Westchester Professional Women Virtual Lunch & Learn: Level Up Your Next Chapter

Thursday, September 24, 2026

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Virtual

Join UJA Westchester Professional Women* for a virtual lunch and learn focusing on career evolution. Career clarity coach Dara Astmann will be in conversation with Jessica Eichel about what it takes to continuously grow and succeed without losing sight of your personal values. Whether you're aiming for a promotion, stepping into leadership, or looking to maximize your impact, Dara will share practical tools to help you advocate for yourself and thrive with purpose.

You’ll also learn more about UJA’s current and critical work in New York, in Israel, and around the world.

* UJA Westchester Professional Women is a new community for women navigating work, leadership, service, and personal growth, rooted in UJA’s values. Whether you’re building, leading, mentoring, returning to work, or reimagining your path, you belong here.

Featuring

Dara Astmann

Career Clarity Coach, Dara Astmann Coaching

Dara Astmann is a career clarity coach who helps ambitious women navigate career transitions with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Whether they're exploring a career pivot, launching a business, or returning to the workforce after a pause, she helps them move past doubt and uncertainty to create a fulfilling next chapter on their own terms.

As a mom who successfully pivoted her own career after 20 years in media and ad sales (a decade of it in a unique part-time job-share role), Dara understands firsthand what it takes to redefine success on your own terms. Through her signature Career Compass Program, she offers coaching, accountability, and a supportive community that helps women...

Moderator

Jessica Saunders Eichel

Associate General Counsel, Combe Incorporated

Jessica Saunders Eichel has built her career as a litigator and currently serves as associate general counsel for Combe Incorporated, the personal-care company behind brands like Just For Men, Vagisil, and Astroglide. A lifelong love of reading and writing pulled her toward an unexpected new chapter; at 40, she sat down to write her first novel. Love, Me was featured on Good Morning America, The Skimm, Oprah Daily, and Katie Couric Media, among others. Publishers Weekly called it a debut that "sparkles." Her second novel, On the Mend, will be released next summer by Penguin Random House. Jessica lives in Larchmont, New York, with her husband and two daughters.