Meet the Keynote Speakers - HWConnect 2025

HWConnect is scheduled for March 28-30, 2025 in Seattle Washington. HWConnect tickets include all speakers, breakout sessions, labs, mixers, vendor hall time, and reception.

HWConnect 2025 has announced our keynote speakers for the March 28-30, 2025 event, and you do NOT want to miss them.

HWConnect opens on Friday, March 28, 2025, and will culminate that evening with Keynote Speaker, Dawn Sandalcidi, PT, RCMT, BCB-PMD. If you are a pediatric therapist then you should be familiar with Dawn, who is the trailblazer and leading expert in the field of pediatric pelvic floor disorders. This keynote will be a deep dive into the “Development of Continence Through The Lens of The Diaphragm, Ribcage, and Pelvic Floor.”

A little about Dr. Sandalcidi. She is a national and international speaker, a faculty instructor at the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehab Institute, and runs an online teaching and mentoring platform for parents and professionals. In 2017, Dawn spoke at the World Physical Therapy Conference in South Africa about pediatric pelvic floor dysfunction and incontinence. In 2018, Dawn was awarded the Elizabeth Noble Award by the American Physical Therapy Association Section on Women's Health for providing Extraordinary and Exemplary Service to the Field of Physical Therapy for Children. She has also been published in the Journals of Urologic Nursing and Section of Women’s Health.

Next, let’s move on to Saturday. HW is excited to announce that Nancy Norton, RN will be headlining the event as our Saturday Keynote Speaker. Not only is Nancy a registered nurse and comedian, but she also has a talent for intuitively reading the room which we will experience first-hand with her keynote address, “The Power of Humor for Pelvic Healers.”

You may be familiar with Nancy already as she has been featured on A&E, Netflix, Amazon Prime, tours nationally, and has a weekly Podcast called "Tromedy" that is aimed at helping to transmute trauma responses with comedy. Buckle up for hilarious storytelling mixed with standup punchlines rooted in real-life experiences like growing up in a dysfunctional Ozark family and working in Healthcare.

HWConnect closes on Sunday with our final esteemed Keynote Speaker, Leticia Nieto, Psy.D., LMFT. Leticia is a leadership coach, psychotherapist, and educator specializing in liberation and equity, cultural responsiveness, motivational patterning, and evolutionary creativity. Dr. Nieto will be channeling her experience in activism, scholarship, and consulting work to speak on “Working Well: Trauma Responsive Care for Those We Work With and for Us.”

Dr. Nieto is internationally recognized for her expertise in addressing social justice concerns from a developmental ecological perspective including orienting to systemic transformation, survivance, song and poetry, relational repair, joy, radical rest, intersectional coalition, and reparative and restorative justice. Her 2010 book, Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, is an accessible analysis of the dynamics of oppression and supremacy that offers readers ways to develop skills to promote social justice.

All three Keynote Speakers are at the top of their field, and we can’t wait to hear what they have to say! Make sure you seize this opportunity to be inspired and connect with the experts.

If you haven’t registered yet then consider this your personal invitation to join us at HWConnect 2025 in beautiful Seattle, Washington. Take advantage of this golden opportunity to network, learn, and expand your toolkit. The conference will be here before you realize it – and tickets are limited! PLUS, if you register now, you can reserve your room at a special discounted rate.

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