Breakfast experience. As guests arrive, they will be welcomed into a beautifully curated atmosphere designed to help every woman feel seen, valued, and inspired from the very beginning of the day.

Attendees will receive their exclusive conference materials and gift bags while enjoying a delicious continental breakfast, networking opportunities, uplifting music, and meaningful conversations with women from diverse backgrounds, industries, ministries, and life experiences. This opening gathering is intentionally designed to create community, foster sisterhood, and set the tone for a transformational experience centered on healing, leadership, purpose, faith, and advancement.

Whether you arrive knowing many people or walking in alone, you will quickly discover that ADVANCE 2026 is more than an event — it is a welcoming community of

Info: ADVANCE 2026 will begin with a powerful and unforgettable Worship Experience designed to prepare hearts, shift atmospheres, and usher women into a life-changing encounter with God. This sacred opening moment will include heartfelt welcome remarks, meaningful sponsor recognition, and special honor presentations celebrating transformational leaders such as Bishop Ron Gibson, Lavette Gibson, and Dr. Holly Carter for their extraordinary impact on lives, leadership, healing, and ministry.

Guests will also experience a moving video introduction honoring Pastor Judy Shaw, followed by a prophetic atmosphere moment filled with worship, reflection, encouragement, and spiritual empowerment. This opening experience is intentionally designed to move attendees from ordinary routine into divine expectation as the conference transitions into an unforgettable day of restoration, leadership, healing, purpose, and advancement.

Come prepared for more than a conference — prepare for an encounter.

Info: The ADVANCE 2026 Keynote Address will be a dynamic and transformational moment designed to ignite vision, awaken purpose, and empower women to boldly step into the next season of their lives. This powerful keynote experience will challenge attendees to break beyond limitations, heal from past obstacles, embrace their God-given identity, and lead with confidence, wisdom, and authenticity.
Through prophetic insight, practical leadership principles, personal testimony, and spiritual empowerment, this featured address will speak to women from every walk of life — leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, ministry leaders, mothers, students, creatives, and women navigating seasons of rebuilding and rediscovery. Attendees can expect an atmosphere filled with encouragement, truth, inspiration, and actionable wisdom that speaks to both the heart and the future. The keynote moment is designed to leave every woman feeling strengthened, seen, empowered, and equipped to move forward with renewed faith.

Info: Enjoy an empowering afternoon designed to foster authentic connection, practical growth, and personal transformation. Following prayer and transition into the next conference experience, attendees will participate in a Networking Lunch & Vendor Marketplace featuring meaningful conversations, business connections, resources, and fellowship with women from diverse backgrounds and industries.

Guests will then engage in two dynamic Breakout Session Blocks focused on leadership, healing, faith, wellness, relationships, entrepreneurship, purpose, and personal growth. These sessions are designed to provide practical tools, spiritual insight, honest conversations, and strategies women can apply to everyday life.

Throughout the experience, attendees will enjoy moments of encouragement, reflection, reset, and inspiration as they continue their ADVANCE 2026 journey toward healing, confidence, clarity, and purpose.

Info: Experience a powerful worship encounter designed to uplift, heal, and empower women to embrace their authentic selves. This impactful ADVANCE 2026 segment will include a dynamic Worship Experience and a life-changing Prophetic Word Moment filled with encouragement, restoration, and spiritual insight.

Attendees will also engage in our inspiring panel discussion, *“Authentically Me!”*, where influential women will share honest conversations about faith, healing, leadership, identity, overcoming obstacles, and walking confidently in purpose. Through transparency, wisdom, and real-life experiences, guests will be encouraged to release fear, break free from limitations, and fully embrace who God created them to be.

This experience is designed to create an atmosphere of empowerment, healing, authenticity, and breakthrough for every woman in attendance.

Info: Experience an inspiring and transformative segment of ADVANCE 2026 beginning with a special video introduction honoring Dr. Holly Carter, followed by a powerful Masterclass Session designed to equip, challenge, and empower women to lead boldly in every area of life. Through wisdom, practical insight, and visionary leadership, attendees will gain valuable tools for personal, spiritual, and professional growth.

The experience will then transition into a moving Collaborative Dance Offering featuring expressive worship through movement, creativity, and artistry. This special moment is designed to create an atmosphere of reflection, healing, unity, and spiritual connection as women encounter God through both teaching and creative expression.

This portion of ADVANCE 2026 blends leadership, worship, creativity, and empowerment into one unforgettable experience.

Info: Prepare for a powerful and refreshing moment at ADVANCE 2026 beginning with a special video introduction honoring Dr. Debra Morton, followed by an impactful Manna Moment designed to nourish, encourage, and spiritually strengthen every woman in attendance. This experience will offer timely wisdom, inspiration, and prophetic insight to help attendees continue moving forward with renewed faith and purpose.

Guests will then transition into an elegant Interlude Reception, providing time to reset, reflect, fellowship, and connect before the evening program begins. This experience creates space for meaningful conversations, encouragement, relationship building, and personal reflection in a welcoming and uplifting atmosphere.

The Manna Moment & Evening Reception Experience is intentionally designed to refresh the heart, restore the spirit, and prepare attendees for an unforgettable closing experience at ADVANCE 2026.

Info: Experience a powerful and unforgettable conclusion to ADVANCE 2026 as the evening transitions into a dynamic Live Recording Worship Experience filled with passionate worship, celebration, prophetic atmosphere, and heartfelt moments of reflection. This special finale is designed to unite women in one powerful sound of faith, gratitude, healing, and surrender as the conference culminates in an atmosphere of worship and expectancy.

The evening will conclude with Closing Remarks & Final Blessing, offering encouragement, impartation, gratitude, and a final charge for attendees to boldly walk in purpose, healing, leadership, and authenticity beyond the conference experience. Women will leave empowered, refreshed, spiritually renewed, and equipped to continue advancing in every area of life.

This closing experience is more than an ending — it is the beginning of a renewed journey forward.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Vanguard University, 55 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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