Susan Cain is the author of the award-winning, New York Times best-seller, “Quiet,” and the record-smashing TED talk on the power of... Read Full Bio
Linda Cliatt-Wayman
Linda Cliatt-Wayman is the principal of Strawberry Mansion High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After 20 years as a classroom teacher, Wa... 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
Doris Kearns Goodwin
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize winning, New York Times number one ... Read Full Bio
Blake Mycoskie
Blake Mycoskie is the founder and chief shoe giver of TOMS, and the person behind the idea of One for One, which has turned into a global movem... Read Full Bio
Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts is co-anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Under her leadership, the broadcast won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Out... Read Full Bio
Kerry Washington
Kerry Washington is a versatile and fearless actress who continues to shine on both the big screen and small. A native of The Bronx, Washington... Read Full Bio
Special Guest Speakers
Renee Connolly
RENEE CONNOLLY is the global head of communications and business markets/services at MilliporeSigma, where she leverages the power of education... Read Full Bio
Jessica Crimmins
JESSICA CRIMMINS is the senior vice president of corporate communications for Santander. Her role is to set strategic direction for building ... Read Full Bio
Gloria Cordes Larson
GLORIA CORDES LARSON is a respected lawyer, public policy expert, Boston business leader, and former university president. She currently serves... Read Full Bio
Speakers
Maureen Alphonse-Charles
Maureen Alphonse-Charles is vice president of executive acquisition for City Year. In this capacity she leads the executive recruiting for leaders and fu... Read Full Bio
Brenda Becker
Brenda Becker brings an outstanding track record of success to Boston Scientific with more than 20 years of governmental experience. Before joi... Read Full Bio
Emily Bennington
Emily Bennington specializes in two distinct forms of career transition: college students entering the workforce and women leaders entering exe... Read Full Bio
Blythe D Berents
Blythe D Berents is vice president, financial solutions advisor for Merrill Edge®. Previously, Berents was with Banc of America Investments, H... Read Full Bio
Cathie Black
Cathie Blackis a well-known media executive, New York Times bestselling author and now an advisor, board member and investor in ... Read Full Bio
Renata Mutis Black
Renata Mutis Black has established herself as a true philanthropist and humanitarian through her commitment to eliminating poverty. In 2006, Bl... Read Full Bio
Eileen Howard Boone
Eileen Howard Boone is the senior vice president of corporate philanthropy and social responsibility for CVS Caremark, the 13th largest company... Read Full Bio
Jane Bowman
Jane Bowman is the vice president of marketing and sales development for Boston Globe Media, where she works to develop strategic consumer and ... Read Full Bio
Ruth Bramson
Ruth Bramson is CEO of Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. Prior to joining Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts, Bramson was senior vice pre... Read Full Bio
Victoria A. Budson
Victoria A. Budson is the founding executive director of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at Harvard Kennedy School. Budson founded ... Read Full Bio
Heather Campion
Heather Campion was appointed CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in March 2014, after serving for over 10 years on the Foundation...
Nuria Canete is the staff executive to the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Raytheon Company, David Wajsgras. As the staff ... Read Full Bio
Dennis Colling
Dennis Colling has served as vice president for human resources for Partners HealthCare since 1994. He previously held similar positions at the... Read Full Bio
Lisa Costantino
Lisa Costantino is chief financial officer at EMD Serono, Inc. where her responsibilities include the oversight and strategic direction-setting... Read Full Bio
Allene M. Diaz
Allene M. Diaz is senior vice president of managed markets at EMD Serono, Inc.. Diaz has more than 25 years of both U.S.-based and internationa... 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
Antonia Saint Dunbar
Antonia Saint Dunbar is co-founder and COO of THINX. Having grown up in a family of artists, entrepreneurs and musicians, Dunbar had an early s... Read Full Bio
Karen Finerman
Karen Finerman is the CEO of Metropolitan Capital Advisors, a New York based hedge fund that she co-founded in 1992 with Jeffrey Schwarz. In ad... 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
Dr. Oz Garcia
Oz Garcia, Ph.D. is recognized as the world's leading authority on healthy aging. Dr. Garcia has lectured all over the world and has been a pio... Read Full Bio
Holly Gordon
Holly Gordon is executive director of Girl Rising: Educate Girls, Change the World, a global movement for girls’ education. As executive dire... Read Full Bio
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and the founding president and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation. Hewlett is the author of ten Harv... Read Full Bio
Bridget Hindle
Bridget Hindle is a senior vice president and the director of corporate learning, knowledge and development at Santander. She is affiliated wit... Read Full Bio
Deborah Jackson
Deborah Jackson is the founder and CEO of Plum Alley, an e-commerce and crowdfunding site for women's inno... Read Full Bio
Lara Jones
Lara Jones is head of U.S. diversity and inclusion for Sanofi US, which includes responsibility for designing the overall diversity and inclusi... Read Full Bio
Denise Kaigler
Denise Kaigler is the senior vice president of corporate affairs and communications for Boston Scientific Corporation. She has more than 20 yea... Read Full Bio
Julia Kirby
Julia Kirby is editor at large at Harvard Business Review, a role that allows her to source and develop content on any topic of interest to man... Read Full Bio
Vina Leite
Vina Leite is senior director, human resources for the EMC Solutions Group. With 2010 consolidated revenues of $17 billion and approximately 48... Read Full Bio
Nicki Maher
Nicki Maher is the woman behind Alex and Ani’s powerful Charity by Design division. Upon her first meeting with founder and creative director Carolyn Rafaelia... Read Full Bio
Melissa Malamut
Melissa Malamut is hub health editor for Boston magazine. Malamut draws on her experience in the health industry to inspire others to li... Read Full Bio
Kristi Mitchem
Kristi Mitchem is a senior managing director of State Street Global advisors and head of the Americas institutional client group. In this role,... Read Full Bio
Laura Munson
Laura Munson is the author of the New York Times and international bestselling memoir “This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Seas... Read Full Bio
Betsy Nabel, M.D.
Betsy Nabel, M.D. has served as president of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospita... Read Full Bio
Ann Pardo
Ann Pardo is director of life management at Canyon Ranch. Pardo is a certified coach who has worked in the field of behavioral health for over ... Read Full Bio
Victoria Pynchon
Victoria Pynchon is the co-founder of She Negotiates, a training workshop for women which nests today’s most effective negotiation strategies... Read Full Bio
Alison Quirk
Alison A. Quirk is an executive vice president at State Street Corporation and is head of global human resources. She also is a member of State... Read Full Bio
Marcy L. Reed
Marcy L. Reed is president of National Grid in Massachusetts. She is responsible for the financial, operational and customer service performa... Read Full Bio
Nancy Richardson
Nancy Richardson is the vice-president, digital and brand strategy at lululemon athletica, based out of their store support center in Vancouver... Read Full Bio
Amy Richards
Amy Richards is the author of "Manifest," "Grassroots" and "Opting In." She is the creator of the Third Wave Foundation and a founding board me... Read Full Bio
Mike Scannell
Mike Scannell is senior vice present, global head of talent acquisition and head of State Street’s global inclusion initiative. In this capac... Read Full Bio
Stephanie L. Schierholz
Stephanie L. Schierholz is the manager of social media for Raytheon. Schierholz has more than 10 years’ experience leading strategic communic... Read Full Bio
Shivani Siroya
Shivani Siroya isthe founder and CEO of InVenture, a mobile technology startup focusing on complete financial inclusion for the offline... Read Full Bio
Kristen Standish
Kristen Standish has over 15 years of experience in sales management in emerging media, having worked with a variety of Boston media outlets. S... Read Full Bio
Abigail Trafford
Abigail Trafford is an author, journalist and public speaker who focuses on the new stage of life that comes after middle age but before tradit... Read Full Bio
Kimberly Steimle Vaughan
Kimberly Steimle Vaughan is the chief marketing officer and chief people officer at Suffolk Construction. Vaughan also serves on Suffolk's exec... Read Full Bio
Cheryl D. Vines
Cheryl D. Vines is the vice president of national replication for The Family Center, Inc. of Somerville, Massachusetts. The Family Center’s m... Read Full Bio
Laura Vail Wooster
Laura Vail Wooster is vice president and head of marketing and communications for John Hancock’s insurance division. In this capacity, Woos... 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
Expert Exchange
Kelly Lane
Kelly Lane has an extensive background in organizational and executive development. She is director of human resources for the North East reg... Read Full Bio
Jill Larsen
Jill Larsen leads Cisco’s global staffing, University relations and inclusion and diversity efforts with oversight for a team of roughly 350 ... Read Full Bio
Anne McClure
Anne McClure is an EMC distinguished engineer and head of EMC's global Oracle solutions team. McClure’s 20 year career has been dedicated to ... Read Full Bio
Bryan R. Piller
Bryan R. Piller is the director of commercial East services for Cisco in the Americas theatre. His team is responsible for technical services, ... Read Full Bio
Lisa Pintner
Lisa Pintner is director of field excellence for Cisco’s WW services sales and channels organization. In this role, she is responsible for ... Read Full Bio
Monica Singh
Monica Singh is an experienced corporate attorney with large international law firm experience. Singh currently serves as therapeutic area co... Read Full Bio
Laura Slatkin
Laura Slatkin is the founder and CEO of NEST Fragrances, a luxury lifestyle beauty brand, and co-founder and board president of New York Collab... Read Full Bio
Micho Spring
Micho Spring leads the firm's global corporate practice, as well as the New England region for Weber Shandwick. Her practice focuses on enablin... Read Full Bio
Lynn D. 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
Power Stage Speakers
Cindy Bell, Pharm.D.
Cindy Bell, Pharm.D. is senior director, U.S. new product planning, neurology and immunology at EMD Serono, Inc. Bell has more than 20 years of... Read Full Bio
Samantha Ettus
Sam Ettus is the leading lifestyle and parenting expert for working women. Ettus has coached thousands of women, from...
Tory Johnson is a contributor for “Good Morning America” who is all about helping women make great things happen. Johnson ... Read Full Bio
Tana Miller
Tana Miller better known as #mamatana or @tanamiller to the twitter world, is the mother of Angie Miller, this past season's third runner-up ... Read Full Bio
Mary Beth Moynihan
Mary Beth Moynihan is senior vice president, enterprise strategy and marketing at Boston Scientific. Moynihan joined Boston Scientific in 1997 ... Read Full Bio
Local Leader
Robyn Carter, LICSW
Robyn Carter is the executive director of Room to Grow in Boston. She has dedicated her career to providing leadership and service in Boston h... Read Full Bio
Catherine D’Amato
Catherine D’Amato is president and CEO of The Greater Boston Food Bank. She runs New England's largest hunger-relief organization as an extre... Read Full Bio
Joanne Dunn
Joanne Dunn is the executive director for the North American Indian Center of Boston. Her extensive experience spans more than 30 years of serv... Read Full Bio
Vivien Li
Vivien Li is president of The Boston Harbor Association (TBHA), a non-profit public interest organization founded in 1973 by the League of Wome... Read Full Bio
Jo McChesney
Jo McChesney is an entrepreneur with more than 18 years of experience in consumer products and services across the wellness and parenting indus... Read Full Bio
Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan
Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan is the president and CEO of The Dimock Center, a community institution serving Boston's Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan... Read Full Bio
Beverly Morgan-Welch
Beverly Morgan-Welch is the executive director of the Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket. With three National Histori... Read Full Bio
Dr. Esther Pearson
Dr. Esther Pearson is a Native American raised within the Native American and African American ethnicities and cultures. She is a mathematician... Read Full Bio
Social Media Roundtable
Elizabeth Carr
Elizabeth Carr became the first baby born through in-vitro fertilization in the United States in 1981. Carr, who has spoken about fertility and... Read Full Bio
Judy Freedman
Judy Freedman is a blogger, social media influencer and communications consultant. She writes an award-winning blog, aboomerslifeafter50.com, a... Read Full Bio
Carol Fulp
Carol Fulp is President and CEO of The Partnership, Inc., New England’s premier organization dedicated to enhancing the competitiveness of ... Read Full Bio
Dana Lynch
Dana Lynch is founder of Aplify! and a marketing strategist. After working for 13 years as a corporate lawyer at some of the biggest firms in A... Read Full Bio
Cindy Meltzer
Cindy Meltzer is a digital marketing consultant with extensive experience creating and growing highly engaged online communities using social c... Read Full Bio
Liz O’Donnell
Liz O’Donnell is general manager at Double Forte. She heads the East Coast operations and digital practice group for a public relations and... Read Full Bio
Jessica Severson
Jessica Severson has been blogging since 2001 in a wide variety of formats--an anonymous diary, an issue-centered site, a lifestyle blog, a boo... Read Full Bio
Lena L. West
Lena L. West is the leading expert on how women entrepreneurs can monetize social media. She is also the founder of InfluenceExpansion.com, the... Read Full Bio
Lisa Kalner Williams
Lisa Kalner Williams is the founder of Sierra Tierra Marketing. Since 2009, shes collaborated with businesses and agencies on meaningful social... Read Full Bio
Karen Yankovich
Karen Yankovich is the CEO of Dimare Group, a company specializing in online communications and conversational marketing. She believes that tod... Read Full Bio
Sue B. Zimmerman
Sue B. Zimmerman has been a serial entrepreneur since she was 13 years old. She has built million dollar businesses stemming from her passion, ... Read Full Bio
