Woman Ignite Success Summit 2026 to focus on elevation, impact
Published:Friday | December 5, 2025 | 12:11 AM
The fifth staging of the Woman Ignite Foundation (WIF) Woman Ignite Success Summit (WISS) is set for Saturday, January 31, 2026, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.
With the theme of ‘Elevate’, the event is calling for women across Jamaica and the diaspora to rise above fear, limitation, trauma, and stagnation and boldly step into purpose, leadership, mental wellness, wholeness, and spiritual alignment.
“God is calling His daughters higher,” said founder Keneshia Nooks Blake.
At the media launch for the event, she delivered a deeply personal charge, calling this year’s summit a defining moment.
“Elevate is not just a theme. It is God’s instruction for this season. God is calling His daughters higher – higher in mindset, higher in faith, higher in purpose, higher in stewardship, higher in influence. Even in the middle of national crisis, elevation is still God’s command,” she said.
Woman Ignite Success Summit 2026 will bring together 10 dynamic speakers from Jamaica, the United States, and across the Caribbean – global thinkers, pastors, therapists, strategists, entrepreneurs, and prophetic leaders who will lead women through a full day of elevation in faith, finances, mental health, business, relationships, leadership, and personal development.
Speakers include Stephanie Ike Okafor, Mary Wildish, Pastor Charlene Reid, Pastor Sara Cowan, Brittainy Noel, Sarah Smith, Shani McGraham-Shirley, Kemesha Kelly Swaby, P. Falasha Harrison, and Zhara-Marie Mohansingh. Dr Terri-Karelle Johnson will serve as host.
Attendees can expect workshops, worship encounters, coaching, counselling sessions, panels, and live demonstrations, each designed to inspire, equip, and elevate.
In response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, the Woman Ignite Foundation has intensified outreach to women and families islandwide. For 2026, proceeds from WISS will directly support rebuilding efforts for single mothers across the five most affected parishes.
“Hurricane Melissa left deep emotional, economic, and structural scars on our nation. Today, we officially launch the Woman Ignite ‘Brick by Brick’ Rebuild Initiative – our commitment to support at least five single mothers in the five most affected parishes to rebuild their homes. This is not just disaster relief, it is restoration, dignity, and nation-building – one woman, one family, one household at a time,” said WIF Advisory Board Member Tammara Glaves-Hucey.
WIF is also inviting attendees to contribute non-perishables, baby items, toiletries, or clothing to support affected women directly.
Since its inception in 2022, WISS has welcomed nearly 50 speakers and a community of almost 3,000 women.
“Every year, we meet women who arrive broken, discouraged, or unsure – and they leave renewed, refocused, and ready. Women are rising here. Women are elevating here,” said Nooks Blake.