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Home » Media and Blogs » Everyone’s Back. Now What?

Everyone’s Back. Now What?

September 10, 2026 Ellen Leikind

PokerDivas corporate event.

Summer is over. Calendars are filling up, teams are back in the office, and companies are starting to think about corporate events for the fourth quarter and what comes next.

The challenge is not just getting people into the same room.

It’s getting them engaged, connected and actually excited to be together again.

Nobody needs another cocktail party. We’ve all eaten and drunk enough all summer.

If you’re bringing people together, give them something they’ll actually want to attend and remember.

PokerDivas events are designed to do exactly that.

The program is interactive, social and fun, but there is a purpose behind it. Participants learn how to read the room, negotiate more effectively, take calculated risks, make better decisions and play to win.

Those lessons happen naturally through the game.

People laugh.

They compete.

They connect with coworkers in a completely different way.

And they walk away with skills they can actually use.

That’s what makes an event memorable.

It isn’t just the food, the venue or the guest list. It’s whether people leave feeling like the time they spent together was worth it.

As companies plan their corporate events for the fourth quarter and start looking ahead to 2027, now is the time to think about how you want to bring people together.

Make it something they’ll talk about afterward.

Learn. Play. Connect.

And if you’re in New York, we have something special coming.

PokerDivas will be hosting a live event in New York this October as we head toward our 20th anniversary.

More details are coming soon.

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About Ellen Leikind

Ellen Leikind is the founder of PokerDivas, the groundbreaking leadership program that uses poker strategy to build confidence, sharpen negotiation skills, and transform the way professionals lead. A former Fortune 500 marketing executive at Pfizer and L’Oréal and author of PokerWoman, she has been featured in CNBC, Forbes, and Crains for her fresh take on business strategy. Ellen blends real-world corporate expertise with poker strategy to help people win in business and life. Learn More

What Clients Are Saying

Learning from Ellen how poker principles successfully align to negotiation, investment, and communication in business was fun, engaging, and incredibly useful. Our team was engaged, learned a lot, and left energized. Ellen’s team was organized, thoughtful, and made the event easy for us.  Poker Divas is a great way to make a team-building event successful. 

– Jonathan Arrowood, Crown Castle

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