Events

The Women's Wealth Forum: Personal Wealth Planning and Business Strategies for Women Business Owners and Executives

This exclusive, invitation only forum brings together women business owners and executives for a conversation on building, protecting and leveraging wealth – both inside the business and beyond. Through advisor insights and peer networking, attendees will explore integrated strategies for building enterprise value and personal wealth. This program is designed for forward-thinking women leaders to gain practical advice and strategies that help align business success with personal life and legacy goals.

Meet Our Speakers:

Kathleen Cairns • Fallston Group

Communications Strategist

Kathleen Cairns is an Emmy award winning television journalist and nationally recognized communication expert who helps leaders find their voice and communicate with confidence. After more than 30 years covering high-profile stories and interviewing newsmakers under deadline, she now equips executives and organizations with the tools to deliver clear, compelling messages that inspire action. Her executive coaching focuses on voice training, body language analysis, and message development. Kathleen transforms complex ideas into messages audiences remember. Her engaging, interactive presentations leave participants with immediately applicable skills they can use in every conversation, presentation, interview, and media opportunity.

Glenn Solomon • Offit Kurman

Principal

For 40 years, Glenn has devoted his law practice to represent substantial high growth businesses and their owners from inception to exit, along with start-up businesses which plan to attain high growth. Glenn’s focus is on strategic business planning and mergers and acquisitions across a broad spectrum of industries and sizes and types of companies. Through his years of work on hundreds of transactions, Glenn has become a trusted legal and business advisor to his clients, and understands the M & A process, challenges and pitfalls to avoid.

Jill B. Steinberg, CEPA®, CDFA®, MBA • Beacon Pointe Advisors

Partner, Managing Director

Jill Steinberg leads Beacon Pointe’s Philadelphia office, drawing on more than three decades of experience advising clients on wealth planning and investment strategy. She is passionate about working closely with women to provide thoughtful financial guidance, particularly during periods of transition such as retirement, business expansion or sale, divorce or bereavement. Jill is actively involved in Beacon Pointe’s Women’s Advisory Institute, providing education to women clients and mentoring women colleagues. Prior to joining Beacon Pointe, Jill founded and led Walden Capital Advisors, guiding high-net-worth women and men to help them achieve their financial and life goals. She began her career in investment banking working with entrepreneurs to raise growth capital and advising companies on mergers and acquisitions. Jill serves on boards and investment committees for several local Philadelphia non-profits (including Live Like Blaine, a nonprofit founded in her daughter’s memory). Jill graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Economics, earned an MBA with distinction in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Heather Brake • Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

Director

Heather began her career with Chesapeake Corporate Advisors in 2010. As a director in the firm's Strategy and Valuation practice, Heather is focused on financial analysis and shareholder value creation. Heather has 10 plus years of experience providing business strategy services to privately held and investor-owned businesses including strategy development, growth initiatives, shareholder value and profitability improvement. She performs business valuations for both strategic and fair market value engagements and is involved in the preparation of financial models and presentations related to strategic planning, capital/ debt raise engagements, bank financing, and succession planning. Heather is an active member of Baltimore Estate Planning Council. Heather earned a BSBA in Management from Bucknell University and an MBA in Finance from Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management.

Anna Gavin • Consultant and Former CEO

Fireline Corporation

Anna Gavin is an executive leader, board member, and former President, CEO and owner of Fireline Corporation, a Baltimore-based fire protection services provider. As a third-generation leader, she assumed full executive and P&L accountability in 2009, scaling revenues from $20M to $60M while leading over 250 employees. Grounded in a high-performing, culture-first approach, Anna guided Fireline through continuous strategic growth, next-generation leadership development, and a successful ownership transition.

Today, Anna serves as a strategic advisor, consultant, and mentor, focusing on organizational development, executive coaching, and nonprofit governance. She sits on the boards of Baltimore Hunger Project and the Fulton Bank Advisory Board, serves as Chair of the Fund for Garrison Forest School's Advancement Committee, and active committee member for Executive Alliance. Honored as an inductee into the 2026 Maryland Business Hall of Fame by the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, her legacy is defined by culture-driven growth and service to the regional business community.