Event WomenTech Network
Lead Like an Athlete: Why High-Performance Tech Leadership Starts With Self-Care?
We’re excited to welcome Conny Ploth, Vice President of Global AI Transformation at Santander, as our featured guest speaker.
Conny will present “Lead Like an Athlete: Why High-Performance Tech Leadership Starts With Self-Care.” In the fast pace of tech, leadership often gets framed as endurance: more hours, more pressure, more output. Conny offers a different playbook - one inspired by athletic high performance - where sustainable success starts with protecting your energy, training your habits, and treating well-being as part of the job, not a side quest.
Drawing from her experience working with ambitious leaders and teams, Conny will unpack why self-care is not a luxury, but a strategic leadership skill, and how the way you take care of yourself sets the tone for how others perform, thrive, and recover.
You’ll learn how to:
- Treat self-care as a strategic KPI, not a luxury.
- Redefine strength.
- Build habits that sustain you.
- Reflect intentionally as the holiday period approaches
What’s one personal KPI you’ll track next year?
And what’s your training plan for your own well-being?
This session will be packed with practical reflections and mindset shifts to help you lead with clarity, stamina, and humanity - without burning out on the way there.
The event will kick off with a 30-minute keynote from Conny, followed by a Q&A session before one-on-one networking begins.