2012 Speakers
Special Guest Speakers
Renee Connolly
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Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer & Head, Engagement, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany & Massachusetts Conference for Women Board Member
RENEE CONNOLLY is the chief diversity, equity & inclusion officer and head of engagement at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, where she drives the strategic advancement and cultural implementation of the ...
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Gloria Cordes Larson
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Former President, Bentley University and Board Member, MA Conference for Women
GLORIA CORDES LARSON is a respected lawyer, public policy expert, Boston business leader, and former university president. She currently serves as a director on the public company board of Unum Group, as well as ...
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Keynotes
Charlotte Beers
Charlotte Beers has combined her strong business insight with an innate Southern ...
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Barbara Bradley Baekgaard
Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia R. Miller in 1982 co-founded Vera Bradley, ...
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Dr. Brené Brown
Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate ...
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Marla Capozzi
Marla Capozzi is a senior expert and a leader of McKinsey & Company’s global ...
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Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth is an Emmy and Tony Award winner, SAG and People’s Choice Award ...
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Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is the president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media ...
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Breakout Session Speakers
David Bach
David Bach credits his Grandma Bach as the woman who taught him almost everything he ...
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Jessica Baker
Jessica Baker is co-founder and vice president of programming for The Respect ...
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Ella Bell
Ella LJ Edmondson Bell, Ph.D., is the founder and president of ASCENT‐Leading ...
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Lauren Berger
Lauren Berger is chief executive officer and founder of internqueen.com and author of ...
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Kate Betts
Kate Betts is an author and contributing editor at TIME magazine, where she has ...
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Beth Carlson
Beth Carlson is vice president of global talent development and learning for Raytheon ...
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Jean Chatzky
Jean Chatzky, an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, is the financial ...
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Kara Cohen
Kara Cohen is the community service director for AARP Massachusetts. AARP has over ...
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Elizabeth Comeau
Elizabeth Comeau is the senior health and wellness producer for Boston.com.Prior to ...
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Steve Cox
Steve Cox is the senior director of Americas services field marketing organization at ...
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Vivian Diller, Ph.D.
Vivian Diller, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in New York. Prior to ...
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Leigh-Ann Durant
Leigh-Ann Patterson Durant serves as associate general counsel at EMD Serono, Inc., a ...
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Delia Ephron
Delia Ephron is a bestselling author, screenwriter and playwright. Her most recent ...
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Gloria Feldt
Gloria Feldt is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, world changer and expert in ...
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Gayle Morris
Gayle Morris is vice president of services for commercial, distribution and virtual ...
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Fawn Germer
Fawn Germer brings to life the wisdom and mentoring advice from her personal ...
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Beth Grous
Beth Grous is vice president, human resources and head of the Boston Human Resources ...
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Cynthia Hass
Cynthia Hass is the director of youth engagement at GimmeMo Productions, an online ...
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Mary Beth Hawkins
Mary Beth Hawkins is director of sales with AT&T New England. Hawkins is ...
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Whitney Johnson
Whitney Johnson is the president and co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment ...
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Charley Johnson
Charley Johnson is an entrepreneur and former Owner of a manufacturing company. ...
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Sheila Jordan
Sheila Jordan is senior vice president of communication and collaboration IT at Cisco ...
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Jill Larsen
Jill Larsen is the vice president, global human resources for RSA, the security ...
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Kelly McKenna
Kelly McKenna is global head of State Street’s center for applied research, ...
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Mark McKinnon
Mark McKinnon has spent three decades solving complex strategic challenges for ...
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Betsy Myers
BETSY MYERS is founding director of Bentley University’s Center for Women and ...
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Alison Quirk
Alison A. Quirk is an executive vice president at State Street Corporation and is ...
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Deborah Re
Deborah Re brings more than 20 years of management, entrepreneurial and ...
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Marcy Reed
Marcy L. Reed is president of National Grid in Massachusetts. She is ...
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Doreen Rigby
Doreen Rigby is executive vice president of State Street’s global operations, ...
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Mel Robbins
MEL ROBBINS is the international best-selling author of The 5 Second Rule and four ...
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Mia Roberts
Mia Roberts is responsible for recruitment initiatives, new collaborative ...
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Alexis Sclamberg
Alexis Sclamberg is a writer, speaker and media personality. A former lawyer, ...
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Diana Scott
Diana Scott is senior vice president, human resources, for John Hancock Financial, ...
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Carole Simpson
Carole Simpson retired from ABC News in 2006 after 24 years, and three-time ...
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Bonnie St. John
Bonnie St. John Despite having her right leg amputated at age five, St. John became ...
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Lori Sussman
Lori Sussman is senior director of strategy and planning and chief of staff for ...
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Meredith Walker
Meredith Walker began her television career with Nickelodeon’s “NICK NEWS.” ...
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Chrissy Wellington
Chrissy Wellington, being a division I athlete, knows first-hand how to balance a ...
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Dr. Vonda Wright
Dr. Vonda Wright is an orthopedic surgeon and internationally recognized authority on ...
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Shalise Manza Young
Shalise Manza Young is an award-winning journalist who covers the New England ...
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Expert Exchange
Susan Getman
Susan M. Getman, MSW became president and CEO of Walker in May 2012, taking over as ...
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Hannah Grove
Hannah Grove is executive vice president of State Street Corporation and chief ...
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Megan Wherry Menner
Megan Wherry Menner is vce president and head of human resources international for ...
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Mikki Taylor
Mikki Taylor is the quintessential authority on all matters regarding beauty. For ...
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Lynn Tinney
Lynn Tinney leads the strategy team responsible for defining and implementing ...
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Meredith Verdone
Meredith Verdone is senior vice president, Enterprise Marketing & Market ...
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Small Business Boot Camp
Sarah Palisi Chapin
Sarah Palisi Chapin has a wealth of experience and brand savvy expertise that extends ...
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Susan Leger Ferraro
Susan Leger Ferraro is currently the chief innovation officer for The Lupoli ...
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Jody Rodgers
Jody Rodgers set upon a career with the federal government, followed by a move to ...
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Tory Johnson
Tory Johnson is all about spark and hustle at work, dating back to high school in ...
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Jessica Nam Kim
Jessica Nam Kim is founder and CEO of BabbaCo, a parenting lifestyle brand centered ...
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Ross Kimbarovsky
Ross Kimbarovsky left a successful 13-year career as a trial lawyer to pursue his ...
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Jenn Lee
Jenn Lee, known as coach Jenn Lee, is a national speaker, small business advisor, ...
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Elizabeth R. Thornton
Elizabeth R. Thornton is an adjunct lecturer of Entrepreneurship and the special ...
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Health & Wellness Pavilion Speakers
Andrea Ashford
Andrea Ashford currently serves as vice president of oncology marketing, US at EMD ...
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Melissa Banks
Melissa Banks is senior director of product marketing breast imaging at Hologic, Inc. ...
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Amanda Bennett
Amanda Bennett is an executive editor at Bloomberg News, directing special projects ...
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Lynya Floyd
Lynya Floyd, is the health director at Family Circle magazine, wellness expert, ...
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Jessica McKinney
Jessica McKinney, PT, MS is director of women's health and pelvic floor dysfunction ...
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Local Leader
Iris Bohnet
Iris Bohnet is a professor of public policy, and the academic dean of the Harvard ...
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Suzanne M. Bump
Suzanne M. Bump is the 25th Auditor of the Commonwealth, one of six constitutional ...
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Elissa Campbell
Elissa Campbell recently earned her credits as a national beauty at the age of 55, ...
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Heather Campion
As an award-winning executive having held positions in the financial sector, higher ...
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Carol Fulp
Carol Fulp is President and CEO of The Partnership, Inc., New England’s premier ...
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Kayla Harrison
Kayla Harrison made history at the 2012 Olympics in London by winning the first Gold ...
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Deborah Jackson
Deborah Jackson was appointed as the fourth president of Cambridge College in May ...
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Imani McFarlane
Imani McFarlane is an internationally acclaimed designer known for exquisite designs ...
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Rev. Irene Monroe
Rev. Irene Monroe is a Huffington Post blogger, and a syndicated ...
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Catherine Peterson
Catherine Peterson is the executive director of ArtsBoston, Boston’s largest and ...
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Sharon Reilly
Sharon Reilly is executive director of the Women's Lunch Place. She is leading the ...
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Micho Spring
Micho Spring leads the firm's global corporate practice, as well as the New England ...
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Janet Strimaitis
Janet Strimaitis is managing director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for ...
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Josefina Vázquez
Josefina Vázquez is a self-described woman-liberationist. Since the 1980’s, she ...
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Pam Wickham
Pam A. Wickham is vice president of corporate affairs and communications for Raytheon ...
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Social Media Pavilion
Deborah Chud
Deborah Chud, MD was a medical educator and member of the faculty at Tufts University ...
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Erin Gates
Erin Gates is a Boston-based interior designer and founder of the popular style blog ...
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Cindy Meltzer
Cindy Meltzer is an experienced social media and community strategist. She is the ...
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