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2025 Summit details

when & Where

Home2Suites by Hilton
871 Hawley Ave
Belmont, NC
Saturday, October 11, 2025
10:00AM - 3:00PM

The International Champion Influence ® P5 Empowerment Summit is a transformational half-day experience designed for coaches, facilitators, entrepreneurs, and leaders who are ready to deepen their impact and elevate their influence. This high-impact gathering focuses on the five essential champion pillars of empowerment—Potential, Purpose, Personal Growth, Power, and Progress—collectively known as the P5.

Through a dynamic blend of keynote messages, panel conversations, and actionable insights, attendees will gain tools and strategies to position themselves—and those they serve—for success, stability, and sustainability in every dimension of life and leadership.

The International Champion Influence ® P5 Empowerment Summit

The summit kicks off with three high-energy, empowering keynotes that will align your mindset, mission, and momentum with your next bold step forward. These thought leaders will inspire you to activate your potential and live into your purpose with clarity and courage.

Next, we will shift into a Mental Health & Wellbeing Panel focused on navigating stagnation and setbacks. This powerful conversation will explore how coaching can support individuals through behavioral plateaus caused by persistent uncertainty, unfavorable circumstances, and unexpected life events. Panelists will offer frameworks for guiding clients and teams toward mental, emotional, and spiritual resilience.

We will close the summit with a signature keynote by the creator and host of the P5 Empowerment Summit—a culminating message that will reignite your commitment to becoming a champion of change and catalyst for growth.

Whether you're leading others, building a brand, or transforming lives through your work, the International Champion Influence ® P5 Empowerment Summit will equip you with the insights and inspiration needed to rise, and thrive.

What to Expect

Speakers

Toyinda L. Smith

Summit Host

Toyinda Smith is the Principal of The Coaching Seat ®, LLC and brings more than 25 years of experience across higher education and business. She is a respected leadership coach, educator, and author who specializes in developing champions—whether in the classroom, the boardroom, or everyday life.

She has authored several transformative self-development books, including The Handbook to Unleash Your Potential, The Handbook to Dominate Your Confidence, The Handbook to Coach Yourself, and The Handbook to Constrict the Constrictor.

Through The Coaching Seat ®, Smith certifies coaches and facilitators and trains student leaders, managers, and people leaders to adopt a coaching approach to leadership across academia, government, and industry. Her mission is to amplify the employee experience and improve organizational effectiveness through sustainable, people-centered development.

Smith is a Certified Champion Influence®️ Coach, Facilitator, and Faculty Member, and the creator of the International Champion Influence ® Coach & Facilitator Certification—a program designed to equip professionals to lead with clarity, confidence, and purpose. She also leads a thriving private community, The Coaching Seat’s Alliance for Professional Coaches, where coaches receive mentorship, accountability, and rich peer learning. In addition, she developed the Business Builder Platform to help coaches start, grow, and sustain purpose-driven, profitable businesses.

Before building her coaching legacy, Smith was a decorated collegiate student-athlete: a 5-time Big Ten Champion, 2-time Runner-Up, 2-Time All-American, NCAA Champion, and Purdue University Hall of Famer. She now brings that same championship discipline to every coaching, training, and leadership development experience she delivers.

Smith is also a certified John Maxwell coach, a TEDx and DisruptHR speaker, a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and an active member of the ICF Charlotte Chapter. She has created two proprietary frameworks—The Coaching Seat ® SEATS Process™ Model for Coaching and the Champion Influence ® CHAMPION Model for Facilitation—each designed to elevate leaders and changemakers.

From Gary, Indiana, to her home base in North Carolina, Toyinda Smith’s mission remains the same: to create champions by empowering others to lead, influence, and transform with confidence and clarity.

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Regular: $175 ON SALE $135
Virtual: $75
Student: $35 (w/valid student ID)
Advertise: $50
Sponsor: $499

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