Get Seen. Get Heard. Get Known.
About Leading Lady Network
Visibility Creates Opportunity. Your voice, your stories, and your expertise have value. Knowing how to communicate them can create opportunities for your career, business, and future. Leading Lady Network specializes in speaking, storytelling, and speaker development. We help professionals, entrepreneurs, and organizations develop compelling messages, strengthen communication skills, and use speaking to build visibility, credibility, and influence. Whether you're speaking on a stage, presenting to executives, sharing your expertise with potential clients, or preparing for your next career opportunity, we help you communicate in ways that make people listen, remember, and take action.
Who We Are
Leading Lady Network is a speaker-development company and visibility platform founded by keynote speaker and two-time TEDx speaker Krizel Rodriguez.
We believe everyone has experiences, knowledge, and ideas worth sharing. Communicating them effectively can influence decisions, build relationships, grow businesses, and create new opportunities.
Through speaking programs, storytelling workshops, private coaching, corporate training, and visibility experiences, we help people develop the skills to share their messages with clarity and confidence.
Our work serves professionals who want to advance their careers, entrepreneurs who want to grow their businesses, and organizations that want stronger communicators and more effective leaders.
We also create opportunities for women of all shapes, shades, sizes, and ages to share their expertise, build connections, and reach new audiences.
Because Visibility Creates Opportunity.
Mission
To develop confident, compelling speakers who use their voices, stories, and expertise to build visibility, strengthen influence, and create greater opportunities.
Vision
To redefine leadership by creating visible, confident, and impactful women leaders who transform their lives, organizations, and communities.
Purpose
We believe valuable ideas and experiences deserve to be heard. Our purpose is to help people find their voice, tell their stories, and turn their expertise into opportunities that benefit their lives, organizations, and communities.
Get Seen. Get Heard. Get Known.
Speaker Development and Coaching
We help individuals develop their messages, strengthen storytelling skills, improve delivery, and prepare for speaking opportunities that advance their careers and businesses.
From important presentations to podcast interviews to keynotes or the TEDx stage, we help speakers communicate their expertise with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Corporate Training & Development
We partner with organizations to develop employees and leaders who communicate effectively, present ideas confidently, and influence through speaking and storytelling.
Our programs help teams strengthen presentation skills, executive presence, storytelling, and communication so they can contribute more effectively, lead important conversations, and represent their organizations with confidence.
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Speaking & Keynotes
Through keynote presentations and interactive workshops, founder Krizel Rodriguez helps audiences recognize the value of their voices, communicate their expertise, and become more intentional about their visibility.
Her talks blend personal experiences, practical strategies, and leadership expertise to encourage audiences to act.
Visibility Experiences & Media
We create spaces for speakers, professionals, and entrepreneurs to share their knowledge, tell their stories, and connect with new audiences.
Through events, collaborations, podcasts, interviews, and media opportunities, Leading Lady Network helps people expand their reach and build relationships that create opportunities.
Our Approach: Story + Topic + Idea
Every compelling message begins with three elements:
Story: The experience or example that helps your audience connect with your message.
Topic: The subject that gives your message direction and focus.
Idea: The central thought you want your audience to understand, remember, and act on.
Our Story + Topic + Idea method helps speakers bring these elements together to create clear, memorable, audience-centered messages.
We use this foundation throughout our coaching, workshops, and speaker-development programs.
The Five Crowns of Women's Leadership
The Five Crowns represent the qualities and opportunities that support professional growth and visibility. These principles guide how we develop speakers and create experiences throughout the Leading Lady Network.
Confidence
Recognizing your value and trusting your ability to share it.
Visibility
Becoming seen, recognized, and remembered for your contributions.
Voice
Communicating your knowledge, experiences, and ideas with clarity.
Opportunity
Using your skills, relationships, and expertise to open doors.
Connection
Building relationships that support growth, collaboration, and shared success.
Why Organizations Partner With Leading Lady Network
Develop Confident Communicators. Strengthen Leadership. Create Greater Impact.
Every organization has talented people with valuable knowledge, experiences, and ideas. When employees and leaders know how to communicate that value, they can influence decisions, strengthen relationships, and contribute more effectively to organizational success.
Leading Lady Network partners with organizations to develop confident speakers, stronger communicators, and more visible leaders through practical training, storytelling, and speaker development.
With more than two decades of experience in corporate learning and development, leadership training, and coaching, our founder, Krizel Rodriguez, understands the communication challenges professionals face and the skills they need to succeed.
Organizations partner with LLN to:
- Strengthen Communication Skills: Help employees present ideas clearly, engage audiences, and communicate with confidence.
- Develop Stronger Leaders: Prepare emerging and established leaders to speak with credibility, influence decisions, and lead important conversations.
- Improve Presentation & Storytelling Skills: Equip professionals to deliver compelling presentations, share their expertise, and make their messages memorable.
- Increase Employee Visibility: Help talented employees communicate their contributions, demonstrate their capabilities, and prepare for greater responsibilities.
- Build a Stronger Leadership Pipeline: Develop professionals who are ready to represent their teams, present to senior leadership, and take on new opportunities.
Through customized workshops, corporate speaker-development programs, keynote presentations, and coaching, we provide practical strategies participants can apply immediately.
When people communicate with confidence and clarity, organizations benefit from stronger leadership, better collaboration, and greater opportunities for growth.
Let's Develop Your Next Generation of Confident Communicators and Leaders.
Meet Krizel Rodriguez
Krizel Rodriguez, known as “La Reina of Leadership,” is a keynote speaker, leadership strategist, two-time TEDx speaker, Amazon best-selling author, and the founder and CEO of Leading Lady Network and the Leading Lady Foundation.
As the current Grand Sovereign Ms. and a plus-size model, Krizel is redefining leadership by helping women of all shapes, shades, sizes, and ages recognize the value of their voices, share their stories, and lead with confidence, visibility, and purpose.
With over two decades of experience in leadership development, coaching, training, and organizational learning, Krizel has dedicated her career to helping individuals and organizations develop stronger communicators, confident speakers, and more visible leaders. Her work combines leadership development with public speaking, storytelling, and practical communication strategies that help people share their expertise, strengthen their influence, and create greater opportunities.
Krizel received the “Redefining Leadership” Award from the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE) and was recognized as an Austin Change Maker in both 2024 and 2026 by Austin Woman Magazine for her impact as a speaker, entrepreneur, leadership advocate, and community leader.
Through Leading Lady Network, Krizel has built a growing platform focused on speaking, storytelling, and visibility. From corporate training and speaker-development programs to keynote engagements, private coaching, conferences, and media opportunities, LLN helps professionals and entrepreneurs develop compelling messages, communicate with confidence, and become recognized for their knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
She also created the TAILOR Method, a personalized leadership and coaching framework that helps individuals align their leadership development with their unique strengths, voice, and purpose.
Today, Krizel's work spans keynote speaking, corporate leadership development, speaker coaching, storytelling, and visibility experiences. Through every stage, program, and platform, her mission remains the same: helping people recognize the value of their voices, share their expertise, and turn speaking and storytelling into greater visibility, influence, and opportunity.
Get Seen. Get Heard. Get Known.
