Confidence Revisited | LIMITLESS Leaders Webinar Series-Confidence Revisited

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The webinar opened with an introduction to the Limitless Leaders Summit and its mission to educate, elevate, and empower women surgeons through leadership, mentorship, and community. Brooke Blair from Allergan Aesthetics highlighted the organization’s five-year support of Limitless and its evolution into a webinar series.<br /><br />Dr. Vinaya Rednam then shared a follow-up talk on confidence, reflecting on what had changed since the summit. She emphasized that confidence is built through evidence, not emotion, and revisited the four-step framework: define your leadership lens, leverage past successes, identify what is holding you back, and align actions with goals. She discussed how surgeons often feel highly confident in the operating room but less so in leadership, financial, or advocacy situations.<br /><br />Using personal stories, Dr. Rednam described claiming authority as a textbook co-editor and advocating for fair compensation after noticing a pay mismatch. Her key message was to “act before you’re ready,” name fears directly, and use data, preparation, and persistence to move forward. In the Q&A, she advised women to balance assertiveness with humanity, remain persistent in getting heard, use structure when giving feedback, and approach mentorship as a two-way relationship.<br /><br />The event closed by encouraging attendees to lead, mentor, and widen opportunities for the next generation of women surgeons.

Keywords

Limitless Leaders Summit

women surgeons

leadership

mentorship

confidence

advocacy

financial compensation

professional development