2026 Agenda – coming soon
Announcing our Motivational Keynote speaker – Victoria LaBalme!
NEWH, Inc. is thrilled to announce our Friday 2026 NEWH Leadership Conference Keynote Speaker!! Victoria is an internationally renowned speaker, performing artist, and communication strategist. We are delighted that she will join us next March.
Victoria is a master at helping leaders uncover their hidden talents and communicate with clarity and impact. With a career spanning HBO, Broadway, award-winning films, and high-level corporate consulting, she brings a one-of-a-kind blend of performance and business insight that transforms teams and organizations.
Her work has inspired global brands like Microsoft, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and the World Bank—and now she’s bringing that same energy to NEWH.
Victoria is a Member of the Speaker Hall of Fame and Author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Risk Forward. In addition she is Founder of Rock the Room® and Risk Forward®
Stay tuned for our Inspirational Hospitality Keynote speaker announcement soon!
ANNOUNCING SATURDAY KEYNOTE
Todd-Avery Lenahan
President & Chief Creative Officer
Wynn Design & Development – Global Innovation Center
As President and Chief Creative Officer of Wynn Design & Development, Todd-Avery Lenahan leads the over ten- billion-dollar design and development portfolio for Wynn Resorts, the world’s only vertically integrated and exclusively Forbes Five Star hotel company. Prior to the 2019 merger of his TAL Studio firm with Wynn Resorts, his clients were the world’s preeminent international hotel development and operating brands and for 20 years his firm was ranked as one of the hospitality industry’s “Design Giants” and won over 100 international competitions. Before creating TAL Studio in 1999, Lenahan spent a decade with The Walt Disney Company, ultimately ascending to the role of Walt Disney Imagineering Principal of Design & Interior Architecture. Lenahan earned his degree in Architecture from The University of Texas at Austin after growing up in the Washington, D.C. area which he still considers his original hometown.
