Menna Riley has spent over 25 years as an event strategist, curating experiences that bring people together in ways that create real impact. For more than a decade, she has focused on building a thriving business community for professional women, helping them stop wasting time on dead-end networking and start forming the kinds of relationships that lead to real opportunities, clients, and collaborations. She knows that networking is more than just meeting people – it’s about creating meaningful, lasting connections that fuel business growth, career momentum, and lifelong support.

As the founder of Leading Ladies Networking (live in person events), The Glow Network (online community), and The Networking Boutique (online courses), Menna has built a powerful networking ecosystem where professionals don’t just exchange business cards – they build relationships that lead to tangible results. Her work is rooted in the belief that the most valuable opportunities don’t come from cold outreach or social media visibility alone. They come from being in the right rooms, with the right people, where trust is built and opportunities naturally unfold.

Menna has hosted over 50 sold-out networking events and facilitated hundreds more in her career, bringing thousands of professionals together in ways that have shaped industries and careers. She has been a featured speaker at top entrepreneurship conferences, recognized with the Safi Media Economic Impact Award for Advancing Professional Networks, and continues to lead conversations on how strategic networking can transform businesses and lives.

Her approach shifts professionals from transactional networking to transformational connections. Too often, ambitious and high-achieving women find themselves in rooms full of surface-level conversations, feeling unseen, unheard, and frustrated by relationships that go nowhere. Menna helps them break that cycle, showing them how to build networks that naturally create opportunities, referrals, and collaborations that matter.

Her clients and community members walk away with more than just networking skills. They gain the confidence to take up space, the clarity to navigate high-value relationships, and the strategy to build a network that actually works for them. They stop feeling like they have to chase opportunities and instead create a presence that attracts them.

Networking should be energizing, not exhausting. It should lead to real connections, not just more noise. And when done right, it doesn’t just open doors – it changes everything.