The James Beard Foundation provides targeted support through our events and workshops to educate, train, and support chefs and industry professionals.
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Our workshops and events provide targeted support through insights and inspiration from subject matter experts and industry leaders. These events serve to educate and support chefs, restaurant owners and workers, and other culinary leaders towards a more equitable and sustainable future.
Chef Action Summit
The third Chef Action Summit will take place in Asheville, NC on April 6-8, 2025. You will hear from and engage with powerful speakers from the culinary, policy, nonprofit, and corporate worlds, and have the opportunity to dive deep into important issues, build your skills around policy-making, receive storytelling and social media training, and take your advocacy to the next level.
Financial Literacy Workshop for Women
The Financial Literacy Workshop for Women is an annual two-day financial fitness workshop that aims to provide women and non-binary hospitality entrepreneurs at all stages of their career—from looking to turn idea into operation to growing one’s existing businesses—with the financial literacy training they need to get to their next level. Our next Financial Literacy Workshop will be held in 2026.
WEL Summit
In 2024, we gathered over 150 women leaders from across the country to connect and inspire this incredible community of women leaders, provide executive learning to strengthen their businesses and enable their continued success, and foster peer-to-peer support. Through the programming, attendees increased their leadership skills, strengthened their resilience as business owners, improved skills to articulate goals and values, gained tools to better manage and empower their teams, and identified ways to scale and grow their business.
