Inside the NYC Women Leading Travel Leadership Exchange

August 19th, 2026 at 10:08 AM EDT

Two speakers in conversation on stage at the Women Leading Travel Forum, seated in yellow armchairs before an audience

Leading in travel can often feel like a solo endeavor. The Women Leading Travel Leadership Exchange is where senior women come together to connect candidly, off the record, with peers navigating the same challenges and carrying the same responsibilities. Join us September 22 in New York City.

The higher you go in travel, the smaller your bench gets. Your team looks to you for the answer, so you can't think out loud with them. The peers who'd actually understand the call you're weighing are scattered across other companies, other cities, rarely in the same room. Most women leading in this industry are doing it with less peer support than the seat deserves.

That's the gap the Women Leading Travel Leadership Exchange is built to close.

A Room of People Who Lead the Way You Do

On September 22, the day Skift Global Forum opens in New York, women executives across travel and hospitality gather for a closed, off-the-record afternoon. The room runs 89% director-level and above, so everyone across the table is carrying the same kind of decisions as you are. Seats are limited and reviewed for fit. That's the point: not a bigger network, but the right one, senior enough that the conversation is worth having and honest enough to be useful.

What the Afternoon Gives You

This is built to send you back to your work with more than notes.

Megan Miller of UNLEASHED opens on the cost of performing for approval, the habit of trading what you know for the appearance of certainty. A C-Suite panel runs an honest read on the industry.

The roundtables put the room to work together on what's next for leaders, which is where the real value sits: your hardest questions, pressure-tested by people who've faced them.

You leave with peers you can call after the afternoon ends. That's the part that outlasts any single event, a set of relationships with women who lead like you do and are rooting for you to win.

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