This is part of our Connected Woman Summit feature series highlighting our amazing participants.

Owner, Speaker & Leadership Coach

As the owner of Karli Sherman Productions, Karli is a nationally-renowned speaker, leadership coach, and executive coach. She helps companies, campuses, and individuals to level up and grow through professional development workshops, intensive coaching, and keynote presentations.

Karli helps teams and individuals work better, recruit better, communicate better, and create better human connection. Her trainings include topics like conflict management, courageous leadership, networking, public speaking, and the True Colors personality typology.

She is an alumna of Florida State University (Master’s in Higher Education & Student Affairs, 2013), the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Bachelor of General Studies in Arts and Humanities, 2008), and Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.

Karli is involved with the Junior League of Lafayette, the 705 Young Professionals organization, the Lafayette Mardi Gras Krewe de Rio, and the Lafayette Women’s Chamber of Commerce. She was named one of Acadiana’s Top 20 Under 40 Young Professionals, and a finalist for the Better Business Bureau’s Outstanding New Business Award. She volunteers nationally for Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, locally with United Way of Acadiana, and is in multiple mentor programs. She is a graduate of the Leadership
Lafayette Class XXXIII, and of the Peer-to-Peer Roundtable cohort for entrepreneurs hosted by the Small and Emerging Business Development program. Karli is an Organizational Growth Expert with Phired Up Productions, a SBDC Certified Small Business owner, and is a Certified Facilitator through True Colors International.

Involved with pageants for 20+ years, Karli is the reigning Ms. Louisiana United States.
She is a part-time actor and curvy model, while being a full-time brunch enthusiast and
dog mom to her 3lb puppy named Pixie.  For more information visit karlisherman.com.

When I think of women’s empowerment I’m reminded of a statement made by Meghan Markle where she said that women don’t need to find their voices, we already have them; we need to be empowered to use them. An empowered woman is a self-assured woman. Self-assurance is self-confidence (liking yourself, believing in yourself) + self-awareness (knowing yourself). It’s knowing all parts of yourself-the good, the bad, the talents, the imperfections-and loving your whole self, not in spite of those things, but because of them. Through personal and professional development I believe we can do the work on ourselves to level up and move constantly toward self-assurance. In fact, that is exactly what I do professionally. I believe knowing ourselves and believing in ourselves is at the core of using our voices. We all have a voice, we need to be self-assured enough to use it!