Speakers
Thank you for your interest in the Texas Conference for Women! 2013 speakers will be announced as they are confirmed.
Bob Beaudine
Bob Beaudine is president and CEO of Eastman & Beaudine, the nation’s leading executive search firm in professional sports and entertainm...Read Full Bio
Addie Broyles
Addie Broyles is a writer based in Austin, Texas. As a columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, she covers everything from cookbooks...Read Full Bio
Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee is the 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate. She is a Liberian peace activist, trained social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is f...Read Full Bio
Sallie Krawcheck
Sallie Krawcheck is a woman with a reputation for integrity, independence of thought, a sense of humor and an unrelenting focus on results. Kra...Read Full Bio
Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson is an award-winning blogger and is author of the New York Times #1 best-selling memoir “Let's Pretend This Never Happened...Read Full Bio
Vernā Myers
Vernā Myers, Esq., principal of Vernā Myers Consulting Group, LLC (VMCG), is a nationally recognized expert on diversity and inclusion within...Read Full Bio
Rachael Ray
According to Rachael Ray, she grew surrounded by food. “My first vivid memory is watching my mom in a restaurant kitchen. She was flipping something with a sp...Read Full Bio
Esmeralda Santiago
Esmeralda Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She came to the United States at thirteen, the eldest in a family that would eventually i...Read Full Bio
Johnita Jones
Johnita Jones is the Texas Conference for Women board president and the Pipeline Risk and Integrity Manager for ExxonMobil Pipeline Company. Sh...Read Full Bio
Wendi Aarons
Wendi Aarons is an award-winning humor writer and blogger who lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two sons. In the past few years, she ...Read Full Bio
Miki Agrawal
Miki Agrawal is a serial social entrepreneur. She is the founder of the acclaimed farm-to-table, alternative pizza concept called WILD (www.eat...Read Full Bio
Michelle Baden
Michelle Baden is managing director, corporate and government affairs for United Airlines. In her current role, Baden is responsible...Read Full Bio
Jessica Baker
Jessica Baker leads the development of The Respect Institute’s programming and trainings for youth influencers and our fundraising initiative...Read Full Bio
Sera Bonds
Sera Bonds is the founder of Circle of Health International (COHI), a U.S.-based NGO that works with women and their communities in times of c...Read Full Bio
Colleen Brewer
Colleen Brewer joined the Statesman in August 2011 as the vice president of sales and marketing. Brewer has worked in the media industry for o...Read Full Bio
Erin Cargile
Erin Cargile is an Emmy nominated reporter who anchors the weekend morning show on KXAN. She joined the KXAN News team in 2008 and focuses on e...Read Full Bio
Sarah Palisi Chapin
Sarah Palisi Chapin is chief executive officer of Hail Merry. Chapin began her career in food retailing on the boardwalk of the Jersey Shore ...Read Full Bio
Natalie Madeira Cofield
Natalie Madeira Cofield currently serves as the president and CEO of the Capital City African American Chamber of Commerce in Austin, TX, a reg...Read Full Bio
Trenesa Stanford Danuser
Trenesa Stanford Danuser has utilized her highly creative and strategic communications acumen throughout her career, which has led to global me...Read Full Bio
Allison Dew
Allison Dew is an accomplished marketing executive with significant experience in online, integrated cross-discipline global marketing, brand a...Read Full Bio
Janine Driver
Janine Driver is the founder, president and lead instructor for the Body Language Institute, an elite certification program that offers award-w...Read Full Bio
Debbie Dunnam
Debbie Dunnam is senior vice president of Americas services at Cisco Systems. She leads a diverse and integrated team of over 700 employees...Read Full Bio
Susie Ellwood
Susie Ellwood is publisher for the Austin American-Statesman. Ellwood began her media career in 1984 when she joined the Arkansas Gazette...Read Full Bio
Delia Ephron
Delia Ephron is a bestselling author, screenwriter and playwright. Her book, “Sister Mother Husband Dog (etc)”, a memoir, will be publish...Read Full Bio
Mauria Finley
Mauria Finley is the founder and CEO of Citrus Lane, an innovative social e-commerce company focused on helping moms discover the best products...Read Full Bio
Erica Ariel Fox
Erica Ariel Fox is a highly sought after advisor in organizational effectiveness and executive development. In addition to her teaching at Harv...Read Full Bio
Shirley Franklin
Shirley C. Franklin is former Mayor of Atlanta. She is currently the Barbara Jordan Visiting Professor in Ethics and Political Values in the LB...Read Full Bio
Porter Gale
Porter Gale is an internationally known public speaker and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in marketing, advertising and ind...Read Full Bio
Holly Gordon
Holly Gordon is executive director of 10x10. She sets the strategy and leads the day-to-day operations to "Educate Girls, Change the World" as...Read Full Bio
Laura Huffman
Laura Huffman is the state director of The Nature Conservancy in Texas and heads a statewide team of scientists, conservation experts and suppo...Read Full Bio
Dahna Hull
Dahna Hull is the vice president general manager of AT&T Mobility, South Texas. Based in San Antonio. Hull is responsible for wireless oper...Read Full Bio
Deborah Jackson
Deborah Jackson is the founder and CEO of Plum Alley, an e-commerce and crowdfunding site for women's innovatio...Read Full Bio
Tory Johnson
Tory Johnson is a contributor for “Good Morning America” who is all about helping women make great things happen. Johnson ...Read Full Bio
Emma Johnson
Emma Johnson is a fulltime freelance business writer and creator of WealthySingleMommy.com, a leading voice on marriage, parenting, work-life balance for...Read Full BioJohnita Jones
Johnita Jones is the Texas Conference for Women board president and the Pipeline Risk and Integrity Manager for ExxonMobil Pipeline Company. Sh...Read Full Bio
Kelly LIvers
Kelly Livers has been with Schwab for almost 22 years, and is one of 10 regional branch executives overseeing the retail brand network. Her reg...Read Full Bio
ShaChelle Delvlin Manning
ShaChelle Devlin Manning is the director of innovation and enterprise integration for Pioneer Natural Resources, a large independent upstream a...Read Full Bio
Dr. Sherri Reuland
Dr. Sherri Reuland became a business owner fresh out of orthodontic school when she opened her first orthodontic practice in the east Dallas ar...Read Full Bio
Karen Reuther
Karen Reuther is a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural design leader whose experience includes industry-leading corporations, twelve years a...Read Full Bio![Mel-Robbinssm[1]](https://www.txconferenceforwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Mel-Robbinssm1.jpg)
Mel Robbins
Mel Robbins is a CNN and HLN Legal and Political Contributor, one of the top female talk radio personalities in America and the COO of C-4 Anal...Read Full Bio
Jessica Shortall
Jessica Shortall has led a global career in social entrepreneurship built on experience across a number of industries, and commercial and non-p...Read Full Bio
Eileen Silvergleid
Eileen Silvergleid is a 20-year veteran of C-level sales and account management. Having worked with CEB, a company that provides best practices...Read Full Bio
Carla Piñeyro Sublett
Carla Piñeyro Sublett is the executive director of marketing for Latin America with Dell. She has responsibility for all segmentation spanning...Read Full Bio
Manisha Thakor
Manisha Thakor is the founder and CEO of MoneyZen Wealth Management. Known for making the complex simple, Thakor and her team provide holisti...Read Full Bio
Shannon Wolfson
Shannon Wolfson is an award-winning journalist whose passion is telling stories that positively impact and enrich people’s lives. Wolfson beg...Read Full Bio
Tracy Yelencsics
Tracy Yelencsics is director of global brand in corporate marketing and communications at Xerox. Yelencsics is responsible for the worldwide ma...Read Full Bio
Norine Yukon
Norine Yukon is leader of UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Texas, serving beneficiaries in medicaid, CHIP, long term care and dual special n...Read Full Bio
Stacy Zoern
Stacy Zoern has Spinal Muscular Atrophy, which is a form of Muscular Dystrophy. She has never walked. At the age of 20, Zoem wrote her first ...Read Full Bio
Randi Zuckerberg
Randi Zuckerberg served as the marketing director for Facebook for six years, where she struck groundbreaking deals with ABC (for the first onl...Read Full Bio
Dr. Laurence Altshuler
Dr. Laurence Altshuler is a board-certified internist at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) in Tulsa,OK. He has worked at various Oklah...Read Full Bio
Tracy Carmen-Jones
Tracy Carmen-Jones is a leadership coach to high potential and C-suite leaders, leveraging coaching best practices and real work experience to ...Read Full BioDebbie Dunnam
Debbie Dunnam is senior vice president of Americas services at Cisco Systems. She leads a diverse and integrated team of over 700 employees...Read Full Bio
Sandy Hoffman
Sandy Hoffman is chief diversity officer for Cisco. In this capacity, Hoffman is responsible for building a strategy that enhances Cisco’s vi...Read Full Bio
Sridevi Koneru Rao
Sridevi Koneru Rao is the business development director for the Cisco Services organization, an integral part of the Cisco product and services...Read Full Bio
Lynn Tinney
Lynn D. Tinney is the director of strategy and planning at Cisco Systems in the Americas theatre. Her team coordinates and tracks performance a...Read Full Bio
Kylie Bentley
Kylie Bentley is the regional dietitian for H-E-B in Austin. She is the in-store nutrition expert for both customers and H-E-B Partners. Prior ...Read Full Bio
Dr. Caitlin Giesler
Dr. Caitlin Giesler M.D., F.A.C.C., is board certified in nuclear cardiology, cardiovascular disease and internal medicine. Following a residen...Read Full Bio
Mario Mendias
Mario Mendias is the owner, founder and CEO at My Fit Foods (www.myfitfoods.com), a prepackaged, pre-portioned meal company that focuses on providing fre...Read Full Bio
Dr. Randall Wright
Dr. Randall Wright considers leadership and community service as the cornerstones of personal and professional life. He works as a neurologist ...Read Full BioWendi Aarons
Wendi Aarons is an award-winning humor writer and blogger who lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two sons. In the past few years, she ...Read Full BioSera Bonds
Sera Bonds is the founder of Circle of Health International (COHI), a U.S.-based NGO that works with women and their communities in times of c...Read Full BioSarah Palisi Chapin
Sarah Palisi Chapin is chief executive officer of Hail Merry. Chapin began her career in food retailing on the boardwalk of the Jersey Shore ...Read Full BioNatalie Madeira Cofield
Natalie Madeira Cofield currently serves as the president and CEO of the Capital City African American Chamber of Commerce in Austin, TX, a reg...Read Full Bio
Vernetta Freeney
Vernetta R. Freeney is an award winning blogger and Editor in Chief of vernettatfreeney.com. She is the former CEO of Women Are Gamechangers L...Read Full Bio
Lisa Hickey
Lisa Hickey is marketing director at C3 Presents, the third largest concert promoter in the US, and oversees marketing and community relations ...Read Full BioLaura Huffman
Laura Huffman is the state director of The Nature Conservancy in Texas and heads a statewide team of scientists, conservation experts and suppo...Read Full BioDr. Sherri Reuland
Dr. Sherri Reuland became a business owner fresh out of orthodontic school when she opened her first orthodontic practice in the east Dallas ar...Read Full BioJessica Shortall
Jessica Shortall has led a global career in social entrepreneurship built on experience across a number of industries, and commercial and non-p...Read Full BioShannon Wolfson
Shannon Wolfson is an award-winning journalist whose passion is telling stories that positively impact and enrich people’s lives. Wolfson beg...Read Full BioStacy Zoern
Stacy Zoern has Spinal Muscular Atrophy, which is a form of Muscular Dystrophy. She has never walked. At the age of 20, Zoem wrote her first ...Read Full BioVernetta Freeney
Vernetta R. Freeney is an award winning blogger and Editor in Chief of vernettatfreeney.com. She is the former CEO of Women Are Gamechangers L...Read Full Bio
Bryn Harrington
Bryn Harrington currently serves as the Austin community manager for Google+ Local, a role in which she leverages partnerships, plans events an...Read Full Bio
Brittany Highland
Brittany Highland is the editor of the Austinot, the top-ranked blog about the city of Austin. The Austinot exploded in early 201...Read Full Bio
Christina Linnell
Christina Linnell has thrived, launching and building Linnell Media as an outsourced director of social media for small and medium businesses a...Read Full Bio
Nettie Reynolds
Nettie Reynolds is a laughter yoga teacher and marketing/branding consultant. She is an award-winning humor writer and blogger who lives in Aus...Read Full Bio
