Helping ambitious professionals turn connections into real opportunities.
When networking is strategic and aligned, every conversation becomes a catalyst for growth, collaboration, and career-defining moments.
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Menna Riley is a high-impact speaker, award-winning community builder, and trusted networking and event strategist who helps professionals and organizations turn their connections into influence, impact, and long-term growth.
With over 25 years of experience producing sold-out events, leading corporate workshops, and delivering powerful keynotes, Menna has built a cohesive networking ecosystem that transforms networking from an afterthought into a strategic growth engine.
- Leading Ladies Networking delivers high-impact, strategically curated in-person events where real relationships culminate.
- The Networking Boutique offers transformational courses that teach professionals how to build influence, attract opportunities, and close with confidence.
- The Glow Network is a guided online community built for implementation, accountability, and ongoing action so the connection doesn’t stop in the room, it becomes momentum that lasts.
Her work is rooted in strategy, psychology, and results. Known for her high-energy delivery and sharp insight, Menna helps people instantly reframe how they show up in rooms, on stages, and in conversations that matter.
Menna helps professionals overcome the invisible barriers blocking their next-level growth:
- Leaders who get praise, but not pipeline, because they lack the strategy to turn credibility into consistent opportunity.
- Professionals who attend every event but don’t close any deals.
- Entrepreneurs with big offers, stuck in small-circle conversations, and with no strategic network to match.
- Teams who network but don’t convert.
- Organizations trying to grow a network, but struggling to create engagement, retention, and meaningful relationships that last beyond their events.
- Firms spending on sponsorships but missing the strategy that turns exposure into ROI.
Menna was awarded the Economic Impact Award for Advancing Professional Networks by Safi Media and has been invited to speak at major conferences, professional associations, and leadership forums across Atlantic Canada. Her clients include law firms, financial institutions, public sector organizations, entrepreneurs, and women-led companies ready to elevate their visibility, confidence, and results.
Whether you need a keynote speaker, emcee, or corporate facilitator, Menna brings the spark, strategy, and substance to make every connection count.
Most networking doesn’t work. Here’s why ours does.
Too many smart, ambitious professional women are spending time in rooms that don’t move them forward. They show up, they smile, they hand out cards, but leave with no real momentum.
Because traditional networking focuses on quantity, not quality. Visibility, not alignment. And that kind of connection doesn’t lead to referrals, opportunities, or growth.
That’s why we’ve built something different.
At Leading Ladies Networking, The Glow Network, and The Networking Boutique, we’ve created a high-impact, human-first ecosystem designed to help women:
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Build real relationships that lead to clients, contracts, and collaborations
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Show up with clarity and confidence
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Grow their network with strategy, not guesswork
For over a decade, Leading Ladies Networking has been Nova Scotia’s most trusted space for powerhouse women to connect in person through unforgettable live events. With 55+ sold-out events and thousands of women supported, it’s where professional chemistry turns into real traction.
To extend that magic beyond the room, we created The Glow Network, a private online community and connection engine where women access strategy calls, networking prompts, curated intros, and expert guidance to keep growing between events.
And for women ready to deepen their leadership skills and master strategic networking? The Networking Boutique offers transformative online courses that teach you how to create high-value connections with confidence and purpose; no fluff, no awkwardness.
We don’t do traditional or transactional networking. We create spaces where women rise together with clarity, charisma, and strategy. Because when your network works for you, everything changes.
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