2019 Speakers

TIFFANY D. CROSS is the co-founder and managing editor of The Beat DC, a platform intersecting national politics, policy, business, media, and people of color. With a readership comprising influencers across the ...

ELIZABETH GILBERT is the author of Eat Pray Love. Exploding onto the scene in 2006, the best-seller famously chronicled the year Gilbert spent traveling the world after a shattering divorce. Translated into more ...

CARLA HARRIS is vice chairman and managing director at Morgan Stanley, where she also serves as a senior client adviser. Previously, she headed the Emerging Manager Platform at Morgan Stanley, the equity capital ...

CELESTE HEADLEE is a communication and human nature expert, and an award-winning journalist. She is a professional speaker, and also the author of Heard Mentality and We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that ...

MEGAN RAPINOE is a two-time World Cup Champion, and co-captain of the US Women’s National Team. She is a fan favorite, and one of the team’s most technical players. A vocal leader on and off the ...

TRACEE ELLIS ROSS is an award-winning actress, producer, director, and activist, best known for her Golden Globe-winning role as Dr. Rainbow Johnson on ABC’s comedy series black-ish, and playing Joan Clayton on ...

AMANDA SOUTHWORTH is a seventeen-year-old iOS developer, designer, and a mental health and human rights activist. She’s founder and executive director of Astra Labs, a 501(c)3 non-profit that uses code for change, ...

KATHLEEN SALLADE is group vice president of sales and business development at Oracle ...

SIMIDELE ADEAGBO is an Olympian, advocate and marketing expert, best known for ...

AMBER ALLEN is CEO Double A Labs. She is a fanatic of emerging ...

LOUISE ALLEN is senior vice president, product management and product marketing at ...

EMILIE ARIES is a speaker, podcast host, author, and the founder and CEO of Bossed ...

AMBER ARMSTRONG is a passionate CMO that thinks like a CEO.  She currently ...

CATHERINE BANNISTER leads performance and development for all of Deloitte’s ...

ALISON BEARD is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, overseeing the Experience ...

RACHANA BHIDE is a 22-year leadership psychologist and broadcaster, formerly ...

DENA BLIZZARD is One Funny Mother, known as the “Target mom” for her viral ...

SHARON BROGDON is the director of diversity and inclusion (D&I) for RetailMeNot, ...

JENNIFER BROWN is an award-winning entrepreneur, dynamic speaker and diversity and ...

MARY BUI-PHAM is vice president and chief of staff, engineering at Indeed.com ...

INGER BURNETT-ZEIGLER is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor in ...

JOHN BYRNE is president, North America commercial sales for Dell Technologies. ...

JULIA CARREON is managing director of wealth management with Wells Fargo. She is ...

MICHAEL CHAMBERLAIN is vice president of strategic partnerships with Catalyst. He is ...

JEAN CHATZKY launched HerMoney Media and HerMoney.com in 2018 to ...

JULIA CHEEK is the CEO and founder of EverlyWell, the digital health company poised ...

LIDA CITROËN is an award-winning international reputation management ...

TONY COLON is vice president of portfolio product development for Cisco ...

HEATHER CROWDER is general tax officer for Phillips 66, a diversified energy ...

CATHERINE DAVIE has twenty years of experience in ...

MICHELLE DUGUID is a professor at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of ...

DR. CANDACE STEELE FLIPPIN is executive vice president and chief communications ...

MELINDA YEE FRANKLIN currently serves as the managing director of corporate and ...

AMY E. GALLO is an expert in conflict, communication, and workplace dynamics. She is ...

LINDA GLASS is founder and CEO of Glass Talent. She is an executive coach and ...

SHELLEY GRETLEIN is vice president of global marketing with National Instruments. She ...

MINDA HARTS is a well-connected, sought after speaker and thought-leader, frequently ...

FRAN HAUSER is a celebrated media executive, startup investor, best-selling author ...

JESSICA HERRIN is an author, CEO and founder of Stella & Dot. She is a serial ...

MICHELE HERRON is senior vice president and head of strategy, marketing and ...

DR. TIFFANY JANA has helped orchestrate TMI's growth over the past sixteen years. ...

W. BRAD JOHNSON is professor of psychology in the department of leadership, ethics ...

KAREN CHONG is innovator in compelling storytelling as a way to engage audiences ...

KERI D’ANGELIS is a vendor operations manager at Liberty Mutual, driving ...

ERIKA LANCIAULT is senior vice president and project manager with Broadway Bank. With ...

CLAUDIA LEE is a consummate builder, having started up multiple new businesses during ...

RICHARD LOPEZ is the director of global diversity and inclusion and chief customer ...

MEGAN LUEDERS serves as CMO for Silicon Labs, leading the company’s global ...

CHRISTI MARRUFO leads Applied Materials knowledge management and collaboration ...

CHARMAINE McCLARIE is an author, C-suite adviser, keynote speaker, executive coach, ...

DEBBIE McCLURE  is senior director, in Americas service provider mid-market ...

RHONDA McGOWN is a member of the executive leadership team at Broadway Bank, serving ...

RENEE MEDINA is VP, Global Head of Member Solutions at GLG. The world’s ...

MEG MURPHY is the CMO for IBM Systems. She joined IBM in August 2015 as VP of digital ...

JULIE O’BRIEN is senior vice president of corporate marketing for Nutanix. In this ...

LAURA OKMIN is the founder of GALVANIZE, an organization that conducts seminars ...

JANICE OMADEKE is the CEO and founder of The Mentor Method, an enterprise ...

LIVIO PEREZ is a claims manager at Liberty Mutual's catastrophe claims ...

MARY LAURA PHILPOTT is the author of I Miss You When I Blink, a nationally ...

ROSS POWELL is a senior level insurance claims manager with Liberty Mutual. With ...

SAM RAPOPORT is senior director of football development with the National ...

LINDA RAYNIER CPA, CA is a career strategist, speaker, and coach for corporate ...

SUSAN RIETANO DAVEY is co-founder/owner of Prepare to Launch, LLC, a learning company ...

CAROLYN RODZ is a Latina three-time entrepreneur, and CEO of HelloAlice.com. Alice is ...

VERONICA RUECKERT is the author of Outspoken: Why women's voices get silenced and ...

KATHRYN SANDERS joined the Houston office of Accenture in 1983 and has always focused ...

ERICA WILLIAMS SIMON is a social critic, author, host and CEO of Sage House, a ...

L. MICHELLE SMITH is the CEO and founder of no silos communications llc, the ...

MARISSA TARLETON is the chief executive officer of RetailMeNot, Inc. She joined ...

TRACI URIBE currently serves as an underwriting director with USAA, where she leads a ...

YAI VARGAS is a leading multicultural marketing expert with a niche in building ...

CY WAKEMAN is president and founder of Reality-Based Leadership. She is a drama ...

BETH WEEKS is chief information officer and vice president of cloud operations at ...

 DANIELLE WEISBERG and CARLY ZAKIN are co-founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm, a ...

CARMEN BRYANT is director of US marketing with Indeed. She is an international ...

TIFFANIE GRAY is the associate manager for the Dallas wealth management market of ...

SHEILA McELHINNEY is a financial relationship advisor with Wells Fargo. For two ...

FIRST LADY CECILIA ABBOTT in January 2015, Abbott made history by becoming the first ...

STEVE ADLER was elected Austin’s 52nd Mayor in December 2014, and looks forward to ...

DAWN FRAZIER-BOHNERT is the executive vice president of global diversity, equity, ...

YVONNE NAVA can be found behind the desk, weekday mornings from 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM ...

ERICA PROFFER is an investigative reporter with KVUE. She has helped law enforcement ...

VALENTINA GOMEZ BRAVO is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, a multicultural creative ...

LIZ FEEZOR is a writer and creative strategist who helps wholehearted individuals and ...

VERONICA GARZA is a co-founder, president, and chief innovation officer of Siete ...

JILL GRIFFIN leads an Austin-based executive coaching firm, JGEL. She is particularly ...

MARYANNE LEE is the director of customer experience strategy at LegalZoom, and a ...

LAURIE J. LOGUE is executive vice president for Broadway Bank’s Austin market, and ...

RANA SALMAN, Ph.D. collaborates with sales, marketing and enablement leaders to ...

AMBER ALLEN is CEO Double A Labs. She is a fanatic of emerging ...

ALEXIS DAVIS is a connector, speaker, and social media educator with a penchant for ...

VIANNEY GONZALES is a quality manager for the strategic planning and quality team at ...

JOANNA HOLDEN is a respected creative director, brand and graphic designer. Her ...

JESSICA SCANLON is the founder of Hot Dog marketing. She’s helped hundreds of ...

YAI VARGAS is a leading multicultural marketing expert with a niche in building ...