Igniting Social Impact: Leadership Perspectives from Women Sparking Change
A Leadership Speaker Series hosted by The GCG Collective
Leadership for positive social and organizational change requires unwavering vision, a passion for people and communities, and the resilience to meet and move through inevitable challenges. Join us in lifting the voices and perspectives of women leading transformational change.
Through an intimate career Q&A and a mutually supportive circle for small group conversation and relationship building, this series aims to strengthen the community of women leaders working together to realize a more just and joyful world.
Upcoming Speaker Events
Jean Mineo
Oct 22, 2025
Focus: Leadership Journey, Community Building Through the Arts, Arts and Cultural Management, Public Art
Jean Mineo is the Executive Director of Bellforge Arts Center. She is passionate about exploring arts outside of conventional venues, guided by a belief in the capacity of the arts to change, enhance, and inform the way we think about - and interact with - the world around us. Whether in a community art center setting, artist’s cooperative gallery, public art installations, or open studios in unconventional venues, her life’s work has focused on creating opportunities for artists while seeking ways to engage people for whom the arts might seem irrelevant or inaccessible.
A Medfield, MA resident since 2004, Jean served as Chair of the Medfield Cultural Council, received a MA Cultural Council Leadership Circle Award, and was honored as Medfield’s Volunteer of the Year. In 2015, Jean helped established the Cultural Alliance of Medfield to nurture and support cultural programs that encourage collaboration, experimentation, and meaningful dialogue, and create an environment to foster the arts as a cultural necessity. Jean is currently converting two historic buildings at the former Medfield State Hospital into a 300 seat venue and 16 classrooms for the performing arts. Future phases include space for the visual and culinary arts.
Jean holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from American University.
Women Sparking Change, New York City (in-person event)
Nov 12, 2025
Focus: Relationship-Building, Courageous Leadership, Nonprofit Sector Trends, Opportunities to Meet the Moment with Clarity and Conviction
The GCG Collective is heading to NYC this fall to host our first in-person Women Sparking Change event. We created this series to meet the moment across sectors and issue areas because we deeply believe in the power of the collective broadly to enact positive social and environmental change. And this year has been a real demonstration of social impact leaders seeking to come together to problem solve, source resiliency, increase collaboration, widen networks, and champion our collective work in the field. Join us!
Series Speakers
Shukurat Adamoh-Faniyan
Maria Griffin
Stacey Sanders
Heatherjean MacNeil
Andrea Forsht
Priya Ananthanathan
Jean Mineo
Highlights from Our Speakers
About Gallaway Consulting Group and The GCG Collective
Gallaway Consulting Group (GCG) is a certified woman-led social impact firm operating in a unique Collective model. We believe that each of us has an important role to play in shaping a future that is more joyful and just. Through the hallmarks of our social change work - Organizational Development, Storytelling, and Audience Engagement - we provide strategic partnerships to help organizations and leaders more effectively reach their missions, tell their stories, and engage their stakeholders. If you are seeking a collaborative style, a holistic suite of multidisciplinary skill-sets, and a values-driven team that will strengthen people-centered programs, policies, and practices, we can help.
