2018 Speakers

Shawn Achor

is the New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness. His most recent book, titled Big Potential: How Transforming the Purs... Read Full Bio

Dr. Brené Brown

is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Bren Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social... Read Full Bio

Whitney Wolfe Herd

is the founder and CEO of Bumble, one of the fastest growing social networking apps in the world. She launched Bumble in 2014 as the only dating platform where ... Read Full Bio

Mary Abbajay

is the president of Careerstone Group, LLC, a full service organizational and leadership development consultancy that delivers leading-edge talent and organizat... Read Full Bio

Luvvie Ajayi

is a New York Times-bestselling author, speaker and digital strategist who thrives at the intersection of comedy, technology, and activism. A fifteen-year blog... Read Full Bio

Lisa Bodell

is a best-selling author, and the founder and CEO of futurethink. She s helped thousands of senior leaders at companies like Google, Pfizer, and Lockheed Ma... Read Full Bio

Lauren Smith Brody

is the author of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby (Doubleday/Anchor). She s the founder of The Fi... Read Full Bio

Courtney Carver

changed her life by simplifying it after a devastating diagnosis in 2006. She s the founder of bemorewithless.com and minimalist fashion challenge Project 3... Read Full Bio

Bobbi Dangerfield

leads global business services, a cross-functional organization focused on end-to-end sales enablement, order management, customer order support and business in... Read Full Bio

Carol Fulp

is president and CEO of The Partnership, Inc., New England s premier organization dedicated to enhancing the competitiveness of the region by attracting, deve... Read Full Bio

Anne Grady

is not your typical motivational speaker. She is a best-selling author, two-time TEDx speaker, trainer, survivor, optimist, inspirer, and a truth-bomb dropper. ... Read Full Bio

Martie Haselton, PhD

is the world s leading researcher on sexuality and the ovulation cycle. She is a professor of psychology at UCLA, and the Institute for Society and Genetics. ... Read Full Bio

Leslie Hassler

is the founder of Your Biz Rules. You may have noticed that when businesses grow, the list of what needs fixing grows too. It can be hard to know which things n... Read Full Bio

Catherine Kaputa

is a brand strategist, speaker, author, and founder of SelfBrand, a New York City-based personal branding company - www.selfbrand.com. From Madison Avenue, to ... Read Full Bio

Danielle Kayembe

is a female futurist and serial entrepreneur who works on projects at the intersection of women and social impact. She advises female founders on scaling their... Read Full Bio

Michelle Milford Morse

is the vice president for Girls and Women Strategy at the United Nations Foundation. For nearly twenty years Morse has served organizations dedicated to promoti... Read Full Bio

Nathalie Molina Niño

is a serial entrepreneur, a super connector and an investor, focused on high-growth, innovative businesses that deliver a measurable economic benefit to women. ... Read Full Bio

Kim Read

is senior vice president of operations for RetailMeNot, Inc. In this role, she leads the company s North American operations function to support an ever-chang... Read Full Bio

Selena Rezvani

teaches women at all levels to negotiate like a boss. She also consults to employers on how to make work truly work for women - by architecting workplace ... Read Full Bio

Dani Rylan

is the founder and commissioner of the National Women's Hockey League. Rylan launched the NWHL in April 2015 with aspirations of growing the landscape of women'... Read Full Bio

Wendy Sachs

is a master of the career pivot. She is the author of Fearless and Free How Smart Women Pivot and Relaunch their Careers, a book O Magazine chose as a t... Read Full Bio

Renee Schroeder

leads the core technology solutions organization which develops and maintains a variety of products and websites. Her teams are responsible for technology capab... Read Full Bio

Emily Sheeren

is a principal at ghSMART. She serves private equity and corporate clients in the areas of leadership assessment, leadership development and organizational chan... Read Full Bio

Elizabeth Wallace

is the author of The Ambition Decisions: What Women Know About Work, Family, and the Path to Building a Life (Viking, 2018). Wallace worked for over a decade ... Read Full Bio

Laysha Ward

is executive vice president and chief external engagement officer for Target, and a member of the company s executive leadership team. She leads Target s en... Read Full Bio

Caroline Webb

is CEO of Sevenshift, a firm that shows people how to use insights from behavioral science to improve their working life. Her book on that topic, How to Have a... Read Full Bio

Dr. Jen Welter

became the first female to coach in the NFL when she joined the Arizona Cardinals as a linebackers coach in the summer of 2015. That experience and the leadersh... Read Full Bio

Gwen Wunderlich

is CEO and partner of Wunderlich Kaplan Communications, and creator and partner of The Enternship. Wunderlich is a trend-spotter whose tactical use of social m... Read Full Bio

Margie Becker

is a storyteller, lifelong activist, and small business owner. And now, she s the founder of Pay Her Forward.com, empowering women with an online marketplace ... Read Full Bio

Terry P. Mitchell

prides herself in being the steer-head and foundation to multiple organizations. E'lon & Company develops software and mobile technologies, Enhance Body Scu... Read Full Bio

Toni Harris Taylor

is a motivational marketing speaker and coach who helps entrepreneurs and sales professionals to take drastic steps to get known, get connected and get paid. Ta... Read Full Bio

Rebecca Councill

is known for her creative hair, and ability to take challenging Web and social media topics and deliver them in bite size pieces for small business owners and c... Read Full Bio

Shauna Glenn

is a writer turned interior designer, who has built her business, Design, from amassing a large following on Instagram. Her eclectic style and unconventional d... Read Full Bio

Natalia Sylvester

is the author of the novels Chasing the Sun, which was named the Best Debut Book of 2014 by Latinidad, and Everyone Knows You Go Home, named a Best Book of 20... Read Full Bio