Rooftop views, booze and cute shoes! Heels & Handshakes met at the Holston House’s Rooftop bar for their April meeting. They were able to see a sneek peek of the rennovated space before it opens up to the public in May.

Heels & Handshakes Birmingham met for their first lunch and learn. Amy B. Cotney was the keynote speaker and taught us how to make authenticity our superpower.

Before founding Boulo, our CEO Delphine created highly effective teams at some incredible companies. But she struggled to find quality candidates and was mired in uninspiring resumes, un-vetted skills, and no diversity. Until she tapped a hidden talent pool.

In her mom life, Delphine discovered “carpool geniuses,” driven, educated women with a proven work history. She knew she’d struck gold.

While a lack of flexibility in their prior career forced these women to sideline their full-time jobs, a lack of quality childcare, gaps in resumes, limited flexible work options, and missing professional networks continued to result in their unfilled professional aspirations. Even worse, their non-linear career paths keep them “hidden” on traditional job boards.

The answer was Boulo. Connecting employers who need quality hires with women who need flexibility to return to, or stay in, the workforce.

Cheryl Haley began her love for designing and creating handcrafted jewelry during the Summer of 2012. Cheryl’s love for fashion and accessories has led to her jewelry design passion.

It all began with beaded bracelets made out of organic and semiprecious stones various charms and findings. A year or so later she incorporated new techniques to her jewelry style. Those techniques have led to creating earrings, necklaces, and rings using stainless steel, sterling silver, and 14 karat gold filled wire to create a variety of designs.

Join us as we interview Cheryl to learn a little bit about her background and journey.

Heels & Handshakes hosted their fourth annual Galentine’s Day Celebration where they recognized their members hard work for the year prior.

New Year, New Connections. Heels & Handshakes is the premier organization to belong to with monthly in person meetings, educational resources and referrals with an annual ROI of $1 Million Dollars in B2B Revenue.

We celebrated our annual Holiday Party at the beautiful 1 Hotel and the party was 1 Night in Havana themed!

Renée Burwell, LCSW, MPA, CST, CSE is a nationally acclaimed psychotherapist and educator with specializations in sex therapy and trauma. Her practice, Pandora's Awakening, offers services and educational outreach that help destigmatize mental and sexual health services. She is a skilled facilitator offering trainings and workshops to healthcare and social services professionals on mental health, sexual health, and reproductive justice. In addition to her work with Pandora's Awakening and The Healing Ear Foundation, she is also the executive director of the Tennessee Alliance of Sexual Health, on the community board for Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, an active member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), the Association of Black Sexologist and the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WOCHN), and is a writer and educator for various mediums including Pure Romance, Bedroom Kandi and CNN.

Heels & Handshakes Holiday Gift Guide Supporting Women Owned Businesses.

Build it and they will come they say…but first there are going to be pain points, pivots, hiring, boundaries + more. For our November program, we highlighted four entrepreneurs who are killing it in their spare and they didn’t hold back.

Today we are highlighting Darby Hines with Tanology. Tanology offers spray tans, lash services, facials, waxing, threading, permanent makeup, teeth whitening, and so much more. They are your one stop shop for beauty needs in Birmingham.

Join us as we learn more about Darby’s journey and more about her as person!

This meeting isn’t go to be a “look at me” platform, but a “learn from me” dialogue. We have asked driven, award winning, high achieving leaders to come share with us the good, the bad and the ugly throughout their journey to success.

We had the best time at our progressive pot n’ sip meeting at Juniper Green.

Our Second Annual Speed Networking Meeting

In Her Heels with Founder Ashley Larson of Ashley Larson Events.

In Her Heels with Megan Seeley, Head of Member Experience at Flodesk.

Meet Tori Gilbert, our Ambassador for the Alabama market

In Her Heels with Harmony Hensley of Harmony Fields.