
Welcome to the New Female Vibe: Diverse & Solution Focused
Women are at the helm of this monumental change in America. Women have always created solutions that strengthen communities, businesses, and homes. Now more than ever, diverse women are speaking up, leaning in, questioning, connecting, creating, leading, and demanding they earn what they are worth.
The Voice + Visibility Women’s Summit (VVWS) is designed to convene, inspire and activate diverse female leaders in Southwest Florida and beyond.
Our goal is to:
Empower Women
Expand Networks + Opportunities
Elevate the Voices of Diverse Women
VVWS shines the light on female leaders in: entrepreneurship, business, philanthropy, technology, arts, and community building! You are now a part of the new female vibe… Intersectional. Solution Focused. Wealth Building. Opportunity Creating. Get connected, Get inspired… We are on fire! Please come Elevate with us!
Women are at the helm of this monumental change in America. Women have always created solutions that strengthen communities, businesses, and homes. Now more than ever, diverse women are speaking up, leaning in, questioning, connecting, creating, leading, and demanding they earn what they are worth.
The Voice + Visibility Women’s Summit (VVWS) is designed to convene, inspire and activate diverse female leaders in Southwest Florida and beyond.
Our goal is to:
Empower Women
Expand Networks + Opportunities
Elevate the Voices of Diverse Women
VVWS shines the light on female leaders in: entrepreneurship, business, philanthropy, technology, arts, and community building! You are now a part of the new female vibe… Intersectional. Solution Focused. Wealth Building. Opportunity Creating. Get connected, Get inspired… We are on fire! Please come Elevate with us!
The Voice + Visibility (V+V) Events are unique in the following 6 ways:
1. All V + V events have over 50% of their guests who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), aka The New Majority
2. V + V events are diverse and inclusive by design. Our nationally renowned professional speakers are 85% BIPOC and always compensated.
3. All vendors, sponsors and partners demonstrate a commitment to Diversity, Equity Inclusion and female leadership
4. V + V Events are FUN, innovative and incorporate the Performing Arts (music, dance & fashion) Guests will be singing, dancing & strutting down the runway!
5. V + V events attract influencers, private sector leaders, change-makers & Philanthropic partners that focus on innovation, leadership, diversity and community building
6. The fastest group of female entrepreneurs is Black Women, followed by Hispanic Women, yet they have the least amount of access to capital and networks of influence, we change that- right here, right now.

Shannon Rohrer-Phillips, LLC (SRP, LLC) is a unique social impact agency committed to creating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) solutions. SRP, LLC produces the Voice + Visibility Women’s Summit, Bridge Builders trainings & presentations. We offer strategic consulting work to a select group of clients.
SRP, LLC collaborates with a broad network of businesses, foundations, talent and media partners to advance DEI solutions with proven results.
SRP, LLC collaborates with a broad network of businesses, foundations, talent and media partners to advance DEI solutions with proven results.
Meet Our Team
Shannon Rohrer-Phillips
Founder, CEO
Shannon has over 27 years of experience as a social entrepreneur. Her diversity, equity and inclusion work has been in healthcare, education and the business sector.
Listen to Shannon’s TEDx Talk: Failure and Forgiveness in the New South, delivered at University of South Florida Sarasota Manatee on 11.7.19


Ashley Salmons
Director of Operations & Productions
Ashley oversees all of SRP, LLC operations and productions. In this capacity, Ashley manages talent acquisition, marketing & communications and business activities that align with our mission. Ashley also oversees the Voice + Visibility Women’s Summit production.
She grew up the on West Coast in San Diego, California. She comes from a multicultural and collectivist family that has shaped her into the woman she is today.
Ashley is the oldest daughter of eight and was raised by an ambitious Ecuadorian mother and a German/Irish father. Family has always been the center of Ashley’s life, and she is a proud mother of her toddler son Jayden.
